the ghosts of motley hall - season 2 episode 1
the ghosts of motley hall - season 2 episode 1
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00:30It's quite sad, Mr. Dutton. It's brought back so many memories.
00:34Not only that, there's something rather spooky about visiting your former home on Christmas Eve.
00:39Especially after so many years.
00:41Do you think you'll ever be able to sell it?
00:43Oh, yes, I think so, Miss Uproar. It may take a little time.
00:46Well, I told poor Humphrey to put it in the market years ago when we first went to Thailand.
00:521953.
00:531953? Yes, it must have been.
00:571953? Yes, it must have been.
00:59But do you know how stubborn my brother always was?
01:02Very single-minded.
01:03No. Stubborn.
01:05I'd like you in this one, Mr. Gudgeon.
01:07Oh, must I have?
01:08Oh, yes, I insist.
01:10After all, the Gudgeons...
01:12Could you move a little more to your left?
01:15The Gudgeons were almost as much a part of Motley Hall as the Uproars were.
01:20God! That's all, I think.
01:23Now I've almost a complete record of the place.
01:25Will you be staying in England for the New Year?
01:27No, flying back on the 28th.
01:29Can't leave things too long.
01:31Lot of locusts about.
01:33And not only the winged variety.
01:37Well, I don't suppose I'll ever see the place again.
01:42Right.
01:55Let's go.
02:03There.
02:04Why are we hung in these stockings?
02:06Because people did when I lived here, so we do the same.
02:09It's all part of Christmas.
02:11Childish nonsense.
02:13But it's Christmas Eve, White Lady.
02:15We always do it.
02:16Yes, and all we ever get in them is soot.
02:18I found a moth once.
02:20Here we are. Only one I can find.
02:23That's one of Humphrey's old rug socks, I think.
02:26Hello.
02:29We're one short.
02:31I decided to give Christmas a miss this year.
02:34What do you mean, give Christmas a miss?
02:36Not take part.
02:38Oh, but...
02:39Not join in any of those silly games.
02:41Not sing any of those ridiculous carols.
02:43We can't give each other presents. We're not going to get any cards.
02:46No one is coming to stay, I hope.
02:48So far as I can see, it's the same as any other time of year.
02:51Fair shows.
02:52Rubbish!
02:53Never heard anything like it.
02:54Not celebrate Christmas.
02:56I mean, not celebrate Christmas.
03:07You are right, of course.
03:09We are being ridiculous.
03:11Funny thing is, I'd never realised it before.
03:13But, Sir George, the festive season, you'll...
03:16You'll what?
03:18You'll what?
03:19Look, just because we're dead,
03:21it don't mean to say we've got to be miserable.
03:23When I think of the Christmases we had when I was alive...
03:26Of course, it was a very, very busy time of the year for me, you see,
03:29cos I was Lord of Mistral for the whole 12 days, see.
03:32And I had to organise all the rebels,
03:34all the games we used to play.
03:36Yeah.
03:37Kiss in the ring.
03:38Leapfrog, blind man's buff.
03:40Yeah.
03:41Funny, I can't remember what I did for Christmas.
03:44You used to get very, very drunk on Christmas Eve.
03:47That's probably why Christmas Day is such a blur, unless...
03:50What did you used to do, Matt?
03:52Oh, we had the grand feast in the bar.
03:55All the stable lads, grooms, gardeners,
03:58they'd be all bobbing for apples and dancing with the kitchen maid.
04:01Anyone remember the taste of plant pudding?
04:05No, neither do I.
04:07Oh, the mince pies we had, full of beef tongs,
04:10raisins, chopped chicken.
04:12Oh, stop it, Matt, you're making me wish I could feel hungrier.
04:14I wish...
04:16I wish I could see Motley Hall as it used to be at Christmas time.
04:21You'll just have to imagine it, Sir George.
04:23Remember the firelight?
04:25And the candles?
04:27Yeah, and the presents under the tree.
04:29And the whole deck with evergreen.
04:31Yes, that really was Christmas.
04:34I...
04:47Oh, Spud.
04:52We've gone back.
04:54Don't be silly, Danny.
04:56How could we?
04:58It's the house, Sir George.
05:00It heard you. It's the house that's gone back.
05:03Well, it's Christmas.
05:06Oh, what's it matter?
05:08It's all so warm and friendly.
05:11And lifted.
05:13Yes, by whom, I mean.
05:16Which uproar!
05:18This will tell us, Sir George, the times.
05:21December the 24th, 1848.
05:28Great and glanced.
05:30I was ten.
05:32I was dead.
05:33Bertie was eight.
05:35And Frederick and Alexander were seven.
05:37Oh, Spud, Alexander.
05:39She saw me once, you know.
05:41Really? She never told us.
05:43Wasn't she frightened?
05:44Frightened? No, not a bit.
05:46I told her she was dreaming.
05:48Yes, I'm not too sure we're not dreaming.
05:51Who cares?
05:53We're going to have a real Christmas again.
05:56Yes.
05:57Look at that.
05:59That, my boy, is a Christmas tree.
06:02Must have been one of the first in Motley.
06:04Yes, that was our German governess, her idea.
06:07The only decent idea she ever had.
06:09We never had nothing like that in the stables.
06:11To Bertie, from my Mark.
06:16Ha! Ha!
06:17What?
06:18To George, from Uncle Edwin.
06:20What are you doing?
06:24Oh, sorry.
06:26Only wanted to see what I was getting.
06:33Dear Sir Henry, such a sweet man.
06:37Ba-ba!
06:42First bed.
06:48Why is he in unsinnery?
06:50He always wore it.
06:52Always? He never wore anything else.
06:54Even buried in it.
06:56That's odd. He was.
06:58I've never asked you this before,
07:00but did my father ever see any of you?
07:03He never saw me.
07:05Oh, he heard me a couple of times.
07:07He put it down to indigestion.
07:09Gudgeon!
07:10Gudgeon? I thought he was...
07:12This is 1848.
07:14Sir Henry is calling your Gudgeon's great-grandfather.
07:17Great-great-grandfather.
07:19You sure? Quite sure.
07:21I may not know who I am, but I do know who everybody else is.
07:27Gudgeon!
07:28You rang, Sir Arthur?
07:30Sir Henry Gudgeon.
07:32Sir Arthur was my father.
07:34Oh, yes, yes, yes.
07:38You must forgive me, Sir Memory,
07:40but my Henry isn't what he used to be.
07:43Dear old faithful, how well you've serviced through the years.
07:46Eh? He's as deaf as Drake's gunner.
07:49And may you be with us for many Christmases to come.
07:52Don't look too lightly.
07:55It's time for the yule log, Henry.
07:57Oh, so it is.
07:59Bring in the yule!
08:01What a charming dress.
08:03You like it.
08:05You look radiant.
08:07Henry.
08:09Now, now.
08:11That blasted beet should burn well, Gudgeon.
08:13Blasted beet?
08:15You should never have chopped it down, Sir Arthur.
08:17But it wasn't safe, Gudgeon.
08:19Oh.
08:21Ah, you ready, Imogen?
08:23Splendid, splendid. Come in, come in.
08:36A real old English Christmas.
08:39Like we used to have, eh?
08:41As your heart could, don't it, lad?
08:43The good old days.
09:06That dress doesn't suit her.
09:08Oh?
09:10No, it makes her look frumpish.
09:12Frumpish? Well, at least I don't look ridiculous.
09:14Ridiculous, madam.
09:16Utterly ridiculous.
09:18And childish and stupid and thoroughly nasty.
09:20And you, madam, are the most beautifully petulant verago
09:23it has ever been my misfortune to encounter.
09:25You cantankerous toad!
09:27I'm very nice, I must say.
09:29That's enough!
09:31I haven't finished!
09:33That is enough!
09:35I haven't finished!
09:37That's right, don't be bullied.
09:39You may not have finished, madam, but I have.
09:41Oh!
09:43I'm as bad as hell as a tyrant.
09:45She's a tyrant.
09:47Hold your tongue, boy.
09:49I can say what I like.
09:51Don't you talk to Matt like that.
09:53You're as bad as your father.
09:55What do you mean by that?
09:57Arrogant and self-satisfied.
09:59How dare you!
10:01Twas me! Twas me!
10:03Oh, don't go in there, my lady.
10:05I really wouldn't advise it.
10:07Why not?
10:09Why not?
10:11Cook, my lady, she's fighting two of the footmen.
10:13You're a public scandal!
10:15You're a national disaster!
10:17Cocky tallhounder!
10:19Bully?
10:21Fishwine!
10:23Mohawk!
10:25By heaven, sir, if I had my sword, I'd chop your ears off!
10:27You chicken-brained wreak hell!
10:29Now I cut your head!
10:35Go on, sir George, cut him down!
10:37Slaughter him, Paddy, slaughter him!
10:39How dare you, dog!
10:41Up the umbrellas!
10:43Oh!
10:45Oh!
10:47Oh!
10:59Henry!
11:01Henry!
11:07If you've come to apologize, madam, you're wasting your breath.
11:09Apologize?
11:11Cook has gone savage,
11:13the staff are fighting amongst themselves,
11:15and Motley Hall...
11:17Motley Hall is haunted.
11:19Ha!
11:29Ha!
11:47Go on, get him, sir George, run him through!
11:49Remember your swastikas, bloke!
11:51Oh, that's it, I didn't know, I forgot!
11:53Go on!
11:55Uh...
11:57Shall we call to door?
11:59All right.
12:01What came over us?
12:03Don't know, most odd.
12:05I just felt well...
12:07awfully furious.
12:09So did I, extraordinary.
12:11A blind rage!
12:13You're unhinged, madam, unhinged, did you know that?
12:15I'll show you!
12:17Very well, then show me.
12:21Well, madam, where are the fighting swords?
12:23They've... they've stopped.
12:25Do take me for a fool, madam.
12:27I saw them, I tell you, I saw them!
12:29This is your fault, Bunny.
12:31My fault? You started the fighting, didn't you?
12:33It was that little brute who fetched the swords.
12:35What did you call me?
12:37A little brute.
12:39Especially your mother.
12:41And what is the matter with mother?
12:43Practically everything.
12:45In the morning I shall take the children and go home to mother.
12:47General Sir George Uproar!
12:49I am your great-grandfather!
12:51Come back!
12:53Where do you think you are going?
12:55I'm leaving, Sir Arthur.
12:57Henry.
12:59Henry!
13:01My name is William and nothing you can say
13:03will make the slightest difference.
13:05I'm going.
13:07You are steady and stern.
13:09I'll tell you when you can go!
13:13The place has become a madhouse.
13:15Back to your quarters!
13:19Christmas!
13:23You may be my great-grandfather!
13:25Stop it! Stop it!
13:27Stop it!
13:29They're fighting again.
13:33So we are.
13:35I suppose...
13:37Well, it could just be
13:39my silly intuition.
13:41But perhaps we're being made
13:43to feel angry.
13:45Made to?
13:47An elemental.
13:49What in the name of...
13:53Is it an elemental?
13:55A bad spirit.
13:57Rather like a poltergeist.
13:59Would be something foreign.
14:01Elementals actually make people quarrel.
14:03And then they feed
14:05on the unhappiness they cause.
14:07Absolutely not.
14:09The more unhappiness they cause
14:11the stronger they become.
14:13What do they look like?
14:15They're invisible.
14:19But once they get into a house
14:21it's almost impossible
14:23to get them out.
14:25But if there is one, what can we do about it?
14:27Starve it out.
14:29What do you mean by this?
14:31Well, it stands to reason
14:33it feeds on misery and anger.
14:35What we've got to do is fill Motley
14:37with friendship and happiness.
14:39That's it, the very thing.
14:41Congratulations.
14:43Bring back the spirit of Christmas!
14:45I'd like to say how
14:47dreadfully sorry I am
14:49for all the really nasty
14:51things I said.
14:53So would I.
14:55I have been very, very unkind.
14:57Can you all forgive me?
14:59Of course we will.
15:01It was really all my fault.
15:03No, no, my fault.
15:05It was my fault.
15:07It was everyone's fault.
15:09Let's forgive and forget.
15:11Agreed.
15:20Gloriana,
15:22that proves it.
15:24The Oriental.
15:26Feeding on anger.
15:28We've brought it out into the open,
15:30now we've got to catch it.
15:32Yes, ain't going to be easy.
15:34When did it start all this fighting?
15:36Everything was jolly at first,
15:38drinking a punch, bringing in the Yule.
15:40That's when it started, when they brought in the Yule log.
15:42The blasted beech.
15:44The Yule log was cut from the blasted beech tree.
15:46Sir Henry had it chopped down
15:48because it wasn't safe.
15:50What was it Gudgeon said?
15:52He said Sir Henry shouldn't have done it.
15:54Oh, perhaps Gudgeon was fond of it.
15:56No, it wasn't.
15:58It was something in the way he spoke,
16:00a kind of a dread.
16:02You think Gudgeon knows something
16:04about the blasted beech?
16:06What? Let's ask him.
16:12The excitement's bawling him out.
16:14Come your ways.
16:16Oh.
16:30Give me my book back, Bodkin.
16:32Crap, the old devil.
16:34You knew we were here all the time.
16:36Now you've lost me place.
16:38Aren't you frightened?
16:40Frightened? Why should I be?
16:42I'm always seeing you.
16:44I just don't tell anyone, that's all.
16:46Why not?
16:48They think I was crackers.
16:50Mr Gudgeon, we want to know...
16:52Go away, go away.
16:54Not until you tell us about the blasted beech.
16:56Oh, that's comical, that is.
16:58Go on then, make us laugh.
17:00Me telling spooks about the blasted beech.
17:02What's funny about it?
17:04It's haunted.
17:10Fallen Square.
17:12Um...
17:16Charge!
17:18Are you Father Christmas?
17:24Good heavens, no.
17:28You're not a burglar, are you?
17:30No.
17:32Then what are you doing here?
17:34I've come for Christmas.
17:38Ma didn't tell me.
17:40No, she didn't know
17:42when you went to bed.
17:44So you're a surprise.
17:46Yes.
17:48I'm George Uproar.
17:50George Henry Arthur.
17:52Yes.
17:54Of course you are.
17:58You're ten years old. I recognise you.
18:00I don't recognise you.
18:02No, no, you wouldn't.
18:04I don't even know you.
18:06Do I?
18:08Not yet.
18:10Good grief.
18:12What's the matter?
18:14I just remembered something.
18:16Something very strange.
18:18You see, Georgie,
18:20when I was your age,
18:22one Christmas Eve,
18:24I saw someone too.
18:26Who?
18:28I thought it was odd at the time.
18:30But now I see
18:32why he couldn't tell me his name.
18:34And who are you, sir?
18:36Well, I'll have to say to you
18:38what he said to me.
18:40He said it's, er...
18:42too hard to explain.
18:44I'd understand.
18:46Papa says I'm quite clever for my age.
18:48I know he does.
18:50But I'm not clever enough for mine.
18:52Georgie, whatever happens...
18:58Oh, dear.
19:00There's such a lot
19:02I'd like to tell you, Georgie.
19:04The good times you'll have.
19:06And the disappointments too, of course.
19:08Disappointments?
19:10Yes, yes, we all get those.
19:12And there'll be times when you...
19:14Hmm.
19:16But you must discover it all for yourself,
19:18I mustn't tell you.
19:20Can you tell me if I'll have lots of presents tomorrow?
19:22Lots!
19:24And so will Bertie and Frederick and Alexandra.
19:26What will mine be?
19:28Oh, I can't tell you that.
19:30Tell me one.
19:32Tell me one.
19:34Hmm?
19:36Good grief.
19:38Of course!
19:40Motley Castle!
19:42Motley Castle?
19:44Yes, that's what I call it.
19:46It's a fort.
19:48A fort!
19:50How splendid!
19:52Very splendid, with battlements
19:54and a keep and a drawbridge.
19:56Most of the time.
19:58It's just what I want.
20:00I'll be a soldier when I grow up.
20:02And so you shall.
20:04I'm a soldier.
20:06What rank?
20:08General.
20:10Then when I grow up, I shall be a general, just like you.
20:12So you will.
20:14You really think so?
20:16Exactly like me.
20:20I'll go back to bed now.
20:22Yes.
20:24Good night, General.
20:26Oh!
20:30Is...
20:32Miss?
20:40Motley Castle.
20:42Yes.
20:44See you at breakfast.
20:46See you at breakfast!
20:54But of course I didn't.
20:56But of course I didn't.
20:58Sir George! Sir George!
21:00Gudgeon's told us everything.
21:02Gudgeon has?
21:04The blasted beach was haunted.
21:06What, by the Elemental?
21:08Gudgeon said there's a story, one Christmas Eve long ago,
21:10even before Motley was built,
21:12that a young lad was killed
21:14falling from that tree.
21:16And his spirit has been imprisoned in the tree ever since?
21:18And when the yew log was chopped from the tree
21:20and brought into the house...
21:22He came too.
21:24It's out to cause trouble.
21:26Whatever happens, we mustn't quarrel.
21:28Surround it!
21:32Goodwill! Goodwill to all!
21:34Goodwill to all!
21:36You're only making yourself miserable.
21:38We merely wish to be friends.
21:40We only want to help you.
21:42You know your trouble.
21:44You've been chained to that old beach too long.
21:46You've forgotten what it's like to be human.
21:48Loving people
21:50and forgiving their faults.
21:52That's human, see?
21:54Not trying to become strong
21:56by feeding on unhappiness
21:58and stirring up anger.
22:00That's why we want to share
22:02the spirit of Christmas with you.
22:04When Sir Henry's chopped down
22:06that blasted beach,
22:08he gave you the best Christmas present you ever had.
22:10He set you free.
22:12And it ain't nice
22:14repaying him by causing all this trouble.
22:18You still listening to me?
22:20And are you ashamed of yourself?
22:22Good.
22:30Go on, then.
22:32You're free.
22:34Free to go wherever you like.
22:36Over the fields.
22:38Up to the stars, even.
22:42Just don't let us down, will you?
22:44Off you go.
22:50Oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
23:02O Christ, you merry gentleman
23:04And nothing you dismay
23:08Remember Christ our Saviour
23:10Was born on Christmas Day
23:14To save us all from Satan's power
23:16of Satan's path where we were gone astray.
23:20Oh, tidings of comfort and joy.
23:25Comfort and joy.
23:27Oh, tidings of comfort and joy.
23:28Forgive me, my dear.
23:29Forgive me, Henry.
23:35It's Christmas Day.
23:39Come in, come in, and Merry Christmas to you all.
23:51Come in.
23:58Now, punch.
24:01Mother's Noel, the angel did say,
24:08was to certain poor shepherds in fields as they lay.
24:16In fields where they lay keeping their sheep
24:23on a cold winter's night that was so deep.
24:30Noel, Noel, Noel, Noel, God is the King of Israel.
24:43And by the light of that same star, three by three.
25:14Noel, Noel, Noel, Noel, God is the King of Israel.
25:24My friends, my very dear friends.
25:43Noel, Noel, Noel, Noel, God is the King of Israel.
25:58Noel, Noel, Noel, Noel, God is the King of Israel.
26:10Noel, Noel, Noel, Noel, God is the King of Israel.