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Post by paulfinch on Feb 28, 2023 8:00:38 GMT
Don't know if anyone can help with this. I know there's been lots of of British supernatural anthology TV over the years, but I remember one episode of one series that particularly spooked me, though the name of it now eludes me. Unfortunately, I don't have an exact date - early/mid 1980s maybe (or perhaps a bit earlier) - but it involved a WW1 soldier returning home even though he'd been reported dead. It had a very working class aura about it, and I think the soldier's sweetheart was a girl called Meg. You never saw much of the soldier, just his boots and puttees etc, all caked in mud as he got steadily closer to home (the implication being that he actually was dead). It was very frightening by the standards of those shows. For years I laboured under the impression that it was The Demon Lover, which was an episode in in Shades of Darkness, but yet I re-watched that last night for the first time in years, and it was something else entirely. I don't suppose anyone can offer a clue on this?
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Post by paulfinch on Feb 28, 2023 14:16:06 GMT
No need for anyone to sweat on this. I'm 95% certain I have a result. LEAVING LILY was a 1975 BBC drama, a one-off screenplay written by Graham Baker, which doesn't seem to have much presence online, but in the admittedly very brief synopsis I've managed to dig up, there was just enough info to trip my memory and fill in a few gaps. It's about a soldier going off to war, and how he spends his last day on Civy Street in the Norfolk village of his birth, with his sweetheart, Liy (not Meg, but I now recall that he refers to her all the way through as 'Lil', so it's a single syllable name and not massively dissimilar). The fearsome, war-ravaged spectre slowly encroaching on the pair - and it's a bit of a SPOILER, this - is himself, so it's basically a portent that he will be killed when he gets to the front. That's how I remember it, at least. I'm 95% certain this is the play I remember.
As you all were ; )
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Post by Swampirella on Feb 28, 2023 14:23:27 GMT
I'm very glad you satisfied your curiosity; feel free to ask for help anytime!
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