Beasts

1h

Sci-Fi & Fantasy

Drama

Beasts is a series of six television plays by Manx writer Nigel Kneale, unconnected but for a bestial horror theme, made by ATV for ITV in the United Kingdom and broadcast in 1976.

Episodes

Cast

Special Offer

1. Special Offer

1h

16th Oct 1976

A misfit teenage checkout operator has an unrequited crush on her supermarket manager. At the same shop's cuddly cartoon mascot seems to have come alive and is causing havoc.

During Barty's Party

2. During Barty's Party

1h

23rd Oct 1976

A suburban couple are held under siege by a pack of frighteningly intelligent rats.

Buddy Boy

3. Buddy Boy

1h

30th Oct 1976

When a nightclub owner buys a derelict dolphinarium, he and a young woman seem to be haunted by the ghost of Buddy Boy, the star attraction.

Baby

4. Baby

1h

6th Nov 1976

A young couple move to the countryside and discover a strange mummified animal in the wall of their cottage. The wife increasingly feels that she and her unborn child are in danger.

What Big Eyes

5. What Big Eyes

1h

13th Nov 1976

An RSPCA officer is horrified when he discovers a pet shop owner has been conducting experiments on a wolf, searching for proof of lycanthropy.

The Dummy

6. The Dummy

1h

20th Nov 1976

A washed-up actor has a nervous breakdown and believes that he really is the movie monster that he has been hired to play.

First air date

16th Oct 1976

Last air date

20th Nov 1976

Status

Ended

Type

Miniseries

Original language

en

Networks