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Casting the Runes DVD cover. Casting the Runes is a supernatural television drama produced by ITV in 1979. Running at 50 minutes, it was based on the ghost story Casting the Runes by British writer and academic M. R. James, first published in 1911 as the fourth story in More Ghost Stories, which was James' second collection of ghost stories.
In 1979, the story was adapted again as Casting the Runes, an episode of ITV Playhouse (Season 11, episode 9). In the 1979 version, the central protagonist is a woman, Prudence Dunning (played by Jan Francis ), the producer of an investigative television programme which is critical of an occultist named Karswell (played by Iain Cuthbertson ...
A full-cast audio dramatization of "Casting the Runes" was distributed by Audible [72] in 2019. With a contemporary setting, it was scripted by Stephen Gallagher and featured Tom Burke and Anna Maxwell Martin, with Reece Shearsmith in the role of Karswell.
Later, Holden compares the parchment's runes to ones inscribed on the nearby stone circle at Stonehenge. Joanna takes Holden to a séance at the invitation of Karswell's mother. A medium claims to channel Harrington, who tells them that Karswell has the key to reading the runes in his copy of the rare book.
"Casting the Runes" is the first episode of the third series of the supernatural television anthology series Mystery and Imagination produced by ABC Television in 1968. [1] Running at 50 minutes, it was first broadcast on 22 March 1968.
Playhouse, also known as ITV Playhouse, is a British television anthology series that ran from 1967 to 1983, which featured contributions from playwrights such as Dennis Potter, Rhys Adrian and Alan Sharp.
Title Story Original airdate 13 "Casting the Runes" M. R. James: 22 March 1968 (): 14 "The Listener" Algernon Blackwood: 30 March 1968 (): 15 "A Place of One's Own" Osbert Sitwell
"Casting the Runes" M.R. James, adapted by Irving Ravetch John McIntire: 11-19-47 16 "The Country of the Blind" H.G. Wells, adapted by John Dunkel: Paul Frees: 11-26-47 17 "Taboo" Geoffrey Household, adapted by John Dunkel: Paul Frees: 12-03-47 18 "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" Ambrose Bierce, adapted by William N. Robson: Harry Bartell ...