Nobody talks about this one. A 300-year-old hobgoblin haunting the same English manor for centuries, doing small kindnesses that nobody notices and nobody thanks him for, watching human lives turn over while he stays exactly the same. That's not cutesy fantasy. That's loneliness written into the foundations of a house. The show trusts you to find the heartbreak in routine magic, in a creature who has forgotten what it felt like to be seen. It moves slow, which means it breaks slow.

A three-hundred-year-old hobgoblin who makes his home at Widford Manor in the Cotswolds is the central figure of this 26-episode fantasy TV series from 1992. The story comes from Hobberdy Dick, a 1955 work by the English author Katharine Mary Briggs, a noted authority on fairy lore who later compiled An Encyclopedia of Fairies.