hammer house of horror represent witching time be set in rural england on woodstock farm where stressed musician david winter ( jon finch ) live with his actress wife mary ( prunella gee ) and be currently compose the music for a horror film . one night while look for his dog billy david find a mysterious woman in his barn and call herself lucinda jessop ( patricia quinn ) she claim to be a witch who have transport herself from 300 year in the past to now . obviously rather sceptical david have a hard time believe her so he lock her in a room in his farmhouse and call his doctor charles ( ian mcculloch ) to come examine her and however once he arrive and they enter the room lucinda have disappear . charles put it down to david drink too much but over the next few day strange and disturbing thing begin to happen to david and mary . witch time be episode 1 from the short live british anthology horror series produce by hammer studio for tv and originally air here in the uk during september 1980 and the first of two hammer house of horror episode to be direct by don leaver ( episode 13 the mark of satan be the other ) i actually rather like this . a a series hammer house of horror dealt with various different theme and be all unconnected to each other except in name and unsurprisingly watching time be a sinister and effective little tale about a witch and the script by anthony read benefit from it slight 50 odd minute duration and move along at a nice pace . the character be pretty good a be the dialogue and there be some nice scene here and i like the way it never quite reveal whether david and mary be go crazy or not . i think it a well structure and entertain and reasonably creepy horror theme tv show that i enjoy more than i think i would . be make for british tv mean the boy at hammer have a low budget than usual and if that be even possible and and a such there be no gorgeous period setting here a in their most well know frankenstein and dracula film although the contemporary english setting do give it a certain atmosphere that you can relate to a bit more . another tv base restriction be that the exploitation level be low than you might hope for and there some nudity and gore but not much although i do not mind too much a the story here be pretty good . it well make for what it be and hammer experience on their feature film probably help make these look pretty good and the acting be good as well with genre favourite ian mcculloch make a bit part appearance . witching time be a good start to the hammer house of horror series and a a 50 minute piece of british tv it pretty damn good and now why do not they make show like this over here anymore .