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Ghost Signals: The Shadowlands Of British Analogue Television 1968-1995

Ghost Signals: The Shadowlands Of British Analogue Television 1968-1995

Prince, Stephen

Paperback

Television

ISBN10: 191694020X
ISBN13: 9781916940208
Publisher: Year in the Country
Published: Mar 4 2026
Pages: 142
Weight: 0.44
Height: 0.33 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Exploring the Haunted Airwaves


Before the ubiquity of streaming, British television was a landscape with room for strange experiments, folk-horror nightmares, and wyrd transmissions. Today, many of these programmes have vanished from official channels, leaving behind only ghost signals a shadowland of terrestrial TV hidden in plain sight across the unmediated and unmarketed corners of the internet.

Ghost Signals maps this territory from 1968 - the foundational wyrd year of acid folk and iconic folk horror - to 1995, the dawn of the digital revolution. The book delves into a unique era where public funding met social experimentation, creating a broad diet of television that was often as challenging as it was chilling.

This landscape invited viewers to encounter the seasonal hauntings of A Ghost Story for Christmas, the suburban occult of Scorpion Tales: Great Albert, and the layered mythologies of The Moon Stallion. It was a time that embraced the edgeland quiet horror of Unnatural Causes: Lost Property, the prescient virtual worlds of Play for Tomorrow: Shades, and the metatextual timeslip satire of ScreenPlay: The Black and Blue Lamp. From the paranormal pathways of Leap in the Dark: Jack Be Nimble to the non-horror folk horror of Play for Today: The Lonely Man's Lover, these broadcasts pushed the boundaries of the terrestrial signal.

Released as part of the A Year In The Country project - which explores the intersection of folk horror, hauntology, and the eerie landscape - Ghost Signals is a journey through the fading frequencies of a spectral past: the hidden gems that continue to resonate within our collective cultural memory, flourishing quietly in the digital attic of the internet.

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