Ghosts BBC 1

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Anyone else at the original Horrible Histories crew reuniting again for this!

I'm rewatching it as my teen hasn't seen it yet! We got through the first 3 last night I think it is genuinely the best comedy I've seen in ages.

Curious as to why the plague ghosts were trapped there as presumably they had died elsewhere and were just dumped in the pit whereas the others upstairs seemed to have died there and been buried elsewhere.

My theory is they weren't quite dead when they went in the plague pit.

Martha is brilliant. She was fantastic in Yonderland. 'Debbeh'

My theory is they weren't quite dead when they went in the plague pit.

Oh. My. God 😱

What order would the ghosts have arrived?

Obviously Robin first, then Humphrey, then Mary, then either Kitty or Thomas, then Lady Button, then the Captain, then Pat/Julian.

Assuming no other ghosts who have passed on, imagine Robin being alone for millennia, and then a ghost finally turns up but he keeps losing his head!

We all love Ghosts in the Luckiest house. But then we loved HH and Yonderland too

Think it's just such a lovely, warm comedy.

They're all fab and I also really like Alison too...she dies as Barbara in Call the Midwife and then reappears ironically as the not-dead one in this

I would LOVE to see a second series with a Most Haunted crew rocking up.

I follow Martha on Instagram (her mum lives near me!!) and she is lovely. She replied to my message that I loved Ghosts...'smug'

Does anywhere know if Yonderland is available to watch on anything please? I’m missing Ghosts already👻

I think series one is on Now TV.

Thank you iklboo

Yonderland is on Sky boxsets.

I've been doing some speculation about the back-stories of some of the ghosts, in the absence of news on a second series.

Kitty looks to me like she's in 1760s fashion, but I'm sure she would be less naive about life in general if she'd had 200+ years of hanging around with the other ghosts/seeing what the living occupants of the house were up to. So I really like the idea that she might have been a young girl in the 1930s attending a costume ball at Button house. Still no idea how she died!

Thomas was obviously shot in a duel, maybe by his arch-nemesis Lord Byron.

I couldn't think why the Captain would be at the house in his uniform during the war, but I think the pp suggestions that the house was used as a hospital makes a lot of sense!

The plague pit probably pre-dates the house and it was just built on top of it. They would have made the pit very deep but when the cellar was dug out, the builders probably unearthed some bodies, thought "Uh oh", and just put the flagstones down quickly and hoped nobody would notice. I know this doesn't help with why the cellar ghosts are at their burial site and not where they died!

Julian must have died of a heart attack rather than of some sort of kinky asphyxiation thing, otherwise wouldn't the orange still be in situ?

Completely agree with @AnneEyhtMeyer - great summary of the gang. It's that men in uniform thing (see HH's The Few/Take That song) that does it for me.

The Four Georges also do it for me. Particularly Mat Baynton as George II saying "I was the bad one" and winking and biting his lip....

I loved Pat echoing Fiona "within the yaaar?!"
& Fiona calling herself "a first class boobie"

@AnneEyhtMeyer I have just watched that episode and that was a particular highlight!

@SquishyFishy there is a lot of winking to the camera by all of them over the 5 series - they definitely knew they were entertaining the mums.

Did Kitty see Lady Botton die? If not then that suggests she isn't older.

Plague pit, I had also assumed they were all not quite dead when they went in it. In more positive speculation it does mean Robin had some other ghosts around before the headless tudor?

With the Captain I'm wondering if he was convalescing there or involved in training new recruits. He's got no visible injury so I wonder if he committed suicide (wearing his full uniform) rather than facing a dishonourable discharge when it was discovered he was gay? I rather suspect we don't want to speculate too much about their deaths, I'd think they are all probably more unpleasant than average which is why they became ghosts.

Well it worked on me

The winking I mean

Me too @7Days

WRT Kitty, when Alison refers to 'hows your father' and she says 'he's dead i think' this could suggest she's a 20th century ghost in fancy dress.

I'm not overthinking this at all.

I just thought it meant she died before him.

I not sure that that much attention has been paid to working out exactly how/why people become ghosts, what the rules of being and ghost are or exactly what this history of the house is. Julian states it's my house too but he's not a Button and the Lady Button who left the house to Alison would certainly have been alive when he was living there. So why is a random unrelated MP living there? I suppose that the house could have been rented out to raise money for the upkeep. But I love it so much that I'm happy to suspend my disbelief and not worry about why Mary's dress isn't burnt or why the German ghosts are stuck in midair.

I thought Julian meant it's his house because he is living there now (for a very loose definition of living!)

Oh, interesting fact about the house it's filmed in, it was owned by Sir Walter Raleigh's son. WR's widow had his head embalmed after he was beheaded and carried it around in a red velvet bag. She died at West Horsley Place and WR's head was then kept in a cupboard under the stairs and eventually buried with his grandchildren who all died in an epidemic in 1660. I wonder where the HH crew got tge idea for a headless Tudor who kept on losing his head??

Bloody hell that's grim! What a story!

I assumed Julian was just a guest at some fondue/sex party that was hosted at Button House. I have to ignore the fact that he has no trousers on but he's still wearing his shoes, as it doesn't make much sense really, but the HH crew must have thought that would be the most amusing visual for his outfit!