Nice Deal: Complete Thriller for $60 at Amazon…

Updated on January 21, 2011 By Ken Begg 7 Comments

As I noted when this came out, $150 (the MSRP) was a bit dear for this set, even if its generally considered to be a top notch production with fine presentations and tons of extras. Now, however, Amazon is selling the 67 episode, 14-disc set for a much more reasonable $60, with free shipping to boot; 60% off the list price. The set includes isolated soundtracks for some of the episodes done by major composers like Jerry Goldsmith, and features 24 commentaries. Moreover, the show was hosted by Boris Karloff and features a who’s who of actors doing TV work at that time.

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  • sandra

    Its likely that a lot of the people who read this blog have never heard of THRILLER. It was an anthology series of mystery and occult stories, hosted by, and sometimes starring, Boris Karloff. At the time, the only other show on tv that offered any sort of fix to the horror/fantasy addict was THE TWILIGHT ZONE. Both of them were not afriad to go for the downer ending, which is still a rarity on series tv.

  • alex

    Pigeons From Hell and The Hungry Glass were the two best episodes. Good enough to have been feature films.

  • Mr. Rational

    Yeah…having picked this set up the last time you rec’d it, I’ve watched all the episodes up until about the halfway point in Season 2. I plan to be done before I leave for B-Fest.

    About the first half of the first season, the show was still laboring under the misapprehension that it was meant to be something other than an hour-long occult/supernatural anthology series, with the occasional foray into black humor. Then it finally found its voice…and also ditched the continual rearrangements of its theme music for some really awesome scores from Jerry Goldsmith and the like.

    alex’s episodes are good choices — though for my money, “The Hungry Glass” is better. (I was a bit disappointed by the ending of “Pigeons.”) I would also recommend “The Devil’s Ticket,” “A Good Imagination,” “Guillotine,” “Masquerade,” and my personal favorite, “The Grim Reaper.” The first four, I suppose, are a testament to my love for black and quirky humor. The last one — well, it just scared the crap out of me.

  • alex

    Grim Reaper is very good, love that ending! However they are some Shatneresque moments that make it unitentionally funny. The scene where he puts his finger on the painting and shows the blood has some serious overacting from Bill. I’m suprised the director kept that take. He looks like a comedian doing an over the top Shatner impression.

  • Mr. Rational

    “However they are some Shatneresque moments that make it unitentionally funny. The scene where he puts his finger on the painting and shows the blood has some serious overacting from Bill.”

    Sadly, so very true. And don’t forget his reaction shots during the ending, which are Shatner-rific in the worst possible way.

  • Mr. Rational

    Almost forgot — I meant to include “Mr. George,” which is a ghost-story with an oddly sweet angle…the ghost is trying to protect a little girl from money-grubbing relatives. You know exactly how everything will go, and yet the episode manages to offer suspense because you WANT things to go that way so very badly, and are genuinely afraid they won’t. It’s that same mix of sweetness and sentiment with a slight chill up your spine that “The Twilight Zone” frequently tried to strike, and this episode puts most of the Zone’s offerings in that vein to shame.

    Also, I am in LOVE with the older Boris Karloff’s voice. Not so much with the episodes in which he acts, but his intros really show off his voice, which is mannered and cultured in the best possible way. If I had to have an artificial voice-box implanted, I’d instruct whoever was programming it to get my sound as close as possible to his.

  • sandra

    Wasn’t there a suggestion that Mr George was the little girl’s real father ? It seems to me that I remember a couple of episodes that were straight mysteries, probably the first season before it found its way.