Thriller

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Good Salary - Prospects - Free Coffin:
Antepenultimate episode of season 5.
This episode is about an ad asking for a woman who is after an adventure with no ties.
This ad was revealed in an apartment when the boyfriend (and subsequently husband) of one of the girls who lived there showed the ad to one of the other girls living there thinking it is for her.
However the other girl who lived there saw the ad first and got the job instead.
This girl went to this job that she got but instead gets killed!
The purpose of this ad is to attract a woman who would then have her place taken by an impostor and placed in a workplace that contains sensitive information.
Some time have passed and the ad is back in the papers, the roommates of the first girl who got the job and got killed by it presumed that she got fired and that's why the ad.
The girl who wanted the job after being shown by it then applies for it, gets it and she too is killed because of it.
The remaining girl in the apartment got suspicious of why she has not heard back from her now dead roommates and makes her investigation on this.
Along the way the brother of the previous girl who got killed came to visit her sister and when told by the remaining roommate what happened to her sister.
The brother does his own investigation and gets killed by what he has found. Frankly it was rather foolish how he went about it without telling anyone about his movement and no backup for him.
Ultimately the remaining roommate applies for the job herself as part of her investigation.
However the person she applied the job for got suspicious that she from the same address that the other two girls had lived in.
Thankfully she got saved by the cops, the perpetrators gets arrested and the mastermind in all this is exposed.
Pretty good solid storyline this is with the purpose of the scheme that was involved.

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The Next Voice You See:
Penultimate episode of season 5.
This starts with a bank robbery which results in a man going blind and his wife being killed.
Then jumps back ten years later and the blind man is a well known pianist and has a gig
It is at this gig the blind pianist hears a familiar voice and that voice belongs to a bank robber who had killed his wife ten years before.
Hence the meaning the episode title.
Intriguing how this plays out as the pianist tries to find the owner of this voice that he recognises.

This episode featured Catherine Schell while the previous episode Good Salary - Prospects - Free Coffin featured Julian Glover.

Although Glover and Schell had narrowly missed each other in Thriller in these episode from 1975, they however would play husband and wife four years later in the 1979 Doctor Who story City of Death.

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Murder Motel:
Season 5 finale.
A young woman (Robyn Millan) is looking for her missing fiance and the last place he was believed to be in was in a motel, the said murder motel.
It is called that because guests do get murdered including the woman's said fiance.
A very horrifying and very good episode with its premise at the said motel.
The motel is called Woodheath Motel, the name of which is displayed on a marquee.
However the marquee sustained damaged during the closing climax of the episode which saw the letters W, the two Os that came immediately after it and H which therefore makes the marquee read appropriately DEATH MOTEL.

Sadly I just found out that Robyn Millan died almost three years ago on July 14 2020.

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Sleepwalker:
Season 6 opener.
The said sleepwalker is a young American woman visiting her father in London.
Whilst she is sleepwalking she is something in a dream in which a man gets murder.
It certainly became intriguing at its denouement and how it involved the maid to the American woman and her father, someone who has expressed her contempt for them especially certain parts of what she said in conversations that seems insignificant upon first hearing it but unexpectedly played its part at its climax, one I certainly didn't see coming. It certainly pulled the rug out of me,

The American woman is played by Darleen Carr and coincidentally at the same time I was seeing this I saw her in her first of many appearances in The Streets of San Francisco

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The Next Victim:
Season 6, Episode 2.
A strangler is killing women and at the centre of this mystery is a woman confined to a wheelchair.
Perhaps this woman was meant as the female version of the protagonist in Rear Window who is also in a wheelchair.
The cops in this episode aren't very effective in moving anything along and while the episode is overall suspenseful the conclusion of it is very unsatisfying and very confusing.

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Nightmare for a Nightingale:
Season 6, Episode 3
Starring Susan Flannery.
Flannery is well-known for playing Forrester family matriarch Stephanie Forrester in The Bold and the Beautiful a character she played at its debut in 1987.
In fact since first playing Stephanie in The Bold and the Beautiful she has only played one other character in a couple of episodes of Hope & Faith in 2004.
In fact seeing Flannery here in this Thriller episode unavoidably made me think of her The Bold and the Beautiful co-star Barbara Crampton as I am in love with her.
In this Thriller episode Flannery plays an opera singer but Flannery does not do the singing.as the singing was instead provided by Teresa Cahill.
The said opera singer Anna Cartell suddenly finds that her husband who she thought was dead is not dead after all.
However in the heat of the moment she accidentally kills him but his body disappeared and not by her.
Intriguing how it all played out in this mystery including how her manager plays his part with him not happy about a certain seperate development from her.

Appearing briefly in the teaser is Stephen Greif who sadly died on December 23 2022, I think over a year before I saw this episode.


In Memory of Stephen Greif
(1944-2022)