Inside No. 9: Series 1, Episode 6 - The Harrowing

TV comedy drama
BBC Two
2014 - 2024
55 episodes (9 series)

Dark comedy anthology series from Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton. Each episode focuses on the goings-on around something to do with the number 9.

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Series 1, Episode 6 - The Harrowing

Inside No. 9. Image shows from L to R: Tabitha (Helen McCrory), Hector (Reece Shearsmith). Copyright: BBC

An episode set in a gothic mansion owned by a brother and sister who shut themselves away from the outside world.

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Inside No. 9 knocks at its darkest door, where brother and sister Hector and Tabitha never go out and have to live in a carefully refrigerated gothic mansion. But tonight they have an event so special that a babysitter is required.

For Katy, the offer of £88 in the hand is too good to turn down. And, what could be so difficult about baby-sitting Andras, Hector and Tabitha's bedridden, disabled, elderly brother, whose bedroom is up on the top floor of the house?

Inside No. 9. Katy (Aimee-Ffion Edwards). Copyright: BBC

Inside No. 9. Hector (Reece Shearsmith). Copyright: BBC

Broadcast details

Date: Wednesday 12^th March 2014
Time: 10pm
Channel: BBC Two
Length: 30 minutes

Cast & crew

Guest cast
Reece Shearsmith	Hector
Helen McCrory	Tabitha
Aimee-Ffion Edwards	Katy
Poppy Rush	Shell
Sean Buckley	Andras

Writing team
Reece Shearsmith	Writer
Steve Pemberton	Writer

Production team
David Kerr	Director
Adam Tandy	Producer
Jon Plowman	Executive Producer
Steve Pemberton	Associate Producer
Reece Shearsmith	Associate Producer
Joe Randall-Cutler	Editor
Brian Sykes	Production Designer
Christian Henson	Composer

Press

Behind the scenes on The Harrowing

Director David Kerr lets Den of Geek in on the secrets of Inside No. 9's classic horror cinema tribute The Harrowing, an episode with an unforgettable ending...

Louisa Mellor, Den Of Geek, 18th October 2020

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