
Dead of Night
1972 · BBC Two · 50 min · 1 season
S01E07 · A Woman Sobbing
Sun, 17 Dec, 11:00 pm
Jane is a discontented middle-class wife and mother. One night in her bedroom she hears a woman crying, though her husband hears nothing. Is it a symptom of her depression or is her home haunted? In her attempts to discover the truth she becomes increasingly paranoid.
About
Dead of Night was a British television anthology series of supernatural fiction, produced by the BBC and broadcast on BBC2 in 1972. It ran for a single series; of its seven 50-minute episodes, only three—"The Exorcism", "Return Flight", and "A Woman Sobbing"—are known to survive in the BBC's archives. Another programme made by the Dead of Night production team under Innes Lloyd, The Stone Tape, intended to be the eighth episode, does survive in the archives but was not broadcast under the Dead of Night banner.
Episodes
- E01
The Exorcism
Sun, 5 Nov· 50 minFour friends gather for Christmas dinner at an old cottage. Suddenly, there's a power failure and the phone goes dead. Then their wine turns to blood and the turkey makes them violently ill. Then things really get strange.
- E02
Return Flight
Sun, 12 Nov· 50 minWhilst coming into land after a routine flight, Captain Rolph suddenly takes evasive action to avoid a WWII Lancaster bomber. But neither his co-pilot or traffic control saw such a plane. It seems to be a straightforward case of hallucination and early retirement for Rolph, but he is determined to prove otherwise and clear his reputation.
- E03
Bedtime
Sun, 19 Nov· 50 minA newly married couple find a deal that is too good to pass up on an antique Victorian brass bedstead: however , they soon find that it is exerting a strange influence over their lives.
- E04
Death Cancels All Debts
Sun, 26 Nov· 50 minA world famous writer finds himself waking up at 4:20 every morning when his clock stops ticking. He soon becomes convinced that some day he will die at 4:20 AM.
- E05
Smith
Sun, 3 Dec· 50 minWhen a journalist decides to do a story on a criminal named Smith, whose crimes horrified and appalled the England of his time, she discovers that the past is living on in present.
- E06
Two in the Morning
Sun, 10 Dec· 50 minShortly after a woman moves her family to Sussex so that she and her husband can raise their children away from London, she begins hearing sounds coming from the attic at night which no one else can hear.
- E07
A Woman Sobbing
Sun, 17 Dec· 50 minJane is a discontented middle-class wife and mother. One night in her bedroom she hears a woman crying, though her husband hears nothing. Is it a symptom of her depression or is her home haunted? In her attempts to discover the truth she becomes increasingly paranoid.