documentary series (13x30)
Channel 4 - UK
Series featuring the finest moments from Hammer's classic horror movies alongside clips from the company's acclaimed war films, costume dramas, comedies and much more.
narrator
OLIVER REED
creator / writer / producer
ROBERT SIDAWAY
creator / writer / editor
ASHLEY SIDAWAY
HAMMER STARS:
PETER CUSHING
Initial Broadcast Date:
12 August 1994
The Abominable Snowman (1957) / The Brides Of Dracula (1960) / The Curse Of Frankenstein (1957) / Dracula (1958) / The Hound Of The Baskervilles (1959) / Fear In The Night (1972) / Frankenstein And The Monster From Hell (1974) / The Mummy (1959) / She (1965) / Twins Of Evil (1971)
DRACULA & THE UNDEAD
Initial Broadcast Date:
19 August 1994
The Brides Of Dracula (1960) / Captain Kronos Vampire Hunter (1972) / Dracula (1958) / Dracula Prince Of Darkness (1966) / Kiss Of The Vampire (1962) / The Legend Of The 7 Golden Vampires (1974) / Scars Of Dracula (1970) / Vampire Circus (1972)
LANDS BEFORE TIME
Initial Broadcast Date:
26 August 1994
Blood From The Mummy’s Tomb (1971) / Creatures The World Forgot (1971) / The Lost Continent (1968) / One Million Years B.C. (1966) / She (1965) / The Vengeance of She (1968) / The Viking Queen (1967)
VAMP
Initial Broadcast Date:
1 September 1994
The Brides Of Dracula (1960) / Captain Kronos Vampire Hunter (1972) / Dracula (1958) / Dracula Prince Of Darkness (1966) / Kiss Of The Vampire (1962) / Lust For A Vampire (1970) / Twins Of Evil (1971) / The Vampire Lovers (1970)
WICKED WOMEN
Initial Broadcast Date:
9 September 1994
The Anniversary (1968) / Black Widow (1951) / Countess Dracula (1970) / Doctor Jekyll And Sister Hyde (1971) / Fanatic (1965) / The Nanny (1965) / Stolen Face (1952) / The Witches (1966)
TRIALS OF WAR
Initial Broadcast Date:
16 September 1994
Break In The Circle (1955) / The Camp On Blood Island (1958) / Further Up the Creek (1958) / I Only Arsked (1958) / The Lady Vanishes (1979) / The Secret of Blood Island (1964) / Up the Creek (1958) / Ten Seconds To Hell (1959) / The Steel Bayonet (1857) / Yesterday’s Enemy (1959)
SCI-FI
Initial Broadcast Date:
23 September 1994
The Damned (1963) / Dick Barton Strikes Back (1949) / Frankenstein Created Woman (1967) / Quatermass 2 (1957) / Quatermass and the Pit (1967) / The Quatermass Xperiment (1955) / Spaceways (1953) / X the Unknown (1956)
MUMMIES, WEREWOLVES
& THE LIVING DEAD
Initial Broadcast Date:
30 September 1994
Blood From The Mummy’s Tomb (1971) / Captain Clegg (1962) / The Curse Of The Mummy’s Tomb (1964) / Curse Of The Werewolf (1961) / The Legend Of The 7 Golden Vampires (1974) / The Mummy’s Shroud (1967) / The Mummy (1959) / The Plague Of The Zombies (1965)
CHILLER
Initial Broadcast Date:
7 October 1994
Czech Mate (1984) (from Hammer House of Mystery and Suspense) / Hell is a City (1960) / The Last Page (1952) / Maniac (1963) / Paranoiac (1963) / Shatter (1974) / Whispering Smith Hits London (1952) / Straight On Till Morning (1972)
THE CURSE OF FRANKENSTEIN
Initial Broadcast Date:
14 October 1994
The Curse Of Frankenstein (1957) / The Evil Of Frankenstein (1964) / Frankenstein And The Monster From Hell (1974) / Frankenstein Created Woman (1967) / Four Sided Triangle (1953) / Horror Of Frankenstein (1970) / The Revenge Of Frankenstein (1958)
HAMMER STARS:
CHRISTOPHER LEE
Initial Broadcast Date:
21 October 1994
The Curse Of Frankenstein (1957) / The Devil Rides Out (1968) / The Devil-Ship Pirates (1964) / Dracula (1958) / Dracula Prince Of Darkness (1966) / The Hound Of The Baskervilles (1959) / The Mummy (1959) / Rasputin The Mad Monk (1965) / Scars Of Dracula (1970) / She (1965) / To the Devil a Daughter (1976)
HAMMER
Initial Broadcast Date:
28 October 1994
The Camp On Blood Island (1958) / Cloudburst (1951) / The Curse Of Frankenstein (1957) / Dracula (1958) / Holiday On The Buses (1973) / Men of Sherwood Forest (1954) / One Million Years B.C. (1966) / The Plague Of The Zombies (1965) / The Nanny (1965) / Quatermass 2 (1957) / Quatermass And The Pit (1967) / The Steel Bayonet (1857) / That’s Your Funeral (1972)
COSTUMERS
Initial Broadcast Date:
4 November 1994
The Brigand Of Kandahar (1965) / A Challenge For Robin Hood (1967) / The Devil-Ship Pirates (1964) / Dick Turpin Highwayman (1956) / The Pirates Of Blood River (1962) / The Scarlet Blade (1963) / The Stranglers Of Bombay (1959) / Sword Of Sherwood Forest (1960) / Wolfshead: The Legend of Robin Hood (1969)