Twisted Tales (British TV series)

For the 1996 Australian television series, see Twisted Tales (Australian TV series). For the 2013 American web series, see Twisted Tales (web series).

Twisted Tales
GenreComedy drama
Horror
Directed byAndy Goddard
Crispin Whittell
Susan Tully
Jonathan Gershfield
Theme music composerWillie Dowling
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Original languageEnglish
No. of series1
No. of episodes14
Production
Executive producerSophie Clarke-Jervoise
ProducersBill Dare
Gabbie Asher
Arabella McGuigan
Running time30 minutes
Original release
NetworkBBC Three
Release16 January (2005-01-16) –
19 April 2005 (2005-04-19)
Related
Spine Chillers
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Twisted Tales is a British comedy-horror anthology television series written by a mix of established writers and upcoming talent that aired on BBC Three from January to April 2005.[1][2] It consisted of fourteen self-contained episodes with a mysterious twist and had the same format as a previous BBC Three series of six comedy-horror stories, Spine Chillers (2003).[3]

The cast included up-and-coming comedians, such as Catherine Tate, Nick Frost, Marcus Brigstocke, Steve Edge and more, among distinguished actors like Alison Steadman, Paul Darrow, Mary Tamm, Phil Cornwell, Doon Mackichan and Annette Badland.[4] The comedy duo Mitchell and Webb, best known for the Channel 4 sitcom Peep Show, both wrote and starred in the ninth episode "Nothing to Fear".[5][6]

  1. ^ "BBC - Press Office - BBC THREE Winter 2005 Drama". www.bbc.co.uk. 13 December 2004. Retrieved 25 January 2023.
  2. ^ Wright, Jonathan; Vine, Richard (18 April 2005). "Pick of the day on satellite, cable and digital". the Guardian. Retrieved 25 January 2023.
  3. ^ "Spine Chillers". BBC Three. Archived from the original on 29 August 2006. Retrieved 26 January 2023.
  4. ^ Cite error: The named reference :3 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  5. ^ "BBC - Comedy - That Mitchell And Webb Site - Robert Webb". www.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 25 January 2023.
  6. ^ "BBC - Drama - Shakespeare - The Taming of the Shrew - David Mitchell as Tim Agnew". www.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 26 January 2023. His comedy writing credits are equally extensive, including work for Armstrong and Miller, Dead Ringers, Big Train, TV To Go and, with Robert Webb, an episode of BBC Three's Twisted Tales called Nothing To Fear.