Hammer House of Mystery and Suspense Episode 13
And the Wall Came Tumbling Down

© 1984 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation, 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.
Produced by Hammer Film Productions Limited
ITV London Transmission Date: 4th July 1985
Storyline
In a condemned medieval London church, a demolition crew uncovers a walled up chamber with a skeleton inside. Black liquid crawls out of it and makes a haunted hose choke to death one of the workers. A skeptical police inspector is brought in but he deems the death an accident. However, a female journalist tries to convince him that there’s more to the church than it seems.
Meanwhile, a young man who feels a strange connection to the building tries to sneak in with his girlfriend. An old priest reveals that in the 17th century, the church was once used by a Satanic cult led by a Satanic priest until one of the cultists had a change of heart and betrayed the coven to the church which led to some of the cultists being caught and burned alive at the stake. Just before dying, they vowed revenge against both the traitor’s descendants and the church itself.



Crew
Function | Credited | Age at Release | Birth | Death | Age | Hammer Productions | |||
Click a link for more info | Credited | Uncredited | Total | ||||||
American Casting | William J Kenney | 46 | 29 May 1939 | 30 Dec 1992 | 53 | 12 | 12 | ||
American Casting | Daniel Travis | 12 | 12 | ||||||
Art Director | Heather Armitage | 43 | 1942 | 81 | 6 | 6 | |||
Ast. Art Director | Steve Hardie | 3 | 3 | ||||||
Ast. Director | Ken Baker | 18 | 18 | ||||||
Ast. to Producer | Karen Woods | 6 | 6 | ||||||
Based on a short story by | Michael Hastings | 46 | 2 Sep 1938 | 19 Nov 2011 | 73 | 1 | 1 | ||
Camera Operator | Ken Withers | 56 | 21 Aug 1928 | 10 Mar 2020 | 91 | 14 | 14 | ||
Casting Director | Lesley de Pettit | 49 | 1936 | 2002 | 66 | 14 | 14 | ||
Continuity | Lorely Farley | 46 | 1 Apr 1939 | 84 | 22 | 22 | |||
Coutume Supervisor | Laura Nightingale | 35 | 35 | ||||||
Director | Paul Annett | 48 | 19 Feb 1937 | 11 Dec 2017 | 80 | 2 | 2 | ||
Director of Photog. | Frank Watts BSc | 56 | 13 Jun 1929 | 5 Mar 1994 | 64 | 15 | 15 | ||
Dubbing Editor | Terry Poulton | 55 | 1930 | 1993 | 63 | 16 | 1 | 17 | |
Dubbing Mixer | Ernie Marsch | 13 | 13 | ||||||
Editor | Peter Weatherley GBFE | 55 | 1 Jan 1930 | 1 Sep 2015 | 85 | 15 | 15 | ||
Executive Producer | Brian Lawrence | 65 | 1920 | 2004 | 84 | 25 | 25 | ||
Executive Story Editor | Don Houghton | 55 | 1930 | Jul 1991 | 61 | 20 | 20 | ||
Hairdresser | Betty Sherriff | 59 | 29 Sep 1925 | 2000 | 74 | 10 | 10 | ||
Make-up | Eddie Knight | 60 | 14 Mar 1925 | 27 Aug 1996 | 71 | 31 | 31 | ||
Music Composer | Anthony Payne | 48 | 2 Aug 1936 | 30 Apr 2021 | 84 | 2 | 2 | ||
Musical Supervisor | Philip Martell | 77 | 6 Oct 1907 | 11 Aug 1993 | 85 | 104 | 1 | 105 | |
Producer | Roy Skeggs | 51 | 1 Apr 1934 | 29 Dec 2018 | 84 | 45 | 1 | 46 | |
Production Accountant | Linda Nettleton | 36 | 1 Jan 1949 | 74 | 13 | 13 | |||
Production Accountant | Sheala Daniell | 13 | 13 | ||||||
Production Ast. | Sheila Collins | 13 | 13 | ||||||
Production Manager | Ron Jackson | 50 | 1935 | 1993 | 58 | 34 | 1 | 35 | |
Publicity | Jean Garioch | 57 | 1 Jan 1928 | 95 | 13 | 1 | 14 | ||
Screenplay | Andrew Sinclair | 50 | 21 Jan 1935 | 30 May 2019 | 84 | 1 | 1 | ||
Sound Recordist | John Bramall | 61 | 18 Aug 1923 | 13 Jun 2000 | 76 | 23 | 23 | ||
Sound Recordist | Eddie Habden | 1 | 1 | ||||||
Still Photog. | John Jay | 64 | 14 Nov 1920 | 29 Apr 2005 | 84 | 13 | 22 | 35 | |
Story Editor | John Peacock | 40 | 1945 | 1 Jun 2017 | 72 | 13 | 13 | ||
Uncredited | |||||||||
Special Effects Technician | Chris Verner | 35 | 13 Dec 1949 | 73 | 3 | 3 | |||
Wardrobe Mistress | Babs Gray | 60 | 1925 | 2007 | 81 | 3 | 3 |
Cast
Character | Credited | Age at Release | Birth | Death | Age | Hammer Productions | |||
Alan Martin Yardley | Brian Deacon | 36 | 13 Feb 1949 | 73 | 1 | 1 | |||
Brinkley/Robert Ford | Tim Pearce | 50 | 17 Apr 1935 | 23 Apr 2017 | 82 | 1 | 1 | ||
Caroline Trent | Barbie Benton | 35 | 28 Jan 1950 | 72 | 1 | 1 | |||
Daniel/General Haswell | Peter Wyngard | 57 | 23 Aug 1927 | 15 Jan 2018 | 90 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
Father Ambrey/Packard | Robert James | 61 | 28 Mar 1924 | 31 Jul 2004 | 80 | 1 | 1 | ||
Father Harris | Ralph Michael | 77 | 26 Sep 1907 | 9 Nov 1994 | 87 | 1 | 1 | ||
Gran Waters | Patricia Hayes | 75 | 22 Dec 1909 | 19 Sep 1998 | 88 | 2 | 2 | ||
Inspector Crane | Gary Waldhorn | 42 | 3 Jul 1943 | 10 Jan 2022 | 78 | 2 | 2 | ||
Jill | Angela Grant | 35 | 1 Jan 1950 | 72 | 1 | 1 | |||
Kim.Cathering Parkes | Carol Royale | 31 | 10 Feb 1954 | 68 | 1 | 1 | |||
Male Nurse | Simon Sutton | 1 | 1 | ||||||
Military Aids | Christopher Farries | 38 | 12 Jun 1947 | 18 May 2016 | 68 | 1 | 1 | ||
Military Policeman | Peter Macklin | 1 | 1 | ||||||
Peter Whiteway | Gareth Hunt | 42 | 7 Feb 1943 | 14 Mar 2007 | 64 | 1 | 1 | ||
Pinder.David Pritchard | Richard Hampton | 48 | 22 Jun 1937 | 85 | 1 | 1 | |||
Police Constable Hopkins | Michael Kingsbury | 1 | 1 | ||||||
Policeman | Jona Jones | 33 | 1 Jan 1952 | 70 | 1 | 1 | |||
Press Photog. | Danny McCarthy | 1 | 1 | ||||||
Sergeant Mils | Ray Armstrong | 1 | 1 | ||||||
Talbot | Peter Baldwin | 51 | 29 Jul 1933 | 21 Oct 2015 | 82 | 1 | 1 | ||
Uncredited | |||||||||
Major | Sean Barry-Weske | 45 | 2 Mar 1940 | 26 Dec 2004 | 64 | 1 | 1 |
Footnotes
Gareth Hunt played Mike Gambit in the ITV series “The New Avengers” (1975).
Carol Royale starred in the television comedy series “Life Without George” (1987-9).
Details were complied viewing the Episode.
Source of viewing copy – The Hammer Graveyard Collection