Neil Gaiman's Likely Stories
Season 1
A unique collection of extraordinary fantastical short stories from the pen of Neil Gaiman, directed by Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard. With a score by Jarvis Cocker and starring a host of British acting talent led by Tom Hughes, Johnny Vegas, George MacKay, Rita Tushingham and Kenneth Cranham.
Where to Watch Season 1
4 Episodes
- Foreign Parts
E1Foreign PartsYoung loner Simon Powers is amazed to learn that he has a sexually transmitted disease as he has been celibate for three years and visits the clinic run by Dr Benham. Over the next few weeks Simon feels that his body is being taken over by somebody else though ultimately it is for the good as he becomes a different person But as Simon starts to feel stronger Dr Benham starts to feel that his life is taking a turn for the worse - Feeders and Eaters
E2Feeders and EatersIn an all night café pregnant waitress Joyce meets old flame Eddie, once a proud and handsome young man who now has a haunted look. He tells her how he once shared lodgings with the elderly but bewitching Miss Corvier, who taught him how to forage for fungi and other free foods. However she also had another, extremely sinister dietary habit, which had a disturbing effect upon him. - Closing Time
E3Closing TimeIn the Diogenes Club writer Danny is sceptical of ghost stories told by other members and barmaid Elena but contributes a spooky tale of his own when, as a boy, he met a gang of youths who took him to a sinister house in the woods . They dared him to go in and he refused but then something very weird happened, Nobody else believes him except an elderly man who seems to have known the boys that Danny met and can vouch for his story. - Looking for the Girl
E4Looking for the GirlDean Smith is an ageing photographer. He’s almost 70, but there’s still a glint in his eye. TV’s ‘face of culture’, Miranda Walker, is interviewing him for television and asks about his muse. Once the cameras are off the question unlocks a story about Charlotte, aged 19, a Penthouse model. As old magazines and photographs are pulled from shelves it emerges that he’s a man consumed by an untouchable fantasy. A two-dimensional image sparked a moment of sexual awakening that he’s spent a lifetime trying to recapture.
