hammer house of horror represent witching time is set in rural england on woodstock farm where stressed musician david winter (jon finch) lives with his actress wife mary (prunella gee) and is currently composing the music for a horror film. one night while looking for his dog billy david finds a mysterious woman in his barn and calling herself lucinda jessop (patricia quinn) she claims to be a witch who has transported herself from 300 years in the past to now. obviously rather sceptical david has a hard time believing her so he locks her in a room in his farmhouse and calls his doctor charles (ian mcculloch) to come examine her and however once he arrives and they enter the room lucinda has disappeared. charles puts it down to david drinking too much but over the next few day strange and disturbing things begin to happen to david and mary. witching time was episode 1 from the short lived british anthology horror series produced by hammer studios for tv and originally aired here in the uk during september 1980 and the first of two hammer house of horror episodes to be directed by don leaver (episode 13 the mark of satan being the other) i actually rather liked this. as a series hammer house of horror dealt with various different themes and were all unconnected to each other except in name and unsurprisingly watching time is a sinister and effective little tale about a witch and the script by anthony read benefits from it slight 50 odd minute duration and moves along at a nice pace. the character are pretty good as is the dialogue and there are some nice scenes here and i liked the way it never quite reveals whether david and mary are going crazy or not. i think it a well structured and entertaining and reasonably creepy horror themed tv show that i enjoyed more than i thought i would. being made for british tv meant the boys at hammer had a lower budget than usual and if that was even possible and  and as such there is no gorgeous period settings here as in their most well know frankenstein and dracula films although the contemporary english setting does give it a certain atmosphere that you can relate to a bit more. another tv based restriction is that the exploitation levels are lower than you might hope for and there some nudity and gore but not much although i do not mind too much as the story here is pretty good. it well made for what it is and hammer experience on their feature films probably helped make these look pretty good and the acting is good as well with genre favourite ian mcculloch making a bit part appearance. witching time is a good start to the hammer house of horror series and as a 50 minute piece of british tv it pretty damned good and now why do not they make show like this over here anymore. 
hammer house of horror represent witching time is set in rural england on woodstock farm where stressed musician david winter (jon finch) lives with his actress wife mary (prunella gee) and is currently composing the music for a horror film. one night while looking for his dog billy david finds a mysterious woman in his barn and calling herself lucinda jessop (patricia quinn) she claims to be a witch who has transported herself from 300 years in the past to now. obviously rather sceptical david has a hard time believing her so he locks her in a room in his farmhouse and calls his doctor charles (ian mcculloch) to come examine her and however once he arrives and they enter the room lucinda has disappeared. charles puts it down to david drinking too much but over the next few day strange and disturbing things begin to happen to david and mary. witching time was episode 1 from the short lived british anthology horror series produced by hammer studios for tv and originally aired here in the uk during september 1980 and the first of two hammer house of horror episodes to be directed by don leaver (episode 13 the mark of satan being the other) i actually rather liked this. as a series hammer house of horror dealt with various different themes and were all unconnected to each other except in name and unsurprisingly watching time is a sinister and effective little tale about a witch and the script by anthony read benefits from it slight 50 odd minute duration and moves along at a nice pace. the character are pretty good as is the dialogue and there are some nice scenes here and i liked the way it never quite reveals whether david and mary are going crazy or not. i think it a well structured and entertaining and reasonably creepy horror themed tv show that i enjoyed more than i thought i would. being made for british tv meant the boys at hammer had a lower budget than usual and if that was even possible and  and as such there is no gorgeous period settings here as in their most well know frankenstein and dracula films although the contemporary english setting does give it a certain atmosphere that you can relate to a bit more. another tv based restriction is that the exploitation levels are lower than you might hope for and there some nudity and gore but not much although i do not mind too much as the story here is pretty good. it well made for what it is and hammer experience on their feature films probably helped make these look pretty good and the acting is good as well with genre favourite ian mcculloch making a bit part appearance. witching time is a good start to the hammer house of horror series and as a 50 minute piece of british tv it pretty damned good and now why do not they make show like this over here anymore. ---------------------------------Answer Question Below----------------------------------

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