Journey to the Unknown

Director: Robert Stevens
Writing Credits: John Collier, Michael Ashe & Paul Wheeler
Cast: Carol Lynley, Dennis Waterman, Michael Gough, Angela Lovell, Hermione Baddeley, Peter Howell, Errol John, Barry Fantoni, Barry Linehan, Nicholas Phipps, Frank Forsyth, Elna Pearl, John Nightingale & Marcus Hammond
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Lonely fantasist Albert Baker daydreams of living the high life with his perfect woman. Unfortunately, his current date is turning out far from perfect, being argumentative and difficult to please, so he dumps her and walks home. On his way he spots a rather beautiful mannequin in a shop window who comes to life and smiles at him. In his mind Albert has found the girl of his dreams.

Director: Alan Gibson
Writing Credits: Cornell Woolrich & Anthony Skene
Cast: Stefanie Powers, David Buck, Alan MacNaughtan, Sarah Lawson, Arthur Pentelow, Yvonne Gilan & Clive Graham
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An educational specialist is given the job of helping a young woman suffering from amnesia to relearn lost skills. As his student progresses, questions begin to trouble the teacher. Who is this mysterious woman? Where did she come from? How did she come to lose her memory and strangest of all why does she need to be administered daily, an experimental drug which her doctor claims is necessary to keep her alive?

Director: Roy Ward Baker
Writing Credits: Robert Bloch
Cast: Julie Harris, Tom Adams, Tracy Reed, Catherine Lacey, Marne Maitland, Dennis Ramsden & Julian Sherrier
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Leona Gillings is trying to make contact with her late husband. The rich widower hires the services of a private investigator called Jerry Crown, for the purpose of finding a genuine medium and exposing any fraudsters. As Jerry has been recommended by her secretary, Leona assumes that the private investigator is not a charming fraudster himself, intent on making as much money from the vulnerable woman as he can.

Director: Robert Stevens
Writing Credits: Charles Beaumont & Sarett Rudley
Cast: George Maharis, Barbara Jefford, Kim Burfield & Adrienne Posta
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After the death of her sister and brother-in-law, Aunt Belle adopts their only child, Roberta. The maiden aunt is not too keen on the male of the human species, a view which she makes plain to Roberta by constantly stressing that 'men are like animals' and other such opinions. A young man earning some money by doing odd jobs at her house, discovers the truth of Miss Belle's wickedness...

Director: James Hill
Writing Credits: L.P. Davies & Oscar Millard
Cast: Michael Tolan, Nanette Newman, Barnaby Shaw, Roderick Shaw, John Welsh, June Jago, Dorothy Alison, Jerold Wells, Kenneth J Warren, Noel Davis, Edward Hardwicke, Hazel Hughes, Michael Ripper, Catherine Finn & George Benson
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Craig Miller witnesses a strange incident in his classroom involving one of his pupils being thrown through a window, apparantly by another pupil called Rodney, simply by the use of ESP powers. Together with another teacher, Craig endeavours to find out more about the boy and so begins to unravel a nasty conspiracy.

Director: Peter Sasdy
Writing Credits: Charles Beaumont, Oscar Millard & John Gould
Cast: Robert Reed, Jennifer Hilary, Patrick Allen, Milo O'Shea, Adrienne Corri, Melissa Stribling, Susan Mokler & Damian Thomas
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No sooner than Hank and Anne Prentiss have moved into their new home their neighbours visit to welcome them to the area. They seem at first a friendly lot - perhaps too friendly and all a bit too close... It becomes apparent that one of their new friends, Luther Ames, is able to wield some kind of power over the local clique.

Director: Noel Howard
Writing Credits: Donald E Westlake & Oscar Millard
Cast: Brandon De Wilde, Suzanna Leigh, John Ronane, Victor Maddern, Robert Sessions & David Bauer
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After the death of his overbearing mother Alex Worthing, a bank clerk, embarks on a round-the-world cruise on his yacht, The Victoria. Being not a terribly good sailor and somewhat clumsy, Alex ends up falling off his yacht, luckily to end up on a desert island with some goats for company. As the months pass Alex longs for someone to talk to and, as if by answer to his prayers, he spots a woman swimming towards the island.

Director: Michael Lindsay-Hogg
Writing Credits: Robert Heverley
Cast: Vera Miles, Leon Lissek, Gay Hamilton, Lyn Pinkney, Dermot Walsh & John Junkin
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June is researching new material for her latest macabre crime story. The writer comes across a case of a murder which was committed many years before in the very same library where she is now doing her research. The murderer, who later was sentenced to death for the brutal murder of four women, warned at his trial of the Devil's Dispensation... Time passes quickly and June is inadvertently locked in for the night - however she is not alone.

Director: Peter Sasdy
Writing Credits: Richard Matheson, Robert Bloch & Michael J Bird
Cast: Michael Callan, Zena Walker, Justine Lord, Jan Holden & David Langton
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Waitress, Carrie Clark, is plagued by dreams which foretell of things to come. While working at a restaurant, Carrie spots Sue Tarleton, a model, who she recognises from one of her dreams. Knowing that if Sue leaves the restaurant at her pre-destined time she will meet with a fatal accident, Carrie warns Sue not to leave the restaurant until after 10pm. Sue and her friend, Greg Richards, take no heed of the warning and they leave to Sue's deadly fate. Greg Richards is quick to realise the money making potential of Carrie's psychic gift.

Director: Alan Gibson
Writing Credits: Michael J Bird
Cast: David Hedison, Ann Bell, Jane Asher, Jeremy Longhurst, Ewen Solon, Tenniel Evans, George McGrath, Frank Cousins, Kaplan Kaye, Ann King & Elizabeth Robillard
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Somewhere in a crowd a certain number of individuals are watching, they watch dispassionately as disaster strikes. William Searle, a television commentator, notices that whenever he observes a tragedy there are the same five 'watchers' in the crowd. At the launching of a ship William once again spots the five 'watchers' portending a disaster is about to occur. What is he to do? The commentator tries to warn the authorities but his story is far from convincing.

Director: Gerry O'Hara
Writing Credits: Frederick Rawlings & Stanley Miller
Cast: Joseph Cotten, Judy Parfitt, Douglas Wilmer, Kenneth Haigh, Joyce Blair, David Warbeck, David Baxter, Hugh Futcher, Carol Cleveland & Tom Gill
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Director: Don Chaffey
Writing Credits: Oliver Onions, William Woods & John Gould
Cast: Robert Lansing, Gabrielle Drake, John Fraser, Larry Noble, Gretchen Franklin & Clive Francis
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Director: Don Chaffey
Writing Credits: Alfred Shaughnessy
Cast: Patty Duke, Kay Walsh, Geoffrey Bayldon, Joan Newell, Blake Butler, John Bailey, Michael Craze & Sally James
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Director: Alan Gibson
Writing Credits: William Abney & Jeremy Paul
Cast: Chad Everett, Bernard Lee, Fay Compton, Edward Fox, Susan Brodrick, Susan Richards, Marty Cruikshank, Norman Chappell, Antony Webb, Donald Gee, Michael Nightingale, Linda Cole, Ann Lancaster, Terence Duff, Roy Hanlon & Maggie Don
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Director: Peter Duffel
Writing Credits: David Campton
Cast: Janice Rule, Maurice Kaufmann, Anthony Corlan, Phil Brown, Jane Hylton, Gerald Sim, Glynn Edwards, Ronald Radd, Ann Wrigg & James Donelly
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Charles and Margaret Wilson do not want their teenage son discovered for what he is or exploited, so the family have to keep on the move due to their mutant son's ability to telepathically control people's minds. Boy, as he is known, has attracted the attention of a group of government scientists and the agent of an actress that Boy has fallen for. They both want to exploit the teenager's powers, but Boy has other ideas and he's the one with the power.

Director: Rex Firkin
Writing Credits: Michael J Bird
Cast: Barbara Bel Geddes, Allan Cuthbertson, Sue Lloyd, Paul Daneman, Jack Hedley, Richard Vernon, Lionel Murton, Aubrey Morris, Lloyd Lamble & Timothy Parkes
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Director: John Gibson
Writing Credits: L P Hartley & Julian Bond
Cast: Roddy McDowall, Ingrid Brett, Barry Evans, William Marlowe, John Rudling & Eddie Byrne
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Broadcast Information

• Movies

Mannequin (1987)
Village of the Damned (1960)
Rosemary's Baby (1968)
Journey Into Darkness (1968) (Episodes: The New People & Paper Dolls)

• Television

The Twilight Zone (1959 - 1964)
Tales of the Unexpected (1979 - 1988)
Hammer House of Horror (1980)