Charlie Boy- Episode 6- ( Hammer House of Horror T.V Series)- Starring- Leigh Lawson-Angela Bruce -Marius Goring- Frances Cuka- 1980
First aired on ITV1 on Saturday, October 18th, 1980. In this episode, a young man named Graham inherits an African voodoo statue from his late uncle. After a harrowing incident with a motorist, his girlfriend Sarah and he use the power held within the statue, unwittingly releasing it's power. The desired effect backfires however as the mystical power of "Charlie Boy" begins killing off people in one of Graham's family photos. Desperate to bring this horror to an end, Graham seeks the advice of an antiquities dealer
Whilst cataloguing the library of Barchester Cathedral in 1932, a scholar, Dr Black (Clive Swift) is shown a box containing a 50-year-old diary (sealed under the order of the Dean) detailing the events leading up to the mysterious death of Dr Haynes (Robert Hardy), a former ambitious cleric who had murdered an aged Archdeacon in jealousy. Dr Haynes seems to be cursed and stalked by a terrifying hooded figure and a sinister black cat, intent on revenge for the murder.
Amicus version of ""Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde," where due to rights issues, the names were changed to Dr. Marlowe and Mr. Blake. "Psychologist Charles Marlowe (Christopher Lee) invents a drug which will release his patients' inhibitions. After he tests it on himself, he becomes the evil Edward Blake, who descends into crime and eventually murder. Utterson (Peter Cushing), Marlowe's lawyer, believes that Blake is blackmailing Marlowe until he discovers the grisly truth, that they are one and the same".
When the Earth passes through the tail of a rogue comet, machines come to life and start to kill mankind. A group of people find themselves under siege by murderous vehicles, at the Dixie Boy truck stop gas station, and the humans have to fight to survive.
Tucked away in a secret location in the Rockies, Dr. Charles Forbin has developed a computer system, dubbed "Colossus," that is supposed to ensure the nation's safety against nuclear attack. But when Colossus connects to a similar Russian computer, "Guardian," the intelligent machines begin conducting a private dialog. Nervous as to what they might be plotting, Forbin severs the connection, only to have Colossus threaten a nuclear attack if the link isn't restored.
The Doctor and Leela land in Victorian London, and find themselves in the middle of a mystery.Involving missing girls, mutilated bodies, and vicious Chinese gangs.
The Doctor and Leela land in Victorian London, and find themselves in the middle of a mystery.Involving missing girls, mutilated bodies, and vicious Chinese gangs.
Henry Hobson owns and tyrannically runs a successful boot maker’s shop in Salford, England. A stingy widower with a weakness for overindulging his drinking in the local Moonraker Public House. He exploits his three daughters as cheap labour. When he declares that there will be no settlements when his two youngest daughters meet "suitors" and want to get married his eldest daughter Maggie rebels, by saying she is going to marry Willie Mossop, the shop's gifted but slow witted and under-appreciated boot maker,
A story of kindness, friendship, courage and hope for viewers of all ages in a heart
warming, hand-drawn animated film based on the children's book by Charlie Mackesy.
Which tells the story of the unlikely friendship of a lost boy, who meets a mole, a fox, and a horse who then travel together in the boy’s search for home.