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 | Birth | Death | Age | Hammer Credits | |
| Art Director | Roy Stannard | 1931 | 1 Mar 2008 | 77 | 10 | |
| Assistant Art Director | Graham Parker | 1931 | 7 Oct 1992 | 61 | 8 | |
| Assistant Director | John Elton | 1 | ||||
| Based on a story by | Oliver Onions | 13 Nov 1873 | 9 Apr 1961 | 87 | 1 | |
| Casting | James Liggat | 1920 | 28 Sep 1981 | 61 | 29 | |
| Continuity | Estelle Stewart | 8 | ||||
| Directed by | Don Chaffey | 5 Aug 1917 | 13 Nov 1990 | 73 | 6 | |
| Director of Photography | Ken Talbot | 17 Jan 1920 | 1 May 1993 | 73 | 9 | |
| Editor | Brian Freemantle | 4 | ||||
| Executive Consultant | Jack Fleischmann | 17 | ||||
| Executive Producer | Joan Harrison | 26 Jun 1907 | 14 Aug 1994 | 87 | 13 | |
| Hair Stylist | Mibs Parker | 8 | ||||
| Main Title Theme by | Harry Robertson | 19 Nov 1932 | 17 Jan 1996 | 63 | 26 | |
| Makeup | Elizabeth Blattner | 14 Oct 1914 | 1986 | 71 | 3 | |
| Music Composed by | Harry Robertson | 19 Nov 1932 | 17 Jan 1996 | 63 | 26 | |
| Music Supervisor | Philip Martell | 6 Oct 1907 | 11 Aug 1993 | 85 | 103 | |
| Post – Production Consultant | Robert Mintz | 17 | ||||
| Produced by | Anthony Hinds | 18 Sep 1922 | 30 Sep 2013 | 91 | 84 | |
| Production Manager | John Oldknow | 5 Mar 1927 | 10 Apr 1989 | 62 | 16 | |
| Sound Editors | Brian Hickin | 7 Jun 1939 | 07.06.1939 | 81 | 10 | |
| Sound Editors | Roy Baker G.B.F.E | 1 Jul 1927 | 1 Feb 2011 | 83 | 29 | |
| Sound Recordist | Stan Smart | 8 | ||||
| Story Editor | John Gould | 21 Apr 1974 | 19 | |||
| Supervising Editor | James Needs G.B.F.E. | 17 Oct 1919 | 4 Feb 2003 | 83 | 111 | |
| Teleplay by | William Woods | 1916 | 1998 | 82 | 1 | |
| Teleplay by | John Gould | 21 Apr 1974 | 19 | |||
| Titles by | M.A.P. International Limited | |||||
| Unit Manager | Christopher Neame | 24 Dec 1942 | 12 Jun 2011 | 68 | 15 | |
| Wardrobe | Mary Gibson | 13 |
Cast
| Character | Credited | Birth | Death | Age | Hammer Credits | |
| Crichton | Clive Francis | 26 Jun 1946 | 26.06.1946 | 74 | 1 | |
| Derek Wilson | John Fraser | 18 Mar 1931 | 7 Nov 2020 | 89 | 1 | |
| Jon Holden | Robert Lansing | 5 Jun 1928 | 23 Oct 1994 | 66 | 1 | |
| Kit Beaumont | Gabrielle Drake | 30 Mar 1944 | 30.03.1944 | 77 | 1 | |
| Mr. Barrett | Larry Noble | 13 Dec 1914 | 9 Sep 1993 | 78 | 3 | |
| Mrs Barrett | Gretchen Franklyn | 7 Jul 1911 | 11 Jul 2005 | 94 | 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