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Last broadcast on Wed, 15 Apr 2009, 23:00 on BBC HD (see all broadcasts).
Synopsis
When schoolteacher Ben unearths an old door knocker in the garden of his new home, the curator suggests it may come from the now-demolished house, reputed to be haunted. Ben prompts the curator to tell him stories about the house's past.
It's 1786, and Joseph Bloxham is a self-made man and something of a star in fashionable coffee-house society. Some, though, like the sceptical Noakes take a dim view of his shady business ethics. Bloxham has used his ill-gotten gains to buy the old Geap Manor, paying no heed to the warnings of Noakes and his friend Duncalfe, but when Bloxham starts to hear ghastly sounds in the newly-installed panelling of his drawing room it seems he might have more than just a mouse hiding in his wainscoting.
CLIP: The Door-Knocker
A schoolteacher finds an ancient door-knocker with links to a ghostly past.
CLIP: Mark Gatiss Interview
Crooked House creator Mark Gatiss talks haunted houses.
BBC INTERVIEW WITH MARK GATISS
Mark Gatiss, who plays the museum curator and also co-produces the drama, talks about how he's fulfilled a lifelong ambition and how he managed to persuade his friend, Derren Brown, to appear as a guest star.
Credits
- Curator
- Mark Gatiss
- Ben
- Lee Ingleby
- Joseph Bloxham
- Phillip Jackson
- Duncalfe
- Andy Nyman
- Noakes
- Julian Rhind-Tutt
- Producer
- Paul Frift
- Writer
- Mark Gatiss
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