Journey to the Unknown Episode 12
The Killing Bottle

Hammer Film Productions
Copyright © MCMLXVIII
Distributed by Twentieth Century-Fox Television
William Self – In charge
UK Release Date 9th July 1969
Storyline
An aspiring composer is unaware that his unscrupulous manager plans to take control of his estate.



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 | Derek Whitehurst | 40 | 2 Oct 1928 | 6 Dec 2005 | 77 | 16 | 16 | ||
Based upon a story by | L.P. Hartley | 73 | 30 Dec 1895 | 13 Dec 1972 | 76 | 1 | 1 | ||
Casting | Lesley de Pettit | 33 | 1936 | 2002 | 66 | 14 | 14 | ||
Continuity | Estelle Stewart | 8 | 8 | ||||||
Director | John Gibson | 43 | 15 Nov 1925 | 97 | 1 | 1 | |||
Director of Photog. | Kenneth Talbot BSc | 49 | 17 Jan 1920 | May 1993 | 73 | 9 | 9 | ||
Editor | Inman Hunter | 54 | 25 Aug 1914 | Jul 1986 | 71 | 5 | 5 | ||
Executive Consultant | Jack Fleischmann | 17 | 17 | ||||||
Executive Producer | Norman Lloyd | 54 | 8 Nov 1914 | 11 May 2021 | 106 | 4 | 4 | ||
Hair Stylist | Mibs Parker | 8 | 8 | ||||||
Main Title Theme | Harry Robertson | 36 | 19 Nov 1932 | 17 Jan 1996 | 63 | 26 | 26 | ||
Make-up | George Partleton | 60 | 21 Jan 1909 | 17 Oct 1992 | 83 | 6 | 6 | ||
Music Composer | Bernard Ebbinghouse | 42 | 18 Mar 1927 | 24 Feb 2012 | 84 | 2 | 2 | ||
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 | John Beaton | 40 | 1 Jan 1929 | 94 | 2 | 1 | 3 | ||
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 | Julian Bond | 38 | 8 Dec 1930 | 14 Jan 2012 | 81 | 1 | 1 | ||
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 | |||||||
Hodgson | John Rudling | 61 | 31 Aug 1907 | 18 Dec 1983 | 76 | 1 | 1 | ||
Jimmy | Barry Evans | 26 | 18 Jun 1943 | 11 Feb 1997 | 53 | 1 | 1 | ||
Policeman | Eddie Byrne | 58 | 31 Jan 1911 | 21 Aug 1981 | 70 | 2 | 2 | ||
Randolph | William Marlowe | 38 | 25 Jul 1930 | 31 Jan 2003 | 72 | 1 | 1 | ||
Rollo | Roddy McDowell | 40 | 17 Sep 1928 | 3 Oct 1998 | 70 | 1 | 1 | ||
Vera | Ingrid Brett | 22 | 1 Jan 1947 | 75 | 2 | 2 |
Footnotes
Barry Evans was known for London Weekend Television’s sitcom “Mind Your Language” (1977) and “The Mystery of Edwin Drood” (1993). He died on February 11, 1997 in Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire, England. The circumstances of his early death remain a mystery; he was found dead in his bungalow in Leicestershire, with bottles of whiskey and aspirins nearby. A youth was charged with his murder, but acquitted on lack of evidence. A local coroner later recorded an open verdict.
Details were complied viewing the Episode.
Source of viewing copy – The Hammer Graveyard Collection