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17 of 17 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
At long last, the definitive 1970's creepy show gets the first season release in it's entirity. People of a certain age remember being sent up to bed when the eerie music and distorted titles began.....only to watch it in black & white on our state of the art portable t.v.
Less creepy now, of course, but still some of the episodes are classics. My personal fave has to be 'Someone at the Top of the Stairs' starring the rather gorgeous Judy Carne & Donna Mills.....MARVELLOUS!
I live in hope that all 43 episodes are released...and soon, and that Granada Ventures who distribute, don't decide to pull the plug after the first set.
Brian Clemens is a master of perfect escapism and will go down in history(well, mine anyway!) as being the writer of my own personal two favourite t.v shows.....
Now for a release of the Doble Deckers, please....!
Less creepy now, of course, but still some of the episodes are classics. My personal fave has to be 'Someone at the Top of the Stairs' starring the rather gorgeous Judy Carne & Donna Mills.....MARVELLOUS!
I live in hope that all 43 episodes are released...and soon, and that Granada Ventures who distribute, don't decide to pull the plug after the first set.
Brian Clemens is a master of perfect escapism and will go down in history(well, mine anyway!) as being the writer of my own personal two favourite t.v shows.....
Now for a release of the Doble Deckers, please....!
23 of 24 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
I am a bit biased here I have to admit, as Thriller is one of my all-time favorite shows... but this long-awaited release is something to be very excited about indeed!
I'm sure many people remember being scared witless as children on Saturday nights in the 70s by this show, and since then it has hardly seen the light of day in the UK apart from a very late-night filler slot in the early 80s when it was re-run (with the lame tacked-on US title sequences)... and an abortive run in 1996 on Bravo.
So presumably not many people under the age of 30 in the UK have ever seen the show.
For anyone new to Thriller, this was an anthology show of stand-alone 1 hour stories shot on video tape (usually with a twist in the tail) that ran for 4 years between 1973 & 1976.
Mostly expertly penned by Brian Clemens, they explored (Hitchcock-ian) supernatural, horror, mystery and thriller elements, and were helped along by excellent creepy incidental music.
Many famous guest stars appeared, and many more who went on to become famous in later years - a bit of a Who's Who of 70s TV!
There were usually American guest stars too to give it a trans-Atlantic feel for the all-important American market.
There were many memorable stories from the 4 year run - a few duds admittedly, (like most long-running shows) but mostly when it was good it was excellent.
It's a pity the memorable fish-eye lens graphic (from the title sequence) wasn't used on the front cover of the packaging, but apart from this minor detail, Granada have done a first class job in restoring this excellent show - complete with the memorable ad-caps, which actually give you a real jolt as they punctuate the stories at key points.
There are plenty of treats on this DVD which contains the entire first season, and arguably, the show was to reach greater heights with successive seasons.
I've even shown this show to my 9 year-old son, and he loves it!
This DVD represents excellent value for money, and a long-awaited release for a true forgotten classic of British TV.
Roll on the next season's release.
I urge all telefantasy fans to buy it, and take a trip down memory lane (and anyone else interested in seeing how good TV once used to be) to buy it!
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
Is is just a personal Proustian 'remembrance of times past' which infuses the opening credits of 'Thriller' and the eerie theme tune with such a nostalgic frisson of disquiet for me? I can vividly recall seeing these episodes in 1974 as a boy and they open a window upon the darker imaginal landscapes of 1970s English popular culture - they are in fact perfect period pieces replete with kitsch decor and very evocative of that whole era if, like myself, one grew up then. All are suffused with that special bleakness and lighting which seems to typify television drama from the mid 1970s and every episode makes for wonderful viewing. This first series had a slightly heavier accent on the occult than the later series which became more supense-orientated - 'A Place to Die In' features that old mainstay of British horror, a furtive devil-worshipping cult flourishing behind the sleepy facade of an English rural vilage, complete with Vaughan Williams type incidental music, 'Spell of Evil' introduces us to the flamboyantly sinister world of Clara, swinging sorceress of suburbia, played to perfection by Diane Cilento garbed in some truly outrageous period apparel;' Someone at the Top of the Stairs' is a fabulously atmospheric tale of two female students who move into a seedy old Victorian house whose weird residents are not what they seem to be. Relish the ominous oboes and unsettling clarinets of the incidental music to these dark episodes of unease and let yourself be transported back to the shadowier realms of the haunted 1970s imagination.
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