Today's window is Stigma, one of the two more 'controversial' films in the BBC's original Ghost Story for Christmas strand (along with John Bowen's The Ice House, the following year's offering) in that it has a modern day setting, so has none of the old world spooky charm of an M R James retelling, and its themes are from anything seasonal. Written by Clive Exton, and directed by Lawrence Gordon Clark, this is one of those 'middle class family moves from the city to a rural cottage and disturbs something ancient and evil' type of stories. It's graphic portrayal of the unfolding of these events, meted out upon the unfortunate wife and mother of the family Katharine (Kate Binchy) goes somewhere towards explaining its 11pm broadcast time on 29th December 1977.
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