Hammer House of Mystery and Suspense

Hammer House of Mystery and Suspense was a short-lived (one season) anthology television series from Hammer Studios similar to the format now used by Masters of Horror in which several directors under contract to Hammer produced thirteen 69-73 min films for television. Due to the series being a co-production with Twentieth Century Fox Television (as was Journey to the Unknown), it is known in the United States as Fox Mystery Theater. Unlike Hammer House of Horror, all the segments (with the exceptions of "Czech Mate" and "The Corvini Inheritance") had Americans as either the leads or in key roles. It was aired in 1984.

List of episodes

List of episodes

Title	UK Transmission Date	Notable cast members
Mark of the Devil	5 September 1984	Dirk Benedict, Jenny Seagrove, George Sewell, John Paul, Tom Adams, Burt Kwouk, James Ellis, Reginald Marsh, Alibe Parsons, Hugh Morton, Tony Sibbald, Roger Milner
Last Video and Testament	12 September 1984	Deborah Raffin, Oliver Tobias, David Langton, Clifford Rose, Shane Rimmer, Robert Rietti, Norman Mitchell
Czech Mate	17 January 1986	Susan George, Patrick Mower, Roy Boyd, Richard Heffer, Peter Vaughan, Robert Russell, Pam St. Clement, Christopher Robbie, Steve Plytas, Hana Maria Pravda
A Distant Scream	24 January 1986	David Carradine, Stephanie Beacham, Stephen Greif, Stephan Chase, Fanny Carby, Ewan Stewart, Lesley Dunlop, Bernard Horsfall, Edward Peel
The Late Nancy Irving	7 February 1986	Cristina Raines, Marius Goring, Simon Williams, Tony Anholt, Zienia Merton, Tom Chadbon, Michael Elwyn, Derek Benfield, Christopher Banks, Lewis Fiander
In Possession	7 March 1986	Carol Lynley, Christopher Cazenove, Judy Loe, David Healy, Bernard Kay, Brendan Price, John D. Collins, Carl Rigg
Black Carrion	14 March 1986	Season Hubley, Leigh Lawson, Norman Bird, William Hootkins, Oscar Quitak, Forbes Collins, Christopher Ellison
The Sweet Scent of Death	4 April 1986	Dean Stockwell, Shirley Knight, Michael Gothard, Carmen du Sautoy, Robert Lang, Alan Gifford, Geoffrey Colville
Paint Me A Murder	11 April 1986	Michelle Phillips, James Laurenson, David Robb, Alan Lake, W. Morgan Sheppard, Richard LeParmentier, Tony Steedman, Mark Heath, Gerald Sim, Neil Morrissey
The Corvini Inheritance	18 April 1986	David McCallum, Jan Francis, Terence Alexander, Stephen Yardley, Paul Bacon, Leonard Trolley, Johnnie Wade, Kirstie Pooley, Martin Weedon
And the Wall Came Tumbling Down	25 April 1986	Barbi Benton, Gareth Hunt, Peter Wyngarde, Carol Royle, Brian Deacon, Patricia Hayes, Richard Hampton, Ray Armstrong, Christopher Farries, Robert James
Child's Play	2 May 1986	Mary Crosby, Nicholas Clay
Tennis Court	9 May 1986	George Little, Peter Graves, Hannah Gordon, Ralph Arliss, Isla Blair, Jonathan Newth, Cyril Shaps, Peggy Sinclair, David Chessman, Annis Joslin, Marcus Gilbert

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 in a 6-DVD set in the UK.

External links

• Hammer House of Mystery and Suspense at the Internet Movie Database.