Tales of the Unexpected

  • Premiered: Mar 1979
  • Episodes: 112
  • Followers: 12
  • Ended
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Season 7
7x1
The Dirty Detail
Episode overview
Air date
May 12, 1984
Fred Pearson is a Vietnam war veteran, but he came out with a miserable service record, thanks to the bullying of Guedo, his sergeant, who constantly gave him dirty detail punishments .. show full overview
7x2
The Best Chess Player in the World
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Air date
May 19, 1984
G.B. Shaw, a successful newpaper proprietor, sets out to use people as if they were pieces on a chessboard. His beautiful wife, Paula, has everything she could want - including a horse, .. show full overview
7x3
Proxy
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Air date
May 26, 1984
A millionaire media tycoon and two of his lawyer friends are being blackmailed by a scheming woman on account of past affairs with her. When the woman is found murdered in her apartment, .. show full overview
7x4
Have a Nice Death
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Air date
Jun 02, 1984
Sam Luke is a successful male-chauvinist writer, pushing the line that women are the weaker sex. He is a popular fellow, with no enemies - except that the feminists did not like his book .. show full overview
7x5
Number Eight
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Air date
Jun 09, 1984
A smartly dressed driver on his own picks up a scruffy, wild-eyed hitch-hiker. As they drive off together, they hear warnings on the car radio of a dangerous serial killer on the run - .. show full overview
7x6
The Last of the Midnight Gardeners
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Air date
Jun 16, 1984
Walter is a vain writer and publisher with a wife and a mistress, based in London, and he likes to show off. He stages a story-writing competition, with a £5,000 prize, to find the plot for a perfect murder...
7x7
The Gift of Beauty
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Air date
Jun 30, 1984
Elizabeth kills her rich husband, with the help of Ray, her young lover. She then undergoes plastic surgery and begins an exercise programme, in the hope of closing the age-gap between .. show full overview
7x8
Wet Saturday
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Air date
Jul 07, 1984
Wet weather, and a dead body in the house. Mr Princey's dim-witted daughter, Millicent, thwarted in love, has killed a young preacher with a croquet mallet, and Princey decides he must .. show full overview
7x9
Sauce for the Goose
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Air date
Jul 21, 1984
Olivia is a rich widow who seduces Stephen, a younger man with no money. He marries her on the strength of her inheritance from her late husband, whose death she has skillfully arranged. .. show full overview
7x10
Bird of Prey
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Air date
Aug 04, 1984
This is the story of a parrot's egg - and a flirtatious wife and a jealous husband. Jack and Edna's pet parrot lays a huge egg - one much bigger than parrot-size - and promptly dies. .. show full overview
7x12
Accidental Death
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Air date
Aug 19, 1984
Steve and Jane travel around England pretending to be market researchers. They con their way into the houses of the rich, to identify things worth stealing on a return visit. Then one .. show full overview
7x13
The Reconciliation
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Air date
Sep 16, 1984
After ten years, James is fed up with his boring marriage, but his wife, Caroline, still loves him. As he walks out on her, she warns: ""I'll never divorce you."" James's lawyer advises .. show full overview
7x14
The Mugger
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Air date
Oct 14, 1984
Gerald Overton is an ambitious politician with the tough job of cracking violent crime. But a chance encounter with a beautiful woman at a dinner party leads him into a nightmare, and .. show full overview
7x15 Season finale
The Open Window
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Air date
Oct 21, 1984
The 'open window' of the title is in a hunting lodge in the Connecticut hills. A young fellow goes through it and finds a strange new world on the other side which does not look much like New England...
7x11
I Like it Here in Wilmington
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Air date
Nov 08, 1984
Wilmington, Delaware, business man Harry Elton is a man on the verge of bankruptcy, as Marvin Castlemore, his partner in the rag trade, has made a disastrous guess on next season's .. show full overview

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