Whatever happened to ... (RCH TV/ radio adaptation
Mar 24, 2007 13:48:41 GMT -5
Post by Gloomy Sundae on Mar 24, 2007 13:48:41 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?
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 and A Sin Of Omission for Spine Chillers, 1980.
The Ninth Removal was adapted for radio in the Vincent Price narrated The Price Of Fear series in November of the same year. You can download an mp3 of the episode here.
Thanks to Charles Black and John L. Probert for their help!
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?
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 and A Sin Of Omission for Spine Chillers, 1980.
The Ninth Removal was adapted for radio in the Vincent Price narrated The Price Of Fear series in November of the same year. You can download an mp3 of the episode here.
Thanks to Charles Black and John L. Probert for their help!