Best of Tales of the Unexpected
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- DirectorJohn DaviesStarsRoald DahlSusan GeorgeBrian BlessedWhen her policeman husband Patrick callously announces that he is leaving her, Mary Marney hits and kills him with the frozen leg of lamb she has bought for their dinner. Thinking quickly, she calls his colleagues, claiming that she came in from the shops and found him dead. Whilst they speculate over what kind of weapon killed him she considers how to dispose of the evidence.
- DirectorSimon LangtonStarsRoald DahlJulie HarrisRoland CulverA husband and wife are add odds with each other over punctuality. Could an opportunity arise to resolve their differences?
- DirectorJohn GorrieStarsRoald DahlJohn CastleSheila GishLegal secretary Frances is having an affair with Pharmacist John Burge and is tiring of him not leaving his wife. Can John come up with a professional solution to the problem?
- DirectorAlastair ReidStarsRoald DahlRon MoodyAntony CarrickRichard Pratt, a wine expert, wagers he can identify any wine.
- DirectorClaude WhathamStarsRoald DahlJohn MillsJohn CarsonA man's umbrella scheme and an affair become entwined yielding unexpected results.
- DirectorGiles FosterStarsRoald DahlRichard JohnsonSiân PhillipsSurgeon James loves his orchids and other ladies. A trip to America gives him and his wife an opportunity for improvements.
- 1979–198824mTV-146.8 (252)TV EpisodeDirectorJohn GorrieStarsRoald DahlRobert LangElizabeth SpriggsArthur Appleby has been widowed three times, and run three antique shops in different towns. He has just opened a fourth.
- DirectorGraham EvansStarsRoald DahlAlfred BurkePat KeenThe police are dragging the marshes for a missing school-girl and a sinister man is approaching other young girls. Young Sylvia is on a bus on the way home from school when a friendly old man begins to talk to her.
- 1979–198825mTV-146.8 (235)TV EpisodeDirectorGraham EvansStarsJoan CollinsPauline CollinsBrewster MasonSuzy and Pat are struggling actresses in a touring company. Herbert's a wealthy, middle-aged widower, who puts money into the production and falls for Suzy, who snaps up the expensive gifts he gives her. They get married but she is only using him and is having affairs with other men, leading Herbert to request a divorce.
- DirectorJohn BruceStarsRoald DahlJohn GielgudBernard Miles'Parson' Cyril Boggis has a method of getting antiques on the cheap. - Maybe too cheap.
- DirectorJohn JacobsStarsEli WallachAnthony Pullen ShawCaroline LangrisheGerry Williams returns home to his apartment to be met by an assassin sent to kill him. Can he turn the tables?
- 1979–198830mTV-146.3 (197)TV EpisodeDirectorJohn GorrieStarsAnthony QuayleNigel HawthorneGary BondMillionaire Kyros Kassoulas wants to buy the last existing bottle of the finest ever vintage - but will it be a waste?
- DirectorAlan GibsonStarsMicheline PresleCelia GregoryRobert H. ThomsonArtist Graham is dejected after continual exploitation by a gallery owner. Meeting a waitress gives him new life.
- 1979–198826mTV-146.9 (188)TV EpisodeDirectorAlan GibsonStarsFrank FinlayHeather SearsAndrew BurtA husband and wife receive a large legacy but it only causes problems between them.
- DirectorJohn GorrieStarsDorothy TutinMichael CraigSheila RuskinMoira overhears a conversation in a restaurant. Is the woman having an affair with her husband?
- DirectorAlan GibsonStarsJohn MillsDavid HealyJune RitchieHoldwell Safes do a publicity stunt featuring a top safe-cracker but now he has changed career.
- DirectorHerbert WiseStarsPeter EganJennie LindenBernard KayA man desperate to divorce his wife takes drastic action to rid himself of her.
- DirectorGiles FosterStarsSheila GishKeith BarronCarol MacReadyMary discovers her husband is having an affair so has a life-changing makeover.
- DirectorGraham EvansStarsIan HolmMichael HarbourRoland CulverHigh-flying Oliver has a scam to make his firm, and himself, rich. Can death add?
- DirectorHerbert WiseStarsShane RimmerCyd HaymanElizabeth RichardsonCalculating Janet reckons she will benefit from helping 'Man with a fortune' John Smith find out about his ancestors.
- DirectorGraham EvansStarsEvelyn LayeRichard PearsonHugh FraserWhilst winding up his late father's affairs for his invalid mother Paul Standing comes across an invoice from a London book-shop and goes to meet the owners, the Carey brothers, who claim that Paul's father owes them money for pornographic books they sent him. In fact the brothers are crooks who scour the obituary columns for the names of deceased worthies and then hit their relatives with the lie that the dead man owed them for erotic reading material, knowing that the ignorant next of kin will pay up to avoid a scandal. However Paul and his mother invite the Careys to their house and greet them with a shot-gun and some very incontrovertible news that certainly scuppers the proposed scam.
- 1979–198826mTV-145.9 (175)TV EpisodeDirectorJohn GorrieStarsVan JohnsonGeoffrey BayldonMargaret CourtenayGerry T Armstrong is on holiday in England, revisiting some of the places he saw when he was a young GI. The old dance hall is now a tawdry nightclub but Gerry is still looking for a girl he met there during the war. Why does he become increasingly desperate as the night drags on?
- DirectorJohn JacobsStarsPeter CushingAnthony HigginsJohn BaileyElderly - uniformed - Teuton Von Baden tells colleague Winterluck a tale from his youth when he was a student in Heidelberg over fifty years earlier. A fellow student Cassan was a bully but a fine swordsman who one day challenged another youth, Macker, to a fight when he found Macker in bed with his girlfriend. Cassan chose Von Baden to be his second, giving him the perfect opportunity to do away with the over-bearing and unpopular student.
- DirectorGraham EvansStarsPhyllis CalvertAnna NeagleSheila BurrellThree aristocratic ladies now living in reduced circumstances, agree to have lunch together as a tribute to Dench, the woman who worked as a nanny for all of them in many years ago. As they reminisce, it becomes clear that through their meanness and snobbery, they all treated Dench rather poorly. But maybe their lowly servant can have the last laugh?
- DirectorPeter HammondStarsJohn DuttineSusan PenhaligonRay LonnenDr. Roger Ashburn is heart-broken when his beloved but selfish wife Mary leaves him, in highly public fashion, leaving her wedding ring to be found during a dinner party Roger is giving for a colleague and his wife. In order to get his life back together he decides to get a job in a hospital in a different town, to make a new start. Then, one day, an all too familiar patient is brought in. . .