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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 791.4572
EAN: 9780786419692
ISBN: 0786419695
Label: McFarland & Company
Manufacturer: McFarland & Company
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 207
Publication Date: 2004-04
Publisher: McFarland & Company
Studio: McFarland & Company
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Product Description:
The late 1950s and early 1960s were the golden years of horror television. Anthology series such as Way Out and Great Ghost Tales, along with certain episodes of Twilight Zone and The Alfred Hitchcock Hour, were among the shows that consistently frightened a generation of television viewers. And perhaps the best of them all was Thriller, hosted by Boris Karloff.
In Thriller the horror was gothic, with a darker, bleaker vision of life than its contemporaries. The shows origins and troubled history is first discussed here, followed by biographies of such key figures as producer William Frye, executive producer Hubbell Robinson, writers Robert Block and Donald S. Sanford, and Karloff. The episode guide covers all 67 installments, providing airdate, production credits, cast, plot synopses and critical evaluations.
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A great review of each story that was broadcast on tv years ago. it goes into much detail. do not read the thriller episode guide if you are to watch the series unless you don't mind knowing what happened in each before you watch. all were great, especially the supernatural.
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Fans of Thriller will be delighted with this book. Brings back lots of great memories. Program background, episode summary, very detailed. A little pricey, but definitely worth it.
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What a wonderful book! I love watching the old horror programs on television, such as Karloff's Thriller, The Twilight Zone and The Outer Limits. What I enjoy most is watching each program, and then spend a few minutes reading up on the production history and trivia about the program, thanks to books like this. I just spent the last three years reading "The Alfred Hitchcock Presents Companion" by Grams and Wikstrom and watched each and every episode of the Hitchcock TV series one by one. What a ... Read More
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Forty years later, "Thriller" still has some thrill left in it, though many of its episodes are becoming awfully dated. This is something that invariably happens to decades-old popular entertainment. And "Thriller" IS popular entertainment, and nothing more. Nonetheless, "This Is a Thriller" takes the usual route of presenting a TV show as a great and lasting contribution to the arts, a conceit that isn't helped, for example, by the fact that many of the "Thriller" scripts were based on stories ... Read More
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This book is a must for diehard fans of the excellent classic TV horror anthology THRILLER (a.k.a. BORIS KARLOFF'S THRILLER), and it would be great reading for any heretofore non-fan interested in learning about the series. Warren provides interesting info on the development of THRILLER as a series, as well as detailed exposition on the genesis and behind-the-scenes production processes for each episode. And the episode guide is the greatest--it is well written and contains very detailed plot descriptions, ... Read More
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