This is one of those videos listed at 30 minutes on the relevant IMDb page, but only 25 on my YouTube upload, so one of the other critics in this review-section must have had access to knowledge that I don't have, revealing details of the family tragedy that sent a noted Shakespearean actress (Elena) into a nervous breakdown, from which she returns home at the beginning of the present episode.
Working only from what I have, then, the plot is obscure indeed - not helped by the sort of dim recording that goes with the territory after sixty years, and I can't say that it made easy viewing.
Rehearsing for a stage-play, Elena thinks she hears her late daughter's screams of "Mommie, Mommie!" and sends for an Audiologist (played by a most reassuring Ben Hammer), wondering if her hearing is at fault, which he says it isn't. Later in the rehearsal, she hears the genuine screams of a child, accidentally trapped by a locked stage-door... and there we have to leave it for fear of spoiling whatever remains of the mystery.
It's all pretty contrived, especially the business of the cat, who is meant to be the 'catalyst', all witchcraft and wonder, but mainly just looking as though it wants to get away from the camera and off the set altogether. And Elena's husband, who is also her manager, and their Irish housekeeper, seem quite redundant.
Equally contrived is your host John Newland apparently adding a new word to the language - 'Clairaudio' (the audio equivalent of Clairvoyance), or "the hearing rather than the seeing of things that are about to happen." As always, the story is meant to be 'based on human record', in other words, something vaguely truthful, with no proof required.
Working only from what I have, then, the plot is obscure indeed - not helped by the sort of dim recording that goes with the territory after sixty years, and I can't say that it made easy viewing.
Rehearsing for a stage-play, Elena thinks she hears her late daughter's screams of "Mommie, Mommie!" and sends for an Audiologist (played by a most reassuring Ben Hammer), wondering if her hearing is at fault, which he says it isn't. Later in the rehearsal, she hears the genuine screams of a child, accidentally trapped by a locked stage-door... and there we have to leave it for fear of spoiling whatever remains of the mystery.
It's all pretty contrived, especially the business of the cat, who is meant to be the 'catalyst', all witchcraft and wonder, but mainly just looking as though it wants to get away from the camera and off the set altogether. And Elena's husband, who is also her manager, and their Irish housekeeper, seem quite redundant.
Equally contrived is your host John Newland apparently adding a new word to the language - 'Clairaudio' (the audio equivalent of Clairvoyance), or "the hearing rather than the seeing of things that are about to happen." As always, the story is meant to be 'based on human record', in other words, something vaguely truthful, with no proof required.