Tales of the Unexpected

[HappyFace]

For all you oldies.... what was your favourite episode of Tales of the Unexpected? Mine, if your interested was the one where the fella kept bees and by the end of the episode be was humming!

[kempie]

That was "Royal Jelly" starring Timothy West.

My favourite was "William and Mary" where William dies of cancer but his brain (with one eye still attached) is kept alive. The episode ends with his wife Mary, having spent many years being controlled by William, taking the brain home and flaunting her newfound independence in full sight of that one, unblinking eye.

[Dreddnaught]

I used to watch them all the time when my Granny was babysitting me and my sisters, yet the only one I recall with any kind of favour was the one when a doctor or professor invented a machine that let you hear plants.

I remember it ended when his tree surgeon turned up to cut down a tree, and as he swung the axe, he heard, through the machine, the tree scream, and he stopped the fella from cutting it down.

It's made me be nice to trees ever since....


Plus I saw one a few years ago, and after laughing at the quality of it, I found myself quite engrossed.

It was the one about a difficult delivery of a baby in Austria in the early 1900's on a winters night (am i recalling this correctly ?), and it looked like he was going to die, but the doctor turned up and everything turned out ok. It was just then that after the half hour of hoping the baby makes it, that the doctor asks the mother, "well Mr.s Hitler, what are you goign to call him?" and she replies "Adolf"

Yep, the one and only.

[jamesy boy]

I remember the hitler one.I remeber one about a boy riding out to sea on a giant turtle as well.

[spudqueen]

I remember the one with Susan George who killed her policeman husband with a frozen leg of lamb and then cooked it and fed it to his policemen friends who were investigating his death!

[Mattk]

royal jelly was daft ! i remember he started slurring all his words toward the end to sound like a bee !

my favourite is the one where an art collector has been searching for a missing piece of work by a painter but it has been missing for years but it turns out to be tattooed on the back of a wino ! so he pays him lots of money to stay with him and shopw off his back but it ends with the art being on a a wall and everyone commenting on the unusual canvsas !

it was better than it sounds !!!!

[spainlads]

I forgot about the leg of lamb.

There was the house that bled where a house did that. I think it turned out the family just wanted more money for the place.

I remember one, very vaguely about a guy in a farmhouse surrounded by people wearing balaclavas. People working in the fields, driving the tractor etc.

[hotchoc]

my favourite is one thats already been mentioned 'lamb to the slaughter' i think it was called where the evidence is eaten. my next favourite (and i can only remember the ending) is where a young boy went off into the sunst on the back of a turtle

[gerry]

There is an  episode that starred Colin Blakely & Warren Clarke called "Don't speak ill of the dead".Colin Blakely plays a Doctor who is laying a new floor in his cellar.Warren Clarke thinks that his friend the doctor has buried his wife under the new floor due to some marriage problems they have had & she hasn't been seen for a few days.The doctor says his wife is visiting a friend.

Colin Blakely phones up the village policeman to come round to the house and act as a witness while he digs the floor back up to prove that he hasn't buried his wife & there won't be any rumours.

The doctor digs up the floor & there is no body.Everyone goes away happy.The doctor's wife turns up later on while he is down in the cellar.He tells his wife to come down to the cellar as he needs to show her something.While down there he strangles his wife & puts her in the hole & then goes on to fill the hole back up.

[Dreddnaught]

My GOD, I just had one of those intense flashback kinda experiences whle reading about the one where a boy rides off on the back of a turtle - I rememeber that one vividly !

Is it me, or was this programme a lot better that how I used to remember it....

[standing]

God - I wish they would put them back on... the one I remember was an old gentleman type who used to go for nice walks in the park with his umbrella - but he had a spike in the end and used to crunch it through people's rib cages... no idea why....Those were the days!

[dothawkes]

I seemed to watch loads of these and I can still hum the tune and see the opening credits.