Hammer House of Mystery and Suspense Episode 3
Child’s Play

© 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: 8th October 1984
Storyline
A family awakens to find themselves trapped in their own home, all windows and doors sealed by impenetrable walls. They desperately try to escape but everything fails. Then the wife notices a bizarre pattern.



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 | 45 | 29 May 1939 | 30 Dec 1992 | 53 | 12 | 12 | ||
American Casting | Daniel Travis | 12 | 12 | ||||||
Art Director | Heather Armitage | 42 | 1942 | 81 | 6 | 6 | |||
Ast. Art Director | Steve Hardie | 3 | 3 | ||||||
Ast. Director | Ken Baker | 18 | 18 | ||||||
Ast. to Producer | Karen Woods | 6 | 6 | ||||||
Camera Operator | Ken Withers | 56 | 21 Aug 1928 | 10 Mar 2020 | 91 | 14 | 14 | ||
Casting Director | Lesley de Pettit | 48 | 1936 | 2002 | 66 | 14 | 14 | ||
Continuity | Lorely Farley | 45 | 1 Apr 1939 | 84 | 22 | 22 | |||
Costume Supervisor | Janice Wilde | 1 | 1 | ||||||
Director | Val Guest | 72 | 11 Dec 1911 | 10 May 2006 | 94 | 29 | 29 | ||
Director of Photog. | Frank Watts BSc | 55 | 13 Jun 1929 | 5 Mar 1994 | 64 | 15 | 15 | ||
Dubbing Editor | Terry Poulton | 54 | 1930 | 1993 | 63 | 16 | 1 | 17 | |
Dubbing Mixer | Ernie Marsch | 13 | 13 | ||||||
Editor | Peter Weatherley GBFE | 54 | 1930 | Sep 2015 | 85 | 15 | 15 | ||
Executive Producer | Brian Lawrence | 64 | 1920 | 2004 | 84 | 25 | 25 | ||
Executive Story Editor | Don Houghton | 54 | 1930 | Jul 1991 | 61 | 20 | 20 | ||
Hairdresser | Betty Sherriff | 59 | 29 Sep 1925 | 2000 | 74 | 10 | 10 | ||
Make-up | Eddie Knight | 59 | 14 Mar 1925 | 27 Aug 1996 | 71 | 31 | 31 | ||
Music Composer | David Bedford | 47 | 4 Aug 1937 | 1 Oct 2011 | 74 | 3 | 3 | ||
Musical Supervisor | Philip Martell | 77 | 6 Oct 1907 | 11 Aug 1993 | 85 | 104 | 1 | 105 | |
Producer | Roy Skeggs | 50 | 1 Apr 1934 | 29 Dec 2018 | 84 | 45 | 1 | 46 | |
Production Accountant | Linda Nettleton | 35 | 1 Jan 1949 | 74 | 13 | 13 | |||
Production Accountant | Sheala Daniell | 13 | 13 | ||||||
Production Ast. | Sheila Collins | 13 | 13 | ||||||
Production Manager | Ron Jackson | 45 | 1935 | 1993 | 58 | 34 | 1 | 35 | |
Publicity | Jean Garioch | 56 | 1 Jan 1928 | 95 | 13 | 1 | 14 | ||
Screenplay | Graham Wassell | 1 | 1 | ||||||
Sound Recordist | John Bramall | 61 | 18 Aug 1923 | 13 Jun 2000 | 76 | 23 | 23 | ||
Still Photog. | John Jay | 63 | 14 Nov 1920 | 29 Apr 2005 | 84 | 13 | 22 | 35 | |
Story Editor | John Peacock | 39 | 1945 | 1 Jun 2017 | 72 | 13 | 13 | ||
Uncredited | |||||||||
Special Effects Technician | Chris Verner | 34 | 13 Dec 1949 | 73 | 3 | 3 | |||
Wardrobe Mistress | Babs Gray | 59 | 1925 | 2007 | 81 | 3 | 3 |
Cast
Character | Credited | Age at Release | Birth | Death | Age | Hammer Productions | |||
Credited | Uncredited | Total | |||||||
Ann Preston | Mary Crosby | 25 | 14 Sep 1959 | 64 | 1 | 1 | |||
Child | Joanna Joseph | 1 | 1 | ||||||
Mike Preston | Nicholas Clay | 38 | 18 Sep 1946 | 25 May 2000 | 53 | 1 | 1 | ||
Mother | Suzanne Church | 32 | 9 Oct 1951 | 72 | 1 | 1 |
Footnotes
Mary Crosby (daughter of Bing Crosby) played Kirsten Shepard in Lorimar Television’s long running series “Dallas”
Details were complied viewing the Episode.
Source of viewing copy – The Hammer Graveyard Collection