The Frighteners

📊 Series Specifications

Network ITV1
Episode Runtime ~ min
Total Seasons 1
Total Episodes 13
Original Language EN

The Frighteners (1972)

Created by Peter Wildeblood
⭐ 4.3 / 5 (2 votes) 🎬 1 Seasons 📼 13 Episodes 🏷️ Mystery, Drama 📡 Ended
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Synopsis

A horror anthology series, with each episode featuring a different eerie tale.

Seasons & Episodes

E1 The Minder

A daring jailbreak is planned — but does Bender mastermind the escape of his boss out of loyalty, or a more sinister motive?

E2 The Night of the Stag

Ginny receives a phone call from her lover, Mike, telling her that it is over between them. He is calling from the pub where he is celebrating his stag night. Ginny convinces Mike that they should spend one more night together before his wedding the next morning.

E3 Old Comrades

A retired Army Sergeant receives an unexpected visit from two of his former unit members who seem to have some unfinished business with him.

E4 The Manipulators

A lecture on Pavlov's Dogs: a room full of women being computer-tested for their typing skills. Two blokes, in a flat above a butchers' shop have been watching the young couple in the flat opposite, and their baby, taping their conversations.

E5 The Disappearing Man

A weary man fails to see his reflection in a train window, and comes to the conclusion that he's being ignored in life because he is disappearing from the world.

E6 Firing Squad

A mercenary returns to England, having switched sides in a coup and discovers his former associates waiting for him, looking for revenge.

E7 Miss Mouse

A henpecked husband brings his marriage to a life-altering conclusion after a night out with his wife. Meanwhile, their neighbour, Miss Mouse, hears everything via the intercom she uses for babysitting their child.

E8 The Treat

It was meant to be a great day out for three veterans and the male nurse. But their uneasy friendship soon becomes savage enmity.

E9 Bed and Breakfast

Anthony and Olive Ashworth arrive at Fred Cartwright's remote country home and place a sign outside, indicating the place is a hotel. They then demand that Cartwright give them board for the night.

E10 You Remind Me of Someone

A lorry driver grows uneasy about the conversation he is having with his hitchhiker companion and decides it's time for him to leave.

E11 The Classroom

A teacher is about to retire, very popular with pupils, but there's an exception.

E12 Glad to Be of Help

An MP, skilled in problem-solving, finds his expertise begin to fail in the face of a routine interview that slowly turns into a meeting of mounting menace.

E13 Have a Nice Time at the Zoo, Darling

A man has been watching attractive, thirteen-year-old Ruth. When they meet face-to-face, heart-rending mistakes of the past are revealed - but what of the future?