Tales Of The Unexpected Episode Guide

13. The Hitch-Hiker

Writer Paul Duveen gives an elderly man a lift in his new BMW. During the journey, the old man demonstrates his skills as a pickpocket, or as he calls himself, "a Fingersmith".

Main Cast: Rod Taylor, Cyril Cusack, John Forgeham

14. Poison

Working in India, Harry Pope, a reformed alcoholic, decides to do some reading in bed one night. He feels something moving on his chest and looks down to see a deadly poisonous snake. He must lie still until his friend returns.

Main Cast: Andrew Ray, Anthony Steel, Judy Geeson, Saeed Jaffrey

15. Fat Chance

Mary Burge has become fatter and fatter over the years. Her pharmacist husband, John, tires of her and has an affair with his secretary, Frances. Mary will not divorce him, however, so he hatches a plot to get rid of her by using his pharmaceutical skills.

Main Cast: John Castle, Miriam Margoyles, Sheila Gish

16. Taste

Pretentious wine connoisseur William Pratt has a massive wager with stockbroker Mike Schofield, at a dinner party, that he can name the vineyard from which an obscure wine originates. The wager happens to involve Schofield's daughter.

Main Cast: Ron Moody, Anthony Carrick, Marcia Glossop, Debbie Farrington

17. My Lady Love, My Dove

Rich wife Pamela Beauchamp, looking for some excitement, asks her husband to do a sneaky thing: install a microphone in their friends bedroom when they come over to play Bridge. What they hear is shocking.

Main Cast: Elaine Stritch, Shane Rimmer, Lisa Eichhorn, Douglas Lambert

18. Georgy Porgy

Vicar George Duckworth, owing to his unconventional upbringing, has a strange attitude to women. Although afraid of physical contact, he often imagines his female parishioners undressed during his sermons. One day, he suddenly finds that women have become irresistible to him.

Main Cast: Joan Collins, John Alderton, Lally Bowers

19. Depart in Peace

An art collector finds himself in the middle of a struggle between two attractive women.

Main Cast: Joseph Cotten, Gloria Grahame, Maureen O'Brien, John Bennet, Peter Cellier

20. The Umbrella Man

On a wet afternoon, an old man persuades a passerby to part with some money in exchange for a silk umbrella. The old man claims that he needs it for his taxi fare home. Later, however, the old man goes into a pub and buys himself a whisky. What exactly is happening?

Main Cast: John Mills, John Carson, Michael Gambon, Jennifer Hilary

21. Genesis and Catastrophe

A new mother, who has lost three previous children, is concerned when the baby boy falls ill. The doctor tells the woman's husband to be more supportive. They name the boy Adolphus.

Main Cast: Helmut Griem, Zhivila Roche, Hana Maria Pravda, Alastair Llewellyn

22. Mr Botibol's First Love

William Botibol is a loser in life, who fills his time listening to music and fantasising that he is a great conductor. Then he meets a young lady, Irene, a fellow music lover, and invites her back to the small concert hall he has built inside his house.

Main Cast: Jack Weston, Anna Massey, Alan Rowe, Paul Bacon

23. Back for Christmas

Successful physician James Carpenter is an orchid fanatic. He loves them far more than he loves his wife Hermione. He is also having an affair with a younger woman, Samantha. A short posting to the U.S. gives him an idea for murder.

Main Cast: Richard Johnson, Sian Phillips, Avril Elgar, Artro Morris

24. The Orderly World of Mr Appleby

Martha Appleby discovers that her husband, Arthur, murdered all his three previous wives and used the insurance money to open a series of antique shops. She tells him that if anything should happen to her, instructions have been left to deal with him.

Main Cast: Robert Lang, Elizabeth Spriggs, Cyril Luckham, Christopher Bramwell