Adapted for Television ...
Apr 2, 2007 10:59:49 GMT -5
Post by Gloomy Sundae on Apr 2, 2007 10:59:49 GMT -5
Found this in the Ghost Story Society Newsletter # 5, May 1990:
In May, Hammer begins filming THE HAUNTED HOUSE OF HAMMER, a series of 26 half-hour ghost story films for television. Not all will be classics, in fact some look very much like 'make-weights' (nine by Chetwynd-Hayes, for instance): but these are balanced by some exciting inclusions. Among the most interesting are adaptations of M. R. James' Canon Alberic's Scrapbook and Oh Whistle And I'll Come To You, My Lad, F. Marion Crawford's The Doll's Ghost, Bram Stoker's The Judge's House, J. K. Bangs' The Water Ghost Of Harrowby Hall, Elizabeth Walters' Come And Get Me and The Ghost Of Sherlock Holmes by Leslie Halliwell.
The obvious one to ask. What happened to it?
Likewise, from the Stephen Jones edited The Mammoth Book of Frankenstein (Robinson, 1994):
His recent novel The Psychic Detective has attracted the interest of Hammer Films and Warner Bros, and his short story The Thing has been optioned as an animated film for television
The only instances Vault Of Evil have been able to find of an RCH story being dramatised for TV are Housebound, screened as Something In The Woodwork for Rod Serling's Night Gallery in 1973 A Sin Of Omission for Spine Chillers in 1980, and something called My So Called Life And Death - starring, or possibly merely presented by Henry Rollins (!) - for Night Visions (2001) which, from the plot summary at TV Com is an adaptation of The Ghost Who Limped.
In May, Hammer begins filming THE HAUNTED HOUSE OF HAMMER, a series of 26 half-hour ghost story films for television. Not all will be classics, in fact some look very much like 'make-weights' (nine by Chetwynd-Hayes, for instance): but these are balanced by some exciting inclusions. Among the most interesting are adaptations of M. R. James' Canon Alberic's Scrapbook and Oh Whistle And I'll Come To You, My Lad, F. Marion Crawford's The Doll's Ghost, Bram Stoker's The Judge's House, J. K. Bangs' The Water Ghost Of Harrowby Hall, Elizabeth Walters' Come And Get Me and The Ghost Of Sherlock Holmes by Leslie Halliwell.
The obvious one to ask. What happened to it?
Likewise, from the Stephen Jones edited The Mammoth Book of Frankenstein (Robinson, 1994):
His recent novel The Psychic Detective has attracted the interest of Hammer Films and Warner Bros, and his short story The Thing has been optioned as an animated film for television
The only instances Vault Of Evil have been able to find of an RCH story being dramatised for TV are Housebound, screened as Something In The Woodwork for Rod Serling's Night Gallery in 1973 A Sin Of Omission for Spine Chillers in 1980, and something called My So Called Life And Death - starring, or possibly merely presented by Henry Rollins (!) - for Night Visions (2001) which, from the plot summary at TV Com is an adaptation of The Ghost Who Limped.
Julia is on vacation with her family, whom she can't stand. She develops a crush on a local handyman, only to realize that he can't see or hear or touch her. Apparently he's a ghost. Still, he's better then her family. Her efforts to contact him scare the poor guy, and Julia soon realizes that she and her family are the ones who died in a fire caused by her bratty brother. Still, her mother insists that they are not ghosts, and Julia accepts the illusion rather then face the pain of final death.
Writer: Naren Shankar
Director: Ernest thingyerson
Guest star: Marla Sokoloff (Julia), Wanda Cannon (Mother), Steve Bacic (Handyman), William Pavey (Brian), Kurt Max Runte (Father)
www.tv.com/night-visions/show/39/episode.html
Writer: Naren Shankar
Director: Ernest thingyerson
Guest star: Marla Sokoloff (Julia), Wanda Cannon (Mother), Steve Bacic (Handyman), William Pavey (Brian), Kurt Max Runte (Father)
www.tv.com/night-visions/show/39/episode.html