 Kneale 's remaining television work was written for ITV . His first script for ITV was the one @-@ off play <unk> , made by the network 's Midlands franchise holders Associated <unk> ( ATV ) in 1975 . The play , a horror piece based around witchcraft , led the following year to a series called Beasts , a six @-@ part anthology where Kneale created six different character @-@ based tales of horror and the macabre . It featured some well @-@ known actors such as Martin Shaw , Pauline Quirke and Bernard Horsfall , but did not gain a full network run on ITV ; different regions transmitted the episodes in different timeslots and some in different sequences . 
