'Sleepwalker' opened Thriller's final series in April 1976. Like the series five closer, 'Murder Motel', 'Sleepwalker' is a comparatively weak installment which occupies a lowly position in the episodes' overall ranking.
Darleen Carr stars a Katey Summers, daughter of an American author Dan who has taken a house in England for a few months. Like the title suggests she is a sleepwalker who frequently leaves her bed and wanders. In addition she begins to experience nightmares, one which is set in an old-fashioned room where a wizened man kisses a bible and proclaims his fortune and the fact that it is unlikely to be discovered. A subsequent dream sees this old man being murdered by a youth in Victorian costume. Katey bares her soul to a young man named Barnstaple with whom she has struck up a romance. Her father is a kindly man but is preoccupied with his writing while the two servants Esme and Parsons are publicly sympathetic but privately disdainful (particularly the unimaginative Esme) of their employers.
The plot thickens when the Victorian costume-clad man turns up on Katey's door and convinces her that he has had the same dream. A cursory examination of her wardrobe leads to a Narnia-like discovery and an unconvincing climax.
Nevertheless the dream sequences are well handled and an air of mystery pervades throughout. Plus it's got John Challis as a friend of Dan's so all is not lost.
Darleen Carr stars a Katey Summers, daughter of an American author Dan who has taken a house in England for a few months. Like the title suggests she is a sleepwalker who frequently leaves her bed and wanders. In addition she begins to experience nightmares, one which is set in an old-fashioned room where a wizened man kisses a bible and proclaims his fortune and the fact that it is unlikely to be discovered. A subsequent dream sees this old man being murdered by a youth in Victorian costume. Katey bares her soul to a young man named Barnstaple with whom she has struck up a romance. Her father is a kindly man but is preoccupied with his writing while the two servants Esme and Parsons are publicly sympathetic but privately disdainful (particularly the unimaginative Esme) of their employers.
The plot thickens when the Victorian costume-clad man turns up on Katey's door and convinces her that he has had the same dream. A cursory examination of her wardrobe leads to a Narnia-like discovery and an unconvincing climax.
Nevertheless the dream sequences are well handled and an air of mystery pervades throughout. Plus it's got John Challis as a friend of Dan's so all is not lost.