Shadows is a British

United Kingdom

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Television

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 anthology series produced by Thames Television

Thames Television

Thames Television was a licensee of the British ITV television network, covering London and parts of the surrounding counties on weekdays from 30 July 1968 until 31 December 1992....

 for ITV

ITV

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 between 1975 and 1978. Extending over three seasons, it featured ghost and horror dramas for children.

Guest actors included John Nettleton

John Nettleton (actor)

John Nettleton is an English actor.One of his most notable roles was that of Sir Arnold Robinson, the Cabinet Secretary in Yes Minister and President of the Campaign for Freedom of Information in the follow-up Yes, Prime Minister...

, Gareth Thomas

Gareth Thomas (actor)

Gareth Thomas is a Welsh actor.Thomas is best known for the part of Roj Blake in the dystopian science fiction television series Blake's 7, but has taken roles in many other films and television programmes, including Adam Brake in Children of the Stones.Thomas trained at RADA and is now an...

, Jenny Agutter

Jenny Agutter

Jennifer Ann "Jenny" Agutter is an English film and television actress. She began her career as a child actress in the mid 1960s, starring in the BBC television series The Railway Children and the film adaptation of the same book, before moving on to adult roles and relocating to Hollywood.She...

, Pauline Quirke

Pauline Quirke

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, Brian Glover

Brian Glover

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, June Brown

June Brown

June Muriel Brown, MBE is a British actress, best known for her role as the busy-body, chain-smoking gossip Dot Cotton in the long-running British soap opera EastEnders and for making other high profile television appearances on shows such as Doctor Who, Coronation Street, Minder, The Bill and...

, Jacqueline Pearce

Jacqueline Pearce

Jacqueline Pearce is a British actress.-Career:Jacqueline Pearce trained at the British stage school RADA and at Lee Strasberg's Actors Studio in Los Angeles....

 and Gwyneth Strong

Gwyneth Strong

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. The series was also notable for reviving the character of Mr. Stabs.

Notable writers for the series included J. B. Priestley

J. B. Priestley

John Boynton Priestley, OM , known as J. B. Priestley, was an English novelist, playwright and broadcaster. He published 26 novels, notably The Good Companions , as well as numerous dramas such as An Inspector Calls...

, Fay Weldon

Fay Weldon

Fay Weldon CBE is an English author, essayist and playwright, whose work has been associated with feminism. In her fiction, Weldon typically portrays contemporary women who find themselves trapped in oppressive situations caused by the patriarchal structure of British society.-Biography:Weldon was...

 and PJ Hammond

Peter J. Hammond

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.

Award Nominations

In 1976 and 1977 Shadows was nominated for the Harlequin BAFTA TV Award under the category of Drama/Light Entertainment. The series missed out on winning on both occasions, to Ballet Shoes

Ballet Shoes (TV serial)

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 and The Multi-Coloured Swap Shop

Multi-Coloured Swap Shop

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 respectively.

Book

A tie-in book, The Best Of Shadows was released by Corgi in 1979. It featured adaptations of seven episodes: The Dark streets of Kimball's Green, The Inheritance, Eleven O'clock, And now for my next trick, The Rose of Puddle Fratrum, The Eye and The Man who hated children.

DVD

"Shadows: The Complete First Series" was released in the UK on the 1st November 2010 by Network, with the sixth episode Dutch Schlitz's Shoes being included on the Ace of Wands

Ace of Wands

Ace of Wands is a fantasy-based British children's television show broadcast on ITV between 1970 and 1972, created by Trevor Preston and Pamela Lonsdale and produced by Thames Television. The title, taken from the name of a Tarot card describes the principal character, called "Tarot" who combined...

 DVD boxset as an extra due to it featuring the Mr. Stabs character. Series 2 was released in June 2011.

Series 1 (1975)

Title	Writer	Director	Original airdate
The Future Ghost	Roger Marshall	Leon Thau Leon Thau Leon Thau is a British actor, TV producer and director. He played the part of Frankie Wing in the 1960 London production of the musical Flower Drum Song. As an actor he became known in the 1960s BBC TV comedy series It's a Square World, and also appeared in Comedy Playhouse, The Gnomes of...	3 September 1975
After School		Audrey Sherett	10 September 1975
The Witch's Bottle	Stewart Farrar	Vic Hughes	17 September 1975
The Waiting Room	Jon Watkins	Stan Woodward	24 September 1975
An Optical Illusion	Tom Clarke	Peter Webb	1 October 1975
Dutch Schlitz's Shoes	Trevor Preston	Stan Woodward	8 October 1975
The Other Window	Jacquetta Hawkes, J. B. Priestley J. B. Priestley John Boynton Priestley, OM , known as J. B. Priestley, was an English novelist, playwright and broadcaster. He published 26 novels, notably The Good Companions , as well as numerous dramas such as An Inspector Calls...	Darrol Blake	15 October 1975

Series 2 (1976)

Title	Writer	Director	Original airdate
The Dark Streets of Kimballs Green	Joan Aiken	Stan Woodward	28 July 1976
Time Out of Mind	Penelope Lively	Audrey Sherrett	14 August 1976
The Inheritance	Josephine Poole	Peter Webb	11 August 1976
Dark Encounter	Susan Cooper	Leon Thau	18 August 1976
Peronik	Rosemary Harris	Vic Hughes	25 August 1976
The Eye	Ewart Alexander	Neville Green	1 September 1976

Series 3 (1978)

Title	Writer	Director	Original airdate
Eleven O'Clock			20 September 1978
The Rose of Puddle Fratrum	Joan Aiken	Neville Green	27 September 1978
And Now For My Next Trick	PJ Hammond Peter J. Hammond Peter J. Hammond is a British television writer.-Career:He began writing for television in the 1960s, working on BBC police dramas such as Dixon of Dock Green and Z-Cars, the latter of which he served as script editor on for a year from 1969 to 1970...	Michael Custance	4 October 1978
The Boy Merlin	Stewart Farrar (story by Anne Carlton)	Vic Hughes	11 October 1978
The Man Who Hated Children	Brian Patten	Neville Green	18 October 1978
The Silver Apple	Roy Russell (story by Philip Glassborow)	Gabrielle Beaumont Gabrielle Beaumont Gabrielle Beaumont is a British film and television director.Her directing credits range from Hill Street Blues to Star Trek: The Next Generation. She is best known for directing, writing and producing the TV special Diana: The People's Princess...	25 October 1978
Honeyann	Fay Weldon Fay Weldon Fay Weldon CBE is an English author, essayist and playwright, whose work has been associated with feminism. In her fiction, Weldon typically portrays contemporary women who find themselves trapped in oppressive situations caused by the patriarchal structure of British society.-Biography:Weldon was...	Pamela Lonsdale	1 November 1978

External links

• IMDb Entry
• EOFF - The Encyclopedia of Fantastic Film and Television
• Shadows (Haun