'Scorpion Tales' was an ITV anthology series shown in 1978 for one series of six episodes, of which one episode, the third, had a superatural theme.
'Great Albert' tells the story of Matthew Ward (Max Harris) who uses a photocopy of an ancient spell book in an attempt to summon Lucifer to help him stop his antique book dealer father, Peter (Kenneth Gilbert), and contemptuously bored mother, Virginia (Lynn Farleigh), from divorcing which, inevitably, leads to unfortunate consequences.
Written by John Peacock who had, a couple of years earlier, scripted Hammer's 'To The Devil a Daughter' and who would later write 'And the Wall Came Tumbling Down' for 'Hammer House of Mystery and Suspense', it's an entertainingly "Hammer" premise that wouldn't have been out of place in that later series but it takes a tad too long to get going and runs out of time and slightly out of steam in its final act but the cast are strong and there's a pleasingly claustrophobic aura that allows us an insight into Virginia's predicament and the toll it takes on Matthew before the story concludes with an intriguing and ambiguous flourish.
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