‘Once I was living and working in Los Angeles in a dismal flat. Simon, 72, confesses that, unlike Mark, he’s not big on ghost stories, even if he’s had a supernatural experience. Jamie and Lucy meet Sara (pictured) and Georgie Latimer, a pair of ghostly children who say they are in danger from the murderous Mr and Mrs Wickens in 1821 But I still wanted her to be the kind of villain who makes children’s hearts race.’ There’s something from her heart motivating her. ‘Mrs Wickens is not a panto villain, she’s frightening as she does the most evil thing – she tries to kill the children who are to inherit a fortune so her daughter, Bella, can get it. ‘Mr and Mrs Wickens fuel each other’s villainous characteristics, they egg each other on,’ says Tamsin, 55. Mrs Wickens, originally played by Diana Dors, is reprised here by Tamsin Greig. Mark, 55, grew malicious-looking facial hair to play the half-mad pyromaniac Mr Wickens, who with his wife plans to murder Sara and Georgie for their inheritance. It was ghosts, time travel, magic, faintly sinister with brilliant baddies. ‘It was on our battered old school projector and it was everything I love. ‘I saw it at school when I was seven in the most perfect circumstances it was the last Friday before we broke up for Christmas. ‘The original Lionel Jeffries film is one of my favourites,’ he says. It’s a tale that Mark felt was important to retell to a modern audience. He’s charming, eccentric, vulnerable and consumed by guilt. ‘Blunden knows that what he did all those years ago was disgraceful. Mr Blunden (pictured) implores Jamie and Lucy to help him go back in time to 1821 to change history and save the Latimers
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