Top 10 British TV Horrors

With films such as Neil Marshall's The Descent and "Dog Soldiers":http://www.saleendssoon.com/search/dog%20soldiers garnering critical success on both sides of the Atlantic, it has become fashionable in recent times to talk about British horror in the way that one might talk about Japanese or Korean horrors. But for all the classic "Hammer horror":http://www.saleendssoon.com/search/hammer%20horror films and the Wicker Men out there, Britain also has a rich history of fantastic horror that is altogether too easily overlooked by genre historians.
In fact, you didn't even need to leave the sanctity of your own home to have access to it. I speak of the kind of television horror series that have kept generations of British people hiding behind the sofa.

However, before we begin, I should say something about the availability of these and other titles. While modern digital technology and a growing awareness of what Wired magazine's Chris Anderson calls the Long Tail mean that today's television companies are aware of the long term value of the TV series they produce, this was not always the case. Poor storage procedures and a short-sighted desire to save money by taping new shows over the original recordings of older ones mean that to this day many classic TV series are incomplete or even completely lost. As a result, this list only really scratches the surface of all the great old horror series and ghost stories that have aired over the years.

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