No. of episodes 13 Final episode date 17 December 1984 Number of seasons 1 | No. of series 1 Running time 70 minutes First episode date 5 September 1984 Number of episodes 13 | |
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Similar Hammer House of Horror, Journey to the Unknown, The Lazarus Man, Mr Palfrey of Westminster, Tales of the Unexpected | ||
Hammer house of mystery and suspense in possession 1984
Hammer House of Mystery and Suspense is a short-lived (one season) anthology television series from Hammer Studios. Though similar in format to the 1980 series Hammer House of Horror, the Mystery and Suspense series had feature-length episodes, usually running around 70 minutes without commercials.
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- Hammer house of mystery and suspense in possession 1984
- Hammer house of mystery and suspense child s play 1984
- Episodes
- DVD release
- References
The series was a co-production by Hammer Studios with 20th Century Fox Television (as was the 1968 anthology series Journey to the Unknown), and is known in the United States as Fox Mystery Theater. Unlike 1980's Hammer House of Horror, all the episodes (with the exceptions of "Czech Mate" and "The Corvini Inheritance") had American actors as either the leads or in key roles. It was first aired in the UK by ITV in 1984, though was not simulcast and was shown in different timeslots (and a different running order) throughout the various ITV regions.
Hammer house of mystery and suspense child s play 1984
Episodes
1London region transmission date unknown, but screened on ITV's Television South West on 17 December 1984.
Two of the episodes, "A Distant Scream" and "In Possession", were remakes of stories that had been made for the fourth season of the BBC anthology series Out of the Unknown.
DVD release
The series was released as a 6-DVD set in the UK in 2006.