Tales of the Unexpected

  • Premiered: Mar 1979
  • Episodes: 112
  • Followers: 12
  • Ended
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Season 6
6x4
Clerical Error
Episode overview
Air date
Mar 30, 1983
Paul Standing, the son of a highly-respected doctor who has recently died, is winding up his father's affairs when he receives an account from a book-shop owned by two brothers (Michael .. show full overview
6x1
A Passing Opportunity
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Air date
Apr 09, 1983
Frank Jesmond is a struggling tough guy who is jealous of his rich and successful former schoolmate Peter Madison. And Frank will do anything for money - including murder. But what about Jesmond's loving wife and young son, Timmy?
6x6
Where's Your Sense of Humour?
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Air date
Apr 14, 1983
Laura and Frank Parker are the long-suffering friends of George and Julie Forester. Long-suffering, because George is a compulsive prankster, and some of his jokes are very troublesome... then one day he goes too far.
6x2
The Memory Man
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Air date
Apr 16, 1983
Colin Mearns, called 'the memory man', is going through a very thin patch. Out of funds and facing the loss of Mary, his gorgeous girlfriend, he advertises for customers and agrees to .. show full overview
6x3
A Sad Loss
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Air date
Apr 23, 1983
Claire Hawksworth is a young widow who owns a smart hotel in the Caribbean, where she lives with her good-looking hotel manager (and lover) Dave Bingham. Alas, Claire is struggling .. show full overview
6x5
Heir Presumptuous
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Air date
May 07, 1983
Rancher George Devon is found murdered. Devon was a rich man, and his nephews Donald and David (who are identical twins) stand to inherit his fortune. They become the prime suspects, as .. show full overview
6x12
Hit and Run
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Air date
May 10, 1983
Roger Ashburn is a young hospital doctor with a beautiful but selfish wife. They hold a dinner party for Steve and Carol Hutchins, but the party is ruined when one of the men finds his .. show full overview
6x7
Down Among the Sheltering Palms
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Air date
May 21, 1983
Gerry Armstrong, an American veteran of World War II, makes a nostalgic return trip to England and visits the town in Norfolk where he served as an airman forty years before. Carol is a .. show full overview
6x8
The Vorpal Blade
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Air date
May 28, 1983
A tale of love, honour and murder in Germany in the 1930s, looked back on many years later. The elderly von Baden, one of those who witnessed a long-ago duel to the death at Heidelberg between Macker and the bully Cassan, reveals a shocking secret...
6x9
The Wrong 'Un
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Air date
Jun 11, 1983
Helmut Weinrich is a German business man staying in a hotel and looking for a good time after a successful deal. Helmut meets the beautiful and enigmatic Molly, a girl with an edge of .. show full overview
6x10
The Luncheon
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Air date
Jun 19, 1983
Susan Mandeville is a glamorous, extravagant American who inveigles Tony Medway, a struggling young writer, into buying her an expensive lunch. Tony believes Susan is still married to a .. show full overview
6x11
The Tribute
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Air date
Jun 25, 1983
Three English ladies who served the Empire in distant places, Fanny Soane, Mable Ince, and Lady Eleanor Benson, hear of the death of Nanny Dench, who had served all of them. The three .. show full overview
6x13
Youth from Vienna
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Air date
Jul 02, 1983
Caroline Coates, a television station interviewer, is promoted to be anchorwoman of the station's main news programme - and there are two men who want to marry her. But Caroline worries .. show full overview
6x14 Season finale
The Turn of the Tide
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Air date
Sep 03, 1983
Slade is a criminal lawyer - and a perfect gentleman who plans to commit the perfect murder. He has his reasons for wanting to kill a friend, of course, and he knows he needs to destroy .. show full overview

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