Mystery and Imagination
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Mystery and Imagination

5.5 / 10
1966
5 seasons
24 episodes
DramaMystery

Mystery and Imagination is a British television anthology of classic horror and supernatural dramas. Five series were broadcast from 1966 to 1970 on ITV and produced by ABC and Thames Television.

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  • Ep 1

    1.The Lost Stradivarius

    29-01-196660m

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

  • Ep 2

    2.The Body Snatcher

    05-02-196660m

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

  • Ep 3

    3.The Fall of the House of Usher

    12-02-196660m

    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 expandi...

  • Ep 4

    4.The Open Door

    19-02-196660m

    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...

  • Ep 5

    5.The Tractate Middoth

    26-02-196660m

    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 ghos...

  • Ep 6

    6.Lost Hearts

    05-03-196660m

    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.

  • Ep 7

    7.The Canterville Ghost

    12-03-196660m

    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.

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