Tales of the Unexpected

  • Premiered: Mar 1979
  • Episodes: 112
  • Followers: 12
  • Ended
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Season 5
5x1
Blue Marigold
Episode overview
Air date
Apr 25, 1982
Marigold is a dream girl supermodel, but she is wrecking her career with drink and other excesses. Paul Foster, her dismayed lover, slowly sees how much greed for fame lurks behind .. show full overview
5x2
The Eavesdropper
Episode overview
Air date
May 02, 1982
Donald Henderson gives his wife, Moira, a unique watch, and then it goes missing, so Donald offers to replace it. As a result, Moira is in a store looking for a similar watch when she .. show full overview
5x3
Operation Safecrack
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Air date
May 09, 1982
Retired safe-cracker Sam Morrissey is approached by Jack Harrison, an advertising man representing the Holdwell Safe Company, with a proposition. Jack wants Sam to try to break into a .. show full overview
5x4
Run, Rabbit, Run
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Air date
May 16, 1982
Just after the Second World War, Robert Simpson was a young U.S. Army interpreter stationed in liberated Paris and living in the house of Jacques Vareille, a hero of the French .. show full overview
5x5
Stranger in Town
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Air date
May 23, 1982
A bearded, simple-minded stranger, wearing a top hat and a multi-colored coat, appears in a village performing conjuring tricks and is soon a favorite with the village children. They .. show full overview
5x6
The Moles
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Air date
May 30, 1982
Edward Boyle and George Balsam are newcomers to crime, respectable businessmen on the brink of bankruptcy, who join forces with Meakins, a professional criminal, to rob a bank. They .. show full overview
5x7
Decoy
Episode overview
Air date
Jun 06, 1982
Pretty policewoman Mary Bryan is out to get her man, in seductive, skin-tight silver pants. And it's all in the line of duty, as Mary is the bait to trap a suspected serial killer who .. show full overview
5x8
Pattern of Guilt
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Air date
Jun 13, 1982
Pathologist Keith Briscoe has a problem. He has had enough of Elaine, his selfish and expensive second wife, and wants to re-marry Faye, his first wife... but Elaine has given Briscoe .. show full overview
5x9
A Harmless Vanity
Episode overview
Air date
Jun 20, 1982
Mary Hitchman's disbelief turns to curiosity when a friend tips her off that her husband George is having an affair with a pretty young secretary. Mary arranges a chance meeting with her .. show full overview
5x10
Death Can Add
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Air date
Jun 27, 1982
Alan Corwin audits the books of a City investment firm where Oliver Platt is a whizz kid. Platt has taken huge risks, and for a high price Corwin agrees to keep quiet. All is safely .. show full overview
5x11
Light Fingers
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Air date
Jul 04, 1982
Joan Stackpole wants a quiet life. Even talking to her husband Ralph is an ordeal she prefers to avoid. Meanwhile, Ralph has a big problem - someone is stealing the gloves from his glove .. show full overview
5x12
Death in the Morning
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Air date
Jul 11, 1982
Rich landowner Sir Ian Masterson marries, and Karen, his new wife, moves into his magnificent house in the country. Karen is befriended by Linda Larch, a neighbour. But Linda has her own .. show full overview
5x13
What Have You Been Up To Lately?
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Air date
Jul 18, 1982
Richard Mellor and Fergus Locke are two failed actors whose names have never been in lights. They meet by chance for the first time in twenty-five years, remembering that Mellor wooed .. show full overview
5x14
The Absence of Emily
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Air date
Jul 25, 1982
The rich, bossy Norma owns a big house and allows her sister Emily and lazy brother-in-law Bob to live at the lodge. One day, Emily vanishes without explanation, and Norma suspects Bob .. show full overview
5x15
In the Bag
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Air date
Aug 01, 1982
An honest girl called Cara aims to recover her family jewellery (which has been consfiscated as a result of a lover's tiff) by stealing it from a hidden safe. She hires the .. show full overview
5x16
A Man with a Fortune
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Air date
Aug 08, 1982
John Smith is a rich but lonely Californian wine-grower visiting England in the hope of finding his long-lost family. In London, he meets two girls, Janet Murdoch and her room-mate Eva, and things start to go terribly wrong.
5x17
Who's Got the Lady?
Episode overview
Air date
Aug 15, 1982
Parnell is an art dealer who plans to steal an important picture from his own London art gallery. During a ceremony to unveil The Patrician Lady (a masterpiece on temporary loan) gun .. show full overview
5x18 Season finale
The Skeleton Key
Episode overview
Air date
Aug 22, 1982
An arrogant young man called Max has to have an emergency operation just before he is due to go away on a holiday with his girlfriend, Emma - a holiday he hoped to turn into a honeymoon. .. show full overview

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