Tales of the Unexpected

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Someone has uploaded the entire program series on YouTube. And the quality is fantastic. A friend also told me they are shown on Sky too, but I've never come across them.

I haven't watched since I was around 8 or 9 and those episodes I remember scared the living daylights out of me. Now enjoying a blast from the past afternoon.

What I never appreciated at the time, were the well known actors and actresses. Currently watching Susan George and Brian Blessed. 😁

First episode had Pamela Stephenson who was breathtakingly good looking.

Also so many women in house coats! 🤣👌

@CellophaneFlower She could have been in more than one, I suppose!

There was ‘The Landlady’, the one with the lady who ran a B&B and lured unsuspecting young men into her home, only to kill them with cyanide in their tea, then they would be taxidermed and kept in an upstairs room with all her previous victims.

I think in the poison chocolates one I mentioned, the husband is having an affair with his wife's friend maybe? He injects the chocs and gives them to his wife to get rid of her, but she ends up giving them as a gift to the woman he's having an affair with. I'm sure she's sat on a plane munching them at the end, possibly they were running off together 🤔

Yes I watched it. It's called Neck.

She has the most stunning black dress in the dinner scene I'd absolutely love one like it.

Was also a fan of TOTU and HHOH at the time and now rewatching TOTU on sky arts.
Recently saw the one with Bernard Cribbins as a thief who couldn't remember the code to open a locker full of all his stolen goods so he goes to see a man who's good with memory and recall.
Also watched the episode where the man gives his wife poisoned chocolates but there is a mix up.
Remember being terrified as a child by armchair thriller.
Found HHOH scary too, particularly an episode with Diana Dors in an isolated hotel perhaps, and her and all the locals were vampires or werewolves.
As a pp wrote, it began my interest in the macabre 😀

The one where Joan Collins gets her head chopped off is the first ever one I saw. I was about 8 and I remember lying on the couch on a Saturday night as I was unwell so not in bed. I was horrified. My DH is still terrified of the music

The Flypaper terrified me as a child!

My favourites are Royal Jelly and The Landlady, and there's one about Hitler as a baby, I can't remember the name of that episode.

Oh wow, that's great, thank you.

No. You're right @CellophaneFlower, Joan Collins was in both the ones mentioned. Although I prefer the one where she's beheaded.

Oh that terrified me. I was only about five when my parents watched this. I was ill and they thought I was asleep on the sofa!

I just reminder the art collector talking about taking the skin off his back!

A brilliant story - very grubby, very well done. I didn’t know it had been filmed and will try and find it now.

Is anyone watching tonight? I liked the snake one but thought it was very funny that Dahl introduced the story by saying kraits are small, only for the production to use two six foot snakes. I'm not sure what species the first one was (crawling into the room) but it changed to a boa constrictor for the next shot. Neither looked anything like a krait. I suppose in the days before the internet, you could get away with it!

I’ve just started watching Tales of the U expected. You can find them all for free on Amazon Video.

I really enjoyed The Stinker, where a weak man re-encounters his childhood bully. His wife is played by Diane Holland who was later in Hi-Di-Hi. The factory boss/bully is played by Joss Ackland, who also played Jerry Westerby in the original Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy.

Oh I love celebrity spotting whilst watching them. Joan Collins has done a couple.