About this season
Beasts is a series of six television plays by Manx writer Nigel Kneale, unconnected but for a bestial horror theme, made by ATV for ITV in the United Kingdom and broadcast in 1976.
Episodes (6)
1. Special Offer
Aired 16 October 1976 • 60 min
A misfit teenage checkout operator has an unrequited crush on her supermarket manager. At the same shop's cuddly cartoon mascot seems to have come alive and is causing havoc.
2. During Barty's Party
Aired 23 October 1976 • 60 min
A suburban couple are held under siege by a pack of frighteningly intelligent rats.
3. Buddy Boy
3.0Aired 30 October 1976 • 60 min
When a nightclub owner buys a derelict dolphinarium, he and a young woman seem to be haunted by the ghost of Buddy Boy, the star attraction.
4. Baby
7.0Aired 6 November 1976 • 60 min
A young couple move to the countryside and discover a strange mummified animal in the wall of their cottage. The wife increasingly feels that she and her unborn child are in danger.
5. What Big Eyes
Aired 13 November 1976 • 60 min
An RSPCA officer is horrified when he discovers a pet shop owner has been conducting experiments on a wolf, searching for proof of lycanthropy.
6. The Dummy
5.0Aired 20 November 1976 • 60 min
A washed-up actor has a nervous breakdown and believes that he really is the movie monster that he has been hired to play.