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Best Episodes of Dead of Night
Two in the Morning
S1 Ep6
7.0
10th Dec 1972
There are many legends from different parts of the world which tell of a man who meets his own double. The accounts vary widely, but all agree on one thing... the outcome can only be evil...
Smith
S1 Ep5
7.0
3rd Dec 1972
His name was Smith. It sounded so ordinary yet his crimes horrified and appalled the England of his day. When Jane Hornby, a journalist, looks into the story, she finds the past lives on in the present.
Worst Episodes of Dead of Night
A Woman Sobbing
S1 Ep7
6.2
17th Dec 1972
Jane and Frank Pullar have recently moved to a house in Sussex so that the children can grow up away from the dirt and rush of London. Soon Jane starts hearing sounds at night from the attic. But there is no one there and only she can hear them.
Exorcism
S1 Ep1
6.6
5th Nov 1972
"It wasn't much more than a ruin really... but we liked the area... and, anyway, Rachel fell in love with it." But the weekend cottage is not quite the bargain it seemed, as Dan and Margaret find when they accept an invitation to go there for Christmas.
Dead of Night Episode Guide
Exorcism
S1 Ep1
6.6
5th Nov 1972
"It wasn't much more than a ruin really... but we liked the area... and, anyway, Rachel fell in love with it." But the weekend cottage is not quite the bargain it seemed, as Dan and Margaret find when they accept an invitation to go there for Christmas.
Return Flight
S1 Ep2
6.9
12th Nov 1972
When Captain Rolph reports a plane on a collision course to Ground Control they can find no trace of the mystery intruder. Did he imagine it, or was there an aircraft?
Bedtime
S1 Ep3
7.0
19th Nov 1972
Victorian brass bedsteads are all the rage these days. Lorna and Geoffrey are delighted when they find one at a bargain price...
Death Controls All Debts
S1 Ep4
7.0
26th Nov 1972
Powys Jubb, a world-famous writer, wakes up every morning at 4.20 when his bedroom clock stops ticking. He feels that at 4.20 one morning he will die.
Smith
S1 Ep5
7.0
3rd Dec 1972
His name was Smith. It sounded so ordinary yet his crimes horrified and appalled the England of his day. When Jane Hornby, a journalist, looks into the story, she finds the past lives on in the present.
Two in the Morning
S1 Ep6
7.0
10th Dec 1972
There are many legends from different parts of the world which tell of a man who meets his own double. The accounts vary widely, but all agree on one thing... the outcome can only be evil...
A Woman Sobbing
S1 Ep7
6.2
17th Dec 1972
Jane and Frank Pullar have recently moved to a house in Sussex so that the children can grow up away from the dirt and rush of London. Soon Jane starts hearing sounds at night from the attic. But there is no one there and only she can hear them.
Dead of Night was a British television anthology series 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 BBC's archives. Another programme made by the Dead of Night 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.
BBC Four rebroadcast "The Exorcism" on 22 December 2007.
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The best rated episodes of Dead of Night are:
Two in the Morning S1E6 rated 7.0
Smith S1E5 rated 7.0
The lowest rated episodes of Dead of Night are:
A Woman Sobbing S1E7 rated 6.2
Exorcism S1E1 rated 6.6
The first episode of Dead of Night aired on November 05, 1972.
The last episode of Dead of Night aired on December 17, 1972.
