The Signalman Charles Dickens BBC GHOST STORY FOR CHRISTMAS 1976

Classic BBC adaptation of The Signalman by Charles Dickens. Directed by Lawrence Gordon Clark. Starring Denholm Elliott and Bernard Lloyd. BBC Ghost Stories for Christmas. BFI BBC 1976. The Signalman is a 1976 BBC television adaptation of The SignalMan, an 1866 short story by Charles Dickens. The story was adapted by Andrew Davies as the BBC s sixth A Ghost Story for Christmas, with Denholm Elliott starring as the signalman and Bernard Lloyd as the traveller, an unnamed character who acts as a plot device in place of the short story s narrator. It was the first episode of the series not to be an adaptation of an M. R. James story, and the last adaptation of an existing story. The production was directed by Lawrence Gordon Clark and filmed on the Severn Valley Railway.