Journey to the Unknown Episode 14
The Beckoning Fair One

Hammer Film Productions
Copyright © MCMLXVIII
Filmed at Intertel Studios by Addavision
Distributed by Twentieth Century-Fox Television
William Self – In charge
UK Release Date 23rd July 1969
Storyline
A young artist fall under the spell of a coquette – who has been dead for 25 years.



Crew
Function | Credited | Age at Release | Birth | Death | Age | Hammer Productions | |||
Click a link for more info | Credited | Uncredited | Total | ||||||
Art Director | Roy Stannard | 38 | 1931 | Mar 2008 | 77 | 10 | 10 | ||
Ast. Art Director | Graham Parker | 38 | 1 Jan 1931 | 7 Oct 1992 | 61 | 8 | 8 | ||
Ast. Director | John Elton | 1 | 1 | ||||||
Based on a story by | Oliver Onions | 95 | 13 Nov 1873 | 9 Apr 1961 | 87 | 1 | 1 | ||
Casting | James Liggat | 49 | 1 Jan 1920 | 28 Sep 1981 | 61 | 29 | 2 | 31 | |
Continuity | Estelle Stewart | 8 | 8 | ||||||
Director | Don Chaffey | 51 | 5 Aug 1917 | 13 Nov 1990 | 73 | 6 | 6 | ||
Director of Photog. | Kenneth Talbot BSc | 49 | 17 Jan 1920 | May 1993 | 73 | 9 | 9 | ||
Editor | Brian Freemantle | 4 | 4 | ||||||
Executive Consultant | Jack Fleischmann | 17 | 17 | ||||||
Executive Producer | Joan Harrison | 62 | 26 Jun 1907 | 14 Aug 1994 | 87 | 13 | 1 | 14 | |
Hair Stylist | Mibs Parker | 8 | 8 | ||||||
Main Title Theme | Harry Robertson | 36 | 19 Nov 1932 | 17 Jan 1996 | 63 | 26 | 26 | ||
Make-up | Elisabeth Blattner | 54 | 14 Oct 1914 | 1986 | 71 | 3 | 3 | ||
Music Composer | Harry Robertson | 36 | 19 Nov 1932 | 17 Jan 1996 | 63 | 26 | 26 | ||
Music Supervisor | Philip Martell | 61 | 6 Oct 1907 | 11 Aug 1993 | 85 | 104 | 1 | 105 | |
Post – Production Consultant | Robert Mintz | 17 | 17 | ||||||
Producer | Anthony Hinds | 46 | 18 Sep 1922 | 30 Sep 2013 | 91 | 84 | 1 | 85 | |
Production Manager | John Oldknow | 42 | 5 Mar 1927 | 10 Apr 1989 | 62 | 16 | 16 | ||
Sound Editor | Roy Baker | 42 | Jul 1927 | Feb 2011 | 83 | 29 | 1 | 30 | |
Sound Editor | Brian Hickin | 30 | 7 Jun 1939 | 83 | 10 | 10 | |||
Sound Recordist | Stan Smart | 8 | 8 | ||||||
Story Editor | John Gould | 21 Apr 1974 | 19 | 19 | |||||
Supervising Editor | James Needs | 49 | 17 Oct 1919 | 4 Feb 2003 | 83 | 110 | 1 | 111 | |
Teleplay | William Woods | 53 | 1916 | 1998 | 82 | 1 | 1 | ||
Teleplay | John Gould | 21 Apr 1974 | 19 | 19 | |||||
Unit Manager | Christopher Neame | 26 | 24 Dec 1942 | 12 Jun 2011 | 68 | 15 | 9 | 24 | |
Wardrobe | Mary Gibson | 13 | 13 |
Cast
Character | Credited | Age at Release | Birth | Death | Age | Hammer Productions | |||
Credited | Uncredited | Total | |||||||
Crichton | Clive Francis | 23 | 26 Jun 1946 | 76 | 1 | 1 | |||
Derek Wilson | John Fraser | 38 | 18 Mar 1931 | 7 Nov 2020 | 89 | 1 | 1 | ||
Jon Holden | Robert Lansing | 41 | 5 Jun 1928 | 23 Oct 1994 | 66 | 1 | 1 | ||
Kit Beaumont | Gabrielle Drake | 25 | 30 Mar 1944 | 78 | 1 | 1 | |||
Mr. Barrett | Larry Noble | 54 | 13 Dec 1914 | 9 Sep 1993 | 78 | 3 | 3 | ||
Mrs Barrett | Gretchen Franklyn | 58 | 7 Jul 1911 | 11 Jul 2005 | 94 | 1 | 1 | ||
Uncredited | |||||||||
Police Constable | David Simeon | 26 | 17 May 1943 | 79 | 1 | 1 | |||
Police Sergeant | Victor Brooks | 50 | 11 Nov 1918 | 19 Jan 2000 | 81 | 1 | 2 | 3 | |
With | Warwick Sims | 24 | 5 Nov 1944 | 1 Oct 2005 | 60 | 1 | 1 | ||
With | Tracy Crisp | 25 | 15 Apr 1944 | 78 | 1 | 1 | |||
With | Angela Vincent | 1 | 1 | ||||||
With | Jay Bawden | 1 | 1 |
Footnotes
Gabrielle Drake played Jill Hammond in BBC TV’s “The Brothers”
Larry Noble played a postman in Hammer’s “Fruther up the Creek” (1958)
Details were complied viewing the Episode.
Source of viewing copy – The Hammer Graveyard Collection