Nightmare Time

***Nightmare Time*** is a three-part livestreamed readthrough, featuring six 'New Tales of Terror from Hatchetfield', making it the third installment of the Hatchetfield Universe, and the first production of its type from Team StarKid. Consisting of three livestreamed readings featuring the full combined casts of *The Guy Who Didn't Like Musicals* and *Black Friday*, the first episode was streamed on October 10, 2020 and was released for free on YouTube, whereas tickets for the remaining two episodes were available for purchase on teamstarkid.com, each performed separately on October 17 and 24 of 2020. Both remaining episodes were uploaded onto YouTube on February 14, 2021. The title number has been uploaded to YouTube (on 23rd October, likely due to the time lag on the original livestream), and the album with all 11 songs was released on February 8, 2021. *The Witch in the Web* is the season finale.

The second season can be found here.

## Summary

*Nightmare Time* is a three-episode series of livestreamed readthroughs of six separate stories (or parts), with two per episode, each 30-45 minutes long, all taking place within the Hatchetfield Universe. All members of both the *TGWDLM* and *Black Friday* casts will be featured. All songs have been pre-recorded (including visuals), and play during the livestream at the appropriate time.

Watcher World
 2
Time Bastard
 3
The Witch in the Web

### Episode 1

The first episode of *Nightmare Time* was livestreamed on October 10, 2020 and featured the stories *The Hatchetfield Ape-Man* and *Watcher World*. This has been released for free on YouTube.

### Episode 2

The second episode of *Nightmare Time* was livestreamed on October 17, 2020 and featured the stories *Forever and Always* and *Time Bastard*. Tickets to the digital download are available on teamstarkid.com. This has now been released on Youtube.

### Episode 3

The third episode of *Nightmare Time was* livestreamed on October 24, 2020 and feature the stories *Jane's A Car* and *The Witch in the Web*. Tickets to the digital download are available on teamstarkid.com. This has now been released on YouTube.

## Cast

The full casts of both TGWDLM and Black Friday are featured in Nightmare Time (in alphabetical order)

## Songs

Across the series, a total of 10 new songs have been confirmed, with music and lyrics written by Jeff Blim and Al Foster. Each episode will feature at least three songs (either diegetic or non-diegetic), suggesting that at least one familiar song will return. An album will be available for purchase at first through StarKid's store as well as iTunes, and then will go to Spotify and other streaming services after about a year.

## Trivia

* The name 'Nightmare Time' is keeping with the *Not Your Seed* motif that is being developed throughout the Hatchetfield productions. *Not Your Seed* first appears as a song in *TGWDLM,* and later a guitar riff from the song can be heard in *Black Friday*'s *Made In America.* This same riff can be heard at the beginning of the *Nightmare Time* trailer, and the series's title is a quote from the original song ("And look what happens, nightmare time").
* Part of the song playing in *Nightmare Time's* trailer can be found on Jeff Blim's 'Nightmare Time.' Instagram highlights. Posted around late-April 2020, it caused many fans to speculate as to what this music was for, many believing it to be for *Nerdy Prudes Must Die*. A clip of Jeff playing a different song can be found in the same highlight, posted around late-September 2020.
* On October 3, 2020, Jon Matteson announced on his Instagram story that he's "very happy to be playing [Paul Matthews] again" in reference to *Nightmare Time*.