Tales of the Unexpected

3/31/1979

Unable to show her dentist husband, Cyril, the fur coat her lover has given her, Mrs Bixby pawns it and pretends that she found the ticket.

4/7/1979

When her husband William dies, Mary Pearl is shocked that his will stipulates that his brain should be kept alive.

4/14/1979

An enraged detective's wife kills her husband by smashing in his skull with a heavy blunt instrument - but no murder weapon can be found, and the police are baffled.

4/21/1979

When a young man arrives in Bath, he is shocked to find his seemingly charming landlady has a dark side.

4/28/1979

A lady is cut down to size by her husband’s loyal butler when it is discovered she is having an affair.

5/5/1979

When Edward grows tired of Louisa’s obsession with a stray cat and decides to get rid of it, she exacts her revenge.

5/12/1979

An American gambler must come up with a cunning plan to slow down a ship at sea in order to win a bet.

5/19/1979

Mrs Foster exacts an intriguing revenge on her husband after his dawdling causes her to miss a flight.