Dead of Night — Season 1, Episode 5: Smith
Drama, Mystery • 50 min • 1 season, 7 episodes • ★ 8.0/10
Episode synopsis
His name was Smith. It sounded so ordinary yet his crimes horrified and appalled the England of his day. When journalist Jane Hornby investigates, she finds the past lives on in the present.
About Dead of Night
Dead of Night is a British television anthology of supernatural fiction, produced by the BBC and broadcast on BBC2 in 1972. It ran for a single series; of its seven 50-minute episodes, only three—'The Exorcism', 'Return Flight', and 'A Woman Sobbing'—are known to survive in the Archives. Another programme made by the same production team under Innes Lloyd, 'The Stone Tape', intended to be the eighth episode, does survive in the Archives but was not broadcast under the Dead of Night banner.