This is just for radio or audio shows. Note to be included I must have finished the walkthrough in 2025.
#ThePriceOfFear: 6/10
Vincent Price is great but I found this series to be a bit middling overall. The horror didn't land right.
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1973-83: 21 x UK Radio eps [✔️all online]
This stars Vincent Price so yeah that title is a bit on the nose!
This is just for radio or audio shows. Note to be included I must have finished the walkthrough in 2025.
#ThePriceOfFear: 6/10
Vincent Price is great but I found this series to be a bit middling overall. The horror didn't land right.
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#The4400
#Buffy
#SapphireAndSteel
#HauntedOrHoax
#Dragnet
#ThePriceOfFear #TheEleventhHour
Also many "completed" ones on Twitter which actually still tick away v slowly:
#Primeval
#AngelCardenas
#HollyMarieCombs
#JohnnyDollar
#TheShadow
#Suspense
#GreenHornet
#The4400
#Buffy
#SapphireAndSteel
#HauntedOrHoax
#Dragnet
#ThePriceOfFear #TheEleventhHour
Also many "completed" ones on Twitter which actually still tick away v slowly:
#Primeval
#AngelCardenas
#HollyMarieCombs
#JohnnyDollar
#TheShadow
#Suspense
#GreenHornet
That was the last ep!
Do I recommend?
Yes if you like things a bit slower and less perfectly formed than the greats horror shows of USA radio this UK show keeps to its strengths for the most part. It is never great but is engaging and Vincent Price is perfect.
That was the last ep!
Do I recommend?
Yes if you like things a bit slower and less perfectly formed than the greats horror shows of USA radio this UK show keeps to its strengths for the most part. It is never great but is engaging and Vincent Price is perfect.
Case in point this ep is full of the unique elements I described above that this show needs in the absence of those tight USA plots. Also two old biddies in an old house always delivers perfect radio.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgvb...
Case in point this ep is full of the unique elements I described above that this show needs in the absence of those tight USA plots. Also two old biddies in an old house always delivers perfect radio.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgvb...
This show works when its British quirk and florid language paints a fussy scene so allowing less punchier plots to be overlooked. However its missing here so this felt like a pale copy of #Suspense.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRD6...
This show works when its British quirk and florid language paints a fussy scene so allowing less punchier plots to be overlooked. However its missing here so this felt like a pale copy of #Suspense.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRD6...
Were this #Suspense the man being infantilised and the baby being intellectualised would've delivered horror.. But we don't see the latter and the former stops midway. I wish this show was more route one.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=u00X...
Were this #Suspense the man being infantilised and the baby being intellectualised would've delivered horror.. But we don't see the latter and the former stops midway. I wish this show was more route one.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=u00X...
Having just seen Liz Frazer in a 1966 #TheAvengers ep it was a surprise to have her in my next thing!
A very fine tale possibly as I didn't suspect that twist.
Was Liz typecast as adulterous working class?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YJS...
Having just seen Liz Frazer in a 1966 #TheAvengers ep it was a surprise to have her in my next thing!
A very fine tale possibly as I didn't suspect that twist.
Was Liz typecast as adulterous working class?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YJS...
Didn't think too much of this. A vengeful moggie was seen ep #3 already back in 1973. The set up was very classic #Suspense radio but like all Price of Fears takes its time to reach its destination.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gAK...
Didn't think too much of this. A vengeful moggie was seen ep #3 already back in 1973. The set up was very classic #Suspense radio but like all Price of Fears takes its time to reach its destination.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gAK...
The ep is a slow burner that's hard to get into but is worth that effort. Like a lot of this show's eps it is elevated by the dialog and descriptive detail albeit not its plot which is slower and rambling. I especially liked the rope sound effect at the end.
The ep is a slow burner that's hard to get into but is worth that effort. Like a lot of this show's eps it is elevated by the dialog and descriptive detail albeit not its plot which is slower and rambling. I especially liked the rope sound effect at the end.
NINE years later the show returns for a third season!
Michael Jayston and Daphne Heard bringing the Who goodness.
A couple move into country house but it has got a beneficial ghost, the Goody Two Shoes.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jzcz...
NINE years later the show returns for a third season!
Michael Jayston and Daphne Heard bringing the Who goodness.
A couple move into country house but it has got a beneficial ghost, the Goody Two Shoes.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jzcz...
Similar to the Peter Cushing ep, Radio ep #5, in that Vincent while on a train meets a quirky man who tells him about a past murder he committed.
I like how Vincent can't rat these murderers out to the cops.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1Qd...
Similar to the Peter Cushing ep, Radio ep #5, in that Vincent while on a train meets a quirky man who tells him about a past murder he committed.
I like how Vincent can't rat these murderers out to the cops.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1Qd...
This might be my favourite ep. It has a typical set up with some uncomfortable macabre moments. But I did not see the horror that arrived until it did and yep that was a scary f-ing thing to imagine.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBwf...
This might be my favourite ep. It has a typical set up with some uncomfortable macabre moments. But I did not see the horror that arrived until it did and yep that was a scary f-ing thing to imagine.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBwf...
A prudish secretary gets ultra annoyed when a tarty goer joins her at work. I liked the twist at the end even if the delivery of the twists in these BBC eps aren't punchy like US OTR would deliver.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxAS...
A prudish secretary gets ultra annoyed when a tarty goer joins her at work. I liked the twist at the end even if the delivery of the twists in these BBC eps aren't punchy like US OTR would deliver.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxAS...
Adapts Stanley Ellin's short story (1948).
It's a decent macabre tale but I'm finding little suspense or plot in this series. The resolutions each ep are now very same-y so have gotten predictable.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6iQ5...
Adapts Stanley Ellin's short story (1948).
It's a decent macabre tale but I'm finding little suspense or plot in this series. The resolutions each ep are now very same-y so have gotten predictable.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6iQ5...
Fine ep.
Adrienne Corri in "The Leisure Hive" played a mother with a murderous son and she does so here. They might have hidden the twist a bit better but it was never going to be hideable really.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYON...
Fine ep.
Adrienne Corri in "The Leisure Hive" played a mother with a murderous son and she does so here. They might have hidden the twist a bit better but it was never going to be hideable really.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYON...
Vincent runs into a musical couple he knows but nowadays the couple hate each other and their musical shows are disastrous expressions of their lost love.
Was a bit laboured compared to other eps in the series.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGkz...
Vincent runs into a musical couple he knows but nowadays the couple hate each other and their musical shows are disastrous expressions of their lost love.
Was a bit laboured compared to other eps in the series.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGkz...
Vincent is holidaying in Sydney and gets an invite for a meal in Manly with an actress who went AWOL some years ago from a film they were shooting together.
Bill Kerr is in this!
Intriguing ep.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBEF...
Vincent is holidaying in Sydney and gets an invite for a meal in Manly with an actress who went AWOL some years ago from a film they were shooting together.
Bill Kerr is in this!
Intriguing ep.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBEF...
Adaptation of AM Burrage's short story (1931).
The problem this has is that it can't compete with the famous #Suspense version Radio ep #648 (01-May-56) which was an incredible one hander starring William Conrad.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3s4M...
Adaptation of AM Burrage's short story (1931).
The problem this has is that it can't compete with the famous #Suspense version Radio ep #648 (01-May-56) which was an incredible one hander starring William Conrad.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3s4M...
Vincent Price's love of art was key in his #JohnnyDollar ep "The Price of Fame" (02-Feb-58) so this is in that vain. Only here Vincent must solve the case himself.
Classic horror!
Liz Morgan wrote it and acts in it!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0rv...
Vincent Price's love of art was key in his #JohnnyDollar ep "The Price of Fame" (02-Feb-58) so this is in that vain. Only here Vincent must solve the case himself.
Classic horror!
Liz Morgan wrote it and acts in it!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0rv...
From a Robert Arthur short (couldn't find the date).
Vincent whilst travelling alone on a train meets the titular man (Peter Cushing!).
A two-hander with two greats of horror. What's not to love!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TyCu...
From a Robert Arthur short (couldn't find the date).
Vincent whilst travelling alone on a train meets the titular man (Peter Cushing!).
A two-hander with two greats of horror. What's not to love!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TyCu...
This ep adapts Charles Birkin's short story "So Pale, So Cold, So Fair" (19-Aug-70).
I love when Vincent turns detective yet still plays himself!!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6zi...
This ep adapts Charles Birkin's short story "So Pale, So Cold, So Fair" (19-Aug-70).
I love when Vincent turns detective yet still plays himself!!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6zi...
While holidaying in Athens between Vincent Price meets a tragic couple the man of which he had worked with on "Theatre of Blood".
(I checked on Theatre of Blood was only made in 1973 so this is kind of an advert! Ya cheeky sod Vincent!)
While holidaying in Athens between Vincent Price meets a tragic couple the man of which he had worked with on "Theatre of Blood".
(I checked on Theatre of Blood was only made in 1973 so this is kind of an advert! Ya cheeky sod Vincent!)
Adapts Bram Stoker's short story "The Squaw" (02-Dec-1893).
Great ep.
I love that Vincent Price plays himself, a horror movie star, in these eps. So he just on holidays or knocking about between movies.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCMr...
Adapts Bram Stoker's short story "The Squaw" (02-Dec-1893).
Great ep.
I love that Vincent Price plays himself, a horror movie star, in these eps. So he just on holidays or knocking about between movies.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCMr...
Brains in a jar is a big OTR staple so this felt like an old #Suspense classic!
Adapts Roald Dahl's short story (1959). More famously this was later made in "Tales of the Unexpected " TV ep #1.03 (07-Apr-79).
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wsee...
Brains in a jar is a big OTR staple so this felt like an old #Suspense classic!
Adapts Roald Dahl's short story (1959). More famously this was later made in "Tales of the Unexpected " TV ep #1.03 (07-Apr-79).
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wsee...
Adapt's Jack Ritchie's short (1963). Vincent Price is really just doing the intro and some narration but he is excellent.
The vibe feels very "Tales of the Unexpected" or "Alfred Hitchcock Presents".
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHMX...
Adapt's Jack Ritchie's short (1963). Vincent Price is really just doing the intro and some narration but he is excellent.
The vibe feels very "Tales of the Unexpected" or "Alfred Hitchcock Presents".
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHMX...