The Signalman (film)
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The Signalman is a 1976 BBC television adaptation of "The Signal-Man", an 1866 short story by Charles Dickens. The story was adapted by Andrew Davies as the BBC's sixth A Ghost Story for Christmas, with Denholm Elliott starring as the signalman and Bernard Lloyd as the traveller, an unnamed character who acts as a plot device in place of the short story's narrator.
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The Signalman | |
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Based on | "The Signal-Man" by Charles Dickens |
Written by | Andrew Davies |
Directed by | Lawrence Gordon Clark |
Original release | |
Network | BBC One |
Release | 22 December 1976 (1976-12-22) |
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It was the first episode of the series not to be an adaptation of an M. R. James story, and the last adaptation of an existing story. The production was directed by Lawrence Gordon Clark and filmed on the Severn Valley Railway.