Fifty-Plus Years of Fortean Television

Since the late 1960s, there has been a largely unbroken strand of television programmes concerning the weird, the rum and the downright uncanny. From the days of three channels to today's several hundred, there have been fortean-themed shows from the famous (and notorious) to the deeply – and often rightfully – obscure and from the sublime to the ridiculous.

One half of the Fortean Times “resident couch potatoes”, Stu Neville, takes a not entirely reverent ramble through the last five decades of weirdness-themed telly.