Headhunter's Holosuite Wiki
"The Rose of Puddle Fratrum"
Series Shadows
Season 3, Episode 2
Shadows 3x02 001
Air date September 27th, 1978
Writers Joan Aiken
Director Neville Green
Producers Pamela Lonsdale
Starring Christopher Lillicrap; Joan Greenwood; Bryan Pringle; June Brown
Episode guide
Previous
"Eleven O'Clock"
Next
"And Now for My Next Trick"

"The Rose of Puddle Fratrum" is the second episode of season three of the horror anthology series Shadows and the fifteenth episode of the series overall. It was directed by Neville Green with a teleplay written by Joan Aiken. It first aired on ITV in the United Kingdom on Wednesday, September 27th, 1978.

Cast[]

Actor Role
Christopher Lillicrap Rod
Joan Greenwood Rose
Bryan Pringle Mister Donn
June Brown Mrs. Donn
Duncan Lamont Mister Prout
Vicky Spencer Tess
Noel Johnson Fred
Miranda Fellows Dancer
Nikki Heard Dancer
David Hepburn Dancer

Notes & Trivia[]

  • This episode is based on a piece of short fiction called "The Rose of Puddle Fratrum", which was first published by The World of Ballet by Collins in 1970. The story was written by Joan Aiken. [1]

Allusions[]

  • There are no allusions available for this episode at this time. Be the first to add some! Just click on the edit tab under the section heading and start typing. An allusion is an incidental reference made to a character, person, event or other miscellaneous piece of media that can be found somewhere in the episode itself. In most cases, this refers to characters or events from previous episodes.

Quotes[]

  • There are no quotes available for this episode at this time. Be the first to add some! Just click on the edit tab under the section heading and start typing. The preferred format for quotes is an asterisk, followed by the character's name (bold and hyper-linked), semi-colon then the quote itself (without quotation marks. Quotes should be separated by four elipses (....) unless multiple quotes are used between characters as part of a conversation.

External Links[]

References[]

  1. Internet Science Fiction Database (ISFDB); "The Rose of Puddle Fratrum"; Aiken, Joan.