Leap in the Dark was a British television anthology series with a supernatural theme. It was broadcast on BBC 2. It ran for 4 series - in 1973, 1975, 1977 and 1980 - consisting of 24 episodes in total. The first-series episodes were documentaries, series 2 & 3 were presented by Colin Wilson and consisted of docudramas re-enacting real-life cases of paranormal occurrences, and series 4 was original dramas, including episodes written by Alan Garner, Fay Weldon, and David Rudkin. Apart from the pilot episode no episode of the first series exists complete due to wiping, and the episode The Battle for Miss Beauchamp, (pronounced 'Bee-cham'), in the 2nd series, is also incomplete.