This is the only Armchair Thriller i remember because it traumatised me as a kid. I'm 55 now and never forgot it 😆 Loved watching it again, reminded me of being quietly terrified cuddled up to my grandad pretending it didn't bother me 😅
Thanks for this. A little overlong but that was presumably because it was broadcast in half hour episodes. Would work better as a 1.5 hour film I think. Watch out for a young Patsy Kensit among the schoolgirls.
@@verucasalt9182 Fans of Grange Hill may also recognize Linda Slater, who played Susi McMahon, among the school girls. I think she did this just before she did Grange Hill in 1979.
The night time Thames Television titles, the creepy music, the hands suddenly appearing on the armchair, the tower, and THAT scene with the nun in the rocking chair.......terrifying, images that cannot be unseen, forever imprinted on my mind. The stuff of nightmares, and absolutely brilliant!
Can’t wait to watch this. I love older British crime, thrillers and drama❤ I was thinking of how often rocking chairs featured as a creepy factor in these old movies😅 I love rocking chairs, but when you saw one in a house at the start of a movie, you knew some unsettling things was going to appear there in a while😂
Wow! Im 10 again in front of the TV with my pyjamas on... No remote. Only 3 channels. I remember the theme music so well, I know after this program it's bedtime! And school tomorrow.😆 Subbed👏
Jemima Shore Novels: Quiet as a Nun (1977) The Wild Island (1978), also published as Tartan Tragedy A Splash of Red (1981) Cool Repentance (1982) Oxford Blood (1985) Jemima Shore’s First Case (1986) Your Royal Hostage (1987) The Cavalier Case (1990) Jemima Shore at the Sunny Grave (1991) Political Death (1995) Thanx 4 the vid💯💯👍👍👏👏
I was 9, when this was first aired and it scared the crap out of me - mostly because it was a bright sunny afternoon, I was off school and had no idea stuff like this went out in the afternoons! Frightfully posh, weren't they...but there again, I believe it was written by Lady Antonia Frasier...? Thanks for the upload....going to show my wife, see what she thinks of 70s British Children's TV!
@@alimantado373 Originally aired around 2.30pm, after Crown Court. It was a massive hit and ITV were flooded with demands to repeat the show at a later time-slot, which of course they did because it made money lol.
I wasn't allowed to watch this as a child, my schoolfriend of the time telling me what happened in each episode. Then it turned up in my recommendeds all these years later. Of course, after years of being quite desensitized to spooky stuff, I'm not going to lose any sleep over this - but it was well worth watching all the same.
A Wonderful.Adaption of Lady Antonia Frasers Fantastic Jemima Shore book and Maria Aitken is superb as Jemima,as wears the Marvellous Patricia Hodge in the TV Series😊
I had dinner with Maria Aitken once. Not me on my own, there was a group of us. I think Gary Bond was there. It was while she was doing Coward's "Design For Living". She was such fun, a lovely evening had by all.
Hammier than a ham sandwich at a Hammy Hamster convention, but an interesting rewatch. I'd forgotten how many names are attached to this: Robert Banks Stewart (Shoestring and Bergerac) and Patsy Kensit, who was in just about everything, including adverts, at this time.
if you can get through 1:16:30 without the hairs on the back of your neck or arms standing up then you're braver than me. A quick note on The Black Nun legend, when I was a kid growing up in Wales in the 80's we used to go to a Welsh language leisure camp in a place called Llangrannog on the Welsh coast, it was the first time many of us had a weeks break from our parents and there were 8 of us to a room so of course at night we would misbehave and dare each other to explore the camp after lights out and the camp counsellors got so annoyed at our exploits that a legend was started (probably by the counsellors) of the Black Nun who would get you if caught outside of your room after dark. It even lasted until my last stay in the mid 90's. Watching this as an adult suddenly makes sense where the legend started
And, I thought that I was the consummate Anglophile? Silly me. I will be 73, in 21/2 Mos. From 1st seeing the "brilliant Alistair Cooke/ Masterpiece Theater, until today, with all the other PBS masterpieces, in between ( too numerous and not necessary to do so. All you British TV Land afficionado, I applaud you, along with "Armchair Mysteries." Now, who is game for a double feature? ... Inspector Wexford, " The Best Man to Die."
Ive waited 45 years to see this again last time was as a terrified 8 year old growing up in Manchester …and just now slightly less terrified but still got a n icy shiver when the black nun appeared , while sat in a government dentist waiting room in Hong Kong on a hot sunny day while waiting to get my wisdom tooth removed…. The good lord works in mysterious ways
True. In my country when we saw those Thames intros we knew we were going to watch quality tv . Shame that different directors decisions made them stop buying British tv series and went crazy with US crappola tv . The best memories of my childhood growing up in the 70; 80s was British tv same as my mum who was a great fan.
@@verucasalt9182 Sadly in UK we have trash TV and socialist propaganda - very woke themes etc. Ytube is great to see these old programmes again. You use to be able to sit and watch a programme and enjoy - no you just get fed up and hop around to find something you like and so many commercials! I cherish the memories. May I ask what country you were or are in?
This was a brillant serial that only lasted a few years but was so popular it was copied by many other people especially USA and Austrtalians.These with brilliant eyes will spot a very young Patsy Kensit with a mass of hair.
Speaking of the end, I watched while I was eating but.. did she actually burn the will? Is it because she did not want nobody to know what was in it and again because she did not want to accept it or was it a matter of faith in the whole thing? She walked away from it all just like she did the first time? The very last words of her friend the deceased was pure and true.. and she believed in it or did she just remember it for reciting it over and over with her frirnd? Pardon me for the lengthening.. it’s just that the ending was a bit confusing. 🌸🍃
26:45 The recap at the start of each subsequent episode, done as a voice over with still images taken from the previous episode/s, looks incredibly dated now! The Jemima Shore character in 'Quiet as a Nun', created by Antonia Fraser, had her own ITV series in 1983 with Patricia Hodge in the title role.
this had potential, but like most british movies, it's just too tedious and dragged out: too much unnecessary talking/detail, no "action" whatsoever, no dynamism of any sort, it reaches the end simply by virtue of time passing by, but the plot is not really moving. It could have easily been condensed into an hour, or at least an hour and a half, but not two hours and a half. No suspense, no atmosphere, even the end is more or less expected.
@@sohara.... there are neither characters nor a sense of intrigue here. Any good movie should present a good story, just like any good book. Out of that story come out good characters and intrigue. JUst having people talking about things that are meaningless for the plot, for the fabula, for anything at all in this 'story" does not create an interesting character because without a good story there is no motivation for said character, and without a clear motivation for a character there is no psychological depth/character growth etc. It's not just any character -- it should be good, psychologically interesting characters. When there is no good story, no complex and interesting characters, nothing -- just static dragging on of useless dialogue and no action.
@@zzc8505I’m interested in what you have in mind. But.. I believe Antonia wanted her novel to be more realistic than entertaining. Books after all are better left for reading purposes never for filmmaking. Back in the day, her book must have been popular.
@@SandraDeefan pretence to eliticism is a common resort of mediocrity to hide its inanity and absence of meaning. Besides, your Reading Comprehension 101 isn't "measuring up" --- whatever you conjured up here isn't in my comment. Oh, the "intell?gent" one. Gawd....
must say I have watched them all .. the writers are good with the script ... some most do have a pedophilic connection, even satanic ....you can not deny this
This is the only Armchair Thriller i remember because it traumatised me as a kid. I'm 55 now and never forgot it 😆
Loved watching it again, reminded me of being quietly terrified cuddled up to my grandad pretending it didn't bother me 😅
Me too glad I found it again
I’m 56 and did exactly the same 🤣
Same I’m 55 and still gets me
I'm 56. Scared the living daylights out of me.
Shows like this influence childhood dreams.
I'm an American and I enjoyed this Armchair Thriller story very much. I hope there will be more to pop up
Thanks for sharing
America 🇺🇸
This brings back memories of how much I enjoyed Armchair Thriller as one of the best British TV mystery/suspense classics. Thank you for posting.
I was 17 when this series was on the telly great to watch it again many years later thanks for posting 👍
Thanks for this. A little overlong but that was presumably because it was broadcast in half hour episodes. Would work better as a 1.5 hour film I think. Watch out for a young Patsy Kensit among the schoolgirls.
Yeah ! I recognise her !
It’s the little cute blonde girl at 1:00:53 .
@@verucasalt9182 Fans of Grange Hill may also recognize Linda Slater, who played Susi McMahon, among the school girls. I think she did this just before she did Grange Hill in 1979.
The night time Thames Television titles, the creepy music, the hands suddenly appearing on the armchair, the tower, and THAT scene with the nun in the rocking chair.......terrifying, images that cannot be unseen, forever imprinted on my mind. The stuff of nightmares, and absolutely brilliant!
We never got this logo as it changed on London area and evening from Thames to ITV and LWT.😊
Can’t wait to watch this.
I love older British crime, thrillers and drama❤
I was thinking of how often rocking chairs featured as a creepy factor in these old movies😅
I love rocking chairs, but when you saw one in a house at the start of a movie, you knew some unsettling things was going to appear there in a while😂
As a Child the opening titles terrified me. As an Adult they still do !!
Me too! I would hide behind the settee. It was on really early
Me too lol the creepy hands at the end 😳
Wow! Im 10 again in front of the TV with my pyjamas on... No remote. Only 3 channels.
I remember the theme music so well, I know after this program it's bedtime! And school tomorrow.😆
Subbed👏
Ooo thanks. New series to binge. Thanks for introducing me!!!
I saw this many, many years ago on PBS' "Mystery" tv series and enjoyed it tremendously. Great to see it again!!
the juxtaposition between the rowdy school girls and the restrained nuns...truly a beautiful piece of cinema
Jemima Shore Novels:
Quiet as a Nun (1977)
The Wild Island (1978), also published as Tartan Tragedy
A Splash of Red (1981)
Cool Repentance (1982)
Oxford Blood (1985)
Jemima Shore’s First Case (1986)
Your Royal Hostage (1987)
The Cavalier Case (1990)
Jemima Shore at the Sunny Grave (1991)
Political Death (1995) Thanx 4 the vid💯💯👍👍👏👏
Absolutely delightful to hear good old pure unstained English with proper accent. Not the American gibberish. Good grief.
I was 9, when this was first aired and it scared the crap out of me - mostly because it was a bright sunny afternoon, I was off school and had no idea stuff like this went out in the afternoons! Frightfully posh, weren't they...but there again, I believe it was written by Lady Antonia Frasier...? Thanks for the upload....going to show my wife, see what she thinks of 70s British Children's TV!
OMG the faceless nun frightened the sh%$ into me as a kid. I was spooked for weeks afterwards. To think it was on early evening
@@DavidMole-k8w 2.30PM in the afternoons, would you believe?! Usually after 'Crown Court' and 'Emmerdale Farm'!
@@DavidMole-k8wsame
I remember this at about 8pm, maybe a repeat?
@@alimantado373 Originally aired around 2.30pm, after Crown Court. It was a massive hit and ITV were flooded with demands to repeat the show at a later time-slot, which of course they did because it made money lol.
This is my favourite story of Armchair Thriller! Many thanks for the upload Jason!
SO ENJOYED THIS THRILLER
THE MUSIC, THE ACTING AND SUSPENCE.
THANK YOU FOR POSTING.
☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆
Susan Engel was particularly very well cast as Sister Agnes.
No I still vividly remember this episode as a child it gave me nightmares for a long time.
No?
Thank you for posting
I wasn't allowed to watch this as a child, my schoolfriend of the time telling me what happened in each episode.
Then it turned up in my recommendeds all these years later. Of course, after years of being quite desensitized to spooky stuff, I'm not going to lose any sleep over this - but it was well worth watching all the same.
I Love Your Channel and your Selections.. Thanks JL...💗
Vivid memories of watching this aged 10 and thinking it was great. Then being scared to go to bed!
Wow, this brings back memories.I used to find the begining bit with the shadow and chair rather creepy
Loved the book, but remember watching this as a child. Terrifying.
What is the name of the book?
@@alimantado373Quiet As A Nun amazingly
Long but worth a watch. Young Patsy Kensit as Tessa.
Back in my day when we saw this Thames intro we knew we were going to watch quality tv.
So true!!
In my town in USA, I loved that music, reflection on the water of building & then a great show. Only came on late!
This was really good. Are there anymore episodes to watch? Never seen them before 😊
A Wonderful.Adaption of Lady Antonia Frasers Fantastic Jemima Shore book and Maria Aitken is superb as Jemima,as wears the Marvellous Patricia Hodge in the TV Series😊
Wow. Watching from the states to get away from this election cycle. Very entertaining. 💙🇺🇸
I was so traumatised by this as a child, that I completely forgot how poignant the ending was. I shed a tear.
This just came up in my recommendations. Wow, I can remember this
I had dinner with Maria Aitken once. Not me on my own, there was a group of us. I think Gary Bond was there. It was while she was doing Coward's "Design For Living". She was such fun, a lovely evening had by all.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY MARIA AITKEN
SEPTEMBER 12.🎉
Makes me want to read Antonia Frasier!
Sheer class absolutely excellent unbelievablely unique
Jemima Shore Investigates eventually came from this story.
@cylon6, Thanks for a valuable FYI.
I used to watch that. Patricia Hodge is Jemima Shore in that so seeing Maria Aitkens in this threw me slightly! 😆
Yes but Mrs hodge is such an annoying actress
Glad to watched this ❤
I love the good old days,no lip pouty filler, Botox in the face or false veneers for teeth xx❤
this was terrific!!
Hammier than a ham sandwich at a Hammy Hamster convention, but an interesting rewatch. I'd forgotten how many names are attached to this: Robert Banks Stewart (Shoestring and Bergerac) and Patsy Kensit, who was in just about everything, including adverts, at this time.
if you can get through 1:16:30 without the hairs on the back of your neck or arms standing up then you're braver than me.
A quick note on The Black Nun legend, when I was a kid growing up in Wales in the 80's we used to go to a Welsh language leisure camp in a place called Llangrannog on the Welsh coast, it was the first time many of us had a weeks break from our parents and there were 8 of us to a room so of course at night we would misbehave and dare each other to explore the camp after lights out and the camp counsellors got so annoyed at our exploits that a legend was started (probably by the counsellors) of the Black Nun who would get you if caught outside of your room after dark.
It even lasted until my last stay in the mid 90's.
Watching this as an adult suddenly makes sense where the legend started
Where was it filmed?
Wow. Wonder where that was filmed.
And, I thought that I was the consummate Anglophile? Silly me.
I will be 73, in 21/2
Mos. From 1st seeing the "brilliant Alistair Cooke/ Masterpiece Theater, until today, with all the other
PBS masterpieces, in between ( too numerous and not necessary to do so.
All you British TV
Land afficionado,
I applaud you, along with "Armchair Mysteries."
Now, who is game for a double feature? ...
Inspector Wexford,
" The Best Man to Die."
Theme music by Andy Mackay. Of Roxy Music?
Correct
A kind of schoolgirl adventure made almost adult by an unpretentious and serious approach.
The nun with the gun was like James Bond in a habit.
Ive waited 45 years to see this again last time was as a terrified 8 year old growing up in Manchester …and just now slightly less terrified but still got a n icy shiver when the black nun appeared , while sat in a government dentist waiting room in Hong Kong on a hot sunny day while waiting to get my wisdom tooth removed…. The good lord works in mysterious ways
Did Maria Aikien used to be a model she is so tall slim she would have made a perfect fashion model.
The nun was so scary back then, I was too young to follow the plot or notice it was basically Scooby Doo for adults.
LOVE the brilliant and unabashedly worldly lil nun's nuanced appreciation of James Joyce !!!! Scrotum indeed!
The Thames Valley intro takes me way back. So comforting.
True. In my country when we saw those Thames intros we knew we were going to watch quality tv . Shame that different directors decisions made them stop buying British tv series and went crazy with US crappola tv . The best memories of my childhood growing up in the 70; 80s was British tv same as my mum who was a great fan.
@@verucasalt9182 Sadly in UK we have trash TV and socialist propaganda - very woke themes etc. Ytube is great to see these old programmes again. You use to be able to sit and watch a programme and enjoy - no you just get fed up and hop around to find something you like and so many commercials! I cherish the memories. May I ask what country you were or are in?
Sweet ❤ this kind of viewing. Classic.
Everyone is saying they were kids, wow, 1977 I was 27.
This was a brillant serial that only lasted a few years but was so popular it was copied by many other people especially USA and Austrtalians.These with brilliant eyes will spot a very young Patsy Kensit with a mass of hair.
Thankyou 🎉
Excellent!🎉
Actually it reflects true life of the Catholic church cover ups of its crimes
Well said
Ditto. I went to a Catholic junior school, the nuns were cruel and wicked.
Did Diana Rigg do an episode of armchair theater?
Recognise some of these actors in other tv series
Memories ❤
1:16:37 What people came to see 😳😳😳😳😳😳
I gave up on it due to poor sound quality and I don't like using ear or headphones as prolonged use can cause tinnitu and ear infections.
Bloody Nuns, I haven’t got anything good to say about them.
16:46 Oh my - a tiny Patsy Kensit!
👍👍💞Enjoyed Thanku
Good, but extremely drawn out...
The end was such a let down
Speaking of the end, I watched while I was eating but.. did she actually burn the will? Is it because she did not want nobody to know what was in it and again because she did not want to accept it or was it a matter of faith in the whole thing? She walked away from it all just like she did the first time? The very last words of her friend the deceased was pure and true.. and she believed in it or did she just remember it for reciting it over and over with her frirnd? Pardon me for the lengthening.. it’s just that the ending was a bit confusing. 🌸🍃
@@hana.the.writer5074 the nun knew her friend would do the right thing.... in her eyes. That is, give the entire estate to the nuns
Theatre when the country was TRUE!
❤
Dragged on + on
26:45 The recap at the start of each subsequent episode, done as a voice over with still images taken from the previous episode/s, looks incredibly dated now!
The Jemima Shore character in 'Quiet as a Nun', created by Antonia Fraser, had her own ITV series in 1983 with Patricia Hodge in the title role.
Patsy Kensit 💖💖💖💖💖💖
Where
She's one of the children in the school, but she's not in every episode.@@ColinGlass-v9x
Much too long and drawn out. Beautifully acted.
Jemima Shore!
All the while I thought it was Shaw! 😅
These stories are old and outdated.
this had potential, but like most british movies, it's just too tedious and dragged out: too much unnecessary talking/detail, no "action" whatsoever, no dynamism of any sort, it reaches the end simply by virtue of time passing by, but the plot is not really moving. It could have easily been condensed into an hour, or at least an hour and a half, but not two hours and a half. No suspense, no atmosphere, even the end is more or less expected.
Mmm ... at the time, people were interested in who the characters were, there was a sense of intrigue ....
@@sohara.... there are neither characters nor a sense of intrigue here. Any good movie should present a good story, just like any good book. Out of that story come out good characters and intrigue.
JUst having people talking about things that are meaningless for the plot, for the fabula, for anything at all in this 'story" does not create an interesting character because without a good story there is no motivation for said character, and without a clear motivation for a character there is no psychological depth/character growth etc.
It's not just any character -- it should be good, psychologically interesting characters.
When there is no good story, no complex and interesting characters, nothing -- just static dragging on of useless dialogue and no action.
@@zzc8505I’m interested in what you have in mind. But.. I believe Antonia wanted her novel to be more realistic than entertaining. Books after all are better left for reading purposes never for filmmaking. Back in the day, her book must have been popular.
British movies are for those with a certain level of intelligence and concentration span.
Sorry you didn't measure up.
@@SandraDeefan pretence to eliticism is a common resort of mediocrity to hide its inanity and absence of meaning. Besides, your Reading Comprehension 101 isn't "measuring up" --- whatever you conjured up here isn't in my comment. Oh, the "intell?gent" one. Gawd....
Terrified me as a kid.
I can imagine that. Been there with something else. The thing would still bother me as an adult. 😂
must say I have watched them all .. the writers are good with the script ... some most do have a pedophilic connection, even satanic ....you can not deny this
I say, that's a bit strong!
Definitely.
@@newtronixit's not strong at all. You do know the world is run by Satanists and Luciferians?
not sure where your strange thaught came from but the episodes that I have seen seem free from what you suggest.
peterbamforth64. I agree. So, there!