Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #4813 in DVD
• Released on: 2008-10-27
• Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
• Formats: Box set, PAL
• Number of discs: 5
• Running time: 795 minutes

Synopsis
MOST HAUNTED is the television series about the haunted houses of England, where spiritual medium Derek Acorah and investigative reporter Yvette Fielding come to visit, and sometimes stay overnight, running scientific tests and experiments in the hope of uncovering and proving the existence of supernatural activity. Contains every episode of the first series.

Customer Reviews

Thrills and Chills for the Gullible!
Most Haunted was, at the time of this first series, a fantastic concept for a programme. The places they visit are often wonderfully atmospheric and beautiful in their own right. I bought this as I live in Rye and the Mermaid Inn is one of my favourite haunts (groan). The slightly sad thing is that, as would become so common during the earlier episodes, absolutely nothing happens.

Despite all this, Derek Acorah's so called psychic abilities are hilarious to watch - not just as the information he supposedly gets from 'the other side' (whatever that is) is so easily obtained from just about anywhere (including on the wall in huge painted letters outside the Mermaid Inn as a case in point - but also because his overacted displays of 'possession' are quite clearly ludicrous. Yvette is great fun to watch and this series does at least feel as though they are trying to genuinely capture something. In later series the obviously faked antics spoil it all; I guess because they realised that unless somebody did something to spice it all up it was going to become too dreary even for scary music and screaming every time someone has a moth fly into them.
Watch and enjoy these programmes without any questions as to why the cameras NEVER show a complete picture of a whole room, or object being moved; without any acknowledgement that all the supernatural nonsense has been comprehensively debunked by people like James Randi and Derren Brown; and you might have a fun evening's viewing!
Oh, and for the millions of totally gullible people who seem to fall for every trick in the book, no matter how daft, check out the vintage footage on YouTube of how Johnny Carson exposed spoon-bender Uri Geller on his show in the early 1970's for the fake that he is. If you're still a "believer" in all this after that then there's truly no hope for you!
Thanks for the laughs Yvette and the gang - despite all this I enjoyed it!

Chilling Delight
When this seris was first shown, few had heard of Derek Acorah and all we knew of Yvette was of her Blue Peter days. Series 1 establishes the genre and the cast we would become familiar with - plucky ghost hunters led by Yvette joined on location by spiritualist medium DA. DA picks up resonances, which may or may not be verified, then team split up to different parts of the building, Scooby Doo style. Following denouement main players give their summaries followed by critiqe from sceptic. Simple formula but it has sustained up to 10 series.
I am very familiar with some of the places featured and I can verify that DA has at times managed to come up with some astonishing information. Yvette seems plucky, charming and vulnerable. The real stars are the locations. Some are traditional haunted houses such as Chillingham Castle. There are haunted pubs like The Ostrich and the Mermaid, Rye. Then they are the off-beat venues like Soutar Lighthouse, or Aldwych Underground Station - or even Blackpool Pleasure Beach. You do not have to be interested in the supernatural, This is a rare televisual insight into some of those treasures that make Britain tick. For that reason alone it is worth every penny.

Most Haunted series 1
I enjoy the Most Haunted series as a whole, as I find that it is informative, thought-provoking, and, most of all, entertaining. In this first series, I get the sense that the production crew are feeling their way into a new television format, as there are investigative methods missing that are used in later series. Nevertheless, it remains quite unique, in my experience, in t.v. programming. Part of the success of the programme is the character and camaraderie of the production crew, who also act as part of the investigative team,which adds to the all-round entertainment value.