does anyone remember tales of the unexpected?

[nikkershaw]

i watched a really odd one today, about a boy who saved a turtle then went off on it forever, was really odd.

The one where they discovered that plants could feel pain. I think that one of the characters invented a listening device that recorded plants screaming as they were being picked

Couldn't bring myself to watch the ending but I can well imagine that the plants exacted their revenge in one form or another!

Ah - thought I might be getting them confused. However all coming back to me the more people mention.

God that one where the sisters mouth disappears

ooo the nudey-rudey flame woman - she freaked me out too!

nikkershaw - what channel was it on - i'd love to watch them again. I was little when they were first on and the theme tune gave me nightmares!

Ooh good one BettyS!, shudder

I know Snuggle, that has stayed with me for years. ah

Ooh just remembered another one! A waitress goes to a fortune teller who tells her she'll meet a fat unattractive man that day, they'll get married then he'll inherit millions and die a violent death shortly after. She meets him that day and marries him, then she inherits the money and tells him the fortune teller was wrong and shes leaving him. He kills her then gets sentenced to death in the electric chair!

I may have got that confused with tales of the crypt but still fucking creepy!

Thanks nikker I wasnt sure.

I remember that Betty the old bloke went bonkers and put iodine on the tree.

It was a bit like the Bill and Doctors in that it kept the actors of Great Britain in employ throughout the 80s

Yes I loved them! Loved Hammer House of Horror too.
Can't remember which this was was but a couple moved to new flat and kept seeing the rooms looking different. Something to do with a canary I think as well. Rooms looked very old fashioned.
Anyway, I think man murders wife and all very nasty. Young couple deside to move out thinking they are seing ghosts from the past. Ends with the new people turning up and they are the couple from the dreams ie it was the future not the past. Creepy.

Oh and the HHofH one where you couldn't leave the creepy old building. They'd zoom off up the drive in the car but then they'd find they were heading back towards the house as all roads led there.

Oh and one about rabits being murdered.

The plane and sister's mouth ones were from the TZ film I think. I used to find th eold black and white half hour shows much creeper.

-Guy in suit walks on screen.
'Picture a house in a quiet street...'

amberc they're on skyarts daily

weepottle you will have to excuse me... i dont know what about twilight zone - dont watch very much

but iam glad you rembember it to

I remember one about a man who wore bandages wrapped round his face then one day he unwinds the bandages and there are no features on his face, just blank. That scared me but I have no idea what programme it was.

I was also scared by Sapphire and Steel (no idea what it was about), when all the umbrella flapped about on the hooks in the changing room and attacked them, and those short movies you used to get before the main film at the cinema, which were often quite scary.

Surreal TV in the 70s

I think it was Alfred Hitchcock rather than Tales, but I still remember the one where the prisoner bribed the Morgue attendant to hide in him a coffin so he could escape from jail. Idea was that said person would then free him.

Only for prisoner to light match in coffin to find he was in there with .....Morgue attendant! Still gives me heebie geebies 30 years on. That and the Hammer film with dead bunnies....

I remember one where a poor couple had a very sickly baby. In the end (I don't know the ins and outs) baby was better and the doctor's parting words were addressed to Frau Hitler..........

Another one where a man was on a cruise and was told about how you could bet on how long it took. THe ship was making better time than expected so he worked out that if he jumped aboard in sight of someone ship wold have to stop to save him. He set it up after having a chat with an old lady.

In the end she was whicked off by her nurse who said 'there, ther dear, there is no man overboard'. Last shot was him in the water waving to the diaooearing ship.

I think that the keg of lamb one is a classic. It was on not so long ago and I also heard a radio play of it.

It's funny how long these stick on our minds.......

This thread is making me feel a bit wibbly.

I only remember the dancing woman in the credit but none ofthe sories. Exceptthat they used to scare me - I was always babysitting alone when I saw it.

Sinkingfeeling - that's the one I remember!! The one where the wife gets the police to eat the evidence! Thought I was the only one on the planet to remember that!

Vagueky, but I was a very small girl and was watching from the crack in the doorway.

I love TOTU. I bought the boxset recently,and am slowly working my way through them.

Flypaper,The Landlady,Skin and Lamb To The Slaughter are the creepiest episodes imho.

I vividly remember the denouement of an episode where a baby's life was saved after much perilous endangerment. A tiny, cute baby was coo-ing and being cradled safe at last in a woman's arms and she was asked "what will you call this baby?" and she answered "Adolf, Adolf Hitler". I remembered being gobsmacked, I was about 12 at the time and thought "wow, THAT's a fantatstic story" I think it gave me a real taste of what a good story could be - got me thinking about how you can mix fact and fiction in such an imaginative/sensational way.

sinking feeling, the leg of lamb one was on radio 4 recently a the afternoon play (or book of the week or something).

Brilliant!

I remember watching something about a couple who I think moved into an abandoned school, that was haunted by the ghost of an evil girl, with a sickle, and she kept appearing there was a misty pond involved where I think the couple met their demise in the end.
So. Scarey.
Was it a tales of the unexpected episode?