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Post by MS on Sept 2, 2017 10:18:03 GMT -5
Thriller is the anthology series created by Brian Clemens that ran between 1973 and 1976.
Lady Killer:
Series opener.
Starring Robert Powell, Barbara Feldon and Linda Thorson.
Barbara Feldon is of course well known in Get Smart and Linda Thorson had been Tara King in The Avengers in which Thriller created Brian Clemens had been the producer of.
Feldon plays Jenny who meets Paul Tanner (Powell) and they quickly fell in love and get married.
However this is no fairy tale as Paul is still married to his previous wife Toni (Thorson) whom everyone is believed to be dead due to a scheme between Paul and Toni to get lots of money from insurance by killing the new wife.
No pun intended but this is an absolutely thrilling way to begin Thriller as the events unfolds culminating in blackmail and one of con artists couple having a late change of plan to the frustration of the other.
Powell is superb as the conman Paul leading to the stunning ending to the episode.
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Post by MS on Oct 11, 2017 9:27:28 GMT -5
Possession:
Season 1, Episode 2.
Starring John Carson and Joanna Dunham.
A very spooky episode in which a couple moves into a house where the body of the previous owner has been found and the owner was murdered.
Quite thrilling all the way through.
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Post by MS on Dec 1, 2017 4:42:13 GMT -5
Someone at the Top of the Stairs:
Season 1, Episode 3.
Starring Donna Mills who years after this episode played Abby Cunningham in Knot’s Landing and I also been seeing her in that series.
The Donna Mills character and her friend rent a room in a house where the episode description is who and where something creepy happens.
Neat how a missing past tenant links to the present situation and what becomes of the Mills character at the end after a certain encounter.
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Post by MS on Jan 5, 2018 2:31:35 GMT -5
An Echo of Theresa:
Season 1, Episode 4.
A man and his wife come to London when the man calls his wife Theresa even though that is not her name and the man does even though where the name came from for him saying it.
Fascinating episode as the man finds out the mystery of this Theresa including going to places in London that felt familiar to him even though he hasn’t been in London before.
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Post by MS on Feb 12, 2018 6:26:34 GMT -5
The Colour of Blood:
Season 1, Episode 5.
Also known by its US title The Carnation Killer.
Norman Eshley is very menacing as the Carnation Killer.
The Carnation Killer escaped from custody where two people from the same workplace have the misfortune of encountering him as well of their plan to swindle money out of their workplace.
Perfectly handling of this episode of seeing this escape from the Carnation Killer and the two swindlers who perhaps deserved what they got with what they were planning.
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Post by MS on Mar 20, 2018 1:02:31 GMT -5
Murder In Mind:
Season 1, Episode 6.
This episode later became the basis for The New Avengers episode Medium Rare and both Thriller & The New Avengers were created by Brian Clemens.
Murder In Mind is a fascinating episode in which a well known author tries to make it appear that his wife has gone made so he could be with his mistress and the cop who got embroiled in all this.
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Post by MS on Apr 20, 2018 10:27:24 GMT -5
A Place To Die:
Season 1, Episode 7.
A doctor and his wife moves to a village and the villagers take a very interest in the wife.
A very suspenseful involving the wife and the occult.
However despite all they have seen the husband doctor still chalks it up to something scientific than something supernatural.
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Post by MS on May 25, 2018 20:22:46 GMT -5
File It Under Fear:
Antepenultimate episode of season 1.
Featuring James Grout who would later voiced Ian Chesterton in Whatever Happened To Susan Foreman?
A very suspenseful episode in which young women have been killed in the night and a librarian played by Maureen Lipman fearing that she could be next.
A nice little red herring that got presented before the real killer was revealed.
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Post by MS on Jul 3, 2018 19:34:38 GMT -5
The Eyes Have It:
Penultimate episode of season 1.
A very fascinating episode in which a school for the blind being used as by assassins for a planned assassination.
A good pun on the episode title with the blind students being presented as the protagonists.
Among the blind students are played by Sinead Cusack and Dennis Waterman. Another blind student is played by Waterman’s future New Tricks co-star Alun Armstrong.
A very well done episode in which the blind students have to foil the assassins’ plot and without the benefit of sight.
Cusack is particularly very good as the blind Sally in a very captivating performance.
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Post by MS on Nov 26, 2018 11:33:59 GMT -5
Kiss Me and Die:
Season 2, Episoode 3.
Starring Jenny Agutter.
A fascinating episode in which a man searches for his brother.
The man traces his brother’s last movement which culminates with what happened at a party.
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Post by MS on Dec 31, 2018 4:48:46 GMT -5
One Deadly Owner:
Season 2, Episode 4.
Starring Donna Mills and Jeremy Brett.
This is Donna Mills’ second of three episodes in the series and I am also seeing her in Knots Landing.
A suspenseful episode in which Donna Mills plays Helen Cook who buys a car with a mysterious past.
Quite a revelation on just how close to home this whole mystery is to Helen.
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Post by MS on Jan 31, 2019 4:55:15 GMT -5
Ring Once for Death:
Antepenultimate episode of season 2.
Starring Nyree Dawn Porter, Michael Jayston and Barry Nelson.
Jayston played the butler Roger Masters.
Curiously when Jayston later played the Valeyard in Doctor Who: The Trial of a Time Lord he met the Master played by Anthony Ainley and Roger is the first name of the first Master Roger Delgado.
As the Valeyard is a version of the Doctor, the Thriller episode is a case of the Doctor meeting James Bond as Nelson had played Bond in a television adaption of Casino Royale in 1954.
In Ring Once for Death, the butler Roger Masters is an evil man who keeps his mistress Laura (Porter) prisoner in her own home.
Jayston played Masters very menacingly and Porter is convincing as the anguish Laura kept in captivity by Masters.
This all makes for a very gripping episode.
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Post by MS on Apr 8, 2019 13:21:53 GMT -5
Sign it Death:
Season 2 finale.
Starring Francesca Annis as a secretary who employs murder to get what she wants.
A truly stunning performance by Annis as the murderous secretary who would go to any lengths to achieve her aims.
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Post by MS on Apr 27, 2019 1:54:50 GMT -5
Who Killed Lamb?:
Who Killed Lamb? is a 1974 TV play starring Stanley Baker and is included in the Thriller DVD release even though Who Killed Lamb? is not in any way connected with Thriller.
Baker plays a Scotland Yard Inspector who investigates the murder of Octavius Lamb, a popular member of the community.
However the investigation reveals that Lamb was not as likable as it seems and the case is fascinating in its resolution.
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Post by MS on Nov 29, 2019 22:46:00 GMT -5
A Coffin for the Bride:
Season 3 opener.
Starring Michael Jayston and Helen Mirren.
Written by series creator Brian Clemens and I have read that this is his favourite episode. It is not hard to see why.
Jayston plays a man who marries wealthy women and then kills them on the honeymoon.
The latest wealthy woman is Angie but with her things became really wrong for him.
Absolutely shocking what then ensues and that revelation in the final scene was certainly worth the payoff.
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