Dead of Night is a 1977 American made-for-television anthology horror film starring Ed Begley Jr., Anjanette Comer, Patrick Macnee, Horst Buchholz and Joan Hackett.
College student and vintage car enthusiast Frank restores a 1926 Jordan Playboy which was wrecked in a collision with a train in which the driver and passenger were both killed.
Frank realizes he cannot report the incident to the police without showing them his driver's license, and the date of birth on it would expose him as being from the future.
Her mother recounts how he almost got them both killed in the car; he was driving towards train tracks and realized at the last moment that he would not make it across in time, pulling to a halt.
He wonders if the car has a mind of its own and took him back in time specifically so that he would delay the McCauleys for the few seconds necessary to avert their fatal collision with the train.
A woman, Alexis, repeatedly awakes to find bleeding punctures wounds in her throat, making the entire household believe she is being victimized by a vampire.
This story, an original script written for Dead of Night, was remade for the Dan Curtis omnibus movie Trilogy of Terror II.
The DVD includes a 1969 TV episode, "A Darkness at Blaisedon" written by Dan Curtis and Sam Hall and directed by Lela Swift, which was the pilot for a Dead of Night television series that was never picked up.