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The Scarifyers

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Author Professor Dunning and Inspector Lionheart team up to unravel spooky mysteries.

The Scarifyers: The Thirteen Hallows: Episode 1

Episode 1

The Thirteen Hallows

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Can Professor Dunning and Harry Crow find the link between a chess set and a magic horse?

Can Professor Dunning and Harry Crow find the connection between a haunted chess set and a magic horse? Stars David Warner.

When a haunted chess set causes consternation at the British Chess Championships, and a horse magically materialises in Kettering Agricultural Museum, MI:13 are called to investigate.

Harry Crow and Professor Dunning follow the trail of inexplicable happenings to South Wales, and an unlikely plot to resurrect Britain's greatest-ever hero.

The Scarifyers follows the exploits of 1930s ghost-story writer Professor Dunning and retired policeman Harry Crow, who together investigate weird mysteries under the auspices of top-secret government department MI:13.

Stars David Warner as Harry Crow, Terry Molloy as Professor Dunning, David Benson as Alexander Caulfield-Browne, Margaret Cabourn-Smith as Jenny Cracker/Lady Miriam Gore and Ewan Bailey as Commander Savage. 

Written by Simon Barnard and Paul Morris

Music by Edwin Sykes

A Bafflegab Production.


The Scarifyers: The Thirteen Hallows

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Dunning and Crow must find the connection between a haunted chess set and a magic horse

Can Professor Dunning and Harry Crow find the connection between a haunted chess set and a magic horse? Stars David Warner, Terry Molloy and Gareth David-Lloyd.

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