
Ghosts
- TV sitcom
- BBC One
- 2019 - 2023
- 34 episodes (5 series)
Comedy about a group of ghosts inhabiting a crumbling country manor and its new living owners. Stars Charlotte Ritchie, Kiell Smith-Bynoe, Mathew Baynton, Simon Farnaby, Martha Howe-Douglas and more.
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Series 2, Episode 2 - About Last Night

Further details
After a particularly heavy night partying, Alison and Mike wake to find their house in disarray. With the clock ticking until a potentially crucial business partner comes to view the venue, and with very sore heads, the couple attempt a mass clean-up of the debris from the night before.
The ghosts are all acting very strangely, and so Alison tries to piece together what actually happened at the party. Pat and the Captain nurse a grudge, Kitty surprisingly wants nothing to do with Alison, Thomas feels quite the opposite, and Mary and Robin can't seem to look each other in the eye. Alison's tidying is derailed when she's also tasked with finding something precious to Lady Button that went missing during last night's frivolities. There's only so much time before Lady Button realises it's AWOL and wreaks havoc.
Meanwhile, Mike, voiceless after last night, gets trapped on the roof and is supported by Humphrey's head as he plans his escape. Downstairs in the basement, the Plague victims find out the shocking truth about the cause of their death, and as betrayal and anger ripples through the group and they threaten to move upstairs, it's up to Julian to intervene and restore harmony between them.
Broadcast details
- Date
- Monday 28th September 2020
- Time
- 8:30pm
- Channel
- BBC One
- Length
- 30 minutes
Cast & crew
Charlotte Ritchie | Alison |
Kiell Smith-Bynoe | Mike |
Mathew Baynton | Thomas |
Simon Farnaby | Julian |
Martha Howe-Douglas | Lady Button |
Jim Howick | Pat |
Laurence Rickard | Robin |
Ben Willbond | Captain |
Lolly Adefope | Kitty |
Katy Wix | Mary |
Laurence Rickard | Humphrey |
Nathan Bryon | Obi |
Cornelius Booth | Philip |
Darren McQuade | Tony |
Dionne Oxford | Tash |
Mathew Baynton | Writer |
Jim Howick | Writer |
Annie Fawke | Script Editor |
Tom Kingsley | Director |
Matthew Mulot | Producer |
Alison Carpenter | Executive Producer |
Debra Hayward | Executive Producer |
Alison Owen | Executive Producer |
Kate Daughton | Executive Producer |
Mathew Baynton | Executive Producer |
Simon Farnaby | Executive Producer |
Martha Howe-Douglas | Executive Producer |
Jim Howick | Executive Producer |
Laurence Rickard | Executive Producer |
Ben Willbond | Executive Producer |
Imogen Cooper | Executive Producer |
Jill Forbes | Line Producer |
Mike Holliday | Editor |
Amy Maguire | Production Designer |
Kelly Valentine Hendry | Casting Director |
Alex Irwin | Casting Director |
Lucy Williams | Costume Designer |
Will Hanke | Director of Photography |
Jo Jenkins | Make-up Designer |
Arthur Sharpe | Composer |
Ralegh Long | Composer |
Peter Griffiths | 1st Assistant Director |
Video
About Last Night.... Ghosts: Episode 2 trailer
After a night of partying, Alison and Mike scramble to clean up the house for a venue viewing, and Alison tries to find out why the ghosts are acting so strangely.
Featuring: Charlotte Ritchie (Alison) & Kiell Smith-Bynoe (Mike).
Press
Review: Fanny girl raises the spectre of silly laughs
Irn-Bru's marketing team got into a lot of trouble by making jokes about someone with the name Fanny many years ago.
Stevie Gallacher, The Sunday Post, 29th September 2020Ghosts is back, and in even better form. This confection by the Horrible Histories team, but aimed firmly at an adult audience, with its tongue firmly in its cheek, is a dizzying - I dislike the word romp, but sadly there's no other - through the tale of one couple, one haunted castle, and their attempts to zhuzh it up as a prestige wedding venue despite the pesky presence of headless poets etc. Yup, I just used the words zhuzh, romp, prestige and pesky, and it says much about the quality that this caused me no pain. Sharp and smart, fast and fun, and horribly watchable.
Euan Ferguson, The Observer, 27th September 2020