West Country Tales: Ring a Ring a Rosy (1983)

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Having been widowed for 16 years, Ellen (Nanette Newman) lives in rural isolation in the Somerset countryside with her beautiful but backward daughter, Rosie (Tamar le Bailly). Rosie starts to develop some disturbing traits, but when a young man arrives one day and starts to turn up regularly by the house things take a sinister turn...

This was the 4th episode of series 2 of West Country Tales, the anthology supernatural series and the last of the surviving episodes, the others missing believed lost. And it is certainly one of the most disturbing tales in the series, so be warned. Narrated by Keith Barron, there is a added connection for the Barron household - the stranger is played by none other than Keith's son Jamie Barron.

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