Haunted Hogmanay

Haunted Hogmanay
Production
Producer	BBC Scotland
Running time	30 minutes
Original release
Network	BBC One Scotland
Release	31 December 2006 (2006-12-31)

Haunted Hogmanay is a stop motion animated short film created by BBC Scotland and was broadcast on BBC One Scotland on 31 December 2006. ^[1] The story concerns ghost-hunters working on Hogmanay, the Scots term for New Year's Eve.

Plot

Amateur ghost-hunter Jeff finds his New Year plans hijacked when his acquaintance Thurston makes him go with him to a haunted street called MacLachlan's Close buried underneath Edinburgh's Old Town, to prove that ghosts don't exist. Instead, they end up coming face to face with the ghost of murderer Morag Lachlan MacLachlan who haunts the street every Hogmany.

Voice cast

• Peter Capaldi as Jeff Wylie, an amateur ghost hunter
• Alex Norton as Thurston McCondry, the brother-in-law of Jeff's sister. He takes Jeff with him to MacLachlan's Close to record a show called Debunking the Supernatural and try and prove that ghosts don't exist

Sequel

In 2008 a sequel called Glendogie Bogey was released.

References

1. Crump, William D. (2019). Happy Holidays—Animated! A Worldwide Encyclopedia of Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa and New Year's Cartoons on Television and Film. McFarland & Co. p. 130. ISBN   9781476672939.