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- Motley Hall is sold to millionaire Mr. Hives. Mr. and Mrs. Hamilton are his manipulative servants. When the ghosts see the way they treat him, they come up with a plan to rid him of the Hamiltons, and set him free to do what he wants.
- Gudgin is doing a spot of gardening and digs up an old bell buried by highwayman Captain Narcissus Bullock (Michael Elphick); (a former companion of Francis 'Fanny' Uproar. If the bell is rung it banishes ghosts. Narcissus wants to ring it so that he and Fanny can preside over the hall and entertain all sorts of unscrupulous spirits, but the other ghosts are Fanny's friends.
- There's no Christmas spirit at Motley Hall this year. In fact, the resident ghosts have decided that there will be no Christmas, period! Their self-imposed isolation from each other is suddenly and noisily interrupted by the arrival of two older women and a teenage girl that Matt decides need to be sheltered from the cold weather. The three new people, our five resident ghosts, and the surprising appearance of a Genie makes Christmas much more spirited than they ever could have imagined!
- There's not a lot of Christmas Spirit at Motley Hall this year. Everyone is depressed because Christmas is no different than any other day of the year. Suddenly, the house comes to life and recreates a lovely Christmas of 1848 only to be threatened by the cutting down of the haunted "Blasted Beech" for use as a yule log. It's up to our ghosts to save Christmas and the Motley family's future.
- There has always been an Uproar at Motley Hall, until now. The last Uproar, Sir Humphrey, has died leaving caretaker Gudgin facing two scheming men who are plotting to steal Motley Hall out from under him. It's up to the ghosts to figure out a way to save Motley Hall and their way of life (death)!
- Once again, poor Mr Gudgin finds himself roped into yet another newfangled way to rid Motley Hall of it's "spirited" occupants. This time, it's a scientist who says they're not ghosts, but hallucinations from people's minds, simply electrical emanations. One by one, Matt sees each of them disappear and faces eternity alone in Motley Hall unless he can figure a way to stop the Pogmore "solution".
- 1976–19786.7 (9)TV EpisodeGudgin has finally sold Motley Hall to The British Banana Company, but their agent has accidentally released Bad Lord William, surely one of the worst of the Uproar Clan ghosts. It'll take Bodkin's sword skills and Matt's cunning to get Gudgin freed and Bad Lord William contained.
- The ghosts "discover" television & the trouble it can cause when two bumbling crooks use Motley Hall to store 8 boxes of stolen wireless TV's. The crooks are thwarted, first by the resident ghosts and then by a policeman who is able to see clearly into a crime, and a whole lot more!
- Matt joining the other four ghosts has certainly made Motley Hall much more lively and interesting for everyone. All the sudden though, hiding from the other ghosts is a second Matt, one that has a secret agenda, and it's not good! And worse, which Matt is which?
- American couple Darlene and Marvin Dewey (Annie Ross and Ed Devereux) are trying to trace Darlene's family tree; Sir George's brother, Albert, married Darlene's great, great grandmother, his older sister Alexandra never married but family legend told that his younger sister, Clara, eloped with an American and Mrs. Dewey wants to find out if this is true. She has all sorts of gadgets to get in touch with spirits as she wants to ask Sir George.
- A film crew descend on Motley Hall as historian, St John Desmond (played by Nicholas Le Provost who plays Francis 'Fanny' Uproar throughout) details the history for School television, but as they portray incidents from Motley's past, the ghosts notice that the historian has it wrong. Can they, with the help of faithful Gudgin (Peter Sallis), set the record straight before the name of Uproar is blackened forever?
- Gudgin has always hated that he could hear and see the ghosts of Motley Hall. Today, after getting stuck in the stair rails his only hope of being rescued is in the hands of those very ghosts. Unfortunately, the ghosts are unable to let anyone know of Gudgins predicament and save him. The ghosts themselves can't seem to get anybody's attention, but maybe A GHOST can!
- Matt finds a ring that leads him to an upside-down ghost of a knight in armor hanging in the well outside the hall. After being freed, he sees the White Lady and is sure that she is Matilda, his bride from long ago. Will the White Lady actually find out who she was and will this revelation be everything that she has been dreaming of for all these years?
- "Old Gory" is a Motley Hall Ghost who appears faithfully every 5 years and can be seen by everyone, living people and ghosts alike. Unfortunately this year, his scheduled appearance is likely to be seen by a ghost hunter and his very perceptive wife who are staking out Motley Hall. The appearance of Old Gory to the Ghost Hunters would be disastrous for the resident ghosts by exposing them and threatening their happy home!
- Gudgin installs a piano in the hall and the ghosts plan a night of musical entertainment. The piano once belonged to composer, Ludwig Stumpf (John Ringham, who has also guested before as a potential buyer of the hall) and he doesn't want anyone else; dead or alive, to play it.
- It's just been discovered that Motley Hall is 400 years old, so to commemorate this, the ghosts decide to hold a Masque. But when Bodkin tries to write it, the pages of the history book that might finally identify the mysterious White Lady have disappeared! Was she somebody so horrible that she doesn't want it to be found out and her deep dark secret revealed?
- Motley Hall's roof needs mending and the ghosts are worried how Gudgin is going to pay for it. They know that Sir Peveril has piles of loot hidden somewhere in Motley Hall but all they have for a clue to find it is the inscription on his bust that says he told the secret to his cat!
- 1976–19787.7 (9)TV EpisodeThe other ghosts feel that Sir George is becoming a tyrant and want to teach him some humility. Sir George seems to have an adverse reaction to his sister, Alexandra's croquet mallet. The ghosts wonder what the story is behind this and if it can help them get out from under George's rule.
- 1976–19788.2 (9)TV EpisodeAlexandra Uproar (Joan Sanderson), is snobbish towards the other ghosts and bosses over Sir George; Matt has an idea of how to get her out of the hall, if Sir George can do what is required.