The Stone Tape 1972 (6/11)

'The Stone Tape' - a BBC television play written by Nigel Kneale, first aired on 25th December 1972, Directed by Peter Sasdy and starring Michael Bryant and Jane Asher.

(From IMDb)
A research team from an electronics company move into an old Victorian house to start work on finding a new recording medium. When team member Jill Greeley witnesses a ghost, team director Peter Brock decides not only to analyse the apparition, which he believes is a psychic impression trapped in a stone wall (dubbed a "stone tape"), but to exorcise it too - with terrifying results...

This show was available on DVD from the British Film Institute, by they have now deleted it from their lists.

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[drnickyp]

I think the fact that none of these characters are in any way likeable adds to the general creepiness of the play. Michael Bryant's "shouty-shouty" overacting is particularly unnerving.

[kimmler100]

Well I'd have given the woman one!

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@urizen1

Well I wouldn't have said no to date with the woman!

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@phillegrange

Hahahahaha...was just thinking the same thing!

[eoghanoe]

The computer says no...

[urizen1]

christ there isnt a single likeable character.

[phillegrange]

John Sessions looks incredibly like Michael Bryant!

[BrashOfKhaamph]

Does his accent keep switching to Irish?