Out of the Unknown

Director: Michael Ferguson
Writing Credits: John Wiles
Cast: Sebastian Abineri, Maurice Roëves, Peter Copley, John Moulder-Brown, John Ash, Norman Bacon, Gerry Davis, Paul Fraser & Martin Howells

Stephen Chambers, a new master of the Warby Stones School for ultra-intelligent boys, discovers strange goings on soon after his arrival. Stephen tries but fails to rationalise incidents that he suspects originate from the boys Psychic Phenomena Club, and what about the Black Masses these boys conduct in the school's cellars? Could this have something to do with the boys powers?

Director: Ken Hannam
Writing Credits: Michael J.Bird ('The Intrusion')
Cast: Lesley-Anne Down, Iain Gregory, Peter Barkworth, Geoffrey Russell, Clifford Cox & Walter Randall
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Eric Carver, a freelance photographer, and his wife Diana move into their new home in the country. As soon as she first set eyes on the place, Diana fell in love with it and knew immediately that this was the house she wanted to live in. They soon settle into their new home, but they find themselves haunted by the ghost of a man who murdered a couple in the house many years earlier. Eric seeks the help of a parapsychologist, who suggests that there could be a connection between the fact that Diana had been raped as a schoolgirl and the ghostly manifestation.

Director: Eric Hills
Writing Credits: John Tully
Cast: Jack Hedley, John Carson, Alethea Charlton, Sonia Graham, Hector Ross, Darryl Kavann, Norma West, Anne Kidd, Bruno Barnabe & John Rolfe
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Scientist Allen Meredith discovers a way of mind transference during his research on an advanced electroencephalograph. He and his wife Ann plan to use this new machine to extract what they believe is owed them, after being exploited for years by the ruthless businessman, Jack Gregory. They kidnap Jack so that they can swap minds between him and Allen. With Allen's mind in Jack's body he can gain access to Jack's business dealings and secure himself £100,000. Of course what couldn't be foreseen is that whilst Jack Gregory's mind is in Allen's body, Ann falls for Jack's charms.

Director: Raymond Menmuir
Writing Credits: Angus Hall & Brian Hayles
Cast: Robert Lang, Lynn Farleigh, John Ronane, Susan Glanville, Lindsay Campbell, Valerie Lush, Simon Merrick, Leslie Schofield & Roy Evans
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In trying to seek relief from his headache, Adam Crosse reaches into his wife Lydia's handbag looking for some Asprin and discovers to his horror a letter from wife's lover, David. When Lydia is unremorseful, telling him of his inadequacies in the bedroom, Adam snaps and kills her. Being the methodical and calculating man that he is, Adam cleverly covers his tracks only to be disturbed by someone he had not accounted for.

Director: Gerald Blake
Writing Credits: Edward Boyd
Cast: William Lucas, Pamela Salem, Chris Tranchell, Edward Evans, David Griffin, Brian Jacks, Brenda Kaye, Arthur Pentelow & Les Shannon

The tiny East Anglian village of Plampton has one distinction: a famous unsolved murder. After twenty-six years, the barbarous and ritualistic slaughter of Janet Darvis remains a mystery of lasting interest, if not to the police, at least to the crime reporters of Fleets Street.

One such is Shawlor Gascoyne, a cynical, world-worn journalist with the vanity of a Nero and the thirst of a desert. To conclude his current series on famous cases, Gascoyne decides he will solve the Plampton mystery.*

Director: Eric Hills
Writing Credits: Moris Farhi
Cast: Jennifer Hilary, Anthony Ainley, Bernard Brown, Gerald Sim, Derek Benfield, David Morrell, Margaret Anderson, Alan Downer & Pamela Craig
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After a long stay in hospital after a horrific car crash, Frank Bowers takes the train back to his wife Penny in the country. His welcome home is to be a surprise, although it is he who gets the surprise when his wife acts as if she does not know him, and another man living with her claims that he is Frank Bowers. The man living with Penny, being a psychiatrist, takes the former patient in to help him with his psychosis. The question is who is the real Frank Bowers?

Director: Michael Ferguson
Writing Credits: Martin Worth
Cast: Anthony Bate, Joyce Carey, Sheila Brennan, Milton Brehaut, Denise Buckley, Lawrence James, James Kerry, Michael McStay & Joanna Ross

Mr. Harris wakes up in an hotel bedroom after being washed up on the nearby beach. Half-drowned and badly cut about, he is also suffering from concussion - or so Dr. Benson concludes when Harris starts having hallucinations. These centre round the body of a girl, Ann Bateman; he sees her strangled by a young man called David, carried up from the shore, lying dead in the very same bedroom as himself while Police Sergeant Walker interrogates and then charges David with murder...*

Director: Peter Gregeen
Writing Credits: John Wiles
Cast: Tom Chadbon, Robert Walker, Robert Oates, David Whitman, Martin Thurley, Marianne Benet, Kenneth Watson, Elizabeth Bell & James Drake
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A small squad of army soldiers have been subliminally programmed to blow up a hydroelectric power plant. Is this true? One of the squad believes he knows what is going on and that he is the only one who knows. They are R.A.F. aircrew forced to eject into enemy territory after their aircraft developed engine problems. The entire squad seem to be unable to know the reality of their situation. Do any of them know what is really going on inside their own heads?

Director: Peter Gregeen
Writing Credits: Nigel Kneale
Cast: Patrick Troughton, David Wood, George Sweeney, Ann Morrish & Margaret Brady

Pete was not chicken. He was an aggressive, chopper-mad ton-up boy. But he was not chicken. He gave his young life proving it.... doing 104 on the motorway buzzing a Jaguar E-type just to prove it.... to prove himself and his virility.... to show off the chopper he had laboured to create.

And afterwards, when the police bought the mangled remnants of his motor cycle back to the garage of its birth, Peter came with it - in spirit if not in the flesh.*

Director: Eric Hills
Writing Credits: Michael J.Bird
Cast: John Nettleton, Brian Wilde, Geoffrey Palmer, Hilary Mason, David Allister, Shirley Cain, June Ellis, Bobbie Oswald & David Sinclair

George Pattison has been posted to by company he works for to Botswana for three years. He and his wife Millicent are all ready for the trip - they have put all their things in storage for the duration and have just one more night to stay in their flat. As the couple are wished farewell by their neighbours, George has a hallucination of their flat furnished with unfamiliar furniture. Shortly after, wondering if she may have left something unpacked, Millicent checks out the hall cupboard to find a trunk, with a dead woman in it. Millicent is sure as to what she had just seen, but when George takes a look there is nothing there.

Director: Peter Hammond
Writing Credits: David T.Chantler
Cast: Freddie Jones, Tessa Wyatt, Peter Arne, Sebastian Breaks, James Copeland, Lee Fox, Michael Lynch, John Saunders & Richard Warwick

As a painter, Alec Barton had never been more than a talented craftsman. His fiancée, Gwenn, liked his work and loved him.... until the day that genius took hold and made an artist of him.

It happened the same day that he met Lester, a derelict old meths-drinker down on the beach; the same day he had first really bitter row with Gwenn..... Overnight his work became cruel, compulsive, powerful. And Alec became silent and withdrawn.

To Gwenn, who loved him, it was a grim challenge. But against what? The strangeness that had transformed him? The worthless tramp who had moved in with them? Or the incredible pictures themselves that had started to appear in his studio?*

Broadcast Information
Extant Guide
Trivia
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• Television

Out of This World (1962)
Theatre 625 (1964 - 1968)
The Outer Limits (1963 - 1965)
Journey to the Unknown (1968 - 1969)
The Ray Bradbury Theater (1985 - 1992)
Science Fiction Theatre (1955-1957)

• Radio

Dimension X (1950 - 1951)

• Literature

Deathday, Angus Hall

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Images of episodes 1, 5 and 11 courtesy of Daniel King