Armchair Thriller Collection (Complete Series) - 10-DVD Box Set ( Rachel in Danger / A Dog's Ransom / The Girl Who Walked Quickly / Quiet as a Nun / The Limbo Connection / The Victim / Dying Day / Fear of God / The Circe Complex / The Chelsea Murders )

Armchair Thriller Collection (Complete Series) - 10-DVD Box Set (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Rachel in Danger / A Dog's Ransom / The Girl Who Walked Quickly / Quiet as a Nun / The Limbo Connection / The Victim / Dying Day / Fear of God / The Circe Complex / The Chelsea Murders
Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital Stereo )

Product Origin/Format:
Australia ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
1404 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Box Set
Interactive Menu
Multi-DVD Set
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1978 - 1980 and produced in:
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )

Directed By:
Waris Hussein
Donald McWhinnie
Brian Farnham
Moira Armstrong
Robert Tronson
Gareth Davies
Robert D. Cardona

Written By:
John Bowen
Andrew Brown
Ray Jenkins
Julia Jones
Philip Mackie
Michael Ashe
Troy Kennedy-Martin
Desmond Cory
Lionel Davidson

Actors:
Stephen Greif ..... Juan
Eiko Nakamura ..... Aiyaka
Neville Jason ..... Peter
Christian Burgess ..... Young PC
Patricia Mason ..... Scots lady
Gwyneth Powell ..... WPC
George Waring ..... Police sergeant
Benjamin Whitrow ..... Edward Reynolds
Zena Walker ..... Gina Reynolds
Leon Eagles ..... Kowajinski
Prentis Hancock ..... Desk sergeant
Brian Stirner ..... Clarence Duhamel
Paul Angelis ..... Tom Choley
Denis Lawson ..... David Cooper
Phyllida Nash ..... Liz
Clive Merrison ..... Godolt
Barry Stanton ..... Swift
John Gregg ..... Everly
Oliver Smith ..... Helper
Luke Hanson ..... Helper
Margery Mason ..... Mrs. Cooper
Derek Benfield ..... Mr. Cooper
Anna Nicholas ..... The Girl
Maria Aitken ..... Jemima Shore
Renée Asherson ..... Mother Ancilla
Brenda Bruce ..... Sister Elizabeth
David Burke ..... Tom Amyas, MP
James Laurenson ..... Alexander Sharbeck
Doran Godwin ..... Sister Lucy
Margaret D'Arcy ..... Sister Clare
Kate Binchy ..... Sister Edward
Linda Slater ..... Dodo
Sarah Webb ..... Margaret
Michele Winstanley ..... Blanche
Patsy Kensit ..... Tessa
Catrina Hylton ..... May
Mary Healey ..... Beatrice O'Dowd
James Appleby ..... Joe
James Bolam ..... Mark Omney
Rosalind Ayres ..... Anabelle Fraser
Michael Culver ..... Dr. Walcott Brown
Beatrix Lehmann ..... Blanche Terraine
Suzanne Bertish ..... Clare Omney
James Berwick ..... Col. Forde
Georgine Anderson ..... Mrs. Forde
Patricia Lawrence ..... Mrs. Carson-Clark
Graham Rowe ..... Mr. Carson-Clark
Tricia George ..... Melissa Carson-Clark
Isabelle Amyes ..... Julie Villiers
Tony Mathews ..... George Beatty
Vass Anderson ..... Soames
Alan Ford ..... Bill
Yvonne Edgell ..... Margaret
David Beckett ..... Frankie Martin
Lorna Yabsley ..... Sue Craig
Steve Morley ..... Len Trace
John Shrapnel ..... Vincent Craig
Paul Jerricho ..... Steve Turn
Godfrey James ..... Chief Supt. Lewis
Gerald Sim ..... Francis Durrant
Alan Downer ..... Rodney Marsh
Priscilla Morgan ..... Zena Heathrop
Meg Ritchie ..... Ellen Craig
Alan Bennion ..... Praed
Leon Sinden ..... Governor Gregory
Raymond Witch ..... Bates
Richard McNeff ..... Chief prison officer
Catherine Owen ..... Policewoman
Ian McKellen ..... Anthony Skipling
Maurice Kaufmann ..... 1st Interrogator
Prentis Hancock ..... 2nd Interrogator
David Howey ..... Foster
David Ryall ..... Lane
Patrick Malahide ..... Police Sergeant
Michael Troughton ..... Police Constable
Anton Phillips ..... Roger
Joan Scott ..... Senior Samaritan
Kathleen Worth ..... Cleaning Lady
Bryan Marshall ..... Paul Marriott
Alun Armstrong ..... Trahearne
Michael Watkins ..... Cyril
Madeleine Hinde ..... Francesca Thornton
Laurence Harrington ..... Sub editor
Lynn Clayton ..... Helen
Lionel Sansby ..... Ambulance man
Susan Sheridan ..... Rosamun
Roger Brierley ..... Vic
Madeline Church ..... Nicola Clay
Dave Cooper ..... PT Instructor
Kevin Costello ..... Sandy
David Graham ..... Vicar
Garrick Hagon ..... Walters
David Healy ..... Anvil
Chris Jenkinson ..... Larke
Steve Kelly ..... Electronic Man
Trevor Martin ..... Tom Foreman
Beth Morris ..... Val Foreman
Alan David ..... Ollie Milton
Michael Deeks ..... Cat Devlin
James Hazeldine ..... Dave
Geoffrey Colville ..... Prison governor
Maggie Wilkinson ..... Miss. Davis
Eric Francis ..... Mr. Evans
Marc Boyle ..... Policeman
Miranda Bell ..... Mary
Michael Feast ..... Steve
Guy Gregory ..... Artie

Synopsis:

With memorably unsettling opening credits and exceptional performances and direction, Armchair Thriller became a massive hit for Thames Television in the late 1970s and early 1980s.With its trademark ghoulish, razor-sharp cliff-hangers and iconic theme tune (by Roxy Music's Andy Mackay), this haunting anthology series was an immediate success - its eerie, disturbing and downright scary tales regularly attracting over 15 million viewers. Each of its ten stories is a gripping exercise in compelling television, showing ordinary people plunged into extraordinary situations. For many, this series remains a high-water mark of dramatic television and its many frightening and spooky moments are remembered by viewers nearly thirty years after its original transmission. This set contains all ten stories made by Thames Television. List of Films: Rachel in Danger (1978) A Dog's Ransom (1978) The Girl Who Walked Quickly (1978) Quiet as a Nun (1978) The Limbo Connection (1978) The Victim (1980) Dying Day (1980) Fear of God (1980) The Circe Complex (1980) The Chelsea Murders (1979)

Rachel in Danger (1978)
Ten-year-old Rachel is sent to live with her estranged father. However, just hours before her arrival, her father is murdered and his identity stolen by a terrorist.

A Dog's Ransom (1978)
This story reflects that view entirely. A middle class couple with a comfortable income and life style have a pet white miniature poodle named 'Tina'. An emigre from Poland, who is not so well off, envies and resents them. More from revenge than profit, he kidnaps and kills their dog, but demands 200 pounds ransom. When that is paid, he demands another 100 pounds and gets it. Of course, the couple never learn the fate of their dog. The police when the episode is reported, essentially refuse to do anything, except for a rookie constable who undertakes to identify the perpetrator on his own time...

The Girl Who Walked Quickly (1978)
A man is kidnapped and brainwashed by political extremists.

Quiet as a Nun (1978)
A reporter is asked to look into the mysterious death of a nun who died in a locked room at a convent.

The Limbo Connection (1978)
Film writer Mark Omney arranges to meet his wife, Clare, at their country cottage. But after treatment for food poisoning at a local clinic, Clare vanishes. As Mark follows the bizarre trail that might lead to her, he increasingly falls under suspicion - but becomes convinced that the clinic holds a terrible secret…

The Victim (1980)
14 year old schoolgirl Sue Craig has been kidnapped by two psychotics. Her father Vincent, a business executive, waits for the phone call...but when the telephone rings, his reaction shocks everyone. Instead of paying the ransom demand, he embarks on a hunt for the two abductors. The matter is further complicated when Sue begins to form an emotional attachment to one of her captors...

Dying Day (1980)
A lonely man with punctilious habits listens to a tape cassette of ambient barroom sounds, which include the hushed tones of two men plotting to kill him; but when a policeman listens, all the sounds are there except those of the two men.

Fear of God (1980)
A journalist finds his life is in danger when he investigates the death of a woman who was involved with a religious cult.

The Circe Complex (1980)
Tom Foreman (Trevor Martin) has hidden £400,000 worth of jewellery from a robbery and is now in prison, but his wife Val (Beth Morris) has a plan for aiding his escape. Meanwhile, Val becomes a tantalising prospect for a number of men all interested in the jewellery's whereabouts...

The Chelsea Murders (1979)
A serial murderer is on the loose in the bohemian borough of Chelsea and the police race the press to find the killer.

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