Welcome to A Thriller A Day! While we've finished our 67-day marathon viewing and reviewing an episode of Thriller a day, we hope you'll come along for the ride after the fact and post your comments on the episodes as you make your way through the series. While you can access all of the entries in the Blog Archive in the sidebar, we thought it would be helpful to provide this index with links to each of the episode reviews, season and series wrap-ups, all of the interviews we conducted, and the image galleries posted.
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| Some key members of the A Thriller A Day Team met up in Hollywood in March, 2011 (L-R): Peter Enfantino, Steve Mitchell, Gary Gerani, John Scoleri, David J. Schow |
A Thriller A Day Introduction
Season 1 Wrap Up
Season 2 Wrap Up
The Pro's Top Ten Lists
A Thriller A Day Awards
Season 1 Episode Reviews
- The Twisted Image
- Child's Play
- Worse Than Murder
- The Mark of the Hand
- Rose's Last Summer
- The Guilty Men
- The Purple Room
- The Watcher
- Girl with a Secret
- The Prediction
- The Fatal Impulse
- The Big Blackout
- Knock Three-One-Two
- Man in the Middle
- The Cheaters
- The Hungry Glass
- The Poisoner
- Man in the Cage
- Choose a Victim
- Hay-Fork and Bill-Hook
- The Merriweather File
- The Fingers of Fear
- Well of Doom
- The Ordeal of Dr. Cordell
- Trio for Terror
- Papa Benjamin
- Late Date
- Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper
- The Devil's Ticket
- Parasite Mansion
- A Good Imagination
- Mr. George
- Terror in Teakwood
- The Prisoner in the Mirror
- Dark Legacy
- Pigeons from Hell
- The Grim Reaper
- What Beckoning Ghost?
- Guillotine
- The Premature Burial
- The Weird Tailor
- God Grant that She Lye Stille
- Masquerade
- The Last of the Sommervilles
- Letter to a Lover
- A Third for Pinochle
- The Closed Cabinet
- Dialogues with Death
- The Return of Andrew Bentley
- The Remarkable Mrs. Hawk
- Portrait Without a Face
- An Attractive Family
- Waxworks
- La Strega
- The Storm
- A Wig for Miss DeVore
- The Hollow Watcher
- Cousin Tundifer
- The Incredible Dr. Markesan
- Flowers of Evil
- Till Death Do Us Part
- The Bride Who Died Twice
- Kill My Love
- Man of Mystery
- The Innocent Bystanders
- The Lethal Ladies
- The Specialists
- Larry Blamire, Commentator
- Alan Brennert, Commentator
- Ernest Dickerson, Commentator
- Stefan Dziemanowicz, Weird Tales Expert
- Peter Enfantino, A Thriller A Day Co-Host
- Gary Gerani , DVD Special Features Producer
- Tim Lucas, Commentator
- Steve Mitchell, DVD Special Features Producer
- Larry Rapchak, Thriller Enthusiast
- David J. Schow, Commentator
- John Scoleri, A Thriller A Day Co-Host
- Tom Weaver, Special Ops
- Lucy Chase Williams, Commentator
- Lovely Ladies Part 1
- Lovely Ladies Part 2 - Ida Lupino
- Lovely Ladies Part 3 - Elizabeth Montgomery
- Lovely Ladies Part 4 - Ursula Andress
- Lovely Ladies Part 5
- Handsome Gents
- Publicity & Promotion
And please be sure to bookmark our next blog, We Are Controlling Transmission, in which we turn our attention to The Outer Limits.
This is a superb addition. Thank the Gods - there is no John Williams prattling to drive me, in a Pavlovian way, away from classical music.
ReplyDeleteIt was one of two suggestions I was going to make. the second is a side bar in which new comments appear, so that someone coming upon this site who posts a comment, say in a week, a sidebar would allow us to be alerted and to check it out. It's more motivating that way too for someone to actually add to the continued discussion rather than think that no one will notice it buried in there, days, weeks, months or years later. And it also gives a spur to keep contributers and others to keep coming back.
For instance, my research has shown that the two stories used in 'Dialogues with Death', though printed in pulps, were actually radio-plays from the celebrated 'Mysterious Traveler' show.
Dec-1-1946 Friend of the Dead
Oct-26-1948 Welcome Home
This makes their linage more along the lines of TTZ's 'The Hitch-Hiker' than the other adaptions. An interesting seam of gold never again explored by 'Thriller' staff, who probably never knew the origins.
The show is in the public domain and they would have been superb Special Features, had actually survived. Of the approximately 330 episodes, only about 86 have survived. You never know though. Maybe they were taped by the fans or the authors and are locked away.
http://www.digitaldeliftp.com/DigitalDeliToo/dd2jb-Mysterious-Traveler.html
Maybe in a blu-ray, the best two or three or four could be tacked on to the disc with 'Dialogues with Death' to give viewers the chance to sample of the richness of another art-form. (the adaption of 'the Monkey's Paw' done by the radio show 'Nightfall' is the finest done of that story and one of the two or three finest horror radio plays of all time)
One question that's been bugging me as I watch these episodes and one that may be answerable by Walker, Peter, John, Gary, David, is the structure of the adaptions.
Thriller seems to have hued into two differing camps.
Those that adapt the story by fleshing out the plot line with; details, fleshing out characters, adding dialogue or a scene but basically keep the structure of the original with a beginning. middle and end.
The best example I can think of, because I've read it, is 'The Hungry House'. From the commentaries, 'Well of Doom' seems to be another.
The second type of adaption is the one stated by 'Doug Benton' where the short story makes up the last act or two but the first three acts lead into it and are made up by the adaptor. The one that this seems apply to most is 'The Weird Tailor', where I get the impression that the Amicus remake follows the short story and the 'Thriller' one adds the seance, the black magic elements.
This may work or it may take away the suggested echoes and resonances of the back-story, a bit like the 'Stars Wars' prequels killing much of the mythic mystery of the background by showing it.
Some may fall into a third category in between the two.
Anyone able to shed any light on this overlooked area?
Hi Bobby -
ReplyDeleteIn the right hand sidebar between the "Blog Archive" and "Followers" you should see two subscription options - one for Posts and one for Comments. If you sign up for Comments, you should receive email notification when any new comments are added.
You may need to sign up for a blogger account to take advantage of those but it's free and easy to do so, so I highly recommend that for anyone interested in following the continued comments that come in to A Thriller A Day.
This whole blog, judiciously edited, needs to become a book. With the p.d. WEIRD TALES stories included.
ReplyDeleteAnd, like one of those music-playing birthday cards, the book plays "Stranger in Paradise" every time you open it.
FYI - just a quick note of a change in the Outer Limits blog URL. Please update your bookmarks accordingly!
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I'm so glad I found this blog. I LOVE Thriller and I'm so glad to have found a resource that broke the show down in a thorough and academic fashion. Thanks!!
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I love thriller! Can you please tell me the name of the one episode where a man and woman con a father whose died in world war 2 saying they can communicate with the dead.The father shoots the woman then himself. Thanks
ReplyDeleteSorry for the error. The son died in world war 2.
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