Highlights
Mystery and Imagination

Mystery and Imagination - Series 1 (1966)

Audience Score
55

Series 1 Episodes

1. The Lost Stradivarius

January 29th, 19661 hr

A certain tune, played on a particular violin, invokes an evil 18th-century occultist.

2. The Body Snatcher

February 5th, 19661 hr

In the early 19th-century, an eminent professor seeks (illegally) to obtain dead bodies for his anatomical research.

3. The Fall of the House of Usher

February 12th, 19661 hr

Convinced that his family is tainted by generations of evil, Roderick Usher is hellbent on stopping his sister Madeline’s wedding to prevent the cursed Usher bloodline from expanding. When her fiancé Finn arrives at the crumbling estate to claim his bride, Roderick goes to ruthless—even deadly—lengths to keep them apart.

4. The Open Door

February 19th, 19661 hr

Colonel Mortimer returns to his family after a long spell in India to find his young son in bed ill, and tormented by a wailing voice... but is it in fact the boy's imagination or is it real?

5. The Tractate Middoth

February 26th, 19661 hr

A young librarian is hired by the impatient John Eldred to find an old tractate — so that Eldred can cheat the real heirs out of their estate... but the book is haunted by the ghost of its previous owner.

6. Lost Hearts

March 5th, 19661 hr

An orphan taken in by an elderly cousin is haunted by the ghosts of two children and learns that the house holds a terrible secret.

7. The Canterville Ghost

March 12th, 19661 hr

An American family moves in to the Canterville Chase, a London mansion that has been haunted by ghost Sir Simon De Canterville for 300 years.

All Seasons

Series 5
Feb 9, 1970
Series 4
Nov 4, 1968
Series 3
Mar 25, 1968
Series 2
Oct 22, 1966
Series 1
Jan 29, 1966