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I've decided to try and construct a thread dedicated to ITV's 70's masterpiece Thriller. Now we already have a single show thread, Dr Who , which I started, and that's popular, but I'm sure this'll interest a few only, if that. Hope anyone reading these enjoy them as I'll enjoy doing them. Thriller was an anthology series, so I'll cover each episode in any order I please. These won't be reviews, but delving and unravelling each story. It was the first tv show I remember " falling " for, made me want to be a TV scriptwriter. It never happened but its always had a place in my affection.
I'll start with,
S2 E1 ONLY A SCREAM AWAY
In a sleepy English village Samantha and Robert Miller marry. The attendees gather outside the church as the happy couple come outside to cheers. The crowd gather round, confetti is thrown. Someone, unnoticed throws red paint over Sammy's dress.
In their bedroom at the Inn, Sammy wonders who could have done such a thing. Robert assures her that weddings have a strange effect on some people, it was probably a village practical joker. Tom the best man enters, after giving Sammy a kiss says," you're wanted downstairs Sammy, photographer wants some shots of you and the bridesmaids."
After she leaves Tom says to Robert, " asked around, I'm sure it's not one of our lot that did it."
Tom leaves and Liza enters, a lady in her 70's. Liza has brought Sammy up from childhood and is worried about Robert's driving when they are away on their honeymoon.
" I can't help remembering Sammy's parents both killed by a horrific car accident."
"And I'm a bit of a speed merchant, eh Aunt Liza? I promise with Sammy on board I'll drive like a little old lady on her way to evensong."
Liza a bit sad at losing Sammy," I'll miss her, but I'm glad she'll be such capable hands as yours Robert. I'll get everything ready in your new house for when you get back."
Robert beams," Aunt Liza, I can't thank you enough."
" Well I'm a very capable woman, why I never married, scared men away."
" You never married because you devoted yourself to Sammy."
Some time later Sammy and Robert are at their car waving goodbye, they drive off.
Meanwhile someone has entered their bedroom in the Inn, a man, unnoticed , we can't see who, but this person looks at the wedding gifts on the bed, and places a package of his own down on the bed, then leaves.A fortnight later, and just outside the village the realtor is in a windmill that has been converted to a house, a buyer is with him. The buyer is Howard Heston an American.
" A windmill, fantastic, I always wanted to live in a windmill, I'll take it."
Sammy and Robert pass in their car returned from honeymoon, the road 50 or so yards away, Sammy waves at the realtor.
Howard asks, " is that a sample of the local hospitality around here?"
" Ah, too late there Mr Heston, just married, they'll be neighbours of yours about half a mile away."
" Erm... that sounds chummy."
In their new house Liza and Tom await to greet the happy couple, Liza has got everything perfect, all the new furniture is here, all the wedding presents, everything ready for them. Sammy kisses Liza," oh Liza you've been marvellous , what are we going to do without you?"
" Well you haven't got rid of me yet, I can still visit can't I?"
Everyone laughs, " of course anytime," says Robert.
That evening Sammy and Robert relaxing on the settee, smooching and opening their wedding presents. Sammy picks up a little package, addressed to her only in her maiden name, she opens it, it's a single white glove, a child's glove. Sammy dismayed, " who on earth would send that? Just one and it's stained."
Robert looks at it, and finds in it a hand written note saying" forever and ever" , " the fingers are grubby , this has been worn, and a little stain in the palm, how odd. Someone is playing a joke and I can guess who."
Robert phones up Tom, who is in a pub after playing cricket, but he denies he's responsible for the glove.
The next day Sammy and Liza alone, Liza has brought round a cardboard box, in it all Sammy's toys and childhood items that she kept. There's a doll, a ornate decorated little ceramic box, Liza says it's a music box but Sammy can't seem to open it.
" There's a special way of opening it Sammy, I could never do it but you always could."
Sammy looks glum as she goes through the box , "it's no use Liza, I can't remember any of it."
"I remember when you were 5 Sammy, your parents had just died and you put all your toys away in this box, rarely got them out again."
Sammy goes into kitchen, Liza sees photo album in box, removes it and hides it under her coat on the couch.
That evening Robert is going through the box when he finds something in an envelope. " Sammy look at this," Sammy sees what Robert has found, a white child's glove.
" It's the other glove Robert, a matching pair, it must be."
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51 minutes ago, M j M said:
A strange take. BBC games, even on BBC 2, get significantly more viewers than Sky ones, half asleep or not.
Unless they were wide awake at the start and asleep at the end.
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Difficult to limit myself to just 10 as there are so many great episodes, but TOP 10 INSIDE No. 9
1. Wise Owl
Ronnie, in his 40's is clearly disturbed as the story starts. He gets into a bath fully clothed and is about to put an electric current into the water when the doorbell rings. A neighbour has brought round a dead rabbit, his daughter's pet, named Ferrari and wants Ronnie to stuff it, as he is a taxidermist.
Animated Scene
A 1970s public information film; two children, brother and sister playing with a kite which gets stuck on an electric pylon. The boy wants to climb the pylon to retrieve it , but the Wise Owl flies up to them with the catchphrase, " twit you, twit you."
Wise Owl says, " electric pylons are dangerous."
Little Girl " how do we get our kite back Wise Owl?"
Owl," the wind will help."
Wise Owl blows and wind frees the kite.
End of animated sceneRonnie sleeps in a sleeping bag on the floor of the house and dreams, a naked man in an owl mask approaches, Ronnie wakes. He gets a phone call from his mother, his parents no longer are together, she wants him to come round to her place on Monday. In the kitchen Ronnie opens shoebox containing dead rabbit and starts to work on stuffing it.
Animated Scene
Same two children, their pet cat has died, they are sad. Wise Owl appears," twit you, twit you."
Owl, " don't be sad, taxidermy is easy, you can be with your pet forever."
Little Girl," how so Wise Owl?"
( Wise Owl tells kids how to do taxidermy, skin animal, pluck out eyes, burn carcass, create new innards with foam and wire, treat pelt with chemicals, place skin over new torso, job done. This is a very strange public information film, teaching kids taxidermy!)
End of animation scene
Ronnie starts work on dead rabbit, but it doesn't go well, he clearly knows nothing about it. The neighbour returns and demands dead pet back, after being told that the taxidermist is a man in his 70's, and isn't Ronnie. Ronnie hands over mutilated rabbit ,the neighbour goes potty and storms off threatening action against Ronnie.Animated Scene;
House is on fire, little girl inside screams as she burns to death. Wise Owl outside house helpless watching.
End of animated scene
The house Ronnie is squatting in belongs to father Wilf who returns to see Ronnie and is not overjoyed to see him. Wilf reveals Ronnie has been in an institution for years after the death of his sister, burned to death in a house fire, as Ronnie was held responsible. Ronnie glumly says that on Monday his sister would have been 50 if she lived, and mother wants them to go over to her place, Wilf declines.Wilf looks at mail just arrived, envelopes addressed to Wise Owl, mostly written in crayon, by kids.
Wilf, " apparently they want to bring Wise Owl back, done with CGI , probably be cr..ap. I just do taxidermy now, you'll be surprised how many people want to cling on to the past. Funnily I've never done an owl."
Animated Scene
Little boy and girl, birthday cake on table, it's the girl's birthday , she wants to light candles. Wise Owl sits on chair drunk!
Boy " Wise Owl, isn't it dangerous to play with matches?"
Wise Owl,( drunkenly)" Can't you fu**ing read Ronnie, they're safety matches , they're safe, let her light candles. You and me Ronnie will go upstairs."
End of animated scene
In house Wilf and Ronnie go upstairs, Ronnie hides knife behind back, into bedroom. Wilf sits on bed and says," give your Dad a hug, you know you like it."
Ronnie reveals that Wilf told everyone that he rescued him from house fire that killed sister, by climbing in through window, when in truth he and his dad were upstairs in the bedroom when the sister set fire to the house trying to light candles on birthday cake. Wilf says, " what else could I do, I was the voice of Wise Owl giving out safety information, and my daughter dies in a house fire, not exactly good for the brand image."
Ronnie attempts to stab Wilf but misses and says he'll tell his mother and everyone the truth about his father, voice of Wise Owl, taxidermist and serial child abuser. Ronnie storms out of house, Wilf desperately follows .
Animated Scene
Child, who is Ronnie, leaves house, Wise Owl flies behind,
Wise Owl, " twit you, twit you, don't do it please Ronnie. You must do what Wise Owl says. "
Ronnie, " get stuffed!"2. Riddle Of The Sphinx
3. Random Act Of Kindness
This episode has a staggering twist and surely no one could forsee this, but some clever clogs on YouTube claim they did.
Zach is a surly bad tempered teenager studying physics at college hopefully to go on to University. He lives with his mother after his father has left home and set up with a new partner in Singapore. This makes Zach incredibly vicious and aggressive to his mum Helen, who is a bit sad and desperately wants companionship. Zach has no intention to be his mum's surrogate pal.
They constantly bicker and after another shouting match Zach goes to his bedroom and on his laptop gets on with his physics course work. Suddenly something is heard banging the window of his bedroom and it appears a sparrow has flown into the glass and lays stunned on the grass.
The front doorbell rings and a man is there , he has picked up the bird and wants to bring it into the house to recuperate. Helen desperate for company says yes and the man enters gently holding the bird.
By cutting up a cereal box Helen makes a little cot for the bird and places it on the kitchen floor. The man places the bird in the box and introduces himself as Bob Bliss.
After a while the bird recovers and flies about the kitchen, Helen releases it.
Zach is introduced to Bob and when Helen reveals Zach is studying physics Bob reveals he is a physicist and studied at the Uni that Zach is aiming for. Another argument ensues when Helen suggests Zach needs extra tutoring and Bob agrees to come round and give Zach extra lessons.
Things go well, Zach makes progress and Helen finds Bob charming company.
Interspersed with these scenes we have seen a couple of times a Dr Brann making school videos on the subject of physics, he makes videos used as teaching aids.
Meanwhile Bob sets Zach a problem, using physics can he predict who will win a horse race, using data such as jockey weights, ground density, horse bio data etc.
Helen receives a phone call that she's been dreading, from a hospital with results of her scan, she has to go to the hospital to get the results. Before she leaves she notices the cereal box is still on the kitchen floor.
She picks it up and notices the barcode on the box, the number of the barcode is 55179909, when read upside down reads Bob Bliss. Bob is a phoney, that isn't his name, but who is he?
Zach returns home with news that the horse he predicted to win has won and Bob is coming over with £2000, half he'll give to Zach. Helen forbids him to take it, and doesn't want Bob in the house again, saying that he's a weirdo who rescued a bird and they know nothing about him.
Zach is furious and threatens to run off to Singapore to take up his father's offer of a paid for place at Uni out there. Helen in tears tells him to go then and Zach promises he will.
Helen leaves to get her scan results, and Bob turns up at the house, Zach does what Helen asks and refuses the money and storms up to his bedroom. Bob follows him up and reveals something incredible.
Helen returns and she has a pamphlet with her ," Living With Terminal Illness ", she is dying.
In Zach's bedroom Bob reveals Zach's theories about black holes is right and in the future he will succeed in creating a mini black hole in a laboratory and be world famous as a quantum leaper.
Zach thinks Bob is mad, until Bob shows him a tattoo on his arm, the same as Zach's. BOB IS A FUTURE ZACH, quantum leaped into the past to tell Zach to be kind to his mother as she's dying. He tells Zach that he did go to Singapore, Helen died and he has had to live with the guilt of how badly he treated his mum, never having the chance to say he loved her.
Older Zach asks Zach to tell Helen how much he loves her. Older Zach gets a gun out and blows his brains out. Helen runs in and Zach and Helen make peace.
Forward 50 YEARS.
Zach in the year 2072 has just attended the tasteful funeral service of his mum Helen who lived to 92. In this timeline Older Zach going back to visit his younger self and telling him the truth meant Zach studied Chemistry not physics, he created an anti cancer vaccine and Helen lived.
Dr Brann, the guy making school physics videos enters and pulls a gun on Zach, revealing he has received a video message on his phone from a version of himself from a redundant time line. In the original timeline, Brann and Zach created a black hole/ wormhole in the laboratory and sent a sparrow into it, and were world famous as Quantum leap technology creators, but Zach altering the timeline to save his mother meant Dr Brann ended up doing the ###### job he has now. Brann wants to reverse the timeline shift. Zach says that'll mean Helen will die. Brann is sympathetic but he doesn't want to be collateral damage for saving Helen's life. The two of them struggle over the gun. How does it end, does Brann succeed in undoing Zach's altering of the timeline?
Last scene: Young Zach is in his bedroom when a sparrow flies into the window. The sparrow lies on the grass.....no one picks it up.....the sparrow dies4. The Devil Of Christmas
5. Tempting Fate
6. Simon Says
7. Diddle Diddle Dumpling
8. Mr King
9. 12 Days Of Christine
10. A Quiet Night In
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1 hour ago, Bedfordshire Bronco said:
Ah so basically I have Sky sports so I shouldn't bother with SL+?
1 hour ago, HawkMan said:If I were you I'd see how I liked the experience of choosing any game in the first 15 rounds, then when you need SL+ to continue, decide then. If you have a difficult decision to make, always leave it for as long as you can.
An added thought: You could get rid of something else and get SL+ and keep Sky. I'm thinking of TNT Sports which I believe you have. No RL there, and you've said you wouldn't care if Union collapses, so it's expendable.
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13 minutes ago, Bedfordshire Bronco said:
Ah so basically I have Sky sports so I shouldn't bother with SL+?
If I were you I'd see how I liked the experience of choosing any game in the first 15 rounds, then when you need SL+ to continue, decide then. If you have a difficult decision to make, always leave it for as long as you can.
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1 hour ago, EggFace said:
I know I keep harping about it but I do think a combined code net a good deal with either Skyd or TNT.
PS check out my next post on Cross Codes in the next few hours or so.
Playing at being Mr Spock I'll say a combination of League and Union is illogical. If League is the greater game, which it is, a hybrid of the two codes must produce a lesser game. If TGG hasn't swept all before it, why should a lesser hybrid game?
For a new hybrid game to be bigger than Union it'll have to maintain many elements of Union, otherwise logically why would Union intelligentsia ( an oxymoron) go for it?
This wooly thinking about combining the codes, by League fans, is based on the assumption that the end product would be League but with a bit of Union kept in to keep the dark side happy, but there's no reason they'd go for it. One code might happen eventually but only if the other collapses and is defunct. The best way to achieve that is to push push and push RL to cause Union to wither naturally.
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3 minutes ago, On the buses said:
Kind of Reminds me of jocks shouting for and buying jerseys of teams playing against England in the football World Cup.
They have to do that because they never qualify themselves.
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Top 10 Columbo episodes. I won't use titles but descriptions.
Not in order
1. Patrick McGoohan as a crooked funeral director
2. The "Johnny Cash" one
3.The "Dick Van Dyke and the bogus kidnapping "one
4. McGoohan again, "the army cadet school" one
5. The "Columbo's boss covers up a murder" one.
6. The " old biddy author locks her dead neice's husband in a vault" one
7. The "William Shatner"one
8. The " Great Santini , nightclub magician in a water tank " one
9. The" Fallen Hollywood actress murders a gossip columnist " one
10. The " Leonard Nimoy heart surgeon " one.
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50 minutes ago, On the buses said:
The bigger question to ask is why this decline is happening in both codes of rugby and the alarming rise of the football behemoth that just seems to be getting bigger and bigger year on year.
Why is it alarming? Sky have £21m (loose change) to spend on RL because they rake in millions from soccer subscribers and advertising during Prem matches. Also I'm not sure we're competing for the same audience anyway.
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On 26/01/2024 at 12:38, gingerjon said:
Adam Ant adamant that ridicule is nothing to be scared of
Don't you ever lower yourself forgetting all your standards.
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Top 10 sports I watch.
1. Football
2. Cricket - limited overs
3. Rugby League
4. Darts
5. Cricket- Tests
6. Tennis
7. Golf
8 American Indycar racing
9. er..that's it
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Star Trek top 10- part 2 (5 to 10)
5 ST The Next Generation
6. ST Original Series Film Series
7. ST Strange New Worlds
8. ST Discovery
9. ST TNG Film Series
10. ST Animated Series
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My top 10 Star Trek " franchises " part 1
1. ST The Original series
2. ST Voyager
3. ST Enterprise
4. ST Deep Space 9
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Top 10 tins of soup.
1. C ock-a- Leekie
2. Carrot and Butterbean
3. Minestrone
4. Tomato
5. French Onion
6. Vegetable
7. Mushroom
8. Chicken Broth
9. Scotch Broth
10. Carrot and Coriander
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The current buzzword is " monetize." I feel IMG's main goal is to put the game on a solid or more solid than now footing. Monetizing the fans is a definite tactic, rather than expanding the game.
What happens if the SL streaming is a success, but the viewers go down for main channel games? Next tv deal could be for streaming only.
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Apologies for this super niche top 10. If you're a Londoner and a bus nerd, you have a top 10 routes.
1. 375- the route to nowhere. As the village of Havering-atte- Bower is in a London borough despite being in the Essex countryside the obligation exists to provide a London bus service, however its two miles further into the countryside that a vehicle can turn round, so it pointlessly chugs to Passingford Bridge, a roundabout in the middle of nowhere.
2. - 191- crazy route. A double S shape routing, like two S's one on top of the other. It weaves through the borough of Enfield taking 90 minutes between termini that otherwise could be done in 20 minutes.
3 - 357- the fresh air carrier. Goes between Whipps Cross and Chingford Hatch via Walthamstow. Busy roads all the way, many other routes, all packed, and the 357 picks up very few passengers because it is covered all the way by other routes. No one waits for the the 357, if it happens to come along first, okay, even if you want to go end to end there's another that is quicker.
4. 309- weaves its way through busy East London but via side streets almost all the way, pleasant journey.
5. 364- my local route, useful obviously.
6. H13 - nearly circular but just not quite as it takes 30 minutes to travel around Ruislip Woods. I've walked between the two termini in 15 minutes.
7. 386 - The Greenwich sightseer, unofficially of course. 50 minutes travelling around Greenwich back streets mostly, God help anyone who wants to go end to end not realising the tedious journey they'll be embarking on as the termini are pretty close together.
8. 193- personal reasons for choosing this , romantic reasons.
9. 347 - at just 4 journeys a day in each direction this is the most infrequent route of all. TFL tried to get rid of it, but the local MP stepped in and it stays for now. Goes to North Ockendon, really in the countryside but bizarrely in a London borough.
YouTuber Geoff Marshall explores the 347.
10- 497- created about 4 years ago, and about to be scrapped, sort of. A route poorly designed, meant to serve a new housing estate, but problem is no one used it really. Now to be merged with 346, which many of us nerds suggested in the beginning.
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2 hours ago, sam4731 said:
Also, winning the Champ grand final this year doesn't really mean anything this year as Wakefield know they're probably going up anyway. They may decide at the backend of the year that post season recruitment is their main priority and they might take they're eye off the ball.
Fantastic for the Championship, that'll bring in the punters and attract newbies.
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6 hours ago, On the buses said:
No doubt it has but I guess we’ll find out if this average NRL standard player will get a super league contract.
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In court the Judge is addressing the defendant found guilty of murder.
Judge, "you have been found guilty of murdering your wife with a hammer."
A man shouts out, " bas***d"
Judge, " you have also been found guilty of murdering your daughter with a hammer."
The man shouts again, " bloody evil sh*t."
Judge to Man " I know this is a difficult case but please control yourself, what's your problem?"
Man " I've been his neighbour for 20 years and whenever I asked to borrow his hammer he said he never had one !"
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13 minutes ago, HawkMan said:
Now, as I do watch it, my top 10 players now I enjoy watching.
( in no particular order)
1. Mo Salah
2. Erling Haaland
3. Harry Kane
4. James Maddison
5. Heung Min Son
6. Phil Foden
7. James Ward Prowse
8. Edison
9. Miguel Almiron
10. Jude Bellingham
Top 10 teams I enjoy watching, knowing I'll get a reasonably entertaining game.
1. Tottenham, obviously
2. Man City, so good
3. Man Utd, so comical
4. Liverpool
5. Real Madrid
6. Bayern Munich
7. Celtic, the passion
8. Southampton, this season because of their style
9. Burnley, lovely football but doomed sadly
10. Luton, plucky underdogs
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On 21/01/2024 at 16:38, graveyard johnny said:
none of which would get a gig in the modern premier league - the Scottish ones would be playing for Hibernian and the rest would be struggling to make the championship in the current era - sorry but its a FACT
Elsewhere you posted that maybe the Penrith players won't come because they've been invited to attend a football match, because it's so boring presumably. Yet you know so much about the game to make a sweeping statement like the above rubbish. I know f*** all about NFL or baseball because I don't watch it, so I don't comment. How do you know so much about a sport you've previously admitted never watching?
Now, as I do watch it, my top 10 players now I enjoy watching.
( in no particular order)
1. Mo Salah
2. Erling Haaland
3. Harry Kane
4. James Maddison
5. Heung Min Son
6. Phil Foden
7. James Ward Prowse
8. Edison
9. Miguel Almiron
10. Jude Bellingham
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Top 10 episodes The Prisoner
1. A B and C
2. The Schizoid Man
3. Hammer Into Anvil
4. Dance Of The Dead
5. Fall Out
6. Living in Harmony
7. The Chimes Of Big Ben
8. Once Upon A Time
9. The General
10. Arrival
Top 10 The Avengers
1. The House That Jack Built
2. Take Me To Your Leader
3. The Winged Avenger
4.
5. Return Of The Cybernauts
6. A Touch Of Brimstone
7. The Superlative Seven
8. The Hidden Tiger
9. The Maneater Of Surrey Green
10. A Brief For Murder
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3 hours ago, Sidi Fidi Gold said:
Favourite Classic Doctor Who episodes.
1 - Genesis of the Daleks
2 - Tomb of the Cybermen
3 - The Daemons
4 - Invasion of the Dinosaurs
5 - Terror of the Zygons
6 - Spearhead from Space
7 - City of Death
8 - The Green Death
9 - Web of Fear
10 - The Tenth Planet
My top 10 Dr Who Classic
1. City Of Death
2. The Pirate Planet
3. Caves Of Androzani
4. Ghostlight
5. Inferno
6. The Daemons
7. Genesis of the Daleks
8. Revelation of the Daleks
9. Mawdryn Undead
10. Pyramids of Mars.
Top 10 Blake's 7
1. Star One
2.Orbit
3. Pressure Point
4. Gambit
5. Rumours of Death
6. Blake
7. Sarcophagus
8. Project Avalon
9. Terminal
10. Aftermath
Top 10 Space 1999
1. The Troubled Spirit
2. Dorzak
3. The Infernal Machine
4. Mission Of The Darians
5. Dragon's Domain
6. Earthbound
7. Breakaway
8. All That Glisters
9. Journey To Where
10. Another Time Another Place
Top 10 U.F.O.
1. Mindbender
2. Timelash
3. The Long Sleep
4. Kill Straker
5. The Square Triangle
6. The Man Who Came Back
7. The Cat With Ten Lives
8. Computer Affair
9. The Psychobombs
10. Identified
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Cult TV Special Thread-Brian Clemens' Thriller (1973-76).
in Any Other Business / Any Other Sports
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The next day Sammy is alone in the house when the doorbell rings, it's Howard Heston, he introduces himself, he works for First Chicago Bank, here in England for a project, Sammy makes coffee and while in the kitchen hears music playing. She returns to Howard to see he has managed to open the music box that was on the sideboard.
" How on earth did you manage that Mr Heston, I just couldn't open it."
" Ah...there's a little trick to it, you twist this catch, pull the little lever on the side and press down and it opens. I had one as a child."
Robert returns from a game of golf and notices the sports car in the driveway.
After introductions Robert asks," that car of yours Mr Heston is it really as fast as it looks."
Heston says, " faster, it's an absolute monster, but flat out runs smooth as silk. I'll take you out in it sometime, or better still take it out yourself."
" I'd like to think you meant that Mr Heston."
Liza turns up and is introduced, Heston seems a bit uneasy and quickly changes his mind about staying for refreshments and leaves saying he has an important meeting at the windmill with a builder.
After he leaves Liza says, " funny he seems recognisable, can't think why."
Robert says ," just the American way to be sociable, I mean a chap who hardly knows you ,offers to lend his car."
Liza concerned, " you're not going to Robert?" Robert admits, " well I'd like to Aunt Liza."
Heston keeps his word, the next day Robert is in Heston's car, Heston at Sammy's waiting for his return with his car.
Heston and Sammy chat about childhood.
Sammy says, " I don't remember much of mine." Heston is different, " oh I remember mine , every detail, even certain dates and playmates. Everything is wonderful as a child, everything laid out , your purpose and plans seem so certain, then the grown ups come and stop you and ruin everything."
Sammy a bit perplexed by this conversation, Heston seems very agitated," but you grow up too Mr Heston, we all do."
" Yes that's inevitable, but if you're really strong, you don't let that original goal get deflected. It's simple, if anyone stands in your way, just don't let them. "
Robert driving along a country lane, a twisty bendy road, Robert presses on the brake pedal, no reaction!! No brakes, the car leaves the road, and crashes.
Detective Sgt Sullivan and Liza gives Sammy the news, Sammy in tears," dead! No I won't believe it I WON'T Liza, I can't "
A little later Sammy in shock has been tranquillised in bed, downstairs Liza and Heston, the latter upset, " I feel so responsible, he said he was used to handling fast cars."
" I think you better go Mr Heston."
" I'd like to stay a bit if I may to explain to Sammy."
" I shouldn't think she'll want anything to do you with you Mr Heston."
" It's unfair to blame me."
" Maybe but life is unfair sometimes, to be honest I wish this family had never set eyes on you."
The following day Heston has turned up again, Sammy dressed in mourning black, Heston says Liza blames him, but Sammy doesn't and Heston suggests she spends some time away from the house and the memories, he has a place, but Liza walks in. " That won't be necessary Mr Heston, Sammy and I are leaving tomorrow, abroad for a few weeks, and shouldn't you be getting back to The States, your bank, First Chicago wasn't it, funny a friend of mine has done business with them and they can't recall you."
Heston defensive, " it's a big concern lots of divisions."
" No doubt, goodbye Mr Heston, I don't expect to see you here again."