Thriller

Series 1

Production Information

Release Date
Copyright
Country
Language
Episode Run Time
Certification
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1973
Granada Ventures
U.K.
English
Various
18 (DVD)

Episode 1 - Lady Killer

Thriller (1973 - 1976) - Lady Killer Director: Bill Hays
Writing Credits: Brian Clemens
Cast: Robert Powell, Barbara Feldon, Linda Thorson, T.P. McKenna, Mary Wimbush, John Boswall, Ivor Roberts, Howard Rawlinson, Ronald Mayer & David Billa

Paul Tanner has found just the woman he is looking for, Barbara Feldon, a naïve, unattached American lady who will be unable to resist his charms. Within days Paul marries the woman of his dreams - in this case they are not dreams of marital bliss, but rather, they are dreams of murder and of wealth.

Episode 2 - Possession

Thriller (1973 - 1976) - Possession Director: John Cooper
Writing Credits: Brian Clemens
Cast: John Carson, Joanna Dunham, Hilary Hardiman, Athol Coats, James Cossins, Richard Aylen, Jack Galloway & Mary Ann Severne

Ray and Penny Burns buy a lovely old house - however this house has been hiding a terrible secret for many years down in the cellar. The secret is revealed when the remains of a murdered woman are discovered by a workman. Penny becomes convinced there is a disturbing presence in the house, so they seek help from a medium. Then Ray starts to act strangely, as if he is possessed...

Episode 3 - Someone at the Top of the Stairs

Thriller (1973 - 1976) - Someone at the Top of the StairsDirector: John Sichel
Writing Credits: Brian Clemens
Cast: Donna Mills, Judy Carne, David de Keyser, Francis Wallis, Alethea Charlton, Brian McGrath, Peter Cellier, Clifford Parrish, Scott Forbes, Rhoda Lewis, Alan Roberto, Laura Collins, Charles Hill & Robert Corbet

Two young women rent a room in a strange old boarding house from the equally strange Mrs Oxhey. Shortly after moving in Chrissie Morton and Gillian Pemberton feel there is something not quite right with the occupants - it is nothing they can easily pin down, just odd little occurrences. Then there is the mysterious recluse who lives in the room at the top of the house, what is his game?

Episode 4 - An Echo of Theresa

Thriller (1973 - 1976) - An Echo of Theresa Director: Peter Jefferies
Writing Credits: Brian Clemens
Cast: Polly Bergen, Paul Burke, Dinsdale Landen, Basil Henson, Vernon Dobtcheff, Meriel Brooke, William Job, Roger Hume, Larry Taylor, Betty Woolfe, Neville Phillips, Ted Richards & John Caesar

Rich American businessman, Brad Hunter and his wife are in London for a vacation when Brad starts to act very bizarrely. Brad incorrectly introduces his wife, Suzy to a business associate as Theresa. His wife is clearly upset but he is unable to provide any explanation. All manner of strange thoughts start to take over Brad's mind as well as his identity, to the point where he thinks that he is an Englishman called Charles Merrow.

Episode 5 - The Colour of Blood

Thriller (1973 - 1976) - The Colour of Blood Director: Robert Tronson
Writing Credits: Brian Clemens
Cast: Norman Eshley, Katherine Schofield, Derek Smith, Garrick Hagon, Geoffrey Chater, Malcolm Terris, Tim Wylton, A.J. Brown, Roy Sone, Eric Mason, Michael Corcoran, Godfrey Jackman, Barry Ashton & Gigi Gurpinar

Arthur Page, The Carnation Killer, escapes from the Black Mariah he is travelling in when it crashes, rendering his captors either dead or unconscious. The insane serial killer makes his way to the Waterloo railway station where he quickly snaps up the nearest red carnation for his buttonhole. Arthur is having a very good day which is made even better when he is met by a pretty legal secretary called Julie Marsh who has been asked by her employer to meet a client wearing a red carnation.

Episode 6 - Murder in Mind

Thriller (1973 - 1976) - Murder in Mind Director: Alan Gibson
Writing Credits: Brian Clemens
Cast: Richard Johnson, Zena Walker, Donald Gee, Ronald Radd, Robert Dorning, Christina Greatrex, Anthony Boden & David Lampson

A woman enters a police station dazed and confused, saying that she has just committed a murder. Although she cannot remember her name she can partially remember the details of the killing of an unknown person with a metal fireplace poker. An eager, newly promoted detective is straight on the case, but things are not at all as they appear. It is found that she probably just has an overactive imagination coupled with the fact her husband is a writer of murder novels.

Episode 7 - A Place to Die

Thriller (1973 - 1976) - A Place to Die Director: Peter Jefferies
Writing Credits: Brian Clemens & Terence Feely
Cast: Bryan Marshall, Alexandra Hay, John Turner, Glynn Edwards, Sally Stephens, Juan Moreno, Georgine Anderson, Lila Kaye, Sydney Bromley, Jenny Laird, Peggy Ann Wood, Graham Weston, Bill Ward, John Flint & Arnold Ridley

Country village folk can be a weird old bunch, no more so if they think you are the 'chosen one'. Dr. Bruce Nelson and his wife Tessa move to a quiet little village as a vacancy at the local doctor's practice has become available, after the previous doctor accidentally fell down the stairs breaking his neck. The local people seem friendly enough at first, in an odd inbred way, but when the full moon and 'lady day' approach, things come to a head - blondes definitively have more fun in this village that's for sure...

Episode 8 - File It Under Fear

Thriller (1973 - 1976) - File It Under Fear Director: Bill Hays
Writing Credits: Brian Clemens
Cast: Sue Bond, Colin Fisher, Jan Francis, John Le Mesurier, Maureen Lipman, James Grout, Rose Hill, Georgina Melville, John Nightingale, Richard, O'Callaghan, Richard Pendrey & Jenny Quayle



Episode 9 - The Eyes Have It

Thriller (1973 - 1976) - The Eyes Have It Director: Shaun O'Riordan
Writing Credits: Brian Clemens & Terence Feely
Cast: Peter Vaughan, Dennis Waterman, William Marlowe, Sinéad Cusack, Leslie Schofield, David Jackson, Michael Lees, Alun Armstrong, Colin McCormack, Catherine Chase, Angela Walker & David Sands



Episode 10 - Spell of Evil

Thriller (1973 - 1976) - Spell of Evil Director: John Sichel
Writing Credits: Brian Clemens & Terence Feely
Cast: Diane Cilento, Edward de Souza, Jennifer Daniel, Jeremy Longhurst, Philip Anthony, David Belcher, Linda Cunningham, William Dexter, Patricia Kneale, Reg Lye, Iris Russell & Martin Wyldeck



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