About this season
Supernatural is a 1977 British anthology television programme broadcast on BBC One. Each episode follows the Club of the Damned, where a prospective member is required to tell a horror story, and their application would be judged on how fright factor. Applicants who fail to tell a sufficiently frightening story are killed.
Episodes (8)
1. Ghosts of Venice
7.0Aired 11 June 1977 • 50 min
In 19th-century Venice, a British gentleman befriends a mysterious woman whose presence seems almost otherworldly.
2. Countess Ilona
7.0Aired 18 June 1977 • 50 min
Four distinguished visitors arrive separately at the castle of the beautiful, widowed Countess Ilona, whom they haven't seen in many years. But she has surprises in store...
3. The Werewolf Reunion
8.0Aired 25 June 1977 • 50 min
Having lured the four men who ruined her life to her isolated castle in 'the remotest corner of that part of my country the prudent traveler never visits', Countess Ilona exacts a terrible revenge.
4. Mr Nightingale
Aired 2 July 1977 • 50 min
A repressed, neurotic Englishman becomes obsessed by a mysterious beauty. Is she all she seems? Is he?
5. Lady Sybil
Aired 9 July 1977 • 50 min
Could one of the two middle-aged sons of the famous Lady Sybil be a deranged serial killer — and, if so, which one?
6. Viktoria
Aired 16 July 1977 • 50 min
An unhappy child in an affluent but dysfunctional Victorian household acquires both a sharp-eyed new governess and a new, unusually large doll, by which she's strangely fascinated.
7. Night of the Marionettes
Aired 30 July 1977 • 50 min
A British literary critic and his family visit the Villa Diodati in Switzerland, where, decades earlier, Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein. Events indicate that perhaps the famous story was not simply a work of imagination...
8. Dorabella
8.0Aired 6 August 1977 • 50 min
A young man describes his amorous encounter with, and escape from, a vampiric lady in Eastern Europe. But if this all happened so long ago, why does the storyteller still seem so youthful?