Truegho
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Post by Truegho on Nov 9, 2008 16:16:54 GMT
Does anybody remember Appointment With Fear on a Monday night? The first series, if I remember correctly, was shown around 1969-70, and was hosted by a dark haired guy sitting in a chair with a real creepy voice. The Webmaster www.horrorwriters.net |
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Post by carolinec on Nov 9, 2008 19:09:02 GMT
Does anybody remember Appointment With Fear on a Monday night? The first series, if I remember correctly, was shown around 1969-70, and was hosted by a dark haired guy sitting in a chair with a real creepy voice. The Webmaster www.horrorwriters.netI most certainly do - from when I was very young and probably shouldn't have been watching those kinds of things on TV! The guy doing the intro really spooked me. I can't recall that much about the series now, and I'm not sure if I saw all of it. Have you tried looking it up on IMDB? |
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Post by carolinec on Nov 9, 2008 23:02:24 GMT
Now that's strange! I was SURE I remembered this as a TV series from my childhood, but maybe I'm getting it mixed up in my mind with "Armchair Theatre", "Mystery Theatre" or something like that? Anyway, I looked up "Appointment with Fear" on IMDB and it is, of course, the radio series introduced by Valentine Dyall (who certainly had a creepy voice). Is my mind playing tricks on me? Was this ever televised? Am I thinking of something else? Or am I completely loosing my marbles ....?  |
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stephenbacon
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Post by stephenbacon on Nov 9, 2008 23:22:30 GMT
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Post by carolinec on Nov 9, 2008 23:32:51 GMT
Ooo, yes, it could be. 1967 would be about the right year for what I'm thinking of. Would this be the one you're thinking of too, Truegho? |
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Post by jkdunham on Nov 10, 2008 0:02:21 GMT
Is my mind playing tricks on me? Was this ever televised? Am I thinking of something else? Or am I completely loosing my marbles ....? Don't know if this is what might be confusing you, Caroline (or even if, living in Yorkshire, it doesn't apply), but I'm fairly sure that Granada TV used to use the title 'Appointment With Fear' for their weekly showings of late night horror films back in the '70s. The films weren't introduced by anybody - other than an announcer - it was just like a 'season' of films which they'd do every so often. |
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Post by carolinec on Nov 10, 2008 12:22:26 GMT
Is my mind playing tricks on me? Was this ever televised? Am I thinking of something else? Or am I completely loosing my marbles ....? Don't know if this is what might be confusing you, Caroline (or even if, living in Yorkshire, it doesn't apply)... Ah, but I would have been living in the West Country at that time - HTV (West) region - just to confuse everyone even more! You might be right, Steve, that might be what I was thinking of? And perhaps it was the guy who introduced Armchair Thriller who used to give me the creeps? But I reckon it's just old age creeping up on me - I forget things and get things mixed up. Just pop a few pills down me, pat me on the head and sit me in the corner, and I'll be fine ... !   |
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Post by benedictjjones on Nov 10, 2008 12:56:35 GMT
^make sure you've brought enough pills for all the other vaulters...
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Post by carolinec on Nov 10, 2008 16:51:30 GMT
^make sure you've brought enough pills for all the other vaulters... I certainly don't mind sharing out my homeopathic remedies and herbal cures if anyone wants to try some ...  |
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Post by benedictjjones on Nov 12, 2008 15:53:11 GMT
^as long as i can't walk in straight lines afterwards i'll give anything a go!!
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stephenbacon
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Post by stephenbacon on Nov 12, 2008 22:54:00 GMT
I have fond memories of the BBC's 'Horror Double Bills' on saturday nights when I was a kid.
After the test match cricket (with the famous kettle drum theme), BBC2 would show two films back to back, and my parents used to let me stay up to watch them. Mainly Hammer or Amicus productions, sometimes the odd American film, but they were my introduction into the world of horror.
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Post by lemming13 on Nov 24, 2010 16:40:34 GMT
I can add something to the Appointment With Fear history, having (to my immense glee) been given the BBC CD set to review by Amazon as a Vine voice. According to the insert, it debuted on 11 September 1943, hosted by Valentine Dyall, and mostly using scripts revamped from the US series Suspense. There were 9 series altogether, some hosted by Valentine and some by his father Franklyn Dyall, running till 1957. It was revamped for Fear on Four in 1988 and 1992, with Edward de Souza as the Man In Black. There were some short film adaptations made by British Foundation Pictures in 1946, so you might have seen those being aired on tv. There was a spinoff series, The Man In Black, which was given a movie treatment by Hammer/Exclusive Films in 1949. And of all the huge catalogue of wonderful radio stories made for this series, there are left - FOUR. The cd set has them all. The Pit and the Pendulum, starring Marius Goring; John Dickson Carr's The Speaking Clock, starring Esme Percy; another Dickson Carr, The Clock Strikes Eight, starring Richard George as Gideon Fell; and Monckton Hoffe's And the Deep Shuddered, starring Ralph Truman. The last is my own favourite. Couldn't believe all the rest have gone, though - especially when you realise that they have kept more episodes of The Burkiss Way and It Sticks OUt Half a Mile than they have of this. Philistines.  |
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Post by limagraar on Jan 18, 2011 18:39:41 GMT
jk is right,i used to be allowed up on a thursday and friday night,the season of horror films were introduced as appointment with fear,mid seventies.showed a lot of hammer horror films,and portmanteau films like vault of horror,tales from the cryp asylum,etc..loved them all.ps,this was on yorkshire television as well.
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