FREDDY (Historias para no dormir)

Spain. Direction: Narciso Ibáñez Serrador. Production: TVE. Screenplay: Luis Peñafiel. Cast: Manuel Tejada, Silvia Tortosa, Fedra Lorente, Cándida Losada, Narciso Ibáñez Menta, José María Caffarel, Tomás Blanco.

First episode in the last season of the mythical TVE series created and directed by Chicho Ibáñez Serrador Historias para no dormir, which was cut down to only four episodes. A down-at-heel vaudeville company is touring in a French province. A mysterious Hungarian fortune-teller, a conjurer with a criminal record, a singer in full artistic decline, a ventriloquist who works with his dummy Freddy and other artists make up this troupe that sees itself caught up in a series of crimes committed in the theatre.