From the release blurb...
Before the ubiquity of streaming, British television was a landscape
with room for strange experiments, folk-horror nightmares, and “wyrd”
transmissions. Today, many of these programmes have vanished from
official channels, leaving behind only “ghost signals“: a shadowland of
terrestrial TV hidden in plain sight across the unmediated and
unmarketed corners of the internet.
GHOST SIGNALS maps this territory from 1968 – the foundational “wyrd” year of acid folk and iconic folk horror – to 1995, the dawn of the digital revolution. The book delves into a unique era where public funding met social experimentation, creating a “broad diet” of television that was often as challenging as it was chilling.
This landscape invited viewers to encounter the seasonal hauntings of A GHOST STORY FOR CHRISTMAS, the suburban occult of SCORPION TALES: GREAT ALBERT, and the layered mythologies of THE MOON STALLION. It was a time that embraced the edgeland quiet horror of UNNATURAL CAUSES: LOST PROPERTY, the prescient virtual worlds of PLAY FOR TOMORROW: SHADES, and the metatextual timeslip satire of SCREENPLAY: THE BLACK AND BLUE LAMP. From the paranormal pathways of LEAP IN THE DARK: JACK BE NIMBLE to the non-horror folk horror of PLAY FOR TODAY: THE LONELY MAN’S LOVER, these broadcasts pushed the boundaries of the terrestrial signal.
The book is available in paperback and ebook from:
ayearinthecountry.co.uk/ghost-signals-the-shadowlands-of-british-analogue-television-1968-1995-paperback-and-ebook/
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