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I remember that very episode, but I can't remember for sure which series it was. (you didn't make it clear in your summary, but the little girl was actually a ghost)
As you described, it was an episode of a British anthology horror series. My first guess would be "Tales of the Unexpected". But it doesn't seem to match any of the episode descriptions for that series.
Thanks a lot for the answer. Actually - I didn't remember she was a ghost in my (admittedly hazy) memory she was just a psychopathic ex-pupil.
I'm relieved to hear that you remember it at least - I was beginning to doubt my memory as there is so much information on line about such "spooky" shows and series and I couldn't find it amongst them. I'm fairly sure it's not tales of the unexpected. I've looked through all of those episodes.
As you say this was a British show, or at least if it was produced abroad then the actors had British accents. Small chance I'm misremembering that and it was Australian/NZ but not US I think.
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I am pretty certain that I saw this on UK television.
A couple more details: I think this is the one where the ghost girl kept singing "Lord of the Dance", which is a British religious song often sung by schoolchildren (An American child wouldn't have sung this, but I don't know about Australian children). I think there was only one classroom in the school, which means it would have been in a rural area. The wife actually was hoping to reopen the school and be a teacher, the husband wasn't completely supportive of this goal. I don't remember the ghost girl's motive was, I guess she wanted the school to stay closed. I also remember that when they were getting kinky in the classroom the husband had the line "Sex games in the classroom!" which would not have been a line used in American TV at the time, so I am pretty sure this MUST have been a British or Aus/NZ show.
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I don't know the movie either, but we used to sing Lord of the Dance all of the time here in Kentucky. It was in our Catholic hymnal (for those unfamiliar with it, it's sung to the same tune as "'Tis a Gift to be Simple").
Hi, with the Lord of the Dance info I was able to google it - it was from a series called Unnatural Causes, the episode being Lost Property. http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/383840
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Thanks all.
I love you! I thought I had imagined the show. I was about to write up about it myself but typed in 'sickle' as a search and found you'd already done it. You remember it better than me too!
Hi There,
I'm racking my brains to remember a drama serial on UK TV at the end of the 80s, or perhaps start of the 90s. I don't remember too much, but the episodes were self contained dramas each week with a scary edge and a surprise ending.
The only episode I remember clearly is where a young couple buy a school house that was still in use recently as a school but has now been closed and sold for renovation into a house, which the couple plan to do. A girl - an ex-pupil - loved her school and blames them for taking it over. She terrorises the couple. Throughout the episode we have seen drawings of a boat and also of a sickle. At the end - spoiler - the man falls through a jetty and I think drowns, and the wife is left tied by her hands in the old gym (the couple had been getting kinky before a noise interrupted them) and the girl appears around the corner holding a sickle - the implication being that she is now going to murder the defenceless wife with it.
Any ideas? I've looked a lot on line for spooky/paranormal/twist in the tale type drama series from the age but I can't seem to find one that fits this.
Many thanks!
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