Tales of the Unexpected

Season 6

A British anthology series featuring tales of horror, mystery, and suspense. Most episodes featured a twist ending, and many of them were based on short stories by well-known writer Roald Dahl, who also served as the show's host during its first two seasons.

14 Episodes

  • A Passing Opportunity
    E1
    A Passing OpportunityFrank is struggling financially and will do anything for money. Even murder.
  • The Memory Man
    E2
    The Memory ManDown on his luck, 'Memory Man' Colin agrees to help a shady character remember the number of a station locker. But then he becomes too curious for his own good.
  • A Sad Loss
    E3
    A Sad LossClaire and her boyfriend have always counted on inheriting her wealthy aunt's fortune - but they are forced to act fast.
  • Clerical Error
    E4
    Clerical ErrorWhile winding up his late father's affairs, Paul finds a bill demanding over £1,000 for pornography.
  • Heir Presumptuous
    E5
    Heir PresumptuousGeorge Devon, a wealthy rancher, is found murdered. His identical twin nephews stand to inherit his fortune, but one of them was seen at the scene of the crime. Both have alibis and no one can tell them apart.
  • Where's Your Sense of Humour?
    E6
    Where's Your Sense of Humour?George Forester is an annoying practical joker, who tries the patience of work colleague Frank Parker and his wife Laura. When the latest jape, involving the sabotaging of a business dinner party, costs Frank promotion and George's wife Julie goes to Edinburgh, leaving him alone in the house, Laura sees an opportunity to put an end to George's pranks for good.
  • Down Among the Sheltering Palms
    E7
    Down Among the Sheltering PalmsGerry 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?
  • The Vorpal Blade
    E8
    The Vorpal BladeElderly - 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.
  • The Wrong 'Un
    E9
    The Wrong 'UnHelmut Weinrich is a German businessman who has just closed a successful deal in Coventry. Feeling very satisfied and now alone for the evening, he impulsively picks up the bar tab of a pretty girl called Molly and invites her back to his hotel room, despite the warning of the hotel detective that Molly is a 'wrong-un'.
  • The Luncheon
    E10
    The LuncheonTony eats a pricey meal with Susan Mandeville, the extravagant wife of a filmmaker who wants the rights to his book.
  • The Tribute
    E11
    The TributeThree 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?
  • Hit and Run
    E12
    Hit and RunDr. 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. . .
  • Youth from Vienna
    E13
    Youth from ViennaBeing admired by the inventor of an anti-ageing formula is handy for Caroline, who is eager to keep her looks.
  • The Turn of the Tide
    E14
    The Turn of the TideCriminal lawyer Slade has his reasons for wanting his colleague dead. He meticulously plans the perfect murder.

 

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