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Heads up: Ghostwatch now on Global iPlayer app!


For anyone *outside* the UK who has access to the paid Global iPlayer app (not the free UK one) on iPad, they've just made Ghostwatch available to watch this week, in time for Hallowe'en!

I haven't seen it since that night in 1992, so I watched it again tonight with my wife, who's never seen it before. I couldn't believe then, and still can't now, that so many people believed it was real -- while Parky, Smiffy, Sarah Greene and Craig Charles were pretty convincing, at least before things just got a bit silly, it was painfully and immediately obvious to me even back then that the "family" and the "studio expert" were actors, and not terribly good ones. But it's still good fun, and undoubtedly a unique piece of British TV history.

One thing I don't recall is whether the broadcast version had credits at the end -- I didn't think it did, which obviously added to the effect (even if the Paul Daniels Magic Show had pulled exactly the same stunt on Hallowe'en at least once previously, when a "dangerous" trick went "wrong" -- and loads of worried eejits phoned the BBC thinking that was real, too). But the iPlayer version has them, so I'm wondering if they were added for the DVD?

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