Tales of the Unexpected

  • Premiered: Mar 1979
  • Episodes: 112
  • Followers: 12
  • Ended
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Season 4
4x1
Would You Believe It?
Episode overview
Air date
Apr 05, 1981
Two archeologists working in Jordan, Tanner and Miller, find in the desert sand a statue of a woman in a strange posture. Driving through a rainstorm, and using an open truck, they try .. show full overview
4x2
Vicious Circle
Episode overview
Air date
Apr 12, 1981
An old lady catches Rex Tobin, a young burglar who was planning to rob her, and makes friends with him... but what is she really up to?
4x3
The Boy Who Talked with Animals
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Air date
Apr 19, 1981
David, a nine-year-old boy, talks his father into getting him a giant turtle. And there is more to David's desire for this unusual pet than meets the eye. Then Sam Jenner, a rugged American, gets drawn into David's holiday adventure in Jamaica.
4x4
The Best of Everything
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Air date
Apr 26, 1981
Arthur is a junior clerk in a city metal broker's office and he's desperately in love with the boss's daughter, Ann Horton. Arthur can't see how he's going to catch Ann's eye, but his .. show full overview
4x5
A Woman's Help
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Air date
May 03, 1981
Arthur is an elegant playboy, but he is dependent on his very rich, ailing, and demanding wife, Elizabeth. The day comes when the hen-pecked Arthur's lover wants a promise of marriage, .. show full overview
4x6
Shatterproof
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Air date
May 10, 1981
Property tycoon Gerry Williams is married to the beautiful but unhappy Ellen, and somewhere the marriage has gone terribly wrong. Then an assassin is hired to kill Gerry, and he makes the mistake of getting too friendly with his target...
4x7
The Sound Machine
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Air date
May 17, 1981
A botanist called Klausner invents a machine which can translate the conversations of trees and plants... and what he hears gives him a nasty shock.
4x8
Never Speak Ill of the Dead
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Air date
May 24, 1981
David Rankin is a country doctor with a flighty young wife. Irene's affairs with other men were the talk of the town before she was married - and they still are. No one knows for sure if .. show full overview
4x9
The Best Policy
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Air date
May 31, 1981
Harry Flock has had a temporary promotion as acting manager of a branch bank. Harry is honest and meticulous to a fault, but he is in danger of losing his job when head office gets .. show full overview
4x13
There's One Born Every Minute
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Air date
Jun 05, 1981
Arthur and Margaret Pearson are a quiet middle-aged couple. Arthur is dull, but double-dealing, and when his wife Margaret inherits £50,000 he reluctantly agrees to gamble the money on a .. show full overview
4x10
The Last Bottle in the World
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Air date
Jun 07, 1981
Kyros buys the last bottle of a superb 1864 claret - an anniverary present for his beautiful but unfaithful wife. He pays a tremendous price, and plans a dinner party - but Kyros is planning to use the wine for more than just drinking...
4x14
Bosom Friends
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Air date
Jun 12, 1981
Nell and Emma were best friends at school, but after a reunion weekend they find things more difficult. Emma, who is retired and poor, asks Nell to rent her a spare room in her house. .. show full overview
4x11
Kindly Dig Your Grave
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Air date
Jun 14, 1981
Madame Lagrue runs a smart but commercial art gallery in Montmartre, Paris, getting rich at the expense of struggling artists. Then one of her victims falls in love with Fatima, an .. show full overview
4x12
Completely Foolproof
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Air date
Jun 21, 1981
The very rich Joe Brisson is a self-made man with a number of enemies - including Lisa, his elegant but dangerously dissatisfied wife.
4x15
A Glowing Future
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Air date
Jul 19, 1981
Betsy's long term live-in lover, Jack, is planning to get married - but not to her. He has a new girlfriend half-way across the world, in Australia.Betsy is even more enraged when Jack .. show full overview
4x16
The Way to Do It
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Air date
Jul 26, 1981
Young Roger Carson has a dreary life and suffers from the domineering ways of his rich Aunt May. By way of escape, he takes up gambling - and swiftly falls for Suzie, a beautiful casino .. show full overview
4x17 Season finale
Hijack
Episode overview
Air date
Dec 26, 1981
Captain Waterhouse has to deal with a man on board his airliner who seizes Milly, a stewardess, takes her and a bottle of nitroglycerine into a tiny lavatory, and demands one million .. show full overview

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