Thriller – I’m the Girl He Wants to Kill (TV episode)
Date: 1974
Director: Shaun O'Riordan
Production Company: Associated Television (ATV)
Stars: Julie Sommars
Location(s): Crouch End and Archway, London
Region(s): London T-Z
Storyline:
Mounting terror threatens an American girl in London as a silent killer waits to pounce. She is the one person who can identify him. JT
Additional Information:
Season 3, Episode 2.
Written by Brian Clemens
Original ITV transmission: 8 June 1974
This 2 minute chase scene is the only outside broadcast in this episode.
Triantafillos Spanoudakis adds that there are additional scenes of outside, right before the titles sequence. The house, where the young girl is attacked by the man is in fact located at 24 Pemberton Gardens, Archway, London N19 5RT.
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- Capture 1
- 16 May 2022
Ann Rogers (Julie Sommars) browses in the window of a Jewellers at 62 Crouch End Hill, N8 8AG. The view looks towards Crouch End Broadway.
Alan Smythe has been out and about and replaces the Google shot from Dec 2012. (SJ)
- Capture 2
- 16 May 2022
Recognising the killer in the Jewellers' windows she makes a run for it, bumping into an extra.
Alan again replaces the Google shot.(SJ)
- Capture 3
- 17 May 2022
In 1974: No.64 is a Jewellers, no.62 is an Estate Agents, no.60 is an Art shop.
In 2012: Google showed No.64 as a Newsagent/grocer, no.62 as Pilates Place, no.60 as Pizza Lupa. In 2022 a change or two, snapped by Alan (SJ)
- Capture 4
- 16 May 2022
The bottom of Crouch End Hill just opposite the Kings Head Pub.
Taken by Alan (SJ)
- Capture 5
- 16 May 2022
The bottom of Crouch End Hill just opposite the Kings Head Pub.
Another Alan replacement (SJ)
- Capture 6
- 16 May 2022
View from the bottom of Crouch End Hill with Coleridge Road on the left. The Kings Head pub is just out of shot on the left and a Tesco on the corner.
The Tesco on the corner is now a Costa Coffee. Alan (SJ)
- Capture 7
- 17 May 2022
The camera pans towards Crouch End Broadway with the landmark brick clock tower seen just above the Green van. She runs towards Crouch Hill (A1201).
Alan's Google replacement. (SJ)
- Capture 8
- 16 May 2022
The pursuit suddenly and illogically jumps to Coleridge Road back towards the Kings Head pub. Not much logic to chase scenes!
All now redeveloped. Alan admits he's off-angle but pleased he captured the pressure pad on the road. (SJ)
- Capture 9
- 30 Dec 2012
Coleridge Lane is the turning just off screen to the right, just past the Samco grocery store .
The shop fronts have been rebuilt but you can still see the original wall along Coleridge Lane on the right with the distinctive brick wall with white cornice and white stripe. Copyright google streetview.
- Capture 10
- 01 May 2022
The pursuit continues along an unidentified road ... identified now after 10 years.
Archway Close, identified by Alan Smythe along with a proving original photo. [The pavement has been extended and re-opened as Navigator Square, N19. (SJ)]
- Capture 11
- 'Now' required
The killer in pursuit is not far behind. Unidentified location
- Capture 12
- 16 May 2022
View from Archway Close with The Lion Pub in the background.
Alan in the correct place. (SJ)
- Capture 13
- 16 May 2022
Anne is heading back towards her office.
Public convenience is no longer available. Alan (SJ)
- Capture 14
- 30 Dec 2012
The once shabby building on the left is now smart and new. Alan (SJ)
- Capture 15
- 16 May 2022
Ann runs towards her workplace (the fictional Parker Industries) located at Hamlyn House, where Highgate Hill meets Holloway Road.
Hamlyn House looks spruced up. The pub on the right was called "Dusk till Dawn" in 2012. And, after a brief spell as The Intrepid Fox, it's since 2019 reverted to its original name The Archway Tavern. A final one from Alan Smythe. (SJ)