Tales Of The Unexpected Episode Guide

97. The Mugger

Gerald Overton is a highly ambitious politician with a reputation for being tough on crime. A meeting with a beautiful woman at a dinner party leads him into a nightmarish situation threatening to derail his whole career, forcing him to take the law into his own hands.

Main Cast: Roy Marsden, Amanda Boxer

98. The Open Window

In a Conneticut hunting lodge, a young man goes through an open window and reappears into a world, the like of which he's never seen before.

Main Cast: Michael Conforti, Valerie Mahaffey, Richard Dow, Richard Marr, Michael Galloway, Dina Merrill

99. People Don't do Such Things

Reeve Baker is a young romantic novelist and lives life in the fast lane. Gwen Carter, the wife of Reeve's tax consultant, falls for Reeve despite her husband's warnings.

Main Cast: Don Johnson, Arthur Hill, Samantha Eggar, Denise Galick

100. In the Cards

Madame Myra is a poor fortune-teller with a dismal career that is going nowhere fast. She meets a strange man in town who shows her how she can do much better for herself. But does he have an ulterior motive?

Main Cast: Susan Strasberg, Max Gail, Elaine Giftos, Kenneth Tigar

101. Nothin' Short of Highway Robbery

Husband and wife Newt and Marcie are driving through the desert. They stop at a garage to fill up with gas, and the mechanic tells them that their car is in urgent need of repairs. The mechanic suggests that they take a meal at his wife's eating house while he does the work. Are they being taken for a ride?

Main Cast: Jennifer Holmes, Bud Cort, Warren Oates, Bettye Ackerman

102. Scrimshaw

Brenda lives in the Florida Keys. She has taken to drink to try to forget her dreadful past. Then Eric turns up from her college days. But what does Eric really want?

Main Cast: Joan Hackett, Charles Kimbrough

103. Skeleton in the Cupboard

Robert Smythe, a ruthless executive, has a dark 20 year-old secret that his wife, Margaret, knows nothing about. It has come back to haunt him, and his wife is starting to have suspicions. He needs to cover it up. How ruthless can he be?

Main Cast: Charles Dance, Zoe Wanamaker, Philip Dunbar, Francesca Brill

104. The Colonel's Lady

Eve Peregrine writes a book of love poetry which becomes a tremendous success. The book contains details of her love life, and George, her husband, becomes insanely jealous. The whole thing has a terrible effect on their marriage, and George demands to know who the man is that she refers to in her poetry. The truth shocks George.

Main Cast: Joss Ackland, Pauline Collins, Gareth Thomas

105. The Surgeon

Doctor Robert sandy is given a diamond by a grateful Saudi Arabian prince. He and his wife find the jewel to be more of a curse than a blessing.

Main Cast: John Alderton, Raad Rawi, David Belcher, Thorley Walters

106. The Verger

Albert Dobson and his wife have to leave the parish church they have been serving after a new vicar arrives and starts a new regime. When they start their new life, a secret that Albert has been keeping is forced into the open.

Main Cast: Richard Briers, Patricia Routledge, Andrew Burt

107. The Facts of Life

Nicholas Lillie has led a very sheltered life, living in a rural environment. When he does well in a fencing competition, he is selected to go to London to take part in a national fencing competition. A young girl he meets there, Zoe, believes he is an easy mark, but she is in for a shock.

Main Cast: Jim Broadbent, Benedict Taylor

108. Wink Three Times

Bashful solicitor Jeremy Tyler is residing at a hotel on a business trip. He is mistaken for someone else by a woman on a blind date.

Main Cast: Peter Davison, Liza Goddard

109. The Dead Don't Steal

Ken Johnson's wife finds out about the affair he is having with his secretary, Lillian, and becomes furious. Lillian then tells Ken that she is seeing someone else. Ken kills her in anger and disposes of the body, but he then gets a phone call from her.

Main Cast: Nicholas Ball, Glynis Barber, Lois Baxter

110. Finger of Suspicion

Safe-cracker Steve Barker lives in splendour with his arabian wife in a Middle Eastern country. His peaceful life becomes threatened when he is charged with an old crime.

Main Cast: Michael Brandon, Lucy Gutteridge, Nadim Sawalha, Rob Spendlove

111. A Time to Die

Electronics expert Yves Drouard's love life has got complicated. His marriage is on the rocks, and his young mistress has become pregnant. His thoughts turn to murder.

Main Cast: David Suchet, Nina Van Pallandt, Jemma Redgrave, Sarah-Jane Varley

112. Mr Know-all

Professor Max Kelada is a reknowned archaeologist, who is also a serial seducer of women. He is brutally frank about this to Elly Somerton, who is working for the summer as a hotel receptionist. When a rival attempts to humiliate him, Kelada shows a different side to his personality.

Main Cast: Chaim Topol, Kim Thomson, Edward Riley, Eamonn Walker, Steve Plytas