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The programme is introduced by Tony Francis. The first item looks at stories of a wild black panther that has been seen across Rutland. Laura Martin meets David Spencer who saw the panther outside his house at Knossington and is now mapping other sightings to try to get to the bottom of the mystery. Low angle point of view shots mimicking the panther. Clip from a blurry amateur video thought to show the animal. Laura also talks to David's wife, Shirley and we see David and his son Nigel heading out at twilight on a panther hunt.
Next at Earl Sterndale in Derbyshire Tony visits The Quiet Woman pub where he talks to Jenny and Ken Mellor who run the historic pub. They talk about the legend behind the unusual name (a previous landlord is said to have decapitated his wife) and Ken is also seen walking through the nearby hills and talks about a wartime bomb that part destroyed the nearby church at Harpur Hill in 1941.
Laura Martin then reports from Minster Lovell in Oxfordshire on two ghost stories at the ruined Minster Lovell Hall. Reconstructions with costumed actors tell the story of the eighteenth century bride who died trapped in a trunk during a game of hide-and-seek; and the fifteenth century lord of the manor who died in a locked room after hiding from enemies after the Battle of Bosworth.
Returning to the Rutland panther we next meet nurse Samantha Dodd who describes seeing the big cat whilst driving her car near the village of Normanton. David and Nigel Spencer are seen continuing their hunt.
The next unusual story sees Tony meet the millionaire recluse Nicholas Parker-Jervis who is a retired stockbroker who lives in a dilapidated Elizabethan mansion at South Littleton in Worcestershire. Tony talks to him about his unusual lifestyle and how he lives in a house with broken windows and no central heating.
We finish with a final story about the Rutland panther as Patricia Stewart-Mogg describes seeing it at the Castle Cement Company at Ketton. David Spencer shows casts of poor prints found at Ketton.
Camera: Glen Armstrong; Ian O'Donoghue; Roger Hough
Sound: Jonathan Laws; Norman Mcleod; Mario Mooney; Joff White; Brian Greene
VT Editors: Justin Eely; Peter Mason; Glyn Shakeshaft
Graphics: John Graham
Dubbing: Robin Ward
Research: Holly Tatham; Sue Freeman
Reporters: Tony Francis; Laura Martin
Thanks to Central TV Workshop
Location Directors: Tony Francis; John Dickinson; Fran Groves; Laura Martin
Series Producer: Tony Francis
Production number CEN/25820/001