Come Back Lucy
Director(s)Paul Harrison
Production year1978
Genre(s)Drama
Approx. running minutes25m
CastEmma Bakhle, Bernadette Windsor, Phyllida Law, Royce Mills
Come Back Lucy
very mild bad language
Classified Date:
03/10/2022
Use:
Physical Media + VOD/Streaming
Distributor:
Network
COME BACK LUCY is a British drama; in this episode, Lucy is sent to live with her cousins after her Aunt's death and discovers something strange in the attic.
language
There is use of very mild bad language ('God').
additional issues
A young girl is very briefly startled by a friendly ghost. There is a scene where a young girl places flowers on a late family members grave.
very mild bad language, threat, sex references
Classified Date:
03/10/2022
Use:
Physical Media + VOD/Streaming
Distributor:
Network
COME BACK, LUCY is a 1978 British fantasy drama miniseries; in this episode, Lucy gets to know Alice, her new home’s resident ghost.
threat and horror
There are moments of very mild fantasy threat when a little girl encounters ghosts in Victorian clothing. However, the ghosts do not behave in an obviously threatening manner, and the girl does not seem scared. In another scene children watch a 1960s Godzilla film on TV; we briefly see monsters roaring and lunging at each other on the screen.
language
There is occasional use of very mild bad language (e.g. ‘loony’, ‘God’).
sex
There are very mild comic references to a teenager having to clean lipstick off his shirt after a romantic encounter with a girl at a school dance.
additional issues
A collector of antiquities proudly shows off what appears to be a shrunken head, but the images of the head are brief, undetailed and unrealistic. While being pestered by his children, a man jokes that he and his wife should leave for their appointment before he ‘turns into a child-batterer’.
discrimination
Classified Date:
03/10/2022
Use:
Physical Media + VOD/Streaming
Distributor:
Network
COME BACK, LUCY is a 1978 British fantasy drama miniseries; in this episode, Lucy meets Alice again after separating from her cousins on a Christmas shopping trip.
discrimination
A teenager comments that an unwell girl had ‘gone all yellow… like Madame Butterfly’. In another scene a Victorian ghost behaves in a haughty and dismissive manner towards a shopkeeper and tells a little girl that this is the correct way to treat ‘tradesmen’. During an argument, one child accuses another of being 'loony'.
additional issues
There are brief references to a charity for ‘battered wives’. There are scenes of very mild fantasy threat, when a child ghost threatens to ‘make something awful happen’ to a little girl if she tries to leave; the girl faints soon afterwards, but she quickly recovers.
very mild threat, discrimination
Classified Date:
03/10/2022
Use:
Physical Media + VOD/Streaming
Distributor:
Network
COME BACK, LUCY is a 1978 British fantasy drama miniseries; in this episode, Lucy finds her way home but refuses to explain to her family where she went.
threat and horror
There are scenes of fantasy threat involving encounters with a ghostly child, but the threat is very mild and brief.
discrimination
One child repeatedly taunts another by calling her ‘loony’. In another scene an unlikeable child claims that ‘everyone knows poor children can’t read’.
additional issues
In a comic sequence a boy is told off for having attempted to butter his toast while it was still in the toaster, but we do not see any dangerous behaviour on screen.
very mild threat, brief sex references
Classified Date:
03/10/2022
Use:
Physical Media + VOD/Streaming
Distributor:
Network
COME BACK, LUCY is a 1978 British fantasy drama miniseries; in this episode, Lucy travels back and forth between the Christmas party and Alice’s birthday party.
threat and horror
There are brief scenes of very mild fantasy threat involving ghostly encounters. In one scene an invisible force nearly pushes a girl through an open window, but she is immediately rescued by another person. In the very mild ‘cliffhanger’ ending, a little girl faints due to supernatural causes in front of her concerned family; she breaks a glass in her hand during the fainting spell, but there is no visible injury.
sex
A teen couple are discovered kissing in a back room at a party and are gently but firmly instructed to rejoin the other guests.
dangerous behaviour
Classified Date:
03/10/2022
Use:
Physical Media + VOD/Streaming
Distributor:
Network
COME BACK LUCY is a drama series; in this episode, a ghostly girl tries to tempt Lucy into joining her.
dangerous behaviour
A ghostly girl lures Lucy across a frozen pond. Lucy falls in and briefly struggles underwater before she is saved from drowning by her relatives.
additional issues
There is also very mild bad language ('damn'), and brief scary scenes.
Classified date03/10/2022
LanguageEnglish
language
There is use of very mild bad language ('God').
additional issues
A young girl is very briefly startled by a friendly ghost. There is a scene where a young girl places flowers on a late family members grave.
very mild bad language
Classified Date:
03/10/2022
Use:
Physical Media + VOD/Streaming
Distributor:
Network
language
There is use of very mild bad language ('God').
additional issues
A young girl is very briefly startled by a friendly ghost. There is a scene where a young girl places flowers on a late family members grave.
very mild bad language, threat, sex references
Classified Date:
03/10/2022
Use:
Physical Media + VOD/Streaming
Distributor:
Network
threat and horror
There are moments of very mild fantasy threat when a little girl encounters ghosts in Victorian clothing. However, the ghosts do not behave in an obviously threatening manner, and the girl does not seem scared. In another scene children watch a 1960s Godzilla film on TV; we briefly see monsters roaring and lunging at each other on the screen.
language
There is occasional use of very mild bad language (e.g. ‘loony’, ‘God’).
sex
There are very mild comic references to a teenager having to clean lipstick off his shirt after a romantic encounter with a girl at a school dance.
additional issues
A collector of antiquities proudly shows off what appears to be a shrunken head, but the images of the head are brief, undetailed and unrealistic. While being pestered by his children, a man jokes that he and his wife should leave for their appointment before he ‘turns into a child-batterer’.
discrimination
Classified Date:
03/10/2022
Use:
Physical Media + VOD/Streaming
Distributor:
Network
discrimination
A teenager comments that an unwell girl had ‘gone all yellow… like Madame Butterfly’. In another scene a Victorian ghost behaves in a haughty and dismissive manner towards a shopkeeper and tells a little girl that this is the correct way to treat ‘tradesmen’. During an argument, one child accuses another of being 'loony'.
additional issues
There are brief references to a charity for ‘battered wives’. There are scenes of very mild fantasy threat, when a child ghost threatens to ‘make something awful happen’ to a little girl if she tries to leave; the girl faints soon afterwards, but she quickly recovers.
very mild threat, discrimination
Classified Date:
03/10/2022
Use:
Physical Media + VOD/Streaming
Distributor:
Network
threat and horror
There are scenes of fantasy threat involving encounters with a ghostly child, but the threat is very mild and brief.
discrimination
One child repeatedly taunts another by calling her ‘loony’. In another scene an unlikeable child claims that ‘everyone knows poor children can’t read’.
additional issues
In a comic sequence a boy is told off for having attempted to butter his toast while it was still in the toaster, but we do not see any dangerous behaviour on screen.
very mild threat, brief sex references
Classified Date:
03/10/2022
Use:
Physical Media + VOD/Streaming
Distributor:
Network
threat and horror
There are brief scenes of very mild fantasy threat involving ghostly encounters. In one scene an invisible force nearly pushes a girl through an open window, but she is immediately rescued by another person. In the very mild ‘cliffhanger’ ending, a little girl faints due to supernatural causes in front of her concerned family; she breaks a glass in her hand during the fainting spell, but there is no visible injury.
sex
A teen couple are discovered kissing in a back room at a party and are gently but firmly instructed to rejoin the other guests.
dangerous behaviour
Classified Date:
03/10/2022
Use:
Physical Media + VOD/Streaming
Distributor:
Network
dangerous behaviour
A ghostly girl lures Lucy across a frozen pond. Lucy falls in and briefly struggles underwater before she is saved from drowning by her relatives.
additional issues
There is also very mild bad language ('damn'), and brief scary scenes.
Director(s)Paul Harrison
Production year1978
Genre(s)Drama
Approx. running minutes25m
CastEmma Bakhle, Bernadette Windsor, Phyllida Law, Royce Mills
Classified date03/10/2022
LanguageEnglish
