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Crooked House

TV·2008–2008·1 season, 3 episodes·BBC Four·Mystery·30m·Created by Mark Gatiss

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Crooked House is a British supernatural drama miniseries broadcast on BBC Four from 22-24 December 2008. Created and written by Mark Gatiss, and produced by Tiger Aspect Productions, the serial stars Lee Ingleby and Gatiss. A ghost story about a cursed house. The cursed house — Geap Manor — weaves together three ghost stories set during Georgian times, the 1920s, and present day.

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  1. 01The WainscotingS01E01 · 7.01786: Joseph Bloxham is a self-made man and something of a star in fashionable coffee-house society. Some, though, like the sceptical Noakes, take a dim view of his shady business ethics. Bloxham has used his ill-gotten gains to obtain the old Geap Manor, paying no heed to the warnings of Noakes and his friend Duncalfe. But when Bloxham begins hearing ghastly sounds in the newly-installed panelling of his drawing room, it seems he might have more than just a mouse hiding in his wainscoting.
  2. 02Something OldS01E02 · 7.01927: Lady Constance de Momery presides over a costume ball for her grandson Felix. However, all is not as it seems and when the young heir to the estate announces his engagement to sweetheart Ruth, his friends Billy and Katherine are far from pleased.
  3. 03The KnockerS01E03 · 7.0Back in the present day, commitment-shy Ben begins to discover that, though demolished, Geap Manor casts a long shadow. Having recently left his girlfriend Hannah for a life of excitement over cosy domesticity, he is excited by the curator's stories and screws the ancient door knocker to his new front door. However, Ben soon finds himself getting more excitement than he bargained for as the past begins to intrude rudely with a loud nightly knock and a terrifying journey into the Manor's bloody past.

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Episodes by season

Season01Episode ratings across the season — the gold bar is its best episode3Episodes2008Aired 7.0Season avg
  1. S01E01Season's bestThe WainscotingDecember 22, 2008 7.01786: Joseph Bloxham is a self-made man and something of a star in fashionable coffee-house society. Some, though, like the sceptical Noakes
  2. S01E02Something OldDecember 23, 2008 7.01927: Lady Constance de Momery presides over a costume ball for her grandson Felix. However, all is not as it seems and when the young heir
  3. S01E03The KnockerDecember 24, 2008 7.0Back in the present day, commitment-shy Ben begins to discover that, though demolished, Geap Manor casts a long shadow. Having recently left

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