prunella scales steams husband to death!!

[donutthefrog]

Does anyone remember a programme from the mid 80's simiilar to 'tales of the unexpected' featuring one episode where prunella scales kills her husband by locking him in a sauna, and another featured a murderous little girl (in a painting) with a scythe. The opening credits featured a child like animation of a wilting vase of flowers. HELP!

[Moog]

IMDB seems like a good place to start, here's a list of films and TV series she has been in http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0768795/ there's not to much further info about her mid eighties tv stuff but gives you a place to start

[quattro]

It reminds me of a series called Hammer house of Horror it was on in the seventies and it was recreated in the eighties they were short gory stories of the humourous type but I can't say I remember the girl with the vase of flowers.

[rinkytink]

Could be the Hammer T.V. Series. There was a Hammer House of Horror series and a Hammer House of Mystery and Suspense series. Here is a link to a relevent site:

http://homepages.tesco.net/~dr.phibes/

Also I seem to recall a series on ITV called armchair thrillers or something similar ??

[gerry]

It's not Hammer House of Horror as i have the complete series on dvd & that story is not featured.

[Lindylou]

Would it be Roald Dahl's Tales of the Unexpected??

[answer-man]

The series you're looking for was called "Unnatural Causes" (ITV/1986) - 7 episdoes in all about death and murder.

The epsiode you describe was called "Home Cooking"

[donutthefrog]

thanks answerman, that's really quite impressive, a whole 2 years later(!)