Hammer House of Horror Episode 1
Witching Time

Jack Gill Presents “Hammer House of Horror” Copyright MCMLXXX
Chips Productions Limited. All Rights Reserved
The characters and incidents portrayed and the names used herin are fictitious and any similarity to the name, character or history of any person is entirely co-incidental.
A Jack Gill Presentation for Chips Productions Ltd.
A Cinema Arts International Production in association with Hammer Films for ITC Entertainment – An OCC company.
UK Transmission Date 13th Sep 1980
Storyline
A 17th-century witch uses her craft to transport herself to the 20th century. She brings spine-chilling terror to the present-day occupants of the old farmhouse in which she lived. She puts her mark on the man now living in the farmhouse, while his wife tries to save him.



Crew
Function | Credited | Age at Release | Birth | Death | Age | Hammer Productions | |||
Click a link for more info | Credited | Uncredited | Total | ||||||
Ast. Art Director | Bob Bell | 62 | 21 Mar 1918 | 6 Jun 2009 | 91 | 13 | 13 | ||
Ast. Art Director | Richard Rooker | 36 | 1 Jan 1944 | 78 | 13 | 13 | |||
Ast. Director | Ken Baker | 18 | 18 | ||||||
Camera Operator | Neil Binney | 49 | 1 Jun 1931 | 91 | 17 | 10 | 27 | ||
Casting Director | Eileen Garstka | 13 | 13 | ||||||
Continuity | Lorely Farley | 41 | 1 Apr 1939 | 83 | 22 | 22 | |||
Costume Supervisor | Laura Nightingale | 35 | 35 | ||||||
Designer | Carolyn Scott | 23 | 23 | ||||||
Director | Don Leaver | 50 | 27 Sep 1929 | 13 Dec 2015 | 86 | 2 | 2 | ||
Director of Photog. | Frank Watts BSc | 51 | 13 Jun 1929 | 5 Mar 1994 | 64 | 15 | 15 | ||
Dubbing Editor | Brian Tilling | 51 | 1 Jan 1929 | 19 Feb 2011 | 82 | 13 | 13 | ||
Dubbing Editor | Jack Knight | 50 | 9 Aug 1930 | 7 Nov 1993 | 63 | 15 | 15 | ||
Dubbing Mixer | Ken Scrivener | 61 | 19 Jan 1919 | 16 Jun 2006 | 87 | 2 | 2 | ||
Editor | Chris Barnes | 42 | 1 Jan 1938 | 5 Jun 2009 | 71 | 21 | 12 | 33 | |
Executive Producer | Brian Lawrence | 60 | 1920 | 2004 | 84 | 25 | 25 | ||
Executive Producer | David Reid | 42 | 1 Mar 1938 | 84 | 13 | 13 | |||
Gaffer | Steve Birtles | 65 | 12 Nov 1914 | 2003 | 88 | 13 | 14 | 27 | |
Hairdresser | Daphne Volmer | 52 | 15 Aug 1928 | 11 Jan 2006 | 77 | 17 | 17 | ||
Make-up | Eddie Knight | 55 | 14 Mar 1925 | 27 Aug 1996 | 71 | 31 | 31 | ||
Music Composer | James Bernard | 54 | 20 Sep 1925 | 12 Jul 2001 | 75 | 24 | 1 | 25 | |
Music Editor | Marcel Durham | 60 | 21 Jun 1920 | Apr 2000 | 79 | 12 | 12 | ||
Musical Supervisor | Philip Martell | 72 | 6 Oct 1907 | 11 Aug 1993 | 85 | 104 | 1 | 105 | |
Producer | Roy Skeggs | 46 | 1 Apr 1934 | 29 Dec 2018 | 84 | 45 | 1 | 46 | |
Production Ast. | Mike Widd | 12 | 12 | ||||||
Production Ast. | Margaret Nicholas | 13 | 13 | ||||||
Production Manager | Ron Jackson | 45 | 1935 | 1993 | 58 | 34 | 1 | 35 | |
Screenplay | Anthony Read | 45 | 21 Apr 1935 | 21 Nov 2015 | 80 | 14 | 14 | ||
Sound Recordist | John Bramall | 57 | 18 Aug 1923 | 13 Jun 2000 | 76 | 23 | 23 | ||
Special Effects | Ian Scoones | 40 | 20 Feb 1940 | 20 Jan 2010 | 69 | 13 | 9 | 22 | |
Story Editor | Anthony Read | 45 | 21 Apr 1935 | 21 Nov 2015 | 80 | 14 | 14 | ||
Uncredited | |||||||||
Production Runner | Callum McDougall | 13 | 13 |
Cast
Character | Credited | Age at Release | Birth | Death | Age | Hammer Productions | |||
Credited | Uncredited | Total | |||||||
Charles | Ian McCulloch | 40 | 18 Nov 1939 | 83 | 2 | 2 | |||
David | Jon Finch | 38 | 2 Mar 1942 | 28 Dec 2012 | 70 | 3 | 3 | ||
Lucinda | Patricia Quinn | 36 | 28 May 1944 | 78 | 1 | 1 | |||
Mary | Prunella Gee | 30 | 17 Feb 1950 | 72 | 1 | 1 | |||
Rector | Lennard Pearce | 65 | 9 Feb 1915 | 15 Dec 1984 | 69 | 1 | 1 | ||
Sister | Margaret Anderson | 55 | 27 Aug 1925 | 6 Jun 2016 | 90 | 1 | 1 |
Footnotes
Prunella Gee appeared in the Bond film “Never Say Never Again” (1983).
Lennard Pearce is fondly remembered as Grandad in BBC TV’s hit comedy series “Only Fools and Horses”.
Details were complied viewing the Episode.
Source of viewing copy – The Hammer Graveyard Collection