Thriller (a.k.a. Boris Karloff's Thriller) was an hour-long TV Horror anthology series that originally aired on NBC from 1960 to 1962. Horror fans who grew up in the 1960s and 1970s were nearly enraptured with the content and structure of this show. Indeed, in his non-fiction book on horror, Danse Macabre, Stephen King calls Thriller "the best horror series ever put on TV". At the beginning of each hour, Hollywood's master of the macabre himself, Boris Karloff, would set the tone and prime the viewers for frightful and chilling dramatizations based on the works of some of the era's greatest writers in the genre—writers like Robert E. Howard, Cornell Woolrich, Richard Matheson, and Robert Bloch. Each episode was shot in eerie black and white and offered at least one story, with a few episodes dividing the hour between two or three shorter plays.

As with any Horror program, of course, there are a few clunker episodes that do not quite measure up to the rest, and Horror fans who are purists will probably be annoyed by the handful of episodes that are crime-based "thrillers"—most of which were produced and broadcast at the beginning of the series' original run—rather than stories of the ghastly or macabre. When compared with today's graphically gory product, Thriller might seem a little tame to modern audiences. But overall, the show has stood the test of time and can still inspire chills and goose bumps.



CAST:
Host: Boris Karloff
Executive Producer: Hubbell Robinson
Producers: Fletcher Markle; William Frye and Maxwell Shane
Music: Jerry Goldsmith, Pete Rugolo, and Morton Stevens



DISC 1
Season 1
1. The Twisted Image
2. Child's Play
3. Worse Than Murder
4. The Mark of the Hand

DISC 2
5. Rose's Last Summer
6. The Guilty Man
7. The Purple Room
8. The Watcher

DISC 3
9. Girl With a Secret
10. The Prediction
11. The Fatal Impulse
12. The Big Blackout

DISC 4
13. Knock Three-One-Two
14. Man in the Middle
15. The Cheaters
16. The Hungry Glass

DISC 5
17. The Poisoner
18. Man in a Cage
19. Choose a Victim
20. Hay-Fork and Bill-Hook

DISC 6
21. The Merriweather File
22. The Fingers of Fear
23. Well of Doom
24. The Ordeal of Dr. Cordell

DISC 7
25. Trio for Terror
26. Papa Benjamin
27. A Late Date
28. Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper

DISC 8
29. The Devil's Ticket
30. Parasite Mansion
31. A Good Imagination
32. Mr. George

DISC 9
33. Terror in Teakwood
34. The Prisoner in the Mirror
35. Dark Legacy
36. Pigeons From Hell

DISC 10
37. The Grim Reaper
Season 2
38. What Beckoning Ghost?
39. Guillotine
40. The Premature Burial

DISC 11
41. The Weird Tailor
42. God Grant That She Lye Still
43. Masquerade
44. The Last of the Sommervilles

DISC 12
45. Letter to a Lover
46. A Third For Pinochle
47. The Closed Cabinet
48. Dialogues With Death

DISC 13
49. The Return of Andrew Bentley
50. The Remarkable Mrs. Hawk
51. Portrait Without a Face
52. An Attractive Family

DISC 14
53. Waxworks
54. La Strega
55. The Storm
56. A Wig For Miss Devore
BONUS: THE VEIL

DISC 15
57. The Hollow Watcher
58. Cousin Tundifer
59. The Incredible Doktor Markesan
60. Flowers of Evil

DISC 16
61. Till Death Do Us Part
62. The Bride Who Died Twice
63. Kill My Love
64. Man of Mystery

DISC 17
65. The Innocent Bystanders
66. The Lethal Ladies
67. The Specialists
BONUS: THE BLACK PROPHET

DISC 18
BONUS: Special Promo Video


Complete 1-67 + 3 Bonuses; 18 DVD
Quality = 7.5-8 out of 10
Full Screen in English, no subtitles, no commercials. Capped from VHS.

Price $51.50USD