Tales of the Unexpected

Episodes

Season 9, 10 episodes

Episode 1: Skeleton in the Cupboard
- Now playing
- 27m
- Dec 18, 1987
Robert Smythe is a ruthless executive with a dangerous twenty year old secret. An echo from the past prompts him into a new cover up of the truth, but his wife becomes suspicious.
Episode 2: The Colonel's Lady
- 27m
- Jan 8, 1988
A colonel's comfortable life is disturbed when his wife writes a bestselling book of poetry. Is this evidence that she's having an affair?
Episode 3: The Surgeon
- 24m
- Jan 15, 1988
When wealthy Prince Zawi gives surgeon Robert Sandy a diamond for saving his life, the doctor finds that his new jewel is really more of a liability than an asset.
Episode 4: The Verger
- 27m
- Jan 22, 1988
When devoted verger Albert is forced to resign, he sets out to build a new life. But can he succeed in a modern world that has little time for his old-fashioned ways?
Episode 5: The Facts of Life
- 24m
- Jan 29, 1988
When sheltered young son Nicholas travels to London to complete in a fencing competition, he gets caught up in a very strange adventure.
Episode 6: Wink Three Times
- 27m
- Apr 15, 1988
A timid provincial solicitor visits a smart London hotel on a business trip, and becomes embroiled in a curious case of mistaken identity.
Episode 7: The Dead Don't Steal
- 26m
- Apr 22, 1988
Ken Johnson runs a charter plane service with his lover and air stewardess Lilian, who indulges in a little smuggling on his behalf. Then disaster strikes for him when his wife discovers his affair.
Episode 8: The Finger of Suspicion
- 24m
- Apr 29, 1988
Happily married and living in the Middle East, American safe-cracker Steve is suddenly threatened with extradition for a crime he says he didn't commit.
Episode 9: A Time to Die
- 27m
- May 6, 1988
Yves's marriage has gone stale and his young mistress has announced that she is pregnant. But he then makes a decision which changes everyone's lives.
Episode 10: Mr Know-All
- 27m
- May 13, 1988
When pretty hotel worker Elly is charmed by a guest, archaeologist Max Kelada, it seems that he might not be the man he claims to be.