Lost episode of BBC show ‘so terrifying it was destroyed’ discovered

A hidden gem of long-lost BBC media has been uncovered by ‘pure chance’ (Picture: BBC)

Almost 60 years after it was destroyed, an episode of the terrifying BBC series Late Night Horror has been unearthed and will be shown again.

Late Night Horror was a deeply unsettling six-episode anthology which first came out in 1968. Just two years later, it disappeared from screens and the BBC archives.

The show was notoriously gory with storylines chock-a-block with severed limbs, creatures of the night and ghastly tales, with the scant reaction we have from the time showing ‘complaints it was too scary’ and had BBC technicians ‘buckling at their knees’.

BFI film curator Atlas Obscura

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