AaronCapenBanner Never saw this series before I watched the DVD set, I was mostly impressed by it, though it took a awhile to find its way. It started out with crime "thrillers", which ranged from moderately interesting to instantly forgettable, though when it showcased horror, it really hummed, with presentations like 'The Hungry Glass', 'The Grim Reaper', & 'Pigeons From Hell' being the standouts.Boris Karloff presented all 67 episodes, and was as effective a host for this, as Rod Serling was for "The Twilight Zone". Karloff was in my view the greatest horror film actor who ever lived, and appeared in several episodes, the best of which was 'The Incredible Doktor Markensen'.Not as moralizing as "The Twilight Zone", this series was noticeably grimmer in tone, though wonderfully filmed in Black & White.If you can get past the crime episodes, this is well worth viewing.

tostinati My favorite episode right now is probably The Purple Room, wherein Rip Torn must agree to spend the night alone in an old Louisiana mansion, if he is to inherit it. But I love The Incredible Doktor Markesan, The Remarkable Mrs. Hawk, Guillotine, The Cheaters, Kill My Love and La Strega. All the episodes are, at very least, expertly-crafted, with good use made of music and good, atmospheric B&W cinematography. I wrote Universal years ago asking why they don't go to DVD with this property, and predictably perhaps, I received no reply at all. A site says that when this series was offered to local stations (as opposed to cable stations, which can break the mold in many ways) several years ago, there was not one taker. That shook me. Armed with that figure, the people at Universal will probably never DVD the series. But since there's evidence that they have an audience ready and waiting for this series, and with money to buy it if it was available, the studio seems to keep blowing it. The internet auction sites have had the complete Thriller for a song for several years now, which edges into the copyright holder's potential market. But it isn't too late to do this package right and offer something the off-air recorders and resellers can't offer, like commentaries or a well-researched and serious documentary on the series. But they need to move on it. The people who care about this series, were involved in it in some way, however distant, or are authoritative on it are not increasing in number, nor are they getting younger. Universal really needs to give this the full treatment, and NOW. So what's the hold-up?

john CHANIK I recall an episode about a mirror in an upper room of possibly a museum or antique store. People who went into that room never returned. A man and his wife went into the room to check out the mirror. The man noticed a spot in the upper left corner. The longer he watched the spot, the larger it grew. His wife wanted to leave the room, but the man just had to have another look. As he looked, the spot grew larger and took the form of the grim reaper. By the time he realized what he was seeing, it was too late. It took him and he was gone.I don't know if this was an episode of Thriller- does anybody remember it? Email me at [email protected]

john-perry-4 "The Hungry Glass." There is something creepy about old mirrors, anyway. Especially those tucked away in the attics of creepy old mansions. Just seeing those misty ghosts trapped "under glass" would make the episode unforgettable, but it was made more frightening at the end, with those phantoms beckoning to the living to join them in their looking-glass purgatory. (Not sure, but I think Richard Matheson wrote it.) Years later in college, I saw it again and found it just as effective.Other favorites included "Pigeons From Hell" with Brandon de Wilde, and "The Storm" with Nancy Kelly. And then there was "Trilogy of Terror," combining three episodes into the 60-minute format.