Thriller - The Complete Season One

Product Description An international cult phenomenon from television genius Brian Clemens (The Avengers, Danger Man), now on DVD for the first time, all ten spine-tingling movies from the first season of THRILLER available for your viewing terror. Positively Hitchcockian, with a liberal dose of the supernatural, nothing is what it seems in each feature length episode of THRILLER. Witches, serial killers, ghosts, con-artists, Satanists and terrorists are just some of the villains involved in the outlandish plots, the unexpected twists and the even more surprising endings. But it's what you can't see--the sinister atmosphere, the almost unbearable tension--that makes this one of television's most terrifyingly enjoyable shows ever. Fear has never been better. Innovative and boundlessly inventive, THRILLER boasts a galaxy of American and British stars like Donna Mills, Bob Hoskins, Patrick Magee, Helen Mirren, Hayley Mills and Stephen Rea. Season 1 1. Lady Killer 2. Possession 3. Someone at the Top of the Stairs 4. An Echo of Theresa 5. The Colour of Blood 6. Murder in Mind 7. A Place to Die 8. File it Under Fear 9. The Eyes Have It 10. Spell of Evil DVD Features: Interviews with THRILLER Creator and Directors Brian Clemens, Shaun O'Riordan, and John Cooper; Episode Introductions with THRILLER Creator Brian Clemens; Interactive Menus; Scene Selection Amazon.com Not to be confused with the 1960s American anthology series with Boris Karloff, this Thriller is a British anthology program that ran from 1973 to 1976 and the brainchild of writer-producer-director Brian Clemens, best known for The Avengers. A cult favorite in its native country (though frustratingly difficult to see for the last two decades), the show aired briefly in United States through the ABC Mystery Movie, which repackaged the episodes with new introductions and titles. Though A&E's boxed set packaging presents Thriller as a horror classic, the ten stories (each running 65 minutes) presented in the Season One set lean more heavily towards suspense in the Alfred Hitchcock Presents vein, though some stories feature distinct supernatural elements: "Spell of Evil" has Diane Cilento as a witch preying on widowed businessman Edward De Souza, while "Someone at the Top of the Stairs" stars Donna Mills (Knots Landing) and Judy Carne as tourists in a boarding house with a terrible secret, and "A Plac