A replacement series for SF 68, this South African horror anthology was far more successful than its predecessor, running from 1968 through 1969. Its success may have been due in part to producer Michael McCabe - who also produced SF 68 - honing his talents to a higher degree. Little else is known about it, including the number of shows produced. As far as I can discover, there were at least 43 episodes, all in half-hour format.

Currently this archive contains plotlines for  34 of 43 episodes

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The Green Vase

40th Birthday
Genre: Horror
Episode: 03
Available for Listening Booth: Y

A man is told about a secret room in his house that belonged to a bootlegger. He decides it is a perfect place to bury his wife (or is it?)

A Man Called Hobard                                                                                                                 
Genre: Ghosts
Episode: 05
Available for Listening Booth: Y

A recently deceased man refuse to let go the things of this world when he lays claim to a house he'd inherited, irregardless of its new owners.

A Night in Murder's Den
Genre: 
Episode: 28
Available for Listening Booth: N

A Smile to Drive You Mad                                                                                                             
Genre: Adventure
Episode: 32
Available for Listening Booth: N

The injured leader of an archaeological expedition into the Amazon waxes jealous when his wife and their amorous Brazilian guide depart for help -- so jealous that he sports truck with murderous natives to retrieve her. 

An Eye for an Eye
Genre: 
Episode: 20
Available for Listening Booth: N

Thinking release from the police means he won't suffer the consequences for a murder he committed, a man takes a job with the victim's father, a noted scientist who has some interesting experiments in mind for his new employee.

Reviews:

While a good radio show relies on the audience's imagination, and Beyond Midnight usually does that, there just aren't enough clues to really get you thinking for this episode. The ending offers some potential to get the audience to think, but the performance actually suffers from too much restraint to get to the listener. - Rob Mayer

Cataclysm                                                                                                                                                
Genre: Supernatural
Episode: 11
Available for Listening Booth: Y

A witch's curse reaches across the centuries to take revenge on the descendants of those who executed her.

Dear Ghost                                                                                                                                              
Genre: Ghosts
Episode: 34
Available for Listening Booth: Y

A writer staying at a widow's house finds himself the unwitting vehicle for her dead husband to reach back from the grave.

The Death Wish
Genre: 
Episode: 06
Available for Listening Booth: N

Don't Joke in the Morgue
Genre: 
Episode: 23
Available for Listening Booth: Y

A worker in the morgue finds it amusing to play practical jokes with the corpses, with deadly results.

The Great Fellini
Genre: 
Episode: 36
Available for Listening Booth: N

The wife of a brutish, boring escape artist thinks she's found a way to sabotage his latest and greatest escape from a potentially watery grave.

Reviews:

The plot's nothing new, but what makes this work is the acting at the conclusion. The story simply just flows along in terms of emotion, and then suddenly the wife lets out a performance that unnerves the listener. - Rob Mayer

The Green Vase                                                                                                                         
Genre: Ghosts
Episode: 13
Available for Listening Booth: Y

A writer looking for solitude buys a remote house, but he soon finds he is not alone in it -- something is 'living' in an upstairs room. 

The Happy Return
Genre: Ghosts
Episode: 19
Available for Listening Booth: Y

A man's search around the world for his fiance's lost ship brings him to a desolate isle. Even though the ship is dismasted and void of life, why is it so clean and the calendars updated?

Reviews:
While about three-quarters of the way through you get the idea that this is based on an older story/myth, the set-up of exploring the empty ship is worth listening to. The conclusion isn't exactly original, but the way the story got there is. - Rob Mayer

Harry
Genre: Ghosts
Episode: 25
Available for Listening Booth: Y

A little girl with few friends compensates  by talking and playing with an imaginary older brother

Hello, Below There                                                                                                                           
Genre: 
Episode: 02
Available for Listening Booth: Y

Yet another rendition of that classic horror tale The Signalman, by Charles Dickens. 

See the Famous Authors on Radio page for a listing of all versions.

The Honeymoon                                                                                                                                   
Genre: Ghosts
Episode: 12
Available for Listening Booth: N

Two soldiers returning home after the war become friends, and one ends up marrying the other's sister; but her brother guards a terrible secret.

The House at Bricketbottom
Genre: Ghosts
Episode: 42
Available for Listening Booth: Y

A pair of sisters accompany their uncle on his sabbatical to the country, and become enamored of an old brick house nearby, one which nobody else recognizes as being there.

The Insects                                                                                                                                          
Genre: Occult
Episode: 27
Available for Listening Booth: Y

A tycoon obsessed with the notion that all insects are the agents of the Devil on Earth devotes all his resources to wiping them out. 

The Janizaries                                                                                                                                        
Genre: Supernatural
Episode: 31
Available for Listening Booth: Y

A doctor becomes concerned for a friend who claims that his dreams are transporting him to another time and place , where savage horsemen are bearing down on him, swords drawn to kill him. 

Let Me See Your Face
Genre: Ghosts
Episode: 17
Available for Listening Booth: N

A hotel guest is intrigued by a late-night visitor at the pool, and ignores the warnings of the staff in his bid to see her.

Reviews:
Eh, to be honest, nothing spectacular. Basic setup, below average payoff. Best part is the atmosphere created when the protagonist first sees the figure beside the pool below his room - Robert Mayer

Madeira Wine
Genre: 
Episode: 01
Available for Listening Booth: N

The Monkey's Paw                                                                                                                           
Genre: Occult
Episode: 14
Available for Listening Booth: N

Classic story of a grisly talisman capable of granting three wishes to its owner - but may God help anyone who dares to try it ...

Mrs. Smiff
Genre: 
Episode: 38
Available for Listening Booth: N

A writer visiting with his brother is aghast to see that the housekeeper apparently has no shadow.

October 31st                                                                                                                                    
Genre: Creatures
Episode: 26
Available for Listening Booth: N

Ah, Halloween, when ghosts and goblins go a'roving beneath the light  of the Moon. Harmless folklore, of course - except for the marble statues which come to life and hunt down trespassers....

The Phantom Coach                                                                                                                       
Genre: Ghosts
Episode: 15
Available for Listening Booth: N

Lost on the lonely moors of Northern England, a traveler seeks shelter in the manor of an eccentric recluse, and then finds passage on a coach haunted by the spirits of those who'd died in a terrible accident years before.

The Room                                                                                                                                         
Genre: Ghosts
Episode: 08
Available for Listening Booth: Y

Enticed by an eccentric, yet  wealthy widow's substantial reward, a skeptic accepts an offer to spend a night locked in a supposedly haunted room in her mansion, despite the fact that previous volunteers have all gone insane....

Another version of this story was produced for the Canadian series Nightfall

Rupert Orange
Genre: 
Episode: 24
Available for Listening Booth: N

The Sheriff's Wife
Genre: 
Episode: 37
Available for Listening Booth: N

Short Circuit
Genre: Horror
Episode: 10
Available for Listening Booth: Y

A reclusive millionaire builds a mansion to keep out the world, but his high-tech security backfires when he himself becomes trapped within.

Something Haunts This House
Genre: Ghosts
Episode: 21
Available for Listening Booth: N

Newlyweds must defend themselves from strange activity in their new home.

Reviews:
Sadly, nothing original here. - Robert Mayer

Something on His Mind
Genre: Horror
Episode: 39
Available for Listening Booth: N

A love triangle in the jungle leads to a murder plot which goes awry.  

Reviews:
After hearing the end of the tale, the listener will appreciate the irony of the story's title!  The same story was featured on the U.S. TV series Rod Serling's Night Gallery and aired on 1st March 1972 under the title "The Caterpillar." - Anonymous
 
Take Your Partners                                                                                                                           
Genre: Ghosts
Episode: 04
Available for Listening Booth: Y

A man meets the woman of his dreams and together they dance the night away . Sounds too good to be true, and of course, it is......

Tangled Way
Genre: 
Episode: 41
Available for Listening Booth: Y

A young man visiting his uncle in Ireland worries about strange symbols upstairs, and begins to fear for the lives of himself and a female visitor when evidence indicates the uncle's allegiances have a dark undertone.

Reviews: 
The best part is a good to strong set-up in terms of the uncle's portrayal, although the ending has a sense of 'we've been here before.' - Robert Mayer

Terror Killed the Laughter                                                                                             
Genre: Creatures
Episode: 29
Available for Listening Booth: N

A town in the Carpathians is being terrorized by a series of grisly killings, and all the evidence points to a werewolf. But, of course, they don't exist.....

See also 'Taboo' (Escape)

The Thing in Cabin 105 see 'The Upper Berth'

Time for Thunder                                                                                                                 
Genre: Time Travel
Episode: 09
Available for Listening Booth: Y

Having fallen for  a long dead woman in a portrait painting, a man gets his chance to meet her when a strange thunderstorm transports him back in time.

Under the Hau Tree
Genre: 
Episode: 40
Available for Listening Booth: Y

A mysterious traveling couple are difficult to trace, as their names are forgotten by everyone they encounter and even disappear from the hotel registry!

Reviews:
While I guessed the ending to this tale about two-thirds through the program, this is still one of the most interesting entries of Beyond Midnight. While most episodes in this South African series are set in England or non-descript locations, this episode goes deeply into the history of a South African family, features local accents, and even makes brief use of the Afrikaans language in one scene. Oddly enough, the immediate setting for all this is a resort in Hawaii! - Anonymous

Yes, it's essentially a modern twist on a classic ghost story, but it demonstrates why Beyond Midnight clearly has to be listened to. Unlike like many horror/ghost/terror shows, Beyond Midnight operates with a clear sense of knowing when to be restrained and when to go over the top, particularly when it uses a narrator. That sense of restraint here allows you to be sucked and dragged into the story until you realize how far you've allowed yourself to be pulled in, even if you've already guessed the ending. - Rob Mayer

The Upper Berth  (aka 'The Thing in Cabin 105')    
Genre: Ghosts
Episode: 18
Available for Listening Booth: Y                                                                    

A traveler takes a cruise from England to America, ignoring the captain and crew's warning that something evil lurks in his cabin. Then his roommate vanishes.....

The Visits
Genre: Ghosts
Episode: 22
Available for Listening Booth: Y

An old man who makes regular monthly visits to an abandoned house is the key to a dark secret out of the past.

The Yellow Dressing Gown
Genre: Occult
Episode: 16
Available for Listening Booth: N

A woman's interpretation of a image in a crystal globe has dire implications for her, her daughter, and her husband's mistress.

Reviews:
Slow start, strong ending: For the first 15 minutes, one wonders if this is merely a soap opera about a cheating husband. There's only one supernatural moment here, but it's enough to set off not only one terrifying ending, but two. While the opening is a bit of a yawn (although the use of a female narrator instead of the typical male narrator provides some interest), the conclusion is drawn out just enough to evoke a solid feeling of gloom. - Rob Mayer