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An
anthology series of fantasy,
horror, mystery and science
fiction dramas. The series has a
high percentage of American
guest stars and stalwart British
actors in support.
Executive Consultant: Jack
Fleischmann / Executive
Producers: Joan Harrison, Norman
Lloyd / Producer: Anthony Hinds
/ Main Title Theme: Harry
Robinson / Story Editor: John
Gould / Music Supervision:
Philip Martell
United
Kingdom / Hammer/TCF / 17x60m-e
/ 1968
1.
THE NEW PEOPLE
Writers:
Oscar Millard and John Gould /
story by Charles Beaumont
Hank and Anne Prentiss, newly
arrived in England, get dragged
into a bizarre costume event
where they meet rich and deadly
Luther Ames who rules over the
lives of his friends.
With:- Robert Reed as Hank
Prentiss / Jennifer Hilary as
Anne Prentiss / Patrick Allen as
Luther Ames / Melissa Stribling
as Helen Ames / Milo O'Shea as
Matt Dystal
Director: Peter Sasdy
2.
SOMEWHERE IN A CROWD
Writer:
Michael J. Bird
At a shipyard, TV commentator
William Searle is disturbed when
he sees five strangely familiar
faces in the crowd of a
launching which goes
disastrously wrong. Other
tragedies happen to him, always
with the strangers present, and
soon he discovers that the five
were killed in a train crash two
years earlier which he survived.
With:- David Hedison as William
Searle / Ann Bell as Ruth Searle
/ Jeremy Longhurst as Max Newby
/ Jane Asher as Marielle / Ewen
Solon as Douglas Bishop /
Tenniel Evans as Hugh Baillie
Director: Alan Gibson.
3.
MATAKITAS IS COMINIG
Writer:
Robert Heverley
Magazine researcher into
murders, June Wiley is working
in the public library when
she reads how young librarian
Sylvia Hablen was killed there
in 1927 by Andros
Matakitas, who claimed she had
been pledged to the devil. June
finds herself locked in
the library that night with a
frightened girl librarian, Ann.
It seems the date is now
September 19th 1927 and
Matakitas is coming.
With:- Vera Miles (as June
Wiley), Dermot Walsh (as Ken
Talbot), Gay Hamilton (as Sylvia
Ann), Leon Lissek (as
Matakitas)
Director: Michael Lindsay-Hogg
4.
JANE BROWN'S BODY
Writer:
Anthony Skene / story by Cornell
Woolrich
Jane Brown gasses herself, but
is brought back to life two
hours after dying by Dr
Ian Denholt who uses and
experimental serum. She has no
memory of her past and the
mind of a child, but with the
help of a tutor she learns,
remembers, and follows the
path that lead to her death.
With:- Stephanie Powers (as Jane
Brown), David Buck (as Paul
Amory), Alan McNaughton (as Dr
Ian Denholt), Sarah Lawson
(as Pamela Denholt), Arthur
Pentelow (as Receptionist),
Clive Graham (as Robert),
Yvonne Gilan (as Mrs Brown),
Lewis Fiander (as Butler).
Director: Alan Gibson
5.
DO ME A FAVOUR - KILL ME!
Writer:
Stanley Miller / story by
Frederick Rawlings
Jeff Wheeler, a fading actor in
the twilight of his career, asks
a friend to kill him in
return for 10% of the insurance
money and spare him obscurity.
He doesn't know where,
when or how it's to be done -
and if he tries to call it off
his friend will ignore him. Then
circumstances cause Jeff to
decide he doesn't want to
die.
With:- Joseph Cotton (as Jeff
Wheeler), Judy Parfitt (as Faith
Wheeler), Douglas Wilmer (as
Harry Vantese), Kenneth Haigh
(as Dirk Brogan), Joyce Blair
(as Betty), David Warbeck (as
Chris), David Baxter (as
Assistant Director), Hugh
Futcher (as Wardrobe dresser), Carol
Cleveland (as Lisa), Tom Gill
(as Golfer)
Director Gerry O'Hara
6.
POOR BUTTERFLY
Writer:
Jeremy Paul / story by William
Abney
Steven Miller, a commercial
artist, gets a surprise
invitation to a costume
party from Sir Robert Sawyer,
who he has never heard of. At
the party at Measham
House, his 1929 Bugatti does not
look out of place, and he meets
a girl called Rose who is
frantic to leave before a storm.
Mi1ler then learns the house
burnt down forty years
ago.
With:- Chad Everett (as Steven
Miller), Bernard Lee (as Ben
Loker), Fay Compton (as Queen Victoria),
Edward Fox (as Robert Sawyer),
Susan Brodrick (as Rose), Susan
Richards (as Mrs Loker),
Marty Cruikshank (as Diana),
Norman Chappell (as Friar Tuck),
Antony Webb (as Nelson),
Donald Gee (as Aviator), Michael
Nightingale (as Butler), Linda
Cole (as Lady Hamilton),
Ann Lancaster (as Red Queen),
Terence Duff (as March Hare),
Roy Hanlon
(as Jimmy McNeil), Maggie Don
(as Barbara)
Director: Alan Gibson.
7.
THE MADISON EQUATION
Writer:
Michael J. Bird
Brilliant computer scientist
Inga Madison is responsible for
the Computex GB computer at
the National Computer Centre and
is having an affair with client Stuart
Crosbie. Her jealous husband,
Ralph, programmes the computer
to electrocute her, but
instead it kills him. Insurance
investigator Alan Frost looks
into the strange incident.
With:- Barbara Bel Geddes (as
Inga Madison), Allan Cuthbertson
(as Ralph Madison), Paul Daneman
(as Stuart Crosbie), Sue Lloyd
(as Barbara Rossiter), Jack
Hedley (as Adam Frost),
Richard Vernon (as Sir Gerald
Walters), Lionel Murton (as Gen.
Wanamaker), Aubrey Morris
(as Frederick Shea), Lloyd
Lamble (as Inspector Bridges)
Director: Rex Firkin
8.
GIRL OF MY DREAMS
Writers:
Robert Bloch and Michael J. Bird
/ story by Richard Matheson
Opportunist Greg Richards is in
a restaurant trying to persuade
fashion model Sue Tarleton
to pose nude for a calendar, but
she refuses. Carrie Clark, the
shy cashier, pleads with
her not to leave until ten or
she will be killed in an
accident. When the prediction
comes true, Greg marries Carrie
and starts to exploit her
dreams of death for other
people.
With:- Michael Callan (as Greg
Richards), Zena Walker (as
Carrie Clark), Justine Lord (as
Sue Tarleton), Jan Holden
(as Mrs Wheeler), David Lampton
(as Mr Thwaite)
Director: Peter Sasdy
9.
THE LAST VISITOR
Writer:
Alfred Shaughnessy
Taking
a rest after a bad love affair,
young Barbara King takes an
off-season week at the
Beach Hotel in Southcliff-on-Sea,
run by Mrs Walker. At night, she
finds a prowler in her room, and
later her clothes are shredded.
Is the figure the strange
Mr Plimmer who wanders at night?
Or the estranged husband of Mrs
Walker?
With:- Patty Duke (as Barbara
King), Kay Walsh (as Mrs
Walker), Geoffrey Bayldon (as Mr
Plimmer), Joan Newell (as
Mrs Plimmer), Blake Butler (as
Butler), John Bailey (as
Mitchell), Michael Craze
(as Fred), Sally James (as
Peggy)
Director: Don Chaffey.
10.
EVE
Writers:
Michael Ashe and Paul Wheeler /
Story 'Special Delivery' by John
Collier
Cruelly rejected by a girl he
has taken out, lonely misfit
Albert Baxtor finds refuge in
the face of the beautiful blonde
wax window display mannequin. He
falls in love with her, dreaming
they are together, and gets to
work in window dressing. Then he
learns that his new boss, Royal,
is to destroy all the old wax
dummies, including Eve.
With:- Dennis Waterman (as
Albert Baker), Carol Lynley (as
Eve), Michael Gough (as Royal),
Angela Lovell (as Jennifer),
Hermione Baddeley (as Mrs Kass),
Peter Howell (as Miller), Errol
John (as George Esmond), Barry
Fantoni (as Kim), Barry Linehan
(as 1st Detective)
Director: Robert Stevens.
11.
THE INDIAN SPIRIT GUIDE
Writer:
Robert Bloch
Wealthy Leona Gillings wants to
contact her late husband via the
spirit world and hires Jerry
Crown, an unscrupulous private
detective down to his last
dollar, to expose the fake
mediums she will meet on her
quest. Crown hires a number of
fakes to expose and gain Leona's
trust, and marries her, but
fails to reckon with spirits
powers.
With:- Julie Harris (as Leona
Gillings), Tom Adams (as Jerry
Crown), Marne Maitland (as
Chardur), Tracy Reed (as Joyce),
Catherine Lacey (as Miss Sarah
Prinn), Dennis Ramsden (as Mrs
Hubbard), Julian Sherrier (as
Bright Arrow), Geoff Winslip (as
KnifeThrower)
Director: Roy Ward Baker
12.
THE KILLING BOTTLE
Writer: Julian Bond /
story by L. P. Hartley
Jimmy
Rintoul is a hopeful young
composer, but his manager Rollo
Verdew says that to get the
money to launch him, they must
get his brother, Randolph,
committed to an asylum so he can
get the family inheritance.
Randolph kills people who harm
animals, so Rollo gets Jimmy to
provoke him by showing him his
butterfly killing bottle.
With:- Roddy McDowall (as Rello
Verdew), Ingrid Brett (as Vean
Verdew), Barry Evans (as Jimmy
Kintoul), William Marlowe (as
Randolph Verdew), John Rudling
(as Hodgeon), Eddie Byrne (as
Policeman).
Director
John Gibson
13.
STRANGER IN THE FAMILY
Writer:
David Campton
Charles Wilson and his family
are hounded from place to place
since his son, Boy, is a mutant
with no fingernails and the
power to direct people against
their wills. Dr Evans wants to
examine him for science, and
young actress Paula Wilde
persuades Boy to perform a
hypnotism act with her for her
ruthless agent Sonny.
With:- Janice Rule (as Paula),
Maurice Kaufmann (as Sonny),
Anthony Corlan (as Boy), Phil
Brown (as Charles Wilson), Jane
Hylton (as Margaret Wilson),
Gerald Sim (as Dr Evans), Glynn
Edwards (as Brown), Ronald Radd
(as Wally Gold), Ann Wrigg (as
Miss Payne), James Donelly (as
Drunk)
Director: Peter Duffell
14.
THE BECKONING FAIR ONE
Writers:
William Woods and John Gould /
story by Oliver Onions
Young artist Jon Holden is
recovering from a mental
breakdown and moves into a new
London house, where a coquette
called Alison was killed in a
bombing twenty-five years
earlier. A portrait of Alison
seems to take a hold on Jon, and
he begins to love her spirit
instead of his fiancé Kit, who
is un-nerved by the house.
With:- Robert Lansing (as Jon
Holden), Gabrielle Drake (as Kit
Beaumont), John Fraser (as Derek
Wilson), Larry Noble (as Mr.
Barrett), Gretchen Franklin (as
Mrs Barrett), Clive Francis (as
Crichton)
Director: Don Chaffey.
15.
ONE ON A DESERT ISLAND
Writer:
Oscar Millard
Young Alec Worthing, dominated
by his mother, buys a boat to
sail around the world with her
money when she dies. A poor
seaman, his sloop 'Victoria' is
soon wrecked and he finds
himself on a desert island. A
girl, Vickie, walks out of the
sea and the two fall in love,
but Alec is angered by the
intrusion of crashed pilot Joe
Hallum.
With:- Brandon de Wilde (as Alec
Worthing), David Bauer (as Uncle
George), Suzanna Leigh (as
Vickie), Robert Sessions (as Joe
Hallum), John Ronane (as
Preston), Victor Maddern (as
Baker)
Director: Noel Howard.
16.
PAPER DOLLS
Writer:
Oscar Millard / story by L.P.
Davies
Teacher Craig Miller is puzzled
when one of his boys, Rodney
Blake, does an excellent sketch,
and then incites a bully to hurl
himself out of the classroom
window. Rodney goes missing, and
it seems he is one of
quadruplets, linked psychically
so they can convey feeling and
skill, and directed by the most
powerful, Steven.
With:- Michael Tolan (as Craig
Miller), Nanette Newman (as Jill
Collins), Roderick Shaw (as
Rodney Blake), John Welsh (as
Bart Brereton), Dorothy Alison
(as Mrs Latham), Kenneth J.
Warren (as Joe Blake), Edward
Hardwicke (as Dr Yarrow),
Michael Ripper (as Albert Cole),
George Benson (as The Vicar),
June Jago (as Emily Blake),
Jerold Wells (as Mayhew), Noel
Davis (as Charles Phillips),
Hazel Hughes (as Mrs Biddle),
Catherine Finn (as Elsie Cole).
Director:
James Hill
17.
MISS BELLE
Writer:
Sarett Rudley / story by Charles
Beaumont
Miss Belle Weston's sister
married the man she loved, and
the rejected spinster lives
in the country with their
7-year-old son Robert, whom she
has taken and dresses as a
girl to take out her bitterness
on all men. Robert realises he
is a boy, so Miss Belle
punishes him. A roguish
American, Drake, arrives looking
for work, and also realises
Robert is a boy and decides to
tell the authorities.
With:- George Maharis (as
Drake), Barbara Jefford (as Miss
Belle Weston), Kim Burfield (as
Robert), Adrienne Posta (as
Girl)
Director:
Robert Stevens.
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