Cult TV Blog

Home Cooking is an episode of the 1980s anthology series Unnatural Causes about unusual deaths, or rather manners of death, written by all big names (this one was written by screenwriter Paula Milne) under the guidance of Beryl Bainbridge. I see that when I first wrote about another episode, Lost Property, as an orphaned episode, I thought it peculiar that a series written by such great authors should have vanished off the radar. I'm delighted to say that I have since discovered some other episodes online, and still think this show's disappearance off the cult Tv radar strange. I have recently seen the episodes Hidden Talents (which I'm going to watch again and see what I think because I wasn't impressed but also wasn't concentrating on it) and Home Cooking, both of which are currently on YouTube for the watching. Home Cooking is an absolute BANGER and I knew it was going to appear here as soon as it got into its stride. You will read online that this is about Judit...

The introduction to this series of posts can be found  here . Unnatural Causes was a 1980s series made right here in the centre of the entire universe by Central Television. It was all about unusual deaths and if I say that writers included Nigel Kneale, Beryl Bainbridge and Lynda la Plante, you already know this is going to be some quality television. It is honestly bizarre that a series with writers of that calibre (pronounced calEYEber à la Tony Hancock) should be so little known and never having had a commercial release. I personally only learned of it last week. This one is, as you can see, by the legendary Peter J Hammond, and he poured into it all the weirdness of the universe which was left over after Sapphire and Steel finished filming. Like all good TV it can be read on several levels and most of the commentary online rather tends to focus on notional supernatural aspects. I haven't seen the others but apparently this is the only one of the series which can be read as hav...