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Hammer House of Horror Season 1 Episodes
Season 1 Episode Guide
13 Episodes 1980 - 1980
Episode 1
Witching Time
52 mins
At the isolated Woodstock Farm in rural England, workaholic composer David Winter is depressed because he feels that his wife, actress Mary, is unfaithful. In a dark and stormy night, Lucinda Jessup, the ghost of a witch from the 17th Century and former dweller of the farm, arrives in the barn and possesses David. Mary fights against Lucinda trying to recover David.
Episode 2
The Thirteenth Reunion
52 mins
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.
Episode 3
Rude Awakening
52 mins
The real estate agent Norman Shenley hates his wife Emily and wants to divorce her to marry his secretary Lolly. When a new client wants to sell an old and isolated mansion, Norman begins to have odd nightmares, and he becomes confused between reality and dream. When Norman awakes, a surprise waits for him.
Episode 4
Growing Pains
53 mins
After their son William Morton dies, the diplomat Laurie Morton and her husband, the scientist Terence Morton, adopt a boy, James. From the moment that James moves to the Mortons' house in the country, weird things happen with the family.
Episode 5
The House That Bled to Death
52 mins
William and Emma Peters buy a dilapidated house where a brutal murder happened years ago, with the intention of restoring it. They move in with their daughter Sophie, and become friends of their neighbors Jean and George Evans. However, eerie events happen in the house, including the death of Sophie's cat. At Sophie's birthday party, a pipe leaks blood and they leave the place, disclosing a secret later.
Episode 6
Charlie Boy
52 mins
After the death of his uncle, Graham inherits his Arts collection and his beloved wife Sarah decides to keep a weird fetish and gives the name of Charlie Boy. A friend of them explains that it was a voodoo toy. When the other inheritor, Peter, calls of the idea of raising a movie production company, Graham uses a picture with five persons, including Sarah and himself, to wish Peter died. When the persons in the picture die, Graham tries to find a way to save Sarah and him.
Episode 7
The Silent Scream
52 mins
When Chuck Spillers is released from prison, he tells his wife Annie that he had been visited by an old man, Martin Blueck, along his sentence for robbing a safe, and Blueck had given some money for him to help a fresh start in life. On the next morning, Chuck pays a visit to Blueck in his pet shop to thank the support and is invited to work for him feeding his animals in his private zoo while he is traveling. Blueck explains that he trains animals, conditioning then to obey some signals. A couple of days later, Chuck sees a safe in the store, and decide to open it, being trapped in a weird situation and disclosing the truth about the sadistic Blueck.
Episode 8
Children of the Full Moon
52 mins
Mrs. Ardoy is the caretaker of a creepy old house set in the heart of the forest, who takes in a stranded young couple with car trouble. Once tucked in for the night, the pair begin to experience mutual dreams about a pack of werewolves roaming the region by night. The dreams, of course, are not entirely what they seem... and for that matter, neither is their hostess.
Episode 9
Carpathian Eagle
52 mins
A serial killer rips out the heart of his victims, and Detective Inspector Clifford (Anthony Valentine) is in charge of the investigation without any lead. While listening to the radio, he becomes aware of a best-seller, in which the killer also removes the heart of his victims, and Clifford meets the writer, Natalie (Suzanne Danielle), and she tells that the character was based on a countess that lived centuries ago. Clifford asks for an appointment with the descendant, Mrs. Henska (Siân Phillips), who becomes his suspect number one. Although under investigation, the murders do not stop and Clifford tries to find other clue.
Episode 10
Guardian of the Abyss
52 mins
Michael Roberts joins his friend Laura Stephens at an auction and talks her out of selling her newly-acquired mirror to a mysterious man who seems excessively eager to have it. When Michael takes it from her to have it appraised, its occult powers put him in the path of Allison, who has just run away from a secret society that wants to sacrifice her in order to conjure up a powerful devil. The head of this society is Charles Randolph, an evil hypnotist whom Michael will find extremely dangerous.
Episode 11
Visitor from the Grave
48 mins
In this Hammer Horror take of 'Diabolique', Penny is the mentally unbalanced wife of Harry Wells - a crooked businessman. She accidentally kills an intruder who was a business rival of Harry's, after he tries to rape her. After helping her husband hide the body to avoid a police investigation, she starts having visions of the dead man re-appearing , which drive her even more insane. Harry thinks Penny's just imagining things, while a local psychic, named Margaret, suggests an exorcism to drive the ghost away. But the real surprise is yet to come.
Episode 12
The Two Faces of Evil
52 mins
A hitch-hiker dressed in yellow oilskins attacks the driver of a car who has stopped to give him a lift. The car crashes and the driver fights with the insane hitch-hiker. It appears that the driver, though badly injured, has prevailed and is taken to hospital. The driver's wife subsequently learns that her husband has damaged his throat in the struggle and is unable to talk; she is also asked to identify the body of the madman. The body looks exactly like her husband - and doubts begin to enter her mind as to which of the two is the killer. The only differences appear to be that the killer has rotten teeth and a claw-like fingernail. Who survived the fight - her husband or the madman?
Episode 13
The Mark of Satan
52 mins
A man sees the number nine everywhere and is convinced the forces of evil are at work.
