Beasts (TV series)
Beasts is a 1976 British television series. Written by Nigel Kneale, it is an anthology of six self-contained episodes that feature the recurring theme of bestial horror. The series was made by ATV for the ITV Network.
| Beasts | |
|---|---|
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| Genre | Horror Anthology |
| Created by | Nigel Kneale |
| Starring | Anthony Bate Martin Shaw Pauline Quirke Michael Kitchen Patrick Magee |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of series | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 6 |
| Production | |
| Producer(s) | Nicholas Palmer |
| Running time | c. 50 minutes |
| Release | |
| Original network | ITV |
| Original release | 16 October – 20 November 1976 |
Format
Episodes
| # | Title | Original air date | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | "Special Offer" | 16 October 1976 | |
| Pauline Quirke stars as a shop assistant whose unrequited love for her manager prompts a paranormal revenge. | |||
| 2 | "During Barty's Party" | 23 October 1976 | |
| Starring Anthony Bate, a middle-class couple's life becomes overturned by rats. | |||
| 3 | "Buddyboy" | 30 October 1976 | |
| Featuring Martin Shaw and a disused aquarium haunted by the spirit of a dolphin. | |||
| 4 | "Baby" | 6 November 1976 | |
| Starring Simon MacCorkindale as a newlywed whose wife's pregnancy falls foul of ancient witchcraft. | |||
| 5 | "What Big Eyes" | 13 November 1976 | |
| Features Michael Kitchen as an RSPCA inspector investigating a man (Patrick Magee) who is trying to turn himself into a wolf. | |||
| 6 | "The Dummy" | 20 November 1976 | |
| Shows the psychological effect on an actor (Bernard Horsfall) who regularly plays a monster in horror films. | |||
DVD release
The series was released on DVD by Network in 2006. This set also included a similarly themed TV play called Murrain that Kneale had written for ITV's Against the Crowd series in 1975.
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External links
- Beasts on IMDb
- Beasts at the BFI's Screenonline
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