Casting the Runes

"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. Running at 50 minutes, it was first broadcast on 22 March 1968. 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 of an Antiquary, James' second collection of ghost stories. It is the first television adaptation of the story, with John Fraser as Dunning and Robert Eddison as Karswell.