Beasts (1976)
Beasts is a series of six television plays by Manx writer Nigel Kneale, unconnected but for a bestial horror theme, made by ATV for ITV in the United Kingdom and broadcast in 1976.
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Episode 1 - Special Offer
Release Date: 1976-10-16A misfit teenage checkout operator has an unrequited crush on her supermarket manager. At the same shop's cuddly cartoon mascot seems to have come alive and is causing havoc.
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Episode 2 - During Barty's Party
Release Date: 1976-10-23A suburban couple are held under siege by a pack of frighteningly intelligent rats.
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Episode 3 - Buddy Boy
Release Date: 1976-10-30When a nightclub owner buys a derelict dolphinarium, he and a young woman seem to be haunted by the ghost of Buddy Boy, the star attraction.
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Episode 4 - Baby
Release Date: 1976-11-06A young couple move to the countryside and discover a strange mummified animal in the wall of their cottage. The wife increasingly feels that she and her unborn child are in danger.
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Episode 5 - What Big Eyes
Release Date: 1976-11-13An RSPCA officer is horrified when he discovers a pet shop owner has been conducting experiments on a wolf, searching for proof of lycanthropy.
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Episode 6 - The Dummy
Release Date: 1976-11-20A washed-up actor has a nervous breakdown and believes that he really is the movie monster that he has been hired to play.