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 entirely on location in The United Kingdom and Austria
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 | Birth | Death | Age | Hammer Credits |
American Casting | Daniel Travis | 12 | |||
American Casting | William J Kenney | 29 May 1939 | 30 Dec 1992 | 53 | 12 |
Art Director | Heather Armitage | 6 | |||
Assistant Art Director | Steve Hardie | 3 | |||
Assistant Director | Ken Baker | 18 | |||
Assistant to Producer | Karen Woods | 6 | |||
Camera Operator | Ken Withers | 21 Aug 1928 | 92 | 14 | |
Casting Director | Lesley de Pettitt | 14 | |||
Continuity | Lorely Farley | 1 Apr 1939 | 81 | 22 | |
Costume Supervisor | Janice Wilde | 1 | |||
Director | Val Guest | 11 Dec 1911 | 10 May 2006 | 94 | 29 |
Director of Photography | Frank Watts BSc | 13 Jun 1929 | 5 Mar 1994 | 64 | 15 |
Dubbing Editor | Terry Poulton GBFE | 1 Jan 1930 | 1 Jan 1993 | 63 | 16 |
Dubbing Mixer | Ernie Marsch | 13 | |||
Editor | Peter Weatherley G.B.F.E. | 1 Jan 1930 | 1 Sep 2015 | 85 | 15 |
Executive Producer | Brian Lawrence | 1 Jan 1920 | 1 Jan 2004 | 84 | 25 |
Executive Story Editor | Don Houghton | 1 Jan 1930 | 1 Jul 1991 | 61 | 20 |
Hairdresser | Betty Sherriff | 29 Sep 1925 | 1 Jan 2000 | 74 | 10 |
Make-up | Eddie Knight | 14 Mar 1925 | 27 Aug 1996 | 71 | 31 |
Music Composed by | David Bedford | 4 Aug 1937 | 1 Oct 2011 | 74 | 3 |
Musical Supervisor | Philip Martell | 6 Oct 1907 | 11 Aug 1993 | 85 | 103 |
Producer | Roy Skeggs | 1 Apr 1934 | 29 Dec 2018 | 84 | 45 |
Production Accountant | Sheala Daniell | 13 | |||
Production Accountant | Linda Nettleton | 13 | |||
Production Assistant | Sheila Collins | 13 | |||
Production Manager | Ron Jackson | 34 | |||
Publicity | Jean Garioch | 1928 | 93 | 13 | |
Recorded at | Warwick Dubbing Theatre | ||||
Screenplay | Graham Wassell | 1 | |||
Sound Recordist | John Bramall | 18 Aug 1923 | 13 Jun 2000 | 76 | 23 |
Still Photographer | John Jay | 14 Nov 1920 | 29 Apr 2005 | 84 | 13 |
Story Editor | John Peacock | 1 Jan 1945 | 1 Jun 2017 | 72 | 13 |
Cast
Character | Credited | Birth | Death | Age | Hammer Credits |
Ann Preston | Mary Crosby | 14 Sep 1959 | 61 | 1 | |
Child | Joanna Joseph | 1 | |||
Mike Preston | Nicholas Clay | 18 Sep 1946 | 25 May 2000 | 53 | 1 |
Mother | Susanne Church | 9 Oct 1951 | 69 | 1 | |
Sarah Preston | Debbie Chasan | 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