The Ghosts of Motley Hall Logo 'The Pogmore Experiment'

by Richard Carpenter
The Ghosts of Motley Hall Cast

The ghosts are having trouble with vagrants sleeping in Motley Hall, and have just evicted their latest unsavoury intruder when Mr Gudgin arrives with Professor Pogmore, a member of the Institute of Parapsychology. Gudgin wants to clear Motley of all ghosts so that he can finally sell it, and hopes that Pogmore can help; after the professor dismisses all ghosts as nothing more than psychic phenomena and wave patterns, he decides that Motley will be the ideal place to test his new experimental equipment: a sonic device designed to disperse psychic build up. As the parapsychologist sets up his machinery Matt and Bodkin try to warn Sir George and the others, but they seem unconcerned by the threat. But when Bodkin gets hit by the sonic beam, he begins to fade away, and soon there is nothing left of him. Sir George is the next ghost to suffer this fate – and unless someone can stop Pogmore’s electrical exorcism, it won’t be long before the rest of the ghosts have been dispersed into oblivion…

Arthur English (Bodkin), Freddie Jones (General Sir George Uproar), Nicholas le Prevost (Sir Francis ‘Fanny’ Uproar), Sean Flanagan (Matt), Sheila Steafel (The White Lady), Peter Sallis (Mr. Arnold Gudgin), Neil McCarthy (Professor Pogmore)

Directed and Produced by Quentin Lawrence

UK TX (Granada):
6th June 1976

Notes:
*Featuring Bodkin, General Sir George Uproar, Sir Francis 'Fanny' Uproar, the White Lady and Matt