A Year In The Country

The Blue Boy (1994) is a co-production between the BBC and the American public television station WGBH and was broadcast in the UK as part of the BBC’s Screen Two (1985-1998) anthology drama series but due to it being produced by the BBC, its supernatural…

Ian Holloway has posted about the Ghost Signals book at his Wyrd Britain site: “The latest collection of writings from Stephen Prince, the man behind the always excellent ‘A Year in the Country’ blog, takes us on a tour of various obscure televisual gems…

The Ice House (1978) was the final episode of the original strand of A Ghost Story for Christmas and it was the only episode the first stand of the BBC’s annual A Ghost Story for Christmas (1971-1978) strand that wasn’t directed by Lawrence Gordon Clark.

The speculative science fiction anthology drama series Play for Tomorrow (1982), which was broadcast by the BBC and ran for just one series of six episodes, can be seen as a precursor to the anthology drama series Black Mirror (2016-), as both often explo…

Leap in the Dark, as I wrote in A Year In The Country: Lost Transmissions (2023), is a paranormal-orientated British television anthology series broadcast on the BBC for four series in 1973, 1975, 1977 and 1980.

Tales of Unease (1970) is an anthology drama series that was broadcast by ITV for just one series of seven episodes, each of which was directed and written by a different writer.

Thanks to Andy Morten and Jon ‘Mojo’ Mills of Shindig!

The Great Albert is an episode of the British anthology drama series Scorpion Tales (1978), which was broadcast by ITV for just one series of six episodes that had the loosely interconnected premise of having “a sting in their tale”, and it has something…

The A Year In The Country book Ghost Signals is Book of the Week at independent and DIY electronic music zine Moonbuilding’s Weekly Substack roundup: https://moonbuilding.substack.com/p/issue-102-3-april-2026 The review is written by Cathi Unsworth, the a…

A Pattern of Roses (1983) is set in the early 1980s and centres around a 17-year-old called Tim, played by Stuart MacKenzie, whose family is affluent due to his father being the owner of a successful advertising company and who is staying with his parents…

Ghost Signals is the Book of the Week at The Idler’s website this week (starting 23rd March 2026 to be precise)… It’s in some fine’n’fascinating former “Book of the Week” company there, including to name just a few: David Bramwell’s Sing-Along-A-Wicker-Man

Paperback and ebook released.