SLEEPWALKER
10 Apr 1976 / ATV ("Thriller").
Writer:
Brian Clemens / Director: Alan
Gibson.
A girl is troubled by nightmares which
seem to foretell a death. But whose?
With: Darleen Carr, Robert
Beatty, Michael Kitchen, Ian Redford, Basil
Lord, Elaine Donnelly, Eileen Peel, Harry Webster
,John Challis, Desmond Jordan, Jane Williams, George Herbert.
THE FEATHERED SERPENT 
Jun - July 1976
& Apr - May 1978 (12 eps) / ITV (Thames).
Writer:
John Kane
Children's historical drama series
set in the time of the Aztecs. The emporer wants to outlaw the
custom of human sacrifice but an evil Nasca priest has other ideas.
With:
Diane Keen, Patrick Troughton, Brian Deacon, Richard
Willis.
Memorable
Children's TV.
THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY
19 Sep 1976 / BBC1 ("Play of the Month").
Writer: John Osborne (based on the novel
by Oscar Wilde) / Director: John Gorrie / Producer:
Cedric messina.
Period drama. The portrait
of a young man appears to age visibly while the subject
remains ever youthful.
With: Peter Firth, John Gielgud, Jeremy Brett.
The Picture of Dorian Gray (jeremybrett.info)
PLAYHOUSE: THE MIND BEYOND 
29 Sep -3 Nov 1976
(6 eps) / BBC2.
Producer: Irene Shubik.
An anthology
of plays looking at paranormal phenomena
from different perspectives. The episodes were:
(1) Meriel the Ghost girl (29 Sep 1976).
(2) Double echo (6 Oct 1976).
(3) The Love of a Good Woman (13 Oct 1976).
(4) The Daedalus Equations (20 Oct 1976).
(5) Stones (27 Oct 1976).
(6)
The man with the Power (3 Nov 1976).
Each episode is listed separately below.
MERIEL THE GHOST GIRL
29 Sep 1976
/ BBC2 ("The Mind Beyond").
Writer: David Halliwell / Director: Philip Saville.
A Psychic
investigator is invited to attended a seance.
With:
Donald Pleasance, Janet Street-Porter, Diana King, John
Blutha, Charles Keating.
DOUBLE ECHO
6 Oct 1976 / BBC2 ("The Mind beyond")
Writer: Brian Hayles / Director: Alan Bridges.
With: Anthony Bate,
Geraldine Cowper, Jeremy Kemp.
THE LOVE OF A GOOD WOMAN
13 Oct 1976 / BBC2 ("The Mind beyond")
Writer: William Trevor / Director: John Gorrie.
After the
death of his first wife, Henry Ridout remarries
and builds a new life in a harbour town. But his dead wife' s
restless spirit tries
to communicate with him through his
young daughter.>
With: WILLIAM
LUCAS, ANNE MASSEY.
THE DAEDALUS EQUATIONS
20 Oct 1976 / BBC" ("The Mind beyond")
Writer: Bruce Stewart /
Director: David Reid.
With:
Michael Bryant, George Coulouris, Megs Jenkins, Peter Sallis.
STONES
27 Oct 1976 / BBC2 ("The Mind Beyond").
Writer: Malcolm Christopher / Director: Graham Evans.
With:
T.P. McKenna, Judy Parfitt, Richard Pasco, John Wells
THE MAN WITH THE POWER
3 Nov 1976 / BBC2 (The Mind beyond").
Writer: Evan Jones / Director: John Gorrie.
After
discovering
that he has the power to heal people and see into the future,
a man embarks on a spiritual quest,
leaving his girlfriend, home and job.
With: Geoffrey Bayldon, Cyril Cusack,
Willie Jonah, Vikki Richards.
BEASTS
1976 (6 eps) / ATV.
Writer: Nigel Kneale.
An anthology of 6 plays
which contained some supernatural elements. The episodes
were:
(1) Special offer
(2) During
Barty's Party
(3) Buddy
Boy
(4) Baby
(5) What
Big Eyes
(6) The Dummy.
THE SIGNALMAN
22
Dec 1976
(rpt 1977,
1982, 1991,
2002, 2003) / BBC1 ("Ghost story for Xmas").
Writer: Andrew Davies (story by Charles Dickens)
/ Director: Lawrence Gordon Clark.
A passing traveller befriends a signalman
who tells him that he is haunted by a spectre
warning of impending disaster.
With Denholm Elliott, Bernard
Lloyd.
Ghost story for Christmas guide.
CHILDREN OF THE STONES
10 Jan - 21 Feb 1977 (7
eps) / HTV.
Writer:
Jeremy Burnham.
Children's
supernatural drama series. A scientist and his son arrive
in the village of Milbury. They discover that the locals
are being held in a trance-state by the Lord
of the Manor through the power of
a neolithic stone circle.
With: Iain Cuthbertson,
Gareth Thomas.
THE WITCHES OF PENDLE
1977 / BBC.
Writer: Barry Collins.
Historical
drama about Witchcraft trials which took place in the
north of England in 1612.
More details at EOFFTV.
THE ROCKING HORSE WINNER
1977 / ITV (HTV).
Writer:
Julian Bond (based on a story by D H Lawrence).
A young boy is able to predict the winners of
horse races while riding his wooden rocking horse.
With: Nigel Rhodes, Kenneth Moore, Angela Thorne, Peter
Cellier.
Memorable
UK TV.
SUPERNATURAL
11 Jun - 6 Aug 1977 (8 eps
) / BBC1.
Writers: Robert Muller, Sue Lake / Producer: Pieter
Rogers.
Supernatural drama series. In order to join
the "Club of the Damned", the prospective
member must recount a spine-chilling tale based
on a personal experience of the supernatural:
(1)
The Ghost of Venice (2) The Countess Ilona (3) The Werewolf
Reunion (4) Mr Nightingale (5) Lady Sybil (6) Viktoria
(7) Night of the Marionettes (8) Dorabella.
With: Jeremy Brett, Robert Hardy, Sinead Cusack, Denholm Elliott, Ian Hendry.
Supernatural (jeremybrett.info)
1977 (rpt. 1993) / BBC.
Novel by Charles Dickens.
Period drama. Ebeneezer Scrooge realises
the error of his ways after a visitation from the ghosts
of Christmas past, present, and future.
With: Michael
Hordern, John Le Mesurier, Bernard Lee, Zoe Wannamaker.
EOFFTV guide to "A Christmas Carol".
STIGMA
28
Dec 1977
( rpt. 1978) / BBC1 ("Ghost story for Xmas").
Script: Clive Exton
/ Director:
Lawrence Gordon Clark.
A family is menaced by
a supernatural
force, released when a nearby prehistoric site is disturbed.
With Peter
Bowles, Kate Binchy.
Ghost story for Christmas Guide
THE CLIFTON HOUSE MYSTERY
1978 (6 eps) / ITV (HTV).
Writers:
Daniel Farson & Harry Moore / Directors: Hugh David, Jeffrey Milland, Terry Miller.
Children's
drama series. A family move into an old house which
turns out to be haunted by the ghost of a soldier.
With: Sebastian Breaks,
Derek Graham, Ingrid Hafner, Elizabeth Havelock.
The
Clifton House Mystery - EOFFTV guide.
AS QUIET AS A NUN
11 Apr - 27 Apr 1978 (6 eps) /
ITV - Thames ("Armchair thriller").
Writer Julia Jones (based
on the novel by Antonia Fraser)/ Director: Moira Armstrong.
TV journalist,
Jemima Shore, returns to her old convent school.
She discretely investigates the suicide of a nun and reports of
a ghostly apparition. But all is not what it seems.
With
Maria Aitken as Jemima Shore.
TARRY DAN, TARRY DAN, SCARY OLD SPOOKY MAN
1 May 1978 (50 mins) / BBC2
Writer:
Peter McDougall / Director: John Reardon / Producer:
Frank Hatherley
Supernatural drama set in a coastal
village in Cornwall. A young man, Jonah, starts to have
unsettling dreams about a historic battle which was
fought in the vicinity. He is also being followed by
a strange old man, known locally as Tarry Dan.
With: Paul Curran.
Tarry Dan (eofftv)
THE MOON STALLION
15 Nov - 20 Dec 1978 (6 eps) /
BBC1.
Writer:
Brian Hayles / Director: Dorothea
Brooking.
Children's fantasy drama series. A
family get caught up in the search for a mythical Celtic horse,
the Moon Stallion, reputed to have magical powers. Only
Diana, their blind, but psychic, daughter knows
the truth - that the horse is part of a legend and cannot
be harnessed merely to satisfy worldly ambitions.
With:
Sarah Sutton, David Haig, Caroline Goodall.
THE ICE HOUSE
25
Dec 1978 (rpt. 1982) / BBC1 ("Ghost story for Xmas").
Writer: John Bowen
/ Director:
Derek Lister.
Supernatural goings-on at a health spa.
With John
Stride.
Ghost story for Christmas guide
1978 (Pilot episode) and 1979 / ITV.
Writer:
Stewart Farrar.
Children's
fantasy drama series.
With:
Donald Houston, Margaret John, Brian Marshall, Ian Rowlands.
MACBETH
4 Jan 1979 / ITV.
Writer:
William Shakespeare / Director: Philip Casson.
Macbeth is driven to murder his rivals following a prediction by three witches. But be is haunted by the ghost of one of his victims.
Starring: Ian McKellen (as Macbeth), Judi Dench (as Lady Macbeth), John Woodvine (as Banquo).
Macbeth (BFI screenonline)
24 Apr 1979 (50 mins) / ITV ("Plays for pleasure").
Writer: Clive Exton (based on a story by M R James) / Director: Lawrence Gordon Clark.
A TV journalist unwittingly acquires an ancient rune
from a black magician which curses the owner with premature
death. Her only chance of survival is to pass it back
to the originator without him noticing.
Starring: Ian
Cuthbertson, Jan Francis.
SAPPHIRE AND STEEL
1979-82 (34 eps) / ITV (ATV).
Creator: P.J. Hammond.
Supernatural
/ Sci-Fi
drama series. Two time-travelling aliens with supernatural
powers investigate irregularities in the space-time continuum
.
With: Joanna Lumley (as Sapphire),
David McCallum (as Steel).
Fan website - Sapphire and Steel.
13 Jun - 15 Aug 1979 (10 eps) / BBC1.
Story: Jack Gerson / Director: George
Gallacio.
Supernatural adventure series. Psychic
journalist
Tom Crane is assigned to investigate paranormal phenomena.
With: James Hazeldine,
Louise Jamieson, John Carlisle, Brown Derby etc.
The Omega factor.
SCHALCKEN THE PAINTER
28 December
1979 / BBC2 ("Omnibus").
Writer/Director: Leslie Megahy (Story by Sheridan
Lefanu).
Supernatural period drama based on
the life of 17th century artist Gottfried Schalcken.
With: Jeremy Clyde, Maurice Denham.
Screenonline.
SAINT JOAN
30 Dec 1979 / BBC2.
Writer: George
Bernard Shaw / Director: Jane Howell / Producer: Louis
Marks.