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In 1992, BBC made a Halloween [[Mockumentary]] broadcast of a supposedly haunted house inhabited by a woman and her daughters, with many known BBC news hosts taking part. At first, the broadcast starts off with the cast and crew going over what the night will consist of, and going over the way to call in the viewers own experiences with the supernatural, as well as giving name to the supposed entity, "Pipes". After that, you have to [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdpmEgfhXYE see it to believe it.]
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Meanwhile, flustered parents piled onto BBC's [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUyhN-gq8xk Bite Back] to voice their anger, while the BBC itself never made a repeat broadcast despite the obvious mileage available in terms of ratings, and supposedly withdrew its BAFTA nomination. In response, the creators pointed out that the broadcast had never been billed as anything other than fiction, that writing credits given both at the beginning and end of the show made this all the more clear and that they couldn't fairly be expected to flash regular disclaimers throughout the film for the same reason any other mockumentary writer wouldn't do so -- that is, it would ruin the flow of the story.
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The fact that the show contained some admittedly ropey acting and content warranting only a [[Media Classifications|'12' certificate rating]] speaks volumes to the effective use of build-up and the [[Nothing Is Scarier|power of suggestion]] employed by the writing.
"31-10", a short-story sequel to ''Ghostwatch'' by the show's writer, Stephen Volk, can be [https://web.archive.org/web/20120907082002/http://www.stephenvolk.net/31-10.pdf downloaded from his home page].
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* [[Agent Mulder]]: Dr Lin Pascoe, as well as the part-time exorcist.
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* [[Bald of Evil]]: Pipes
* [[Big Bad]]: {{spoiler|as the show progresses, we eventually learn that Pipes is the ghostly progeny of Mother Seddons, the evil spirit of an infanticidal 'baby farmer' who has been making the estate 'England's answer to Amityville' for centuries.}}
* [[Big Screwed
* [[Black Eyes of Evil]] / [[Eyeless Face]]: Viewers who phone in describe Pipes this way.
* [[Blow You Away]]: Used when Pipes gets really riled up.
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** As noted above, the tragic suicide of a teenager in [[Real Life]] was attributed to the show, allegedly because he wanted to [[Better to Die Than Be Killed|preempt the evil spirits depicted]].
* [[Drone of Dread]]: {{spoiler|In the final scene, the ghostly wind and the cat yowling well up to create this effect just before the cut to black}}.
* [[Evil Sounds Deep]]: Pipes gives [[The Exorcist
* [[Executive Meddling]]: The writing credit at the opening was a last minute addition insisted on by the BBC, who had very nearly pulled the entire broadcast.
* [[Freeze
* [[Ghostly Chill]]
* [[Gone Horribly Wrong]]: A live investigation into the paranormal using flashy technology. Should be fun, right?
* [[Haunted House]]: You have ''no'' idea!
* [[Haunted Technology]]
* [[Hey,
* [[I See Dead People]]: Kim has a few of these moments.
* [[Ironic Nursery Rhyme]]: ''Round and round the garden...like a teddy bear...one step...two step...''
* [[Jerkass]]: Craig Charles does this quite well.
* [[Mockumentary]]: Without much "mocking".
* [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]]: Dr Lin Pascoe wants to help vindicate the Earlys by exposing their ghostly tormentor to the entire nation. {{spoiler|As she herself realises, the broadcast becomes a 'massive seance', unleashing the evil spirit on potentially every household that tuned in.}}
* [[The Nineties]]: Ghostwatch has aged well but has a distinct Nineties feel, aping then-emerging docudramas like Crimewatch and making use of technology that was in vogue at the time, such as the light pen and the infrared vision (the latter commonly used on [[Gulf War]] reports).
* [[Nothing Is Scarier]]
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* [[Villainous Crossdresser]]: Raymond Turnstall.
* [[We Are Experiencing Technical Difficulties]]
* [[Wham! Line]]: {{spoiler|"This picture we're seeing now isn't live. This is some earlier footage, from earlier in the evening. This is just a cover, it's a dupe. This isn't happening now."}}
* [[You Look Like You've Seen a Ghost]]
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