Episode
Hammer House of Horror: Growing Pains
Overview
Ten-year-old William tragically dies by eating food intended for his father's research rabbits. His parents, Terence and Laurie, subsequently adopt another boy, James. But James is a weird, aloof child from the beginning and shocking things happen around him.
Details
- Series
- Hammer House of Horror
- Season
- Season 1
- Episode
- Episode 4
- Air date
- 1980-10-04
- Runtime
- 55 min
Episode context
Growing Pains is Episode 4 in Season 1 of Hammer House of Horror. It aired on 1980-10-04. The runtime is 55 min.
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Episode 3: Rude Awakening
Estate agent Norman Shenley has a dream about murdering his plain, bad-tempered wife, which leaves him free to chase his secretary, Lolly. Later that day, a man approaches Norman wanting to sell an old house called Lower Moat Manor. From that point on, real life and fantasy start to become intertwined...
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Emma and William Peters and their young daughter, Sophie, move into an old house that has been empty for many years. Unknown to them, Number 42, Colman Road, has not been lived-in since an old man murdered his wife there. As severed hands and kukris materialize, echos of the house's grisly history begin to terrorise the new occupants.
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