Tales of the Unexpected....

[MarthasGinYard]

Do you love it

I'm being transported back to the early 80's and loving the twists and turns!!

And the stars

The wonderful Zoe Wannanaker....Joan Collins.... Brian Bleased....Sir J Gielgud.

Anyone else enjoying them?

I loved the one on last week,everyone thought he had buried his wife as she had gone missing.
He hadn't,but then did!

So happy these are on, I love them.

No one has mentioned “The Landlady.” I teach this short story to key stage three kids and they love the programme.

What about the one with the man who leaves his wife for his much nicer (but going blind) mistress? All I’m going to say is the eyes have it!

I think the Landlady was easily the creepiest most horrible one. Only seen it once. Never again!

I did! Page 2.

I found Galloping Foxley disturbing as it was about what would now be known as child abuse

I've been sucked in, watching them on Sky Arts.

As a child I found them terrifying. I went with my parents to collect my grandad. My sister and brother stayed with my other grandparents. I was 10.

On the way back we skidded on black ice, and the car rolled over and over. Luckily the car was really strong (old car it was a Ghia something, can't remember), so we were able to drive home.

We got back to my grandparents, my nan gave me my first ever alcoholic drink (Advocaat), to settle my nerves.

Tales of the Unexpected was on. It was one about a man who killed his wife and cut up her body in the bath. It terrified me, I 'remember' seeing the blood, it was very, very graphic and scared me for a long time.

I watched part of this recently and the bath scene was very tame. There was no blood! Somehow my young mind had created the graphic scenes of skin, muscle, blood and bone I'd remembered.

The theme tune sent me into a cold sweat.

Now I can appreciate the nuances, the twists and the sheer brilliance of it and it has become my favourite viewing pleasure.

The one with the pickpocket hitchhiker was quite good

Thanks for this thread! Watched loads on YouTube yesterday…
Omg Flypaper is still playing on my mind. Absolutely chilling.
Loved Lamb To The Slaughter.
The Landlady - Jesus, stuff of nightmares!

One that’s always stuck in my head, and come to think about it, it may be from the American series, but there was an episode of a man scared to go on a plane, he eventually did but when he looked out of the plane window there was a demon/devil thing sitting on the wing!

@Snooks1971 the gremlin on the plane wasn't Tales of the Unexpected, it was The Twilight Zone and starred Captain Kirk himself - William Shatner. The episode is called Nightmare at 20,000 Feet. Loved Twilight Zone.

I remember that twilight zone episode! It was a very good one.

The other series I watched I think was called hammer house of horror?
It had the house that bled to death.
I dint know if it’s the same series but Can anyone remember an episode (film?) where there’s a couple in a big house and it’s stormy. They hear a noise and he goes to investigate. She opens the curtains and there’s a dirty big werewolf at her window! 😱
That scene pops into my head regularly. She gets pregnant and craves raw red meat. Her baby Won’t breast feed She is worried about the baby. She pricks her finger by accident and the baby somehow tastes the blood and wants it. So she starts feeding baby her blood and gets ill (and dies?)

I love these types of programmes. Shudder had new Creepshow, Twilight Zone & other horror shorts series. Great for a quick fix.

[quote WishIWasSomewhereElse]@Snooks1971 the gremlin on the plane wasn't Tales of the Unexpected, it was The Twilight Zone and starred Captain Kirk himself - William Shatner. The episode is called Nightmare at 20,000 Feet. Loved Twilight Zone.[/quote]
@WishIWasSomewhereElse ah yes of course it was! Thank you! How could I forget The Twilight Zone! Off to YouTube >>>>>

I liked the episode of TOTU about the woman who had a fear of being late and a husband who ran late on purpose to wind her up.
The episode in modern Twilight Zone about racism was amazing.

@PuffinBadger I watched that one the other day! Loved it. That and The Leg of Lamb and the B&B

I liked those too. My mum had the TOTU book in the 80s and it had those stories in

The one about the old guy about to retire after working all his life in the one place. He thought nobody was bothering. That was quite sad.