Ruth, the reporter for the women’s section of a magazine, is assigned by her editor to participate in the ten-weeks course of a new weight-loss organization called “Think Thin”. According to a letter from a reader, the course is very masochistic and depressing, destroying the self-esteem of the patient. Ruth makes a friend in the course, who dies in a car crash.
During the funeral, an employee of the funeral house discloses weird events that are happening in his job. In her investigation, Ruth finds dark and macabre secrets.
Production Details
Jack Gill Presents “Hammer House of Horror” Copyright MCMLXXX
Chips Productions Limited. 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.
A Jack Gill Presentation for Chips Productions Ltd.
A Cinema Arts International Production in association with Hammer Films for ITC Entertainment – An OCC company.
UK Transmission Date: 20th September 1980
Locations:
Farringdon Street, London – Ruth drives to the newspaper office in Fleet Street
Hampden House, Buckinghamshire – The Chesterton Clinic
St. Mary Magdalene Church, Great Hampden, Buckinghamshire – Ben’s Funeral
Pound Street, Wendover, Buckinghamshire – Ruth follows the hearse
Warfield Hall, Forest Road, Newell Green, Berkshire – Ruth follows Rothwell to a large white house and is invited to dinner by Sir Humphrey
Longdown Hill, Lower Cadsden, Buckinghamshire – Ben crashes his car into a tree and is killed
St Leonards Road, Windsor, Berkshire – Ashford Brothers Funeral Directors building
Little Missenden, Buckinghamshire – The hearse turns into the village off the A413
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Cast & Crew
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Footnotes
Louis Mansi played Herr Engelbert von Smallhausen, in the BBC TV Series ‘Allo, ‘Allo.