Back in the early 80’s, I recall watching, every Friday late night, a program which showed these English suspense/mystery/thriller TV-movies - typically 2 hours and produced by the ITN organization, and IIRC, they were mostly filmed in the 70’s.
does anyone else remember that program? I would love to find a web link to a site offering any kind of information about those shows.
Can you be any more specific? Remember any of the actors/characters, any of the storylines? Anything at all? e.g. were they separate stories or a series featuring the same characters?
Are you sure it wasn’t ITV and not ITN? I thought ITN was a news organisation (Independent Television News) that supplied news for ITV.
Were they Gerry/Sylvia Anderson productions? I think they cobbled some of the “UFO” series and “Space: 1999” into repackaged TV-movies. Also, they made a theatrical release called “Journey to the Far Side of the Sun.”
I think it was Lew Grade’s ITC, not ITN (can’t really picture Trevor McDonald, secret agent). They were responsible for a multitude of sins/triumphs - The Persuaders (great tune), Sapphire & Steel, the aforementioned Gerry Anderson stuff, etc.
Well, it was not a program with recurring characters. Rather:
Each 2-hour film was a televised, videotaped production of some unique, stand-alone mystery.
Yes, I think it was ITV, the same production company which produced Space: 1999 - the tri-color, revolving logo thingie was its trademark.
I believe they were cheaply done.
I recall some rather gimmicky things like black-gloved, faceless villains, creaking stairs, that sort of thing. Sadly, I do NOT recall anything more specific, especially since, as a British production, they used British actors, about whom I was woefully ignorant at the time (as a youngster).
By the way, this was an exported product around the same time as Tales of the Unexpected (another top fave of mine!).
The tri-colour logo must be that of ATV, at the time a major British commercial TV company. And the programme you mention could be Hammer House of Horror, although as I remember each programme was only one hour long.
could this be it?
Here is a better site, I think.
That’s it! Thanks, TPWombat!