Hammer House of Mystery and Suspense
Hammer House of Mystery and Suspense | |
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Country of origin | United Kingdom |
No. of series | 1 |
No. of episodes | 13 |
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Producer(s) | Hammer Films/20th Century Fox Television |
Running time | 70 minutes |
Release | |
Original network | ITV |
Original release | 5 September – 17 December 1984 |
Hammer House of Mystery and Suspense is a short-lived (one season) anthology television series produced in Britain in 1984/85 by Hammer Studios. Though similar in format to the 1980 series Hammer House of Horror, the Mystery and Suspense series had feature-length episodes, usually running around 70 minutes without commercials.
The series was a co-production by Hammer Studios with 20th Century Fox Television (as was the 1968 anthology series Journey to the Unknown), and is known in the United States as Fox Mystery Theater. Unlike 1980's Hammer House of Horror, it was first aired in the UK by ITV in 1984, though was not simulcast and was shown in different timeslots (and a different running order) throughout the various ITV regions.
Episodes
1London region transmission date unknown, but screened on ITV's Television South West on 17 December 1984.
Two of the episodes, "A Distant Scream" and "In Possession", were remakes of stories that had been made for the fourth season of the BBC anthology series Out of the Unknown.
DVD release
The series was released as a 6-DVD set in the UK in 2006, however this is now deleted. In Germany a 4-DVD set has been released in March 2018 with its german tv-title "Vorsicht, Hochspannung!".