From 1976 came the Nigel Kneale (
The Quatermass Xperiment, The Stone Tape, etc.) scripted six episode ATV miniseries "Beasts" - each an entry based on "bestial" horror.
Episode 1 - "Special Offer" - A frumpy checkout girl at a cut-rate supermarket nurses a crush on her bullying supervisor, while something has been wreaking havoc in the store.
Episode 2 - "During Barty's Party" - an affluent suburban couple find themselves under siege by rats that seem to possess a certain intelligence
Episode 3 is some rubbish about a haunted dolphinarium, I don't care for it.
Episode 4 - "Baby" - a veterinarian and his pregnant wife move out to the country, While probing around their new-old house, the husband discovers a hollow place in a wall and pulls out a clay urn sealed with wax. Dismissing his wife's foreboding (something that happens a lot in this episode) he removes a mummified
thing he can't identify. One of the more disturbing entries.
Episode 5 - "What Big Eyes" - an idealistic young Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals officer investigates the suspicious transfers of wolves to a seemingly ordinary pet shop - the owner's father turns out to be a nutter who has been vivisecting wolves as part of his studies into lycanthropy, going so far as to say he believes wolves are actually humanity's ancestors.
Episode 6 - "The Dummy" - Dr. Who regular Bernard Horsfall stars as Clyde Boyd, a washed-up B movie actor whose life has been on the skids ever since some trouble with the Inland Revenue Service a few years ago. His wife left him for a rival and he's been pressed back into wearing the goofy monster costume for a new entry in "The Dummy" series of B-films; a flagging monster horror franchise which, two years since its last entry, has been dusted off for another instalment on the grounds that it’s "big in Japan". The man who ran off with his wife is also going to be starring in the movie and Boyd starts to break down over all of his troubles AND that the best work he could get was putting on that lousy cheap costume again.
