Do you know what this television show was?

In 2000, when I was four, I saw this programme on the television – it seems to have been a television programme rather than a television or theatrical film.

I cannot remember the beginning of it – I only realised that just now, a few seconds ago: I must have come across my parents watching that programme later – but I remember it revolving around two men – again, I have just realised this a few seconds ago – who are at an event – I believe it to be a fair – at nighttime.

The programme appears to be a British programme, for all of the actors have English accents, except for possibly one at the end of what I watched – I didn’t watch it all.

For one of the performances, it features a man who states (I don’t wish to sound immature, and I apologize, surrounded by female performers – trying to remember what their outfits were, they might have been dressed as showgirls, but I am not sure) that he is going to lie done on a platform (I can’t remember what it is made of), while a metal platform with large, sharp metal spikes at the bottom that look like iron-coloured cones is lowered down on him while he will survive.

He goes and lies down on the platform (although I have no memory of this, but of course he must have), he is covered with a red blanket (although, again, I have no memory of this, but he must have because it shown at the end of the performance, and possibly during the performance, although I am not sure <if during the performance, we see a shot of the blanket after a shot of the metal spikes lowering, after which we see a shot of the spikes again, although I cannot remember if it were much closer than before>, and I do not remember if he went on the platform himself or <I apologize for sounding immature again> the female performers put him there or helped put him there), and the platform is lowered slowly onto him.

The platform is slowly lowered off him as music plays (I presume classical), one of the men goes there as the music becomes more ominous, lifts up the blanket, and says to his companion, “He’s dead.”, as the music ends darkly, with a trumpet sound.

We then see police officers cart the man off on a stretcher as the music continues, darkly, his body covered by a white blanket, while a man asks the man who lifted the blanket off the body something – I can’t remember what it was. He was the man who might not have had an English accent – he might have had a North American one instead. This was the point where I went to bed.

For years afterwards, I could not sleep on my back out of memory of those spikes and the realisation that they impaled the man, and of me imagining the man’s body with bloody holes in it, his face being destroyed by the holes, his eyes, nose, and mouth no longer existing, causing me to sleep on my belly, with my face in the pillow, even though my mother told me not to and it was uncomfortable – although, early on, for several years, it wasn’t uncomfortable – and rereading “The World’s Strangest “True” Ghost Stories” or “The World’s Most Bone-Chilling “True” Ghost Stories” – to be more precise, the story of the ghost of a mentally retarded boy those family moved away after he supposedly drowned, his hat being found floating on the water but his body never being found, and at the end of the story, after the young daughter of the new owners of the house tells her parents or father (I can’t remember which) that she sees him near the cupboard, they or he gets group of people (perhaps it was the police: I cannot remember) and they discover the body of the boy, an autopsy revealing “that the back of the boy’s skull had been crushed.”, the story ending with the words, “Not accidental drowning! Cold-blooded murder!” – and, due to my intrusive thoughts of imagining scary things in the darkness, didn’t help – it caused me to pull up the covers over my face, something I mother didn’t like.

Fortunately, I should say since 2011 or 2012 I slept on my side, and from 2012 or 2013 I slept on my back – I have to avoid getting a hunchback, and from 2012 or 2013 I do not cover my face when I sleep. But still, I want to know – what is this programme?

I once asked my mother about it in the late summer of 2014, and she said she didn’t know what it was. I believe it was an episode of “Midsomer Murders” – my mother and father are fans of that show, although I have only conclusively (that could be the first time I have used that word, but I am not sure) seen them watch it in Canada– and when I suggested the possibility to her, she said “It must have been that.”, but I am not sure if it was an episode of “Midsomer Murders”.

I was going to ask this question after my first question, “Do you know what this television programme or film was?”, was answered, but although many people gave their answers, I never did found out, and as there are no new answers, I am going to ask this question now – also, I am asking this question because the fact that I have not asked this question yet has been bugging me (when I remember it) so I decided to write it right now to get it off my mind (before I forgot).

So, can anyone tell me, please?