Escape Into Night (1972– )

Stars:

Sonia Graham, Patricia Maynard, Edmund Pegge

Cast

Series cast summary:
Sonia Graham	...	Mrs. Austen (6 episodes, 1972)
Patricia Maynard	...	Miss. Chesterfield (6 episodes, 1972)
Edmund Pegge	...	Dr. Burton (6 episodes, 1972)
Vikki Chambers	...	Marianne (6 episodes, 1972)
Steven Jones	...	Mark (6 episodes, 1972)

Storyline

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Plot Keywords:

nightmare | dream | drawing | based on novel

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Genres:

Family | Fantasy | Horror | Mystery

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Details

Country:

UK

Language:

English

Release Date:

19 April 1972 (UK)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Associated Television (ATV)

Technical Specs

Runtime:

25 min 25 min (6 episodes)

Color:

Color

Did You Know?

Trivia

Although made in color, the six episodes in this serial are now only known to survive as monochrome copies.

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Connections

Version of Paperhouse (1988)

User Reviews

Superb, gripping stuff...

Yes, I too saw this excellent series I was only about 11 at the time, but it stayed vividly in my memory - utterly disturbing and very scary.

In response to 'geffers' - the series was originally aired in the UK on the ITV network, produced by ATV (later to become Central TV) in 1972 - so nothing to do with the infamous BBC purge.

It is known that Thames TV (another ITV programme provider of the time) had a similar 'cull' of some of their children's TV - but this goes back to about 1970-71 - this itself shouldn't have affected the ATV-produced Escape Into Night production.

Let's hope its out there in the VT archives somewhere - maybe we'll get a DVD release one day...

Peace,

PG.