Boris Karloff had long since proved he wasn't confined to doing horror movies. He'd starred in a series of films based on Hugh Wiley's Oxford-educated Oriental sleuth, James Lee Wong, for example. So, NBC & Universal thought it might be a good idea to bring him to television to host a weekly anthology series that wouldn't be confined to horror, either.
Thriller was in the same vein as Revue Studios stablemate Alfred Hitchcock Presents in that the series dealt with ordinary crime drama more than anything else. Thriller, co-produced by Hubbell-Robinson Productions with Revue, lasted two seasons, and managed to surface in syndication during the 70's, as I recall, airing in New York on WOR. Currently, the series airs Sundays on Me-TV, meant to be coupled with 2-hour episodes of Columbo, but Me-TV is currently airing the original 90-minute Columbo episodes from the NBC Mystery Movie, and thus brackets M*A*S*H in between Columbo & Thriller.
Following is the episode, "The Guilty Men", which aired last night.
Rating: B.
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