Nobody's House (1976) User Reviews

I would like to see the entire series again

[Rueiro · 10/10 · 28 August 2016]

I first saw this in Argentina in 1984, and watched every episode of it and loved it. Of course it was dubbed into Argentinian Spanish and the title of the series was different, I can't even now remember it. But what always remained on my memory was the image of Nobody pulling his tie to disappear every time he didn't want to be seen by the adults.

Then a few years ago just by pure chance I found the series on IMDb. I can't remember how I actually came across it since I didn't have a clue as to the series' original title or the names in the cast. Anyway, I found it and I began to do a thorough research, and discovered that the first two episodes were posted in YouTube. Watching them again after nearly thirty years was an unforgettable experience.

2022 I am glad to say that now I was able to watch the whole series again at last, thirty-eight years after I saw it for the first time. I liked it, but the effect it caused on me now it is not the same, obviously. Still, I think is a good series and the special effects are quite good for 1976.

It leaves an ambiguous finale, with the door open for a second series that never materialized. But perhaps it was better this way, because having the same storyline over and over again it would eventually have become boring.

A Victorian Ghost lives in a house and has adventures with the children living there

[owen-fish · 6/10 · 26 June 2009]

I was 5 when this aired in England. It's one of the earliest TV shows I ever remember seeing. It was about an old Victorian house in which lives the ghost of a young boy who had died in the house. A family moved into the house many years later and the two children who lived there met the ghost and had many adventures in the house with him. I remember that "Nobody" (the name of the ghost) wore Victorian work house or street urchin clothes from his period and when he wanted to "ghost" in or out of sight he would tug on his neck-scarf. Great show. Typical of the mid-70s stuff on British TV though, we children really had to think about shows back then.

Creepy Kid's Show From My Youth

[hidden_shallows · 12 August 2005]

I was five years old when this was aired on TV and I haven't seen it since, but for some reason, a few days ago, it popped into my head. As far as I can remember it concerned a family moving into an old house that was haunted by a child who had died in there, many years before (cleaning the chimney or something.) He either didn't have or couldn't remember his name, so the children who befriended him called him Nobody, thus, Nobody's house. The only part of the story I remember involved the two kids either accidentally locking themselves into the cellar, or being locked into the cellar and Nobody using his ghostly powers to get them out. I also remember being really scared in the first episode, with the thought of a ghost and the mystery surrounding it, then settling into the idea and naming it my favourite program at the time. I wonder what my 34 year old current self would think of it?