The Price of Fear

[calzephyr77]

Many people are familiar with Vincent Price's TV and movie career, but I bet few would know that he was quite the OTR star back in the day, appearing on Escape, Suspense and The Saint. But even I didn't know that he had his own BBC produced series, The Price of Fear. Comprising 22 episodes, Price related a half hour tale of horror or mystery in the

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[full_metal_ox]

The character in Tim Burton's "Vincent" was pretty much me in junior high; I'd known about his radio career (particularly his performances of "Three Skeleton Key", on Escape and Suspense), but hadn't known about The Price of Fear; thank you for the heads-up--all the more with that time of year rolling around.

In return: it was only a couple years ago that I learned of this particular combination of performer and song--which unfortunately suffers from a sweetened poppy arrangement that mutes Pickett's original punchy beat:

[calzephyr77]

Hehe, that was always the great thing about Vincent Price - he was timeless! This is a pretty cool video...I wouldn't have guessed it was from 1977 because he looks so good.

The timing was quite coincidental - I have been meaning to post this for some time. My favourite episode so far is the one about the restaurant. Heheh!