BBC2 Playhouse: Meriel the Ghost Girl
First shown 29 September 1976

In paranormal drama Meriel The Ghost Girl we are presented with the investigation, by four different people, into a visit by a ghost into the home of Mr and Mrs Smith. Noted psychic sceptic George Livingston (Donald Pleasance) pays a visit to the home of the Smiths who are claiming that they are visited regularly during seances by the spirit of a young girl, the Meriel of the title. When he too witness a visitation he is convinced that he has been party to unexplainable phenomena for the first time. Five years later private detective and paranormal specialist Sam Nicholls (John Bluthal) looks into the events meeting up with those who knew Livingston including his secretary Miss Radson (Sarah Douglas) and is convinced that Livingston made them up to provide a selling point for his final book, we then switch to Robina Oliver, a documentarist who firmly believes Livingston's story and embarks on a proof finding mission. Finally psychiatrist Doctor Delane offers up his own explanation as to what occured during Livingston's visit to the Smiths.

 
 

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