Mystery And Imagination - The Complete Series (DVD) Reviews
Newest Review: ... values are good, if obviously low budget (there's one wobbly wall in the Usher crypt). But they're impressive, and it's a ... more
... terrible shame that more of these early series don't exist. A third season of six episodes is lost completely, apart from a short fragment of an adaptation of MR James' Casting the Runes. That's included here, although you can't really tell much about it from what's there, and it's of very poor visual quality.
The last two series (1969 and 1970) exist in their entirety, and had fewer but longer episodes. They comprise six 80-minute adaptations, and include the most famous horror stories of all. They're the main bul...more
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by - written on 10/02/11 (Very useful, 60 readings)
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A review of the Network DVD set, which costs a hefty £30 on amazon. The high price is no doubt down to the rather obscure nature of the material, which practically has 'for obsessive specialists only' stamped on it. Mystery and Imagination was a series of plays broadcast on ITV from 1966 to 1970. It adapted various famous Victorian and Edwardian horror stories into 45- or 80-minute plays, and as far as I can tell, was quite successful. The first couple of series, made by old ITV franchise ABC, were linked by having the same main character, a young man called Richard Beckett (David Buck), and the stories were adapted so that he was the protagonist ... Read the complete review
