This is a good, solid entry in this enjoyable series, and definitely one of my favorites.
It concerns famous American golfer Nancy Irving, who's on tour in England. When her British boyfriend collects her from the airport, the couple are unaware they are being tailed by a mysterious man in a car behind them - and he continues to follow Nancy when her boyfriend is called abroad for a business trip.
Without giving too much away for anyone who's yet to see this episode, Nancy is diabetic, and also has an extremely rare blood type - so much so that she could come to harm from desperate people for desperate measures...
This one is quite slow starting, but becomes very tense once we realize the danger Nancy is in - and wonder how she's ever going to escape from it.
As ever, it makes good use of locations - I believe this was also the first episode of Hammer House of Mystery & Suspense to be completed, being filmed in early December 1983.
Space 1999 fans (such as me!) will be intrigued to see Tony Anholt and Zienia Merton reunited here as a doctor and nurse respectively - and there's also an appearance from Mick Ford of 'Scum' fame.
Marius Goring also makes a Hammer return, having previously been seen in an episode of Hammer House of Horror.
As I say, it's quite a slow-burner, although the story builds really well as we get into the final third and head towards the climax. It's certainly a highly-original and intriguing story - with the viewer hoping that the beleaguered Nancy will somehow get rescued from her ghastly fate...
It concerns famous American golfer Nancy Irving, who's on tour in England. When her British boyfriend collects her from the airport, the couple are unaware they are being tailed by a mysterious man in a car behind them - and he continues to follow Nancy when her boyfriend is called abroad for a business trip.
Without giving too much away for anyone who's yet to see this episode, Nancy is diabetic, and also has an extremely rare blood type - so much so that she could come to harm from desperate people for desperate measures...
This one is quite slow starting, but becomes very tense once we realize the danger Nancy is in - and wonder how she's ever going to escape from it.
As ever, it makes good use of locations - I believe this was also the first episode of Hammer House of Mystery & Suspense to be completed, being filmed in early December 1983.
Space 1999 fans (such as me!) will be intrigued to see Tony Anholt and Zienia Merton reunited here as a doctor and nurse respectively - and there's also an appearance from Mick Ford of 'Scum' fame.
Marius Goring also makes a Hammer return, having previously been seen in an episode of Hammer House of Horror.
As I say, it's quite a slow-burner, although the story builds really well as we get into the final third and head towards the climax. It's certainly a highly-original and intriguing story - with the viewer hoping that the beleaguered Nancy will somehow get rescued from her ghastly fate...