Charles Dickens's ghost story in which a lonely signalman is haunted by a hooded figure who seems to warn of danger.
The Signalman is a short film which is part of the British supernatural anthology series A Ghost Story for Christmas. Written by Andrew Davies, produced by Rosemary Hill, and directed by the series' creator, Lawrence Gordon Clark, it is based on the ghost story "The Signal-Man" (1866) by Charles Dickens, and first aired on BBC1 on December 22,1976, the earliest airdate in the series relative to Christmas.
