Season One

The **first season** of *Night Terrace* comprised 8 episodes originally funded on Kickstarter and released in 2014. Released to Kickstarter backers on 13 October 2014 it was then on general release on 23 October 2014.

## Synopsis

Professor Anastasia Black's retirement is cut short when her house starts travelling mysteriously through time and space - taking her and Eddie Jones along for the ride. They visit alien worlds, the distant past and the far future, forever wondering if they will ever find a way home, followed wherever they go by a mysterious woman known only as..."Sue".

## Plot

Anastasia Black’s terrace house, “Night Terrace”, begins to travel through space and time during an unusual phenomena, stranding her with door-to-door salesman and contemporary dance major Eddie Jones.

The house first arrives on the alien leisure planet Tranquillos, which is under siege by a future human empire. Anastasia manages to prevent the destruction of the planet using the Tranquillosians’ weather control technology. Eddie meets a mysterious alien woman named “Sue”, who knows his name and gives him a cryptic clue before disappearing. Her information helps them discover the house can be made to travel by turning on the taps. (*Moving House*)

The house arrives in what seems to be Melbourne, but is actually the starship *Australis,* aboard which Australian society is fleeing from an environmental cataclysm to the planet Borealia. They accidentally aid a plot to kill the inhabitants of Borealia, but Anastasia puts things on what she hopes is the right course. They also meet “Sue” again, in human form, who helps them before disappearing. Eddie asks the ship's computer about his own fate, but doesn’t hear it tell “Sue” that Eddie Jones vanished and was never seen again. (*Starship Australis*)

The house lands in Lyme Regis, 1929, and Anastasia is pleased that Eddie is better learning to deal with their travels. “Sue” appears but is shot and killed. They meet amateur sleuth Leaina Baker, and accidentally travel about a day back in time, learning through “Sue”’s clues that they have to avoid leaving teaspoons in the sink. Anastasia and Eddie avoid causing paradoxes, and Anastasia reveals the real killer, outwitting Miss Baker at her own game. They exhaust another couple of theories about “Sue”’s nature, Anastasia admitting she doesn’t know what she is. (*Time of Death*)

On a planet owned and operated by the megacorporation Valufrax, Anastasia lets Eddie go off and explore on his own before deciding correctly that he'll need saving. They both get lifetime contracts with the company, but with some help from "Sue" - who appears as the voice of the corporate phone system - they manage to escape and free the inhabitants of the planet. (*The Outsourcing*)

In the far future Anastasia and Eddie encounter a rundown and unsuccessful amusement park, themed around a very garbled understanding of Twentieth-Century-Earth. Its robot servants are meant to resemble Adolf Hitler, but they are struck by lightning and turn evil. With advice from a robot version of Sue, Anastasia Eddie and the park's owner, Barry, are able to shut down the robot Hitlers. (*Sound & Führer*)

A storyteller relates the tale of "the last hunt" of the Aboriginal man Murrawarri and his apprentice, Tangara. They are tracking a large and dangerous animal they call a "demon", and along the way encounter two pale people with a strange house that appears out of nowhere and moves away from them. They help the strangers, one of whom talks to a bird along the way, and eventually discover that the demon is so hard to track because she is actually two identical twins. The hunter kills one, and the other one is tricked into entering the strangers' house, which vanishes. (*The Last Hunt*)

Eddie and Anastasia enjoy a short break in a 1970s disco - until they notice that some of the patrons are floating into the air and exploding in a shower of glitter. As they investigate, no-one seems to notice anything is wrong, except for a man named "Bubbles" who insists they should leave. They press on with their investigation and eventually realise that the house has somehow led them into a virtual world of alien design, and that they have disrupted it by their presence. Too late to repair the damage they have wrought, they are ejected from the world as it is seemingly destroyed... (*Discoworld*)

At the D.E.P.A.R.T.M.E.N.T., agent Sue clocks in for another day at working tracking the Night Terrace house, only to find it has vanished from all sensors. She sets the controls on the projector she uses to "visit" the housemates effectively to nowhere, and finds herself in a white void...with Eddie Jones. Meanwhile Anastasia is in a different part of the void, where she meets August Night - the original creator of the Night Terrace houses. Her own house brought her to this pocket universe, which she can only sustain through the force of her will. Sue - who is herself this time, as there was nothing for her device to disguise her as - fills Eddie in on the nature of the D.E.P.A.R.T.M.E.N.T. and they eventually find Anastasia. Through a combined force of will they summon Night Terrace just as the pocket universe is crumbling around them, but Auguste refuses to leave and is presumably destroyed. Sue reveals that she can stop the D.E.P.A.R.T.M.E.N.T. from tracking the house, and gleefully agrees to join the other two as they continue their adventures. (*Home*)

## Cast and characters

* Jackie Woodburne as Anastasia Black
* Ben McKenzie as Eddie Jones
* Petra Elliott as "Sue"

## External links

* Bandcamp - Splendid Chaps Productions ***Night Terrace* Season One**
* Night Terrace Season One - Media Release PDF

## References

1. ↑ Night Terrace | Shiver With Antici…
2. ↑ Night Terrace | RELEASE THE TERRACE!

 ****Season One****
 **Season Two**
*Things That Go Bump in the Night Terrace* · *Ancient History*
 **Specials**
 **Hello! My Name is Eddie**
 **Night Your Own Terrace**
 **Horatio's Travels**
*Messages*