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BBC Ghost Stories for Christmas (Expanded 6-Disc Collection Box Set) (2013)
6 x DVD9 | ISO | English w/ Optional Hard-of-Hearing Subtitles | PAL Region 2 MPEG2 720x576 px 1.33:1 & 1.78:1 (16x9 Anamorphic) | Dolby Digital 48 kHz 320 kbps | 37.98 GB
Country: UK | Year: 1968-2010 | Colour (one black & white) | 830 minutes | Box Set Release Date: 28 Oct 2013 | Publisher: BFI
Genre: Terror, Horror

Broadcast in the dying hours of Christmas Eve, the BBC's A Ghost Story for Christmas series was a fixture of the seasonal schedules throughout the 1970s and spawned a long tradition of chilling tales which terrified yuletide viewers for decades to come. This expansive box set collects over 13 hours' worth of content, including all 12 episodes of the classic A Ghost Story for Christmas series, the entire Classic Ghost Stories series (presented by Robert Powell), the M R James episodes of Spine Chillers (presented by Michael Bryant), and three of the Ghost Stories for Christmas with Christopher Lee instalments from 2000.

A Ghost Story for Christmas is a strand of annual British short television films originally broadcast on BBC One between 1971 and 1978, and revived in 2005 on BBC Four. With one exception, the original instalments were directed by Lawrence Gordon Clark and the films were all shot on 16 mm colour film. The remit behind the series was to provide a television adaptation of a classic ghost story, in line with the oral tradition of telling supernatural tales at Christmas.