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"Dead of Night" was a non-hosted UK television anthology series of supernatural fiction, produced by the BBC and broadcast on BBC2 in 1972.

"Dead of Night" was a non-hosted UK television anthology series of supernatural fiction, produced by the BBC and broadcast on BBC2 in 1972. Dead of Night ran for a single series in the autumn of 1972. Of its seven 50-minute episodes, only three-"The Exorcism", "Return Flight", and "A Woman Sobbing" are known to remain in the BBC's archives. BBC Four re-broadcast "The Exorcism" on 22 December 2007. The surviving episodes were released on DVD by the BFI in October 2013, with extras including a gallery of stills from the missing episodes, the downloadable scripts for all missing episodes, and a booklet featuring essays and biographies by Lisa Kerrigan, Oliver Wake, Derek Johnston and Alex Davidson.—Paul Gerard Kennedy

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Keywords
  • anthology
  • psychotronic series
  • non horror host
  • partially lost tv series
  • uk non horror host
Genres
  • Thriller
  • Mystery
  • Horror
  • Drama
Release date Nov 4, 1972
Countries of origin United Kingdom
Language English
Production companies British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)

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Tech specs

Runtime 50m
Color Color
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