Lovely and sensitive Maud Ruthyn is sent to stay with her Uncle Silas, a charismatic rogue who stands to inherit the family fortune... should anything untoward happen to young Maud. With the tyrannical Madame De La Rougierre as her governess, Maud finds that the estate holds terrors beyond her imaginings.

Cast: Beatie Edney, Jane Lapotaire, Tim Woodward, Guy Rolfe, Barbara Shelley, Norma Shebbeare