#seems pretty fruitless‚ but most online sources agree this was shown 6th (network have it as episode 8 but lord knows what order they're

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A pre-horror stardom Barbara Steele makes her screen debut as teenage runaway Toni Miller in Dial 999: Missing Persons (1.6, ABC, 1958)

#fave spotting #barbara steele #dial 999 #missing persons #1958 #classic tv #abc #horror films #scream queen #within a few short years of this first ever screen role‚ Barbara would be an internal sensation and a proto scream queen #known for her horror film appearances in the UK‚ the US and (perhaps most iconic) in Italy #black sunday‚ the pit and the pendulum‚ castle of blood... over the next decade she would make some of the most memorable and #unnerving gothic horror films of the era‚ working with the best directors in the genre #perhaps unsurprisingly‚ having found such success so young‚ her genre tv credits are very few; in the uk she made just this episode #of Dial 999 and‚ seven years later‚ a single Danger Man appearance. mostly she was kept busy in Italy where she fast became the face #of beautiful gothic terror.. as i said in the Pat Troughton and Bill Hartnell posts‚ finding an exact transmission order for Dial 999 #seems pretty fruitless‚ but most online sources agree this was shown 6th (network have it as episode 8 but lord knows what order they're #following‚ possibly they just bunged them all on disc in any old order). toni miller is said to be 19 in the script‚ which i raised an #eyebrow at‚ but actually Barbara was only 20 at the time; she carries herself with a lot confidence and professionalism for such a young #performer (and again‚ this was literally her first screen work). it's not the most rewarding part (she's the passive innocent strung along #by a serial killer of runaway girls) but she brings a certain starry eyed naivety to it that's more charming than the script suggests #oh god i just saw an earlier tag says internal sensation when i meant international.. but I'm on mobile and can't edit tags #pretend pretend