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Corporal Jan (Original title)Coporal Jan (Archive title)
Date: 18 June 1968 (Television)

Country: United Kingdom

Director: Peter Wright

Shotlist: During the apple harvest, Jan, a poor soldier, returns home to a village obsessed with witchcraft. He dreams that the three women in his life become the triple Goddess (representing the three stages of woman from the virgin to the hag [sic]) and sees himself killed at her feet when presented with an apple - the Goddess's sacred fruit. Jan wakes from his dream to find his lover, Ellen, accused of witchcraft. Trying to protect her, he is killed.

Genre:
Fantasy

Subject:
Witchcraft

Series title:

TV Transmissions
Date: 18 June 1968Broadcast channel: BBC1Country: United KingdomTransmission time: 22:25-23:04Runtime: 39 mins Network - Language: English - Colour - Sound