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Crooked House

Mark Gatiss

Lee Ingleby

Beth Goddard

Philip Jackson

Andy Nyman

Julian Rhind-Tutt

John Arthur

Cal Jaggers

Paul Frift

Damon Thomas

Crooked House: Episode 1: The Wainscoting

The Wainscoting

Episode 1

Episode 1: The Wainscoting

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In 1786, a man with shady business ethics hears ghastly sounds in his drawing room.

Ghost stories about a haunted manor house. In 1786, a self-made man with shady business ethics starts to hear ghastly sounds in the panelling of his drawing room.

When schoolteacher Ben unearths an old door knocker in the garden of his new home, the curator suggests it may come from the now-demolished house, reputed to be haunted. Ben prompts the curator to tell him stories about the house's past.

It's 1786, and 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 buy the old Geap Manor, paying no heed to the warnings of Noakes and his friend Duncalfe, but when Bloxham starts to hear 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.

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Three-part ghost story based around the goings-on in a haunted manor house.

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