Beasts is a series of six television plays by Manx writer Nigel Kneale, unconnected save for a bestial horror theme, made by ATV for ITV in the United Kingdom and broadcast in 1976. The series avoids typical monster horror clichès, moreso focusing on psychological and supernatural themes.
1 season · 6 episodes
S1 E1Special Offer
Oct 16, 197660 min
A 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.
S1 E2During Barty's Party
Oct 23, 197660 min
A suburban couple are held under siege by a pack of frighteningly intelligent rats.
S1 E3Buddy Boy
Oct 30, 197660 min
When 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.
S1 E4Baby
Nov 6, 197660 min
A 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.
S1 E5What Big Eyes
Nov 13, 197660 min
An RSPCA officer is horrified when he discovers a pet shop owner has been conducting experiments on a wolf, searching for proof of lycanthropy.
S1 E6The Dummy
Nov 20, 197660 min
A washed-up actor has a nervous breakdown and believes that he really is the movie monster that he has been hired to play.
Pamela Moiseiwitsch
Karen
Patrick Magee
Leo Raymount
Elizabeth Sellars
Angie Truscott
Shelagh Fraser
Dorothy Pummery
Pauline Quirke
Noreen Beale
Patricia Haines
Sheila Boyd
Martin Shaw
Dave
Mark Dignam
Arthur Grace
Lynda La Plante
Young Woman
Clive Swift
'Bunny' Nettleton
Bill Dean
Duggie Jebb
Stuart McGugan
Jimmy Beattie
