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Afterlife

  • NR
  • 2005–2006
  • 2 seasons
  • Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Drama
  • 7.2

You don't choose the spirits. They choose you.

University lecturer Robert Bridge becomes involved in a series of supernatural events surrounding medium Alison Mundy.

Episodes

6 episodes
  1. 1More Than Meets The Eye

    45 minSep 24, 2005

    When psychology lecturer and psychic mediums specialist Robert Bridge takes his students to a clairvoyance evening, he meets troubled psychic Alison Mundy. Sceptical about her abilities, Robert decides to study Alison and contemplates writing a book about her after sitting in on one of her readings. But he is completely thrown when Alison claims to see the spirit of his dead son Josh.

  2. 2Lower Than Bones

    45 minOct 1, 2005

    An eight-year-old girl goes missing and her distraught parents make an emotional televised appeal. The next day, when Alison says she has seen the child's ghost in the supermarket, the police are deeply suspicious - then they discover a drowned body.

  3. 3Daniel One & Two

    45 minOct 8, 2005

    On the ward of a hospital psychiatric unit, Alison meets Daniel, who is being held after an attack on his girlfriend. He desperately tries to persuade Alison that the man responsible for the assault was the other Daniel - Daniel Two. Doctors are convinced the young man is a pathologically violent schizophrenic, but Alison has serious doubts.

  4. 4Misdirection

    45 minOct 15, 2005

    On the first day of her new job at an old people's home, Alison finds a photo of Robert's dead son Josh, belonging to his mother, Jenny, and realises that Josh steered her towards the job in another attempt to make some kind of emotional contact with his father. Alison befriends fellow nurse Connor, who is being tormented by the ghost of a former patient, who jumped to her death from a window because he wouldn't help her die peacefully.

  5. 5Sleeping With The Dead

    45 minOct 22, 2005

    Sandra Petch is petrified and thinks that her flat is haunted, but when Alison comes round to try and help she witnesses the terrifying tableau of a man smothering his wife to death. Robert is curious and the three spend the night there, waiting to see what will happen. As Alison falls asleep, she enters a nightmare where she relives the last moments of the murdered woman's life.

  6. 6The 7:59 Club

    45 minOct 29, 2005

    Alison thinks that she is being haunted by the victims of the train crash which nearly killed her six years before. But she soon finds out that she is being followed by the survivors of the disaster, who want her to help them communicate with their lost loved ones. Robert and she come into contact with the afterlife in a way that will change their lives for ever.

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Series cast

Lesley SharpAlison Mundy14 episodes
Andrew LincolnRobert Bridge14 episodes
Anna Wilson-JonesJude Bridge14 episodes
Kate DuchêneBarbara Sinyard14 episodes
Adrian Lester1 episode
Nikki Amuka-Bird1 episode
Natalia TenaGemma Taylor1 episode
Zoe Telford1 episode
Rosemary Leach1 episode
Saskia ReevesSheila Rabey1 episode
Rasmus Hardiker1 episode
Phyllida Law1 episode
Ed WestwickDarren1 episode
Michael Obiora1 episode
Oscar James1 episode
Veronica Roberts1 episode
Nora-Jane Noone1 episode
Rhodri Meilir1 episode

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