About this season
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.
Episodes (7)
1. The Lost Stradivarius
Aired 29 January 1966 • 60 min
A certain tune, played on a particular violin, invokes an evil 18th-century occultist.
2. The Body Snatcher
Aired 5 February 1966 • 60 min
In the early 19th-century, an eminent professor seeks (illegally) to obtain dead bodies for his anatomical research.
3. The Fall of the House of Usher
Aired 12 February 1966 • 60 min
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 expanding. When her fiancé Finn arrives at the crumbling estate to claim his bride, Roderick goes to ruthless—even deadly—lengths to keep them apart.
4. The Open Door
Aired 19 February 1966 • 60 min
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 is it real?
5. The Tractate Middoth
Aired 26 February 1966 • 60 min
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 ghost of its previous owner.
6. Lost Hearts
Aired 5 March 1966 • 60 min
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.
7. The Canterville Ghost
Aired 12 March 1966 • 60 min
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.