In the 70s, the BBC did children's stories during the week at about
tea time, aimed I guess at the 8-12 agegroup.

One of these involved a child and a recurring dream. Each night in its
dream, the child found itself before a large gloomy house, possibly on
a moor. There was an upstairs window, in which he saw a girl. Each
night he returned here and the story gradually unfolds.

There is some kind of tragedy going on I think and eventually he gets
inside the house. I remember it as kind of gothic and dark, but set in
'modern' times. Not a historical story like The Secret Garden.

I'm pretty certain it was based on a book. Any ideas of the TV story
or the book and author?

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Request for Question Clarification by rainbow-ga on 24 Aug 2005 07:56 PDT

Hi mungobeansprout,

Do you remember if the TV show was called Jackanory?

http://www.screenonline.org.uk/tv/id/569183/index.html

Best regards,
Rainbow

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Clarification of Question by mungobeansprout-ga on 26 Aug 2005 01:26 PDT

It may have been one of the Jackanory stories. It was on at around
that time. I seem to remember the story being illustrated with
pictures i.e. not animated or film.