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Post by matthewsee on Sept 2, 2017 11:05:41 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 matthewsee on Oct 15, 2017 3:20:31 GMT -5
Possession: Season 1, Episode 2. Starring John Carson and Joanna Dunham. A very spooky episode in which a couple movies 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 matthewsee on Dec 1, 2017 4:57:00 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 matthewsee on Jan 5, 2018 21:29:59 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 matthewsee on Feb 14, 2018 11:15:22 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 matthewsee on Feb 19, 2018 4:40:09 GMT -5
Not John Marlott: Season 2, Episode 2. Harrowing and intriguing when two murders are discovered Quite bold when Marlott revealed himself to people he knows.
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Post by matthewsee on Mar 20, 2018 1:44:45 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 matthewsee on Apr 20, 2018 22:41:54 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 matthewsee on May 26, 2018 0:46:32 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 matthewsee on Jul 3, 2018 21:07:45 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 matthewsee on Oct 29, 2018 6:24:08 GMT -5
Once the Killing Starts: Season 2, Episode 2. A married college has been having an affair with one of his students and so murders his wife. Intriguing what came afterwards as the professor gets a letter from someone claiming to know that he had murdered his wife. Enthralling revelation on who this person turned out to be.
The said student was played by Patricia Donahue and in this episode she wore a blue-white striped top and a yellow-black striped top and my wife Karen Gillan wore both something similar. She wore a blue-white striped top in Doctor Who: Dinosaurs on a Spaceship and wore a yellow-black striped top during the tour to promote her first season of Doctor Who in 2010 as can be seen in Doctor Who Confidential 5.9 What Goes On Tour…, the corresponding episode to Cold Blood.
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Post by matthewsee on Dec 12, 2019 10:13:43 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. Angie is a redhead and at one point she says vice versa. This makes me think of fellow redhead Karen Gillan as I feel something vice versa with her as she is my beloved wife.
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Post by matthewsee on Nov 18, 2020 9:29:23 GMT -5
I'm the Girl He Wants to Kill: Season 3, Episode 2. The girl is Ann Rogers played by Julie Sommars and there is an unnamed man who wants to kill her. The highlight of this episode is a lengthy sequence in the building of where Ann works as she is trapped inside it with the man. This has her going up and down in her efforts to evade her would be killer as well as making an unsuccessful attempt to call outside. This building sequence makes this episode worth viewing alone as it is brilliantly done. However just as things seems resolved when Ann finally got out of the building, the man gets dealt with when both are outside!
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Post by matthewsee on Nov 19, 2020 11:56:41 GMT -5
Death to Sister Mary: Season 3, Episode 3. Starring Jennie Linden as the said Sister Mary. However she doesn't play a nun but an actress playing one in a TV show. Co-stars Robert Powell as a crazed fan of Sister Mary to the extent that he refers to her when meeting her as her character's name rather than her real name of Penny Stacey. The Powell character Mr Rook has formed an image of her that is not a reflection of reality. He has attacked or killed people associated with her and the show based on an image that he wants to preserved. All this sets up the denouement when Rook invites Penny to officially open the Sister Mary Fan Club and guess how many members this club has. A superb episode from series creator Brian Clemens.
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Post by matthewsee on Jan 23, 2021 11:10:00 GMT -5
In the Steps of a Dead Man: Antepenultimate episode of season 3. Surprised to see a minor appearance by Christopher Benjamin as Medical Officer. An elderly couple and their perspective daughter-in-law await for the return of the son who has been honourably discharged from the military when tragedy strikes and the son dies. Some months has passed and the now former perspective daughter-in-law Sheila who is living near her former perspective-in-laws has an American friend Grace visiting. Not long after Grace's arrival, the elderly couple gets a visit from Marty Fuller who says he was their son's best friend from the military. Marty's impresses them by telling them how much he knows about them and their home, knowledge that came from the son. This intimate knowledge had the couple to convince Marty to stay with them for the long-term and in the process he romances Sheila. However Grace is suspicious of Marty especially with Sheila's late perspective husband never mentioning Marty in his correspondences to Sheila. In the course of this episode Marty has proved a sinister figure especially the real reason why is no longer with the military and Grace was certainly justified with her suspicions. The denouement to this was certainly chilling by what happens to Marty which was worsened what he had done against the couple that kindly took him in and what Grace decides to do with Marty. Playing Grace is Skye Aubrey and I watched this episode on January 21 2021 and looked up on her afterwards. In a sad coincidence I found she died almost two months previously on November 27 2020 just 24 days before her 75th birthday on December 21.
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