![]() What follows is a ghost story that also manages to be a sex comedy without sacrificing either the humour or the horror, but makes a blend all of its own. This chap once enjoyed seducing young girls by conjuring saucy visions, and now he’s decided to appear to Maurice, and enlist his help in new enterprises of evil from beyond the grave. He has a seedy magnificence as Maurice Allington, the owner of a hotel and restaurant in Cambridgeshire that is apparently haunted by a seventeenth century figure of local legend, Doctor Thomas Underhill. First shown in three parts in 1990, it’s based on a Kingsley Amis novel and contains a bawdy element that leading man Albert Finney plays up to brilliantly. ![]() Now we also have The Green Man on DVD to enjoy, and it’s a good one that definitely has the feel of a BBC production to it. From Whistle And I’ll Come To You (1968) to Michael Palin’s great turn in the recent Remember Me (2014), there’s a long history of programmes that are worth watching again as we come around to Halloween once more. ![]() ![]() ![]() BBC ghost story productions often have a similar feeling about them: creeping up on you from an innocuous start, throwing in a few familiar faces that make you feel quite at home before making the best of a couple of special effects and the calibre of the actors to give a chill or two. ![]()
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