The Ghosts of Motley Hall

Seasons

1976

UK

7.6

Five ghosts from different eras haunt Motley Hall, a 16th-century mansion once home to the Uproar family. They must coexist and prevent the modern world from disturbing their ancestral abode.

Episode List

S1 • E1

The Last Uproar

There has always been an Uproar at Motley Hall, until now. The last Uproar, Sir Humphrey, has died leaving caretaker Gudgin facing two scheming men who are plotting to steal Motley Hall out from under him. It's up to the ghosts to figure out a way to save Motley Hall and their way of life (death)!

S1 • E2

Old Gory

"Old Gory" is a Motley Hall Ghost who appears faithfully every 5 years and can be seen by everyone, living people and ghosts alike. Unfortunately this year, his scheduled appearance is likely to be seen by a ghost hunter and his very perceptive wife who are staking out Motley Hall. The appearance of Old Gory to the Ghost Hunters would be disastrous for the resident ghosts by exposing them and threatening their happy home!

S1 • E3

Box of Tricks

The ghosts "discover" television & the trouble it can cause when two bumbling crooks use Motley Hall to store 8 boxes of stolen wireless TV's. The crooks are thwarted, first by the resident ghosts and then by a policeman who is able to see clearly into a crime, and a whole lot more!

Bad Lord William and the British Banana Company

S1 • E4

Bad Lord William and the British Banana Company

Gudgin has finally sold Motley Hall to The British Banana Company, but their agent has accidentally released Bad Lord William, surely one of the worst of the Uproar Clan ghosts. It'll take Bodkin's sword skills and Matt's cunning to get Gudgin freed and Bad Lord William contained.

S1 • E5

Perfidia Blackart Rides Again

It's just been discovered that Motley Hall is 400 years old, so to commemorate this, the ghosts decide to hold a Masque. But when Bodkin tries to write it, the pages of the history book that might finally identify the mysterious White Lady have disappeared! Was she somebody so horrible that she doesn't want it to be found out and her deep dark secret revealed?

S1 • E6

Double Trouble

Matt joining the other four ghosts has certainly made Motley Hall much more lively and interesting for everyone. All the sudden though, hiding from the other ghosts is a second Matt, one that has a secret agenda, and it's not good! And worse, which Matt is which?

S1 • E7

The Pogmore Experiment

Once again, poor Mr Gudgin finds himself roped into yet another newfangled way to rid Motley Hall of it's "spirited" occupants. This time, it's a scientist who says they're not ghosts, but hallucinations from people's minds, simply electrical emanations. One by one, Matt sees each of them disappear and faces eternity alone in Motley Hall unless he can figure a way to stop the Pogmore "solution".