jinni, is the secretary in randell and hopkirk

lost horizon tomorrow 2.35 pm the 73 version, the original is a classic, not sure if original was called shangri la

A sixties favourite tonight at 10pm  Billy Liar.

Straw Dogs with Susan George and those coat hangers, violent film, Oliver Reed and Dustin Hoffman as well i think.

Reeds film i got mixed up with was "The Shuttered Room", similar really with the gorgeous Carol Lynley being suitably menaced by him.

yes thats the one, there was a remake few years back , but this is the best imo

I vaguely remember watching it and thought the violent ending was way over the top and spoilt it for me anyway.

i definetly recommend just my luck , if you havent seen it, norman has a glorious goodwood acca and the bent bookies panicking , great shots of trundle hill

its on tomorrow morning, ive seen it about 20 times, and always try and watch it few days before glorious goodwood.

Just my luck is a great film with Margaret Rutherford playing an absolute blinder as the owner of the horse, think Gordon Richards is the jockey involved but may be wrong, seem to remember young Norman falls in love with a secretary in the office and needs some money to buy a ring so he can propose to her, a right couple of cads play the bookies, Leslie Phillips types, a jolly good yarn.

On again just after midnight.

12:25am - 2:35am
on Talking Pictures TV
The Small World of Sammy Lee (1963)
Crime drama / Drama
Sammy Lee owe £300 to a bookie, Conner, whose muscle men are coming to collect.

Country
United Kingdom
Cast and crew

Ken Hughes
Director

Robert Stephens
Gerry

Anthony Newley
Sammy

Harry Baird
Buddy Shine

Lynda Baron
Yvette

Wilfrid Brambell

I remember watching Widows first time around, brilliant series

yes i think,

I well remember listening to "The Huggets" in the 50s although of course it was my parents who wanted it.


Good film on tonight at 10.10 pm "White Mischief"

Widows starts Weds 28th August 9pm and looks to be on weekly same time.

What was it called?

Armchair theatre?

Thriller is a British television series, originally broadcast in the UK from 1973 to 1976. It is an anthology series: each episode has a self-contained story and its own cast. As the title suggests, each story is a thriller of some variety, from tales of the supernatural to down-to-earth whodunits.


Contents
1    Background
2    Episodes
2.1    Series 1 (1973)
2.2    Series 2 (1974)
2.3    Series 3 (1974)
2.4    Series 4 (1975)
2.5    Series 5 (1975)
2.6    Series 6 (1976)
3    Trivia
4    References
5    External links
Background
The series was created by Brian Clemens, who also scripted the majority of the episodes and storylined every instalment, and produced by John Sichel (the first 3 series), John Cooper (series 4) and Ian Fordyce (the final two series) for Associated Television (ATV) at their Elstree studios north of London. It evolved from Clemens' previous work, in particular two films of a similar style, And Soon the Darkness (EMI-ABP 1970) and Blind Terror (aka See No Evil (Columbia 1971)). The latter shared plot similarities with the Thriller episodes "The Eyes Have It" and "The Next Voice You See". Original music, including the theme tune, was by Clemens' regular collaborator Laurie Johnson.

The original UK title sequence featured still shots of locations in the story devoid of people through a fisheye lens, bordered in bright red and set to Johnson's distinctive eerie, discordant theme music. After originally being screened late night in the US under the ABC Wide World of Entertainment billing from 1973, in 1978 some episodes were retitled for US syndication and all had additional opening sequences shot, with new titles and credits. Since these new titles were made without the original cast they often feature menacing figures seen only from the neck down. However, when the series was rebroadcast as part of The CBS Late Movie, the original title sequence and music was restored.

The stories are often set in the English home counties "stockbroker belt", but most episodes, especially from the second season onwards, feature at least one American character, usually portrayed by an American guest star (who often played the imperilled hero(ine), but not always), in order to appeal to the American market. A particular trademark of the series' storytelling was to hook the viewer with a simple yet totally baffling situation, of the kind seen in films such as Les Diaboliques (1955). "Come Out Come Out, Wherever You Are" takes place at a creaky country house hotel where a female guest begins asking where her travelling companion has disappeared to. The owner claims there was no such guest with her upon her arrival last night. None of the other guests initially recall seeing her, and yet the hotel owner has a secret in his past that could well be causing him to lie. One episode, "Screamer" concerns a rape victim who murders her attacker only for the man to then be seen everywhere stalking her. Perhaps the most ingenious episode is the Dial M for Murder style "The Double Kill", in which a man hires a hitman to kill his wife, but makes a fatal error in his otherwise meticulous planning.

Other memorable episodes include "Someone at the Top of the Stairs", one of a handful of forays into the supernatural, in which two female students move into a boarding house and begin to notice that none of the other residents ever go out or receive any mail, and the well-remembered "I'm The Girl He Wants to Kill", in which a witness to a murder finds herself trapped in a deserted office block overnight with the killer and is forced to play a deadly game of cat and mouse with him to survive, there is barely any dialogue throughout its second half. Brian Clemens's own favourite episode, "A Coffin for the Bride" (US: "Kiss Kiss, Kill Kill") features a performance from a young Helen Mirren.

Following a worldwide audit during 2003-4, by the then copyright holders Carlton, almost all the original UK PAL fisheye titled 2" videotapes of Thriller were located and transferred onto modern digital tape by the British Film Institute with subsequent restoration work by BBC Resources. (One exception was the story "Nurse Will Make It Better". However this too exists in PAL/original format on the later 1" videotape format as a dub from the original master tape. This version was repeat broadcast on the satellite channel Bravo in 1996).

the one i recall is diana dors playing a witch,nurse will make it better , and one deadly owner, dont laugh but was about a haunted rolls royce.

Talking Pictures ran a few series of Armchair Theatre earlier this year or possibly even last year.