Roald Dahl's Esio Trot Roald Dahl's Esio Trot Roald Dahl's Esio Trot is a British comedy television film that was first broadcast as part of BBC One's 2015 Christmas programming. It is an adaptation of Roald Dahl's children's novel "Esio Trot" in which a retired bachelor falls in love with his neighbour, a widow, who keeps a tortoise as a companion after the death of her husband. It was broadcast on 1 January 2015. It was seen by 7.86 million viewers, making it the ninth-most watched programme on BBC1 and across all UK TV channels for the week ending 4 January 2015. It was
Creature Features the 1970s, the films of Amicus Productions and Tigon British Film Productions, which included "Dr. Terror's House of Horrors" and "The House That Dripped Blood", became popular features on the shows. "Creature Features" also aired many "nuclear monster" and "space alien" science fiction movies. Created in the 1950s, these movies generally featured giant mutant monsters or aliens from outer space terrorizing Earth. These included "Attack of the 50 Foot Woman", "The Amazing Colossal Man", "Them!", "Tarantula", "The Thing from Another World", "It Came from Outer Space", "The War of the Worlds", and "Forbidden Planet". "Creature Features" usually aired on Friday