Orphaned Episodes: The Hospice (Night Voices)
The introduction to this series of posts can be found here . This poor orphan is as much of a Dickensian orphan in television terms as you could wish. Made by the now defunct ITV franchise HTV West , Night Voices was a collaboration intended to be broadcast in Europe as well as here. Many of the episodes were written by prolific author and conservationist Robert Aickman who specialised in strange stories and edited many anthologies. It was produced by Patrick Dromgoole , who has so many legendary 1970s TV shows to his credit. The series was apparently made in 1987. I say apparently, because this is where it all starts to go wrong. It is not entirely clear why the series was apparently not broadcast until 1993. Not clear because it seems to have dropped off the face of the earth. Hell, at one point even Kaleidoscope couldn't find out when it was broadcast and most of its episodes weren't even on IMDb. To this day IMDb has this down as a movie - and it isn't....