Escape Into Night (ATV 1972) - titles/clip - "Not the light!"

"Escape Into Night" was a six part British television serial for children made by ATV for ITV that aired from April 19, 1972 until May 24, 1972. It was directed by Richard Bramall. An adaptation of the novel Marianne Dreams written by Catherine Storr, the serial deals with a young girl, the eponymous Marianne, whose drawings become the basis for dreams, and the dividing line between dreams and reality becomes all too thin. The novel was later adapted into a 1988 film, Paperhouse.

As you can see, in those days TV producers didn't mess around when it came to scaring the living daylights out of their young audience.

The strange "humming" end sequence is also way ahead of its time.

The serial is available in the UK from Network DVD, although sadly the original colour recordings were destroyed in the early Eighties and only black-and-white copies remain.

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