Beasts (TV series)

Beasts
Genre	Horror Anthology
Created by	Nigel Kneale
Starring	Anthony Bate Martin Shaw Pauline Quirke Michael Kitchen Patrick Magee
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Original language(s)	English
No. of series	1
No. of episodes	6
Production
Producer(s)	Nicholas Palmer
Running time	c. 50 minutes
Release
Original network	ITV
Original release	16 October – 20 November 1976

Beasts is a 1976 British television series. Written by Nigel Kneale, it is an anthology of six self-contained episodes that feature the recurring theme of bestial horror. The series was made by ATV for the ITV Network.

Episodes

#	Title	Original air date
1	"Special Offer"	16 October 1976
Pauline Quirke stars as a shop assistant whose unrequited love for her manager prompts a paranormal revenge.
2	"During Barty's Party"	23 October 1976
Starring Anthony Bate, a middle-class couple's life becomes overturned by rats.
3	"Buddyboy"	30 October 1976
Featuring Martin Shaw and a disused aquarium haunted by the spirit of a dolphin.
4	"Baby"	6 November 1976
Starring Simon MacCorkindale as a newlywed whose wife's pregnancy falls foul of ancient witchcraft.
5	"What Big Eyes"	13 November 1976
Features Michael Kitchen as an RSPCA inspector investigating a man (Patrick Magee) who is trying to turn himself into a wolf.
6	"The Dummy"	20 November 1976
Shows the psychological effect on an actor (Bernard Horsfall) who regularly plays a monster in horror films.

DVD release

The series was released on DVD by Network DVD in 2006. This set also included a similarly themed TV play called Murrain that Kneale had written for ITV's Against the Crowd series in 1975.

External links

• Beasts at the Internet Movie Database
• Beasts at the BFI's Screenonline