Hammer House of Mystery and Suspense
| Hammer House of Mystery and Suspense | |
|---|---|
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| No. of series | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 13 |
| Production | |
| 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 from 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, all the episodes (with the exceptions of "Czech Mate" and "The Corvini Inheritance") had American actors as either the leads or in key roles. 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.
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.
The series was released as a 6-DVD set in the UK in 2006.
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