The second episode of Thriller's fourth series was a supernatural effort entitled 'Nurse Will Make It Better'. Naturally Thriller had gone down this route previously - see 'A Place To Die' and 'Spell Of Evil' (from series 1) - but this was a far better story.
Diana Dors is the malevolent force here, a role she would later reprise in Hammer House Of Horror's 'Children Of The Full Moon' in 1980. She arrives to the Harrow house (father a diplomat, three daughters Charley, Ruth and Suzy) as Bessie - a nurse for Charley who has been paralysed as a result of a riding accident. Charley has been a particularly difficult patient to a sequence of previous nurses but Bessie soon has her under control. As the action progresses we learn that Bessie is a force of evil intent on stealing souls. A couple of nasty incidents take place which serve to rid the suspicious from her path while the mantle is left to Ruth (played by a strikingly beautiful Andrea Marcovicci) to combat Bessie's destructive influence which has spread to Suzy (and many other people over the years - watch out for Ruth's encounter with Mrs Fuller. Nasty) Patrick Troughton (who would appear in The Omen a year later) is summoned to battle Bessie in an overblown climax. Yet 'Nurse Will Make It Better' is a well-crafted story with some genuinely chilling moments. It continues the strong start to the fourth series and is well worth seeing.