Boris Karloff's THRILLER, The Greatest Horror Television Series!
I am THRILLED that THRILLER is being released on August 31, 2010 this summer! Image Entertainment has put the entire series, which is two seasons, on 14 discs in this dvd set. All 67 one hour long chilling and some really frightening episodes will be seen in the original fantastic black and white film in all it's scary shadows and creepiness.
Thriller was originally shown on Tuesday nights in it's first 1960-1961 season on NBC from 9:00 to 10:00 p.m.. Because of parents complaints that the show was too scary for school age children, making them unable to sleep on a school night, NBC moved the show in it's second 1961 to 1962 season to Monday nights at a later time from 10:00 to 11:00 p.m.. The show began with it's host, the great Boris Karloff preparing it's audience for the great horrors and terrors that you were about to see and hear. Boris Karloff not only hosted the one hour long show, but starred in several episodes as well, adding his wonderfully brilliant...
A little background
There are many people who have probably heard about this series "Thriller" but have never seen it before. Many people likely do not know anything about the history of the show. I wanted to give a quick background of this groundbreaking series.
Executive producer Hubbel Robinson was quoted as saying "the show simply did not have enough time to find its identity". This was true on many levels. Originally slated for the 1960-61 season it was intended to be a successful mystery-suspense anthology series. Unfortunately, it didn't live up to expectations immediately. The first problem was that it was rushed into production based on Robinson's earlier successes of "Playhouse 90" and "Studio One". Robinson, along with producer Fletcher Markle and story editor James Cavanagh simply could not agree on what makes a "thriller" thrilling. The title itself was much too vague. The stories were a combination of both crime and horror, which just didn't mix well with its audience.
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the dvd "event" of the season
It will be interesting for me to see how this exceptional, beautifully made and quite subtle gothic horror tv series will be accepted by modern audiences, soaked as they are by the outlandish, over-the-top, ludicrously violent horror films that have been gracing our screens of late. Will they be so jaded by what has been flung at them these past thirty years that they will no longer be able to even recognize quality? I hope not, for if they approach this show on its own simple terms they should be more than admirably entertained.
The release of Karloff's THRILLER is, without question,THE dvd event of the season, and it was an agonizingly long time coming. But Image Entertainment has done the right thing by obtaining the show and giving it a quality release. For that they should be congratulated and supported. I have already ordered the set and those who fondly remember the show from their youth are champing at the bit for August 31st to arrive.
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