Tales of the Unexpected

  • Premiered: Mar 1979
  • Episodes: 112
  • Followers: 12
  • Ended
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Season 1
1x1
The Man from the South
Episode overview
Air date
Mar 24, 1979
A young American sailor on shore leave in the West Indies is tempted by a crazy bet. To win a new Jaguar, all he need do is to make his cigarette-lighter light ten times without any .. show full overview
1x2
Mrs Bixby and the Colonel's Coat
Episode overview
Air date
Mar 31, 1979
Bixby is a New York dentist. Once a month, for many years, his wife goes to Baltimore by train to visit her aunt. She does not tell Bixby about her affair with the Colonel, a single man .. show full overview
1x3
William and Mary
Episode overview
Air date
Apr 07, 1979
William Pearl, a philosophy don at an Oxford college, dies of cancer, and his widow, Mary, gets a letter from him. William tells her about his colleague John Landy's scheme for keeping .. show full overview
1x4
Lamb to the Slaughter
Episode overview
Air date
Apr 14, 1979
An enraged detective's wife kills her husband by smashing in his skull with a heavy blunt instrument - but no murder weapon can be found, and the police are baffled. The answer to the riddle lies under the detectives' noses - or, rather, it did...
1x5
The Landlady
Episode overview
Air date
Apr 21, 1979
Billy Weaver, a seventeen-year-old Londoner, arrives in Bath late at night to take up a new job. He finds a room for the night at a bed-and-breakfast house run by a sweet old woman. As .. show full overview
1x6
Neck
Episode overview
Air date
Apr 28, 1979
Unworldly art collector Basil Turton inherits his father's publishing empire (and his title) and marries Natalia, an East European with a decidedly Machiavellian streak. Six years on, .. show full overview
1x7
Edward the Conqueror
Episode overview
Air date
May 05, 1979
An elderly couple, Edward and Louisa, find their life invaded by a stray cat. The cat's knowledgeable response to Louisa's piano playing, and the pattern of warts on its face, convince .. show full overview
1x8
A Dip in the Pool
Episode overview
Air date
May 12, 1979
William Botibol, an American passenger on a British cruise ship, is anxious to win the rich sweepstake for predicting the distance the ship will travel in twenty-four hours - and William .. show full overview
1x9 Season finale
The Way Up to Heaven
Episode overview
Air date
May 19, 1979
An elderly American couple, the Fosters, are planning a six-week trip to Paris to visit their grandchildren. Foster gets left behind, and his wife writes to him every week... on her .. show full overview

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