With memorable and unsettling opening credits and exceptional performances and direction. Armchair Thriller became a massive hit for Thames Television in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Wit Ii its trademark ghoulish razor-sharp cliff-hangers an iconic theme tune (by Roxv Music's Andy Mackay), this haunting anthology series was an immediate success, its eerie, distrubing and downright scary tales regularly attracting over 15 million voewers.

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 frighteniing and spooky moments are remembered by viewers nearly thirty years after its original transmission.

DYING DAY

When an audio tape left on the train by a strange man informs Mr. Antony Skipling_ that he is about to be murdered he reports it swiftly to the police. When they play it back, however, the murder plot can no longer he heard - is Skipling, imagining it, or is he really in danger?


Orignal ITV Transmission 12 to 21 February 1980

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