Children's ghost story/haunted house TV specials of the late '70s/early '80s

[El Hombre Nuclear]

Back in the late '70s and early '80s, there was a peculiar little batch of live action "spooky" TV specials aimed at children, usually aired under the umbrella of the regular network children's anthology series that proliferated at the time. Most have fallen into obscurity over the years, and they're generally very, very dated, but that's why I love them. I watched pretty much all of these when they originally aired (I always loved haunted house/ghost stuff from a very young age), and think they make a nice companion piece to all of the classic TV horror movies that aired back then, during the glory days of network television. I may be missing some, but they included:

Child of Glass
The Ghost of Thomas Kempe
The Haunting of Harington House
The Haunted Mansion Mystery
The Red Room Riddle

Anyone else here remember these things?

[daz71]

Back in the late '70s and early '80s, there was a peculiar little batch of live action "spooky" TV specials aimed at children, usually aired under the umbrella of the regular network children's anthology series that proliferated at the time. Most have fallen into obscurity over the years, and they're generally very, very dated, but that's why I love them. I watched pretty much all of these when they originally aired (I always loved haunted house/ghost stuff from a very young age), and think they make a nice companion piece to all of the classic TV horror movies that aired back then, during the glory days of network television. I may be missing some, but they included:

Child of Glass
The Ghost of Thomas Kempe
The Haunting of Harington House
The Haunted Mansion Mystery
The Red Room Riddle

Anyone else here remember these things?

never heard of these but going to have to check them out .we had a few here in the u.k.
shadows tv series
timeslip
escape into night
the georgian house
ace of wands
the clifton house mystery

[El Hombre Nuclear]

never heard of these but going to have to check them out .we had a few here in the u.k.
shadows tv series
timeslip
escape into night
the georgian house
ace of wands
the clifton house mystery

Oh yeah, I love all the UK stuff as well. It seems like a very high percentage of UK children's TV in the '70s and '80s was terrifying though, regardless of its intended genre. I'm surprised you guys were ever able to sleep at night as kids...

Speaking of that, I've been dying to see "Ghost in the Water" for years. Sort of a one-off kids version of "A Ghost Story for Christmas", which aired only once in 1982. I gather it's been shown at some special events once or twice in recent years, but the BBC doesn't even have a copy and it's never made it into the collector circuit.

[daz71]

i've never heard of that one the bbc are terrible for keeping things.