Stone Tape, The

Date: 1972
Director: Peter Sasdy
Production Company: British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)

Stars: Michael Bryant, Jane Asher, Michael Bates, Iain Cuthbertson
Location(s): Surrey

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Storyline:

Starting work to find a new recording medium, an electronics company research team move into an old Victorian house where one of their number witnesses a ghost.

Additional Information:

Screen captures by Phil Wilkinson

First broadcast by BBC 2 as a Christmas ghost story on 25 December 1972.

Dave Buckley knew the VT editor, Geoff Higgs, very well as he regularly came to his TV department in the 1970’s to lecture on VT editing. He had an opportunity to speak to Geoff about the opening sequence where Jane Asher drives into the courtyard and Dave’s full knowledge and information concerning this, as shown in our captures, can be read here.

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  • Capture 1
  • 09 Feb 2022

Exiting the driveway tunnel. Jill Greeley (Jane Asher) approaches the entrance of Taskerlands, the new home of Ryan Electric's research. Horsley Towers at East Horsley in Surrey.

J. Beeching provides this view of the tunnel.

  • Capture 2
  • 09 Feb 2022

Jill enters the yard in front of the house where equipment and supplies are being unloaded. Horsley Towers can also be seen in 'Kaleidoscope' as well as 2008's television series 'The Colour of Magic'.

Without the set dressing, J. Beeching captured a similar scene.

  • Capture 3
  • 09 Feb 2022

Roy Collinson (Iain Cuthbertson) and Peter Brock (Michael Bryant) break off their conversation as more of the team arrive. Horsley Towers off Ockham Road South in East Horsley, Surrey.

A clearer view of the location by J. Beeching.