Armchair Thriller

Opening titles, S1. A box set of ten stories is available in the UK, with the two final stories (Dead Man's Kit and High Tide) due out this year from another company.

A 4-disc set is also being released in the US on July 1st 2009.

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• armchair
• thriller

[MrCityboy1968]

@56postoffice I agree. They don't make these sorts of TV programmes any more. They took more risks in the 70s and drama was bolder, cleverer and more adventurous then the rubbish broadcast now! In the 70s there were no inhibitions and no political correctness. I've just ordered the Armchair Thriller series and can't wait to see it. Hopefully I won't find it too scary this time round!

[56postoffice]

@MrCityboy1968 I still think to this day its the scariest opening credit to any show I've seen. They got away with enough shit in the Seventies! :O

[MrCityboy1968]

@56postoffice I agree! It was well fucking scary! I was around the same age as you at the time! I remember that it made me feel grown up to be allowed to stay up to watch this! Mind you I was shit scared having to go straight to bed afterwards!

[MrCityboy1968]

I agree with the many of the comments here. I was around 9 or 10 year old when this was broadcast and even the theme tune was so very scary, never mind the stories! I used to watch it with my parents around so I didn't feel quite so scared! I've juts ordered the series to watch again! That theme tune is still scary though!

[ritaedu1]

@chompypunk890 It does indeed. Even if I was offered a huge sum of cash to watch the opening titles and a entire episode on my own in my house I would still have to decline it..

[chompypunk890]

@ritaedu1 Well does it consolate you if I tell you than you are not the only one who feels that?

[56postoffice]

This was proper scary shit. Which came on 8-8;30 in the evening!!!! The theme tune. The shadow creeping up to sit on the white armchair. That is a sinister combo. But there was another version to this opening title which featured a screaming red face rolling down the chair.That scared the fuck out of me. I was only ten at the time.......

[JofeAmoraw]

fucking motherfucking asssholes fuckers!!! This shit was aired on prime time...while we kids were watching the TV! I am tearing up watching this asshole right now...scared! I want to go under the couch and pee but I'm too old!

I want t be hugged by somebody loving and protected!

Thumbs up if you feel this way!

Btw..this from Ethiopia!

[robskyd]

This used to shit me right up as a kid. The one I remember vividly is when the dead body fell off the roof of a train. *shudders*

[aerialkate]

@RussinTirnaNog I remember Tales of the Unexpected. The one that sticks in my mind (for some reason, I don't think it was much cop actually) was the one where the boy has a fascination for those big sea turtles and floats out to sea on the back of one of them and is never heard of again. There is a good clip of Peter Cook spoofing Roald Dahl and Tales of the Unexpected here on Youtube, which is quite funny..