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    Can anybody help with this? I've been going mad trying to find this telemovie for a couple of years. The plot involved a young man who had a social worker visiting him in the abandoned derelict church (I think) where he was living. He had been diagnosed schizophrenic because he said there was a demon with him, but no-one else could see it. Anyhoo, the viewers could see the demon talking to him etc., but we didn't know if it was real or if it was part of his delusion. I'm a little fuzzy on some of the plot (it was shown here in Australia on the ABC in the late 80s I reckon). In the end the demon murders the young man, and when his social worker gets in her car to leave the crime scene she looks in her rear view mirror and sees the demon (who was a young dark haired man) looking suitably evil and scary sitting in the back seat of her car and that's how the story ended. I've tried googling a million different variations of "demon" "social worker" "British television from the 80s" over the last couple of years, but had no luck. I don't even know what British TV Channel it might have been on over there, the ABC here shows quite a few programmes from all sorts. Back then though I'm thinking it might have been BBC. Thanks heaps if you can point me in the right direction

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    Re: 80s UK television movie about a mentally ill man with a demon living with him

    well if it was on UK TV in the 80s, it could've only been on ITV or Channel 4, since they were the only ones to have adverts.

    EDIT: sorry i read that wrong, i thought you were on about an advert.

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    • #3
      Re: 80s UK television movie about a mentally ill man with a demon living with him

      Thanks anyway. That's part of my problem. Not knowing what channel it was on in Britain originally - the channel on which it aired in Australia is commercial free (even when they show programmes from commercial channels overseas).

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      • #4
        Re: 80s UK television movie about a mentally ill man with a demon living with him

        That sounds a lot like an episode of 'Chiller' that ran for a few episodes on ITV but that was in the 1990s.
        http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtItEVUnxB0

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        • #5
          Re: 80s UK television movie about a mentally ill man with a demon living with him

          I'll check that out. I was sure it was in the 80s, but maybe my memory is a bit muddled. I'll track down the whole episode and see if the demon is the same - his creepy eyes have stayed with me. Thanks very much

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          • #6
            Re: 80s UK television movie about a mentally ill man with a demon living with him

            Here you are! I thought it was part of the Chiller series.
            http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0273645/

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            • #7
              Re: 80s UK television movie about a mentally ill man with a demon living with him

              Thats it! I just google imaged Paul Reynolds and he's definitely the demon I remember. Thank you so much. I'll find it to watch and give myself a really good scare. Now to start obsessing about my memory assuring me I watched it 10 years before I did

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              • #8
                Re: 80s UK television movie about a mentally ill man with a demon living with him

                I thought I better say another thank you! I found the whole episode on Veoh and watched it. Just as spooky and moody as I remembered. I should have tried asking someone online years ago Again, many thanks

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