Serenade for Dead Lovers

'Worlds Beyond' was an ITV series of the late 1980s that dramatised stories lifted from the archives of the Society for Psychical Research.  They made 13 episodes and truthfully none of them are particularly very good but i'm kind of addicted to them and you'll find a few eposodes on the blog.  It's an odd sort of series mostly of interest because, despite it's obviously miniscule budget, it featured some interesting casting choices, including faded Hollywood stars Eli Wallach, Karen Black and Louise Fletcher alongside the likes of Denholm Elliott, David Warner, Connie Booth, Mary Tamm & Natasha Richardson and in this case, perhaps less notably, 'Robin of Sherwood' Mk 2, Jason Connery and Nancy Travis who would later go ghost hunting again in the Stephen King mini series 'Rose Red'.

Written by legendary Wyrd Britain screenwriter Brian Clemens - who really should have done better - 'Serenade for Dead Lovers' - the best song title Bauhaus never used - revolves around an old village hall, a 40 year old romance and, for seemingly absolutely no resaon at all, a dud German bomb.  Travis and Connery do their best but there's too little here for them to really work with and what could have been a delicately poignant ghostly tale of love lost and found falls pretty flat.

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