Mystery and Imagination

Mystery and Imagination
Genre	Horror anthology
Starring	David Buck
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Original language(s)	English
No. of series	5
No. of episodes	24
Production
Producer(s)	ABC Television (Series 1—3) Thames Television (Series 4—5)
Release
Original network	ITV
Original release	29 January 1966 – 23 February 1970

Mystery and Imagination is a British television anthology series of classic horror and supernatural dramas. Five series were broadcast from 1966 to 1970 by the ITV network and produced by ABC and (later) Thames Television.

The series featured Television plays based on the works of well-known authors such as Robert Louis Stevenson, Bram Stoker, Mary Shelley, M. R. James, and Edgar Allan Poe. All bar one of the first two ABC series starred David Buck as Richard Beckett, originally a character from Sheridan Le Fanu's story "The Flying Dragon", as narrator. Beckett was made the central character of the series, taking the roles of various characters from some of the original stories. The first two series, although transmitted as two separate runs, were recorded in a single production block. The episode without Buck ("The Open Door") features Jack Hawkins in the lead.

Only the versions of "The Fall of the House of Usher" and "The Open Door" (series 1) from the ABC era exist in the archives. All the other episodes from the first three series are not known to exist, although the Thames episodes (series 4 and 5) survive. A brief clip from Casting the Runes (from series 3) also exists.

Network DVD has released all eight remaining episodes on a four disc set along with the surviving clips of 'Casting the Runes'.

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