Chiller (TV series)

Chiller
Genre Supernatural
Written by
  • Stephen Gallagher
  • Glenn Chandler
  • Anthony Horowitz
Directed by
  • Lawrence Gordon Clark
  • Bob Mahoney
  • Rob Walker
Starring
Country of origin
  • United Kingdom
Original language(s)
  • English
No. of seasons 1
No. of episodes 5 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producer(s)
  • David Reynolds
Producer(s)
  • Lawrence Gordon Clark
Production location(s)
  • United Kingdom
Running time 60 minutes
Production company(s)
Release
Original network
Picture format 4:3
Audio format Stereo
Original release 9 March (1995-03-09) – 27 April 1995 (1995-04-27)

Chiller is a British horror fantasy anthology television series produced by Yorkshire Television, which aired in the United Kingdom on ITV from 9 March to 27 April 1995. Consisting of five episodes, each story involves, to some extent, the supernatural, and features lead actors with familiar faces from British television. The complete series was released on DVD on 1 July 2013.[1]

Cast

Episodes

No.TitleDirected byWritten byBritish air dateUK viewers
(million)[2]
1"Prophecy"Lawrence Gordon ClarkStephen Gallagher9 March 1995 (1995-03-09)N/A
When a group of friends hold a séance in the basement of a London café they each receive a prophecy. Five years later and the prophecies have started to come true, but who made them and what is the connection with Oliver Halkin and his troubled son Edward?
2"Toby"Bob MahoneyGlenn Chandler16 March 1995 (1995-03-16)N/A
Ray and Louise Knight tragically lose Toby, their unborn baby, in a car accident. Although Louise has not made love since the accident, she soon discovers she's pregnant again. A routine scan reveals she is not pregnant, but her body insists she is. Incredibly, she goes to full term and even into labor, but to everyone's bewilderment, there's no baby. Then one night, Louise hears crying from the nursery and finds an old man with special powers who tells her that Toby is present and playing a horrible game with her.
3"Here Comes the Mirror Man"Lawrence Gordon ClarkStephen Gallagher30 March 1995 (1995-03-30)N/A
When the schizophrenic Gary Kingston murders his social worker, his case is handed over to the unsuspecting Anna Spalinsky. Social Services know that when Gary doesn't take his medication his "friend" Michael can exert an undue influence over him. But Gary knows the truth - that Michael is really a demon.
4"The Man Who Didn't Believe in Ghosts"Bob MahoneyAnthony Horowitz13 April 1995 (1995-04-13)N/A
Richard Cramer, a professional de-bunker of the paranormal, moves into Windwhistle Hall with his family, only to they find themselves involved in a series of unexplained events and accidents. They must uncover whether it is a series of bizarre coincidences, or hauntings of the former occupant's ghost.
5"Number Six"Rob WalkerAnthony Horowitz27 April 1995 (1995-04-27)N/A
Jack Taylor is the homicide detective investigating the murders of five children. Aware that the serial killer is likely to strike for the sixth time, he discovers a connection to an ancient Druidic site, and learns that the consequences of failing to stop the next killing would be far more horrifying and personal than he could ever have imagined.

Reviews

In a review of Prophecy, the critic David Howe praised the serial as "...the tale of eerie coincidence and death rattled along at a tremendous pace, leaving the viewer breathless. At the end of it, I found myself wondering whether I had just watched a 90 minute film, rather than a 50 minute drama, such was the amount of characterisation and plot that Gallagher managed to cram in."[3] Howe criticized the relationship between the widowed aristocrat Oliver Halkin (Nigel Havers) and Fransesca "Fanny" Monsanto (Sophie Ward) under the grounds that Ward was young to be Havers's daughter and argued that it was implausible that the young people who attended the seance did not age over the course of the five years afterwards.[4]

References

  1. ↑ https://www.amazon.co.uk/Chiller-Complete-DVD-Sophie-Ward/dp/B004TTNRBW/
  2. ↑ http://www.barb.co.uk/
  3. ↑ Howe, David (March 1995). "Review of Prophecy". The British Fantasy Society . Retrieved 2017-11-01.
  4. ↑ Howe, David (March 1995). "Review of Prophecy". The British Fantasy Society . Retrieved 2017-11-01.
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