Tales of the Unexpected

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  • Season 9
    • Ep 10
      Mr Know-All
      5/13/88
      8.9
      Pretty medical student Elly Somerton is working as a hotel chambermaid and falls for a guest at the hotel, Professor Max Kelada. Kelada is a well-known archaeologist with a profitable sideline in identifying ancient artefacts, and he faces a dilemma when he is asked to identify a fake relic he designed himself.

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    • Ep 9
      A Time to Die
      5/6/88
      8.1

      Yves Drouard is a romantic French electronics expert whose love life has become rather too complicated. His marriage to Marthe has cooled, and his young mistress, Violette, has announced that she is pregnant. Yves is forced into a decision - but something he failed to foresee leads to an outcome he did not reckon on at all.

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    • Ep 8
      The Finger of Suspicion
      4/29/88
      9.0
      American safe-cracker Steve Baker is married to a beautiful Arab, and they are leading an idyllic life together in a Middle Eastern country - but then Steve is threatened with extradition for a crime he says he didn't commit.

    • Ep 7
      The Dead Don't Steal
      4/22/88
      8.7
      Secretary Lilian Brett is having an affair with her boss Ken Johnson, and his wife Annie is angry about it. Then Lillian says she wants to end their affair, as she has found someone else, and Ken does something he didn't mean to do.

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    • Ep 6
      Wink Three Times
      4/15/88
      8.8

      Jeremy Tyler, a timid provincial solicitor, is visiting a smart London hotel on a business trip and becomes embroiled in a curious case of mistaken identity.

      Babs Colport has arranged a blind date through a dating agency. Jeremy, looking for female company, tries to seduce her.

    • Ep 5
      The Facts of Life
      1/29/88
      8.2
      Nicholas Lillie is an inexperienced young man who lives in a remote rural area, and he is constantly held back by his parents. But Nicholas is a keen amateur fencer, and he qualifies for a national fencing contest which is to be held in London. When Nicholas travels up to the bright lights, he gets caught up in a very strange adventure.moreless
    • Ep 4
      The Verger
      1/22/88
      8.8
      Albert and Milly Dobson have given sixteen years of devoted service to their parish church, but then a new Vicar arrives who does not like the old ways and who has little time for the Dobsons. After some radical changes, a secret which Albert has hidden for years comes out and causes consternation. In defiance, the couple set out to build a new life. ''''Of course, God moves in mysterious ways.moreless
    • Ep 3
      The Surgeon
      1/15/88
      8.5
      Robert Sandy is an Oxford doctor, and one day a grateful patient - a Saudi Arabian prince - gives him a huge diamond. Robert and his wife Betty find that their new jewel, if they keep it, is really more of a liability than an asset.
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    • Ep 2
      The Colonel's Lady
      1/8/88
      8.9
      Eve, the wife of Colonel George Peregrine, writes a book of love poems which is a huge success. Eve is soon in demand everywhere, but her book seems to include revelations about her love life, and it has a disastrous effect on her marriage. The colonel is anxious to find out the identity of the young man Eve's poems were addressed to - and when she tells him, the truth hits hard.moreless
    • Ep 1
      Skeleton in the Cupboard
      12/18/87
      8.8
      Robert Smythe is a ruthless executive who has a dangerous twenty-year-old secret - one which even his wife, Margaret, knows nothing about. Then an echo from the past prompts Robert into a new cover-up of the truth, and Margaret starts to become suspicious. So Robert reverts to type and tries a ruthless remedy.moreless
  • Season 8
    • Ep 4
      Scrimshaw
      7/28/85
      8.7
      Brenda is a lonely drifter living in the island paradise of Key West, Florida. She has no friends and drinks a lot to forget her tragic past. Then Brenda runs into Eric, a man she knew long ago in her college days, and suddenly life takes on new meaning. But what is Eric really after?moreless
    • Ep 3
      Nothin' Short of Highway Robbery
      7/21/85
      8.4
      A husband and wife, Newt and Marcie, plan to drive home across the desert. They pull into a remote garage to fill their tank, and while they are there Harry the mechanic takes a look at their car and tells them it urgently needs some expensive repairs. Harry suggests Newt and Marcie should have a meal in his wife's eating house while he gets on with the work. But are the travellers being taken for a ride?moreless
    • Ep 2
      In the Cards
      7/14/85
      8.4
      Madame Myra is a third-rate fortune teller who foresees a dim future for herself. And then she meets a stranger in town who shows her a way to do a whole lot better. What, though, is in it for him?
    • Ep 1
      People Don't Do Such Things
      3/30/85
      8.8
      Reeve Baker is a successful young romantic novelist, and he lives life in the fast lane. Gwen Carter is the wife of Reeve's tax consultant and she falls for Reeve in a big way. Gwen's husband, Terence, knows all about Reeve and his ways with women, but his warnings to Gwen go unheeded. Terence is dismayed - but he knows what he wants next.moreless
  • Season 7
    • Ep 15
      The Open Window
      10/21/84
      8.5

      The 'open window' of the title is in a hunting lodge in the Connecticut hills. A young fellow goes through it and finds a strange new world on the other side which does not look much like New England...

    • Ep 14
      The Mugger
      10/14/84
      8.5

      Gerald Overton is an ambitious politician with the tough job of cracking violent crime. But a chance encounter with a beautiful woman at a dinner party leads him into a nightmare, and his whole career is threatened... Gerald surprises himself when he decides to take the law into his own hands.

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    • Ep 13
      The Reconciliation
      9/16/84
      8.2

      After ten years, James is fed up with his boring marriage, but his wife, Caroline, still loves him. As he walks out on her, she warns: "I'll never divorce you." James's lawyer advises him that the best way to avoid years of delay is to catch Caroline being unfaithful. So James hires a private eye to follow her for a whole day, up to midnight, with little hope that it will do him any good - and he gets a surprise.

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    • Ep 12
      Accidental Death
      8/19/84
      8.5
      Steve and Jane travel around England pretending to be market researchers for Silvertone Metal Polish. They con their way into people's houses to identify things worth stealing on a return visit. Then one day, in a hotel bar, they meet a scruffy old man called Percy. Local gossip has it that Percy is a rich miser with a hoard of money hidden in his tumble-down farmhouse, so Jane decides to call on him at home... But there is more to old Percy than meets the eye.moreless
    • Ep 11
      I Like it Here in Wilmington
      11/8/84
      8.5

      Wilmington, Delaware, business man Harry Elton is a man on the verge of bankruptcy, as Marvin Castlemore, his partner in the rag trade, has made a disastrous guess on next season's fashions. Harry and his wife have a luxury lifestyle, and he has to decide whether to put his marriage or his business first. So he plans to murder his wife and collect her life insurance money.

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    • Ep 10
      Bird of Prey
      8/4/84
      9.3
      This is the story of a parrot's egg - and a flirtatious wife and a jealous husband.

      Jack and Edna's pet parrot lays a huge egg - one much bigger than parrot-size - and promptly dies. Jack and Edna keep the egg warm, and it hatches into a menacing, black-feathered bird. Although it fails to talk, the new arrival soon begins keeping a close and disdainful eye on them... Jack befriends the bird, but Edna is unnerved by it - and she has good reason to be.

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    • Ep 9
      Sauce for the Goose
      7/21/84
      7.9

      Olivia is a rich widow who seduces Stephen, a younger man with no money. He marries her on the strength of her inheritance from her late husband, whose death she has skillfully arranged. Stephen thinks he is in a position to go on playing the field, while Olivia has other ideas. When Stephen takes up with another woman, Olivia knows what has to be done...moreless

    • Ep 8
      Wet Saturday
      7/7/84
      7.6
      It's one of those days for a man of the world with a high standing in the community. Wet weather out of doors, and inside the house a dead body. Inconveniently, Princey's dim-witted daughter, Millicent, thwarted in love, has killed a young preacher with a croquet mallet, and Princey decides he must cover it up, or risk losing a lot of face. It's just a matter of persuading the police that there was a tragic accident - after all, they are not very bright, are they?moreless
    • Ep 7
      The Gift of Beauty
      6/30/84
      8.0
      Elizabeth has a rich husband, until she kills him, with the help of Ray, her young lover. She then has a face lift and puts herself on a keep-fit regime, in the hope of closing the age-gap between her and Ray, but she finds it all too much for her. Then one day Elizabeth finds a flier advertising a new way to reverse the ageing process, and she decides to give it a try.moreless
    • Ep 6
      The Last of the Midnight Gardeners
      6/16/84
      8.5
      Walter Oats is a magazine publisher based in London. He has a rich wife and is also having an affair with his secretary, Edna.

      Walter launches a story-writing competition, with a 5,000 prize, to find the plot for a perfect murder, and his wife Jane taunts him into entering the competition himself under a pseudonym. But what exactly is Jane up to?moreless
    • Ep 5
      Number Eight
      6/9/84
      8.8
      A smartly dressed driver, travelling on his own, picks up a thin, scruffy, wild-eyed hitch-hiker. As they drive off together, they hear warnings on the car radio of a dangerous serial killer on the run who has been called the Will-o-the-wisp Murderer. The man is said to be of slight build with fair hair, and it dawns on the driver that this description closely matches the hitch-hiker he has just picked up. And the man at the wheel forms a plan.moreless
    • Ep 4
      Have a Nice Death
      6/2/84
      8.7
      Sam Luke is a successful writer. He is also a leading male chauvinist, pushing the line that women are the fairer and weaker sex. He sees himself as a popular fellow, with no enemies, except perhaps that the feminists were less than thrilled about his book Women Weeping. ''''Then the literary lion gets a series of 'Have a nice death' messages, his machismo crumbles and he decides to go home to his wife. But he finds it isn't so easy as it might once have been.moreless
    • Ep 3
      Proxy
      5/26/84
      8.2
      A media tycoon and two of his lawyer friends are all being blackmailed by a scheming woman, who threatens to reveal their past affairs with her. Then the woman is found murdered in her apartment, and the men fear that the police inquiries will lead to one or all of them, and they will be ruined. ''''Luckily, the media tycoon's faithful chauffeur, William, dreams up a brilliant plan for dealing with the situation. Or, at least, it looked brilliant at first sight.moreless
    • Ep 2
      The Best Chess Player in the World
      5/19/84
      8.7

      G.B. Shaw, the calculating owner of a successful newpaper, sets out to use people as if they were pieces on a chessboard. He has a gorgeous wife called Paula, and she has everything she could want - including a horse, a Ferrari and an enormous dress allowance. But then Paula begins to live dangerously by taking a lover, and Shaw finds out about it. He decides to deal with the problem in his usual cool, calm and clear-thinking way. But life does not always obey the rules of the game.moreless

    • Ep 1
      The Dirty Detail
      5/12/84
      8.9
      Fred Pearson is a U.S. Army veteran, but he came out of the Vietnam war with a miserable record. This was chiefly thanks to the bullying of Guedo, his sergeant, who gave Fred endless dirty detail punishments and broke his nerve. Since his discharge, Fred hasn't been able to hold down a job, and he feels the world is against him. ''''Years on from Vietnam, and after another day of looking for work without success, Fred goes into his favourite bar to drown his sorrows - and there he finds none other than Guedo, boasting about his time as a big man in the U.S. Army. And Fred sees his chance of revenge.moreless
  • Season 6
    • Ep 14
      Turn of the Tide
      9/3/83
      7.6

      Slade is a criminal lawyer - and a perfect gentleman who plans to commit the perfect murder. He has his reasons for wanting to kill a friend, of course, and he knows he needs to destroy all the evidence. The pivotal moment is an early morning swim... but Slade has overlooked something.

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    • Ep 13
      Youth from Vienna
      7/2/83
      8.4


      Caroline Coates, a television station interviewer, is promoted to be anchorwoman of the station's main news programme - and there are two men who want to marry her. But Caroline worries that she won't keep her looks forever.

      Humphrey Baxter, one of her admirers, is a scientist working on a formula to stop the aging process. Unfortunately, though, some of the effects of the fountain of eternal youth are unforeseen...

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    • Ep 12
      Hit and Run
      5/10/83
      8.6

      Roger Ashburn is a young hospital doctor with a beautiful but selfish wife. They hold a dinner party for Steve and Carol Hutchins, but the party is ruined when one of the men finds his wife's wedding ring in his dinner - her ploy to signal that the marriage is over.

      When Roger's wife disappears, he is desperately worried - but there is a surprise in store for him.

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    • Ep 11
      The Tribute
      6/25/83
      7.1

      Three English ladies who served the Empire in distant places, Fanny Soane, Mable Ince, and Lady Eleanor Benson, hear of the death of Nanny Dench, who had served all of them. The three ladies decide against the expense of a notice in The Times and plan instead to meet Nanny's niece for lunch. But a shock is in store for them...

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    • Ep 10
      The Luncheon
      6/19/83
      7.6
      Susan Mandeville is a glamorous, extravagant American who inveigles Tony Medway, a struggling young writer, into buying her an expensive lunch. Tony believes Susan is still married to a film producer, so he risks a bill he can't afford in the hope of an offer for the film rights of his book. The lunch turns out to be full of surprises...

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    • Ep 9
      The Wrong 'Un
      6/11/83
      8.3

      Helmut Weinrich is a German business man staying in a hotel and looking for a good time after a successful deal. Helmut meets the beautiful and enigmatic Molly, a girl with an edge of danger about her. He ignores the warnings of the hotel's security officer, buys Molly dinner and invites her up to his room...

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    • Ep 8
      The Vorpal Blade
      5/28/83
      7.5

      A tale of love, honour and murder in Germany in the 1930s, looked back on many years later. The elderly von Baden, one of those who witnessed a long-ago duel to the death at Heidelberg between Macker and the bully Cassan, reveals a shocking secret...

    • Ep 7
      Down Among the Sheltering Palms
      5/21/83
      6.3
      Gerry Armstrong, an American veteran of World War II, makes a nostalgic return trip to England and visits the town in Norfolk where he served as an airman forty years before.

      Carol is a pretty young woman Armstrong meets in a dance hall - which is where the sheltering palms come in. But the past can yield secrets and surprises, and Carol brings it all disturbingly alive...

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    • Ep 6
      Where's Your Sense of Humour?
      4/14/83
      7.3
      Laura and Frank Parker are the long-suffering friends of George and Julie Forester. Long-suffering, because George is a compulsive prankster, and some of his jokes are very troublesome... then one day he goes too far.

    • Ep 5
      Heir Presumptuous
      5/7/83
      8.2
      Rancher George Devon is found murdered. Devon was a rich man, and his nephews Donald and David (who are identical twins) stand to inherit his fortune. They become the prime suspects, as one of them was seen at the scene of the crime just before Devon's body was found. But Sheriff Milt Singleton faces the problem that no-one can tell the twins apart, and both of them seem to have water-tight alibis.

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    • Ep 4
      Clerical Error
      3/30/83
      8.6
      Paul Standing, the son of a highly-respected doctor who has recently died, is winding up his father's affairs when he receives an account from a book-shop owned by two brothers (Michael and Ronnie Carey) demanding over a thousand pounds for pornography supplied to his late father. Paul knows that receiving this bill could have killed his mother, who has a weak heart - but he is suspicious of the claim, for a very good reason...

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    • Ep 3
      A Sad Loss
      4/23/83
      8.0
      Claire Hawksworth is a young widow who owns a smart hotel in the Caribbean, where she lives with her good-looking hotel manager (and lover) Dave Bingham. Alas, Claire is struggling financially and faces bankruptcy, so she is having to look to her rich Aunt Alicia to save the day. But then Alicia announces she has a new heir. What's to be done?

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    • Ep 2
      The Memory Man
      4/16/83
      8.4
      Colin Mearns, called 'the memory man', is going through a very thin patch. Out of funds and facing the loss of Mary, his gorgeous girlfriend, he advertises for customers and agrees to help Charlie Krebs, an obviously shady character, to remember the number of a station locker. But then Mearns gets curious and wonders if he might be missing his only chance to make a fortune...

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    • Ep 1
      A Passing Opportunity
      4/9/83
      8.9

      Frank Jesmond is a struggling tough guy who is jealous of his rich and successful former schoolmate Peter Madison. And Frank will do anything for money - including murder. But what about Jesmond's loving wife and young son, Timmy?

  • Season 5
    • Ep 18
      The Skeleton Key
      8/22/82
      8.1
      An arrogant young man called Max has to have an emergency operation just before he is due to go away on a holiday with his girlfriend, Emma - a holiday he hoped to turn into a honeymoon. Max panics and gets bad-tempered, and Emma tries to calm him down. Meanwhile, Andy, who is a radiologist at the hospital and a much more pleasant character than Max, is also keen on Emma. So she has to choose between them...

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    • Ep 17
      Who's Got the Lady?
      8/15/82
      7.8

      Parnell is an art dealer who plans to steal an important picture from his own London art gallery. During a ceremony to unveil The Patrician Lady (a masterpiece on temporary loan) gun shots and an explosion suggest a robbery. Afterwards, surprisingly, The Patrician Lady seems to be unharmed, but then Parnell finds the name 'Zarchetti' stamped on the back of the canvas, suggesting the picture is a fake. With the original under suspicion, Parnell plans that his artist girlfrend will then forge copies of the painting, which he can sell to several of his collectors who will each pay a good price for what appears to be the real masterpiece.

      But something goes wrong with the plan...

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    • Ep 16
      A Man with a Fortune
      8/8/82
      8.5

      John Smith is a rich but lonely Californian wine-grower visiting England in the hope of finding his long-lost family. In London, he meets two girls, Janet Murdoch and her room-mate Eva, and things start to go terribly wrong.

    • Ep 15
      In the Bag
      8/1/82
      8.7

      An honest girl called Cara aims to recover her family jewellery (which has been consfiscated as a result of a lover's tiff) by stealing it from a hidden safe. She hires the ultra-cautious safebreaker Sam to do the job for her, and persuades him to take her along. Realizing that Cara will be a danger, he insists she must follow his orders. The plan is for them to dress as students and make their getaway by mingling with college crowds...

      But Sam has made the first big mistake in his long and successful career as a peterman.

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    • Ep 14
      The Absence of Emily
      7/25/82
      8.3
      Norma owns a big house and allows her sister Emily and idle brother-in-law Bob to live at the lodge. When Emily vanishes, Norma suspects Bob of killing her sister for a life insurance pay-out. Norma unwisely makes a noise about her suspicions - but while Bob has a sinister side to him, he is rather more subtle than Norma has guessed...

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    • Ep 13
      What Have you Been up to Lately?
      7/18/82
      8.6
      Richard Mellor and Fergus Locke are two failed actors whose names have never been in lights. They meet by chance for the first time in twenty-five years, remembering that Mellor wooed and won the girl they both loved more than a quarter of a century before. But now their marriages are as washed-up as their careers...

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    • Ep 12
      Death in the Morning
      7/11/82
      8.7
      Sir Ian Masterson is a rich English landowner, a single man with a magnificent house in the country. Then Sir Ian gets married, and Karen, his new wife, moves in. ''''Karen makes friends with Linda Larch, a neighbour - but Linda has her own agenda. And all is not well in the Masterson household. Karen begins to sense an evil spirit which wants to see her off. What should she do about it?moreless
    • Ep 11
      Light Fingers
      7/4/82
      8.8
      Joan Stackpole likes a quiet life. Even talking to her husband Ralph is an ordeal she can do without. ''''Meanwhile, Ralph has a big problem - someone is stealing the gloves from his glove factory, and the pilfering is throwing everyone under suspicion, including Cotter, his designer. ''''When Ralph can take no more, he hires a private detective, who forms a clever plan to catch the thief, and one morning Ralph tells Joan all about it over breakfast. Ralph swears he will sort this thief out - but then traces of the stolen goods start turning up in unexpected places.moreless
    • Ep 10
      Death Can Add
      6/27/82
      8.7
      Alan Corwin is an auditor, and Oliver Platt is a whizz kid in a City investment firm where Alan audits the books. Platt has taken huge risks, and Corwin agrees (for a high price) to keep quiet. All is safely covered up - but Platt has not foreseen the well-meaning interference of Leila, his secretary and girlfriend.moreless
    • Ep 9
      A Harmless Vanity
      6/20/82
      9.2
      Mary Hitchman's friend tips her off that her husband George is having an affair with a young secretary. Mary is slow to believe it, but she arranges a chance meeting with her rival at a beach party - and George does not see what is coming to him.
    • Ep 8
      Pattern of Guilt
      6/13/82
      8.7
      Keith Briscoe has a problem. He has had enough of Elaine, his selfish and extravagant second wife, and he wants to go back to Faye, his first wife. But Elaine has given Keith the best five years of her life and she doesn't want to let him go. ''''Keith is a police pathologist, and he finds himself working with a team of detectives planning to catch a serial killer. The man they are after poses as a door-to-door salesman and kills women for their small change - and Faye agrees to act as a decoy to trap the killer. ''''And then Keith has an idea.moreless
    • Ep 7
      Decoy
      6/6/82
      8.1
      Pretty policewoman Mary Bryan, in skin-tight silver pants, is out to get her man. And it's all in the line of duty, as Mary is the key player in a plan to trap a serial killer who has been murdering young women around the city. ''''The ambush has been thought out in every detail - but something goes wrong.moreless
    • Ep 6
      The Moles
      5/30/82
      8.8
      Edward Boyle and George Balsam are newcomers to the world of crime. They are both respectable business men on the verge of going bankrupt, and they join forces with Meakins, a professional criminal, to rob a bank. Over a period of weeks, the gang tunnels under the bank's vaults, burrowing through the earth like moles... but their plan has a flaw in it.moreless
    • Ep 5
      Stranger in Town
      5/23/82
      9.0
      A bearded, simple-minded stranger, wearing a top hat and a multi-coloured coat, appears in a village. He is soon a favourite with the local children, who call him Sir Columbus, and he seems charming and harmless, with a nice line in magic tricks.''''One day, Sir Columbus talks his way into the office of a local business man, reveals himself as a visitor from the man's guilty past, and commits what might be the perfect murder.moreless
    • Ep 4
      Run, Rabbit, Run
      5/16/82
      8.1
      Just after the end of the Second World War, Robert Simpson was a young U.S. Army interpreter stationed in Paris. While there, he had a room in the house of Hector Vareille (a hero of the French Resistance) and Hector's downtrodden wife Nathalie. Robert remembers that the hectoring Hector never set foot outside his house. ''''Now, ten years after the war, Robert is back in Paris to write a book about the Resistance, and he calls in at his old digs. Nathalie is still there, but Hector is gone - and Nathalie has a story to tell. It seems that she started to fight back against her bullying husband, and one thing led to another...moreless
    • Ep 3
      Operation Safecrack
      5/9/82
      8.6
      Jack Harrison, an advertising man representing the Holdwell Safe Company, approaches retired safe-cracker Sam Morrissey with a proposition. Jack wants Sam to try to break into a Holdwell safe on television - and, of course, he is sure it can't be done. Inside the safe will be twenty-five thousand dollars, and the money is Sam's to keep if he can crack the safe within three hours.''''Sam accepts the challenge - but he is not a man who likes to leave things to chance.moreless
    • Ep 2
      The Eavesdropper
      5/2/82
      8.8
      Donald Henderson gives his wife, Moira, a rare and valuable watch, and then the watch goes missing, so Donald offers to buy another one. Moira is in a store looking for a new watch when she overhears a young woman telling a friend about her latest love-affair. It seems the stranger is seeing a married man - and she goes on to show her friend the beautiful watch he has given her. Unhappily, it looks just like Moira's. ''''Moira puts two and two together and gets herself into a rage. What will she do about Donald's outrageous behaviour?moreless
    • Ep 1
      Blue Marigold
      4/25/82
      8.5
      Marigold is the supermodel face of the Blue Marigold company, but she is driven wild by jealousy when Sophie Trent's dulcet tones are used to replace Marigold's in a commercial. Then Marigold is let go by Blue Marigold, abandoned by Paul, has a breakdown and spends years in a mental institution.

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  • Season 4
    • Ep 17
      Hijack
      12/26/81
      9.0
      Captain Waterhouse has to deal with a man on board his airliner who seizes Milly, a stewardess, takes her and a bottle of nitroglycerine into a tiny lavatory, and demands one million dollars in ransom money, plus a parachute for himself. The hijacker believes both have been delivered to him, and he jumps out... However, the story is not over yet...

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    • Ep 16
      The Way to Do it
      7/26/81
      9.0
      Young Roger Carson has a dreary life and suffers from the domineering ways of his rich Aunt May. By way of escape, he takes up gambling - and swiftly falls for Suzie, a beautiful casino hostess. ''''The boss of the casino not only sees Roger as a chicken ripe for plucking, but he also has an old score against the Carsons to settle, so he gets Suzie to give Roger every encouragement. And soon, Roger stands to lose more than his income.moreless
    • Ep 15
      A Glowing Future
      7/19/81
      6.9

      Betsy's long term live-in lover, Jack, is planning to get married - but not to her. He has a new girlfriend half-way across the world, in Australia.

      Betsy is even more enraged when Jack starts to pack up their shared belongings for shipping to his new home. As the paintings come off the walls, Betsy decides to give the bride a present - she has just the thing in mind.

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    • Ep 14
      Bosom Friends
      6/12/81
      7.9
      Nell and Emma were best friends at school, but after a reunion weekend they find things more difficult. Emma, who is retired and poor, asks Nell to rent her a spare room in her house. Nell agrees and Emma moves in, but she quickly proves to be completely penniless and seems willing to drag Nell down to poverty, too...

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    • Ep 13
      There's One Born Every Minute
      6/5/81
      8.6
      Arthur and Margaret Pearson are a quiet middle-aged couple. Arthur is dull, but double-dealing, and when his wife Margaret inherits £50,000 he reluctantly agrees to gamble the money on a dubious and highly speculative property deal.

      As a result, the Pearsons' lives (and their relationship) begin to change significantly.

    • Ep 12
      Completely Foolproof
      6/21/81
      8.1
      This episode is set in New York in the 1930s. ''''The rich Joe Brisson is a self-made man with a number of enemies - including Lisa, his elegant but dangerously dissatisfied wife. Joe plans to kill his wife when he has had enough of her - but Lisa has her own plans.moreless
    • Ep 11
      Kindly Dig Your Grave
      6/14/81
      8.3
      Madame Lagrue runs a smart but commercial art gallery in Montmartre, Paris, getting rich at the expense of struggling artists. Then one of her painter victims falls in love with the beautiful Fatima, an artist's model, and Fatima gets pregnant. Suddenly, Madame Lagrue is up against someone even more cunning than she is - and Fatima has a surprise for the dealer.moreless
    • Ep 10
      The Last Bottle in the World
      6/7/81
      8.0
      Kyros buys the last bottle of a superb 1864 claret - an anniverary present for his beautiful but unfaithful wife. He pays a tremendous price, and plans a dinner party - but Kyros is planning to use the wine for more than just drinking... it's all about revenge.
    • Ep 9
      The Best Policy
      5/31/81
      8.5
      Harry Flock has had a temporary promotion as acting manager of a branch bank. Harry is honest and meticulous to a fault, but he is in danger of losing his job when head office gets anonymous complaints about alleged embezzlements. Harry's accounts are immaculate. In fact, they seem too good to be true...

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    • Ep 8
      Never Speak Ill of the Dead
      5/24/81
      8.8

      David Rankin is a country doctor with a flighty young wife. Irene's affairs with other men were the talk of the town before she was married - and they still are. No one knows for sure if the gossip has reached the doctor. And then no one knows where Irene has gone... Sim and Bob accuse Dr Rankin of killing his wife and burying her in the cellar - but they have made a big mistake.

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    • Ep 7
      The Sound Machine
      5/17/81
      8.3
      A botanist called Klausner invents a machine which can translate the conversations of trees and plants... and what he hears gives him a nasty shock. Is this real, or has he gone crazy?
    • Ep 6
      Shatterproof
      5/10/81
      8.5

      Property tycoon Gerry Williams is married to the beautiful but unhappy Ellen, and somewhere the marriage has gone terribly wrong. Then an assassin is hired to kill Gerry, and he makes the mistake of getting too friendly with his target...

    • Ep 5
      A Woman's Help
      5/3/81
      8.5

      Arthur is an elegant playboy, but he is dependent on his very rich, ailing, and demanding wife, Elizabeth. The day comes when the hen-pecked Arthur's lover wants a promise of marriage, and Arthur decides he wants his wife dead, so long as he gets her money. But there is something Arthur doesn't know about Elizabeth...

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    • Ep 4
      The Best of Everything
      4/26/81
      8.3

      Arthur is a junior clerk in a city metal broker's office and he's desperately in love with the boss's daughter, Ann Horton. Arthur can't see how he's going to catch Ann's eye, but his smarter friend Charlie knows how to manage these things, and (in return for sharing Arthur's flat and borrowing his money) Charlie helps Arthur out. But then Charlie doesn't want to pay back what he owes...

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    • Ep 3
      The Boy Who Talked with Animals
      4/19/81
      7.2
      David, a nine-year-old boy on holiday in Jamaica, talks his father into letting him keep a giant turtle he has saved. And there is more to David's desire for this unusual pet than meets the eye. David and the turtle disappear, and Sam Jenner, a rugged American, gets drawn into David's holiday adventure.moreless
    • Ep 2
      Vicious Circle
      4/12/81
      8.4
      An old lady catches Rex Tobin, a young burglar who was planning to rob her, and makes friends with him. She gives Rex a chance to go straight, but he is not really interested - so what will the old lady do about it?
    • Ep 1
      Would you Believe it?
      4/5/81
      7.6

      Two archeologists working in Jordan, Tanner and Miller, find in the desert sand a statue of a woman in a strange posture. Driving through a rainstorm, and using an open truck, they try to smuggle their find over the border into Israel, only to discover on arrival that it has completely disappeared.

      They could have been in a lot of trouble...

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  • Season 3
    • Ep 9
      The Party
      12/19/80
      8.7

      Christmas is in sight, and for Harry Knox, the elderly manager of a toy factory, it is always an unhappy time of year. But this Christmas looks even worse when Harry hears a rumour that the factory is being taken over by foreigners. Then comes the news that young Leighton is organising an office disco the night before the staff party which Henry has been running for many years. The writing is on the wall for Henry's party and his job - he decides his bosses want to push him out, after forty years of loyal service, and he is so enraged that he sets fire to the factory.

      But there was more to the planned party than Harry realized...

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    • Ep 8
      I'll be Seeing You
      12/14/80
      8.3
      Roland Trent is married to the rich, beautiful, bitchy Vivien. He prefers to be with his young mistress, Anna, who is nearly blind and needs looking after, but leaving Vivien will leave Roland penniless. Nevertheless, he makes up his mind to leave his wife to be with Anna - but Vivien plans to make his suffering more human than financial...

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    • Ep 7
      The Stinker
      12/7/80
      8.0
      Jack Cutler is an arrogant millionaire, and in middle age he runs into the meek Harold Tinker, a fellow he was at school with - Tinker remembers being bullied by Cutler, who called him "Stinker Tinker". Cutler offers Tinker a job, and, to please his beautiful wife, Tinker accepts. But his old resentment and loathing for Cutler have not gone away, and when he suspects his wife is having an affair with his new boss, something explodes...

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    • Ep 6
      Parson's Pleasure
      11/30/80
      8.7

      Cyril Boggis is a rogue antique dealer who goes around posing as a clergyman and describing himself as President of the Society for the Preservation of Rare Furniture. Cyril makes a handsome living by buying valuable antiques cheap and selling them to Storker, another dealer.''''One day, Cyril calls on old Farmer Rummins and buys a piece of furniture from him which he knows is worth a fortune. He looks forward to making a huge profit on it - but his luck may be about to run out.

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    • Ep 5
      A Girl Can't Always Have Everything
      11/9/80
      8.3

      Suzy Starr and Pat Lewis are actresses in a touring theatre company, but it doesn't give them a glittering lifestyle. They can hardly pay the rent on their shared apartment. ''''Then the theatre company finds a rich new backer, Herbert, a middle-aged widower.''''Suzy is selfish and takes what she wants. She smartly cottons on to Herbert and soon has a mink coat and a sports car out of him. Then Herbert wants her to marry him, but she's less thrilled - she prefers to make use of him but to have fun with other men behind his back. ''''Suzy needs Pat's help - and Pat is under no illusions about Suzy. And Suzy isn't as clever as she thinks...moreless

    • Ep 4
      Vengeance is Mine Inc.
      8/30/80
      8.1

      Tom and George, two young actors who are out of work in New York, offer satisfaction to the victims of Lionel Brewster, the city's most scurrilous gossip columnist - for a price. They are good at disguises and planning.''''Mrs Wilbur has a job for 'Vengeance is Mine Inc', but she gets rather more for her money than she asked for.moreless

    • Ep 3
      Proof of Guilt
      8/23/80
      8.7
      Inspector Walters, a hard-bitten police detective, has a murder on his hands which he can't crack. The prime suspect is George Stamford, who was alone in a locked room with the dead man when he was shot - but Stamford is admitting nothing, and there is no evidence against him.
    • Ep 2
      A Picture of a Place
      8/16/80
      8.3

      Hazel is a gullible old widow whose farm-house is full of antiques, and Merv is a charming con-man who buys a valuable picture from her for a knock-down price... but, somehow, all is not quite as it seems.

    • Ep 1
      The Flypaper
      8/9/80
      9.1
      A young girl called Sylvia is being followed by a stalker and is glad to take shelter with the elderly Miss Harrison, who lives in a caravan - but Sylvia is still in danger, and she disappears.... what has happened to her, and who was the stalker? At the end, an old man joins Miss Harrison in her caravan, and we see that it is near a lake.moreless
  • Season 2
    • Ep 16
      The Man at the Top
      6/14/80
      8.3
      Hardy is a young seaman down on his luck. He has no money and no ship, and then he gets caught up in a dockland fight and kills a man.'' ''Anxious to get a new ship and vanish, Hardy turns to his prostitute friend, the lovely Diane. She knows where to find the elusive, mysterious Man at the Top - the one person powerful enough to help Hardy.''''And then Hardy finds he did not know very much about the man he killed.''''moreless
    • Ep 15
      The Orderly World of Mr Appleby
      6/7/80
      8.4

      Arthur Appleby's orderly world centres on his quiet antique and curio shop. He has just married for the fourth time, and his new wife, Martha, discovers Appleby's dark secret - he murdered all her predecessors. But the new Mrs Appleby has a plan to turn the tables on her husband.

    • Ep 14
      Back for Christmas
      5/31/80
      8.3
      James Carpenter is a successful physician at the peak of his career and is also an orchid fanatic. Carpenter is much more devoted to his flowers than he is to his elegant wife, Hermione, and he is also in love with a younger woman, Samantha. The scene is set for a research posting to the US to give Carpenter the idea for the perfect murder. Sadly for the doctor and his mistress, the victim has a trick up her sleeve, even from the grave.moreless
    • Ep 13
      Mr Botibol's First Love
      5/24/80
      7.4

      William Botibol is a sad failure whose ambition is to conduct an orchestra. He fills his lonely life with music, pretending to be a great composer and conductor. Then he meets a young lady who shares in his fantasy - but why is she really putting herself out for him?

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    • Ep 12
      Genesis and Catastrophe
      5/17/80
      8.0
      Klara is the mother of a new-born baby boy, and she is desperately worried. She and her husband Alois have lost three children in less than two years.''''For more, see Recap.
    • Ep 11
      The Umbrella Man
      5/10/80
      8.9
      A smart old man in a London street, claiming he needs his taxi fare home on a wet afternoon, persuades a stranger to buy his silk umbrella for much less than its value. Followed into a pub, it turns out that the Umbrella Man actually spends the money on a large whisky. What is going on?moreless
    • Ep 10
      Depart in Peace
      5/3/80
      8.2

      An art collector finds himself drawn into an unusual struggle with two beautiful women.

    • Ep 9
      Georgy Porgy
      4/26/80
      8.0

      George is an English vicar with a fantasy life. He sees naked women during his sermons. One day, he finds he is suddenly irresistible to the opposite sex, and a beautiful woman throws herself at him on a river bank. What is going on?

    • Ep 8
      My Lady Love, My Dove
      4/19/80
      7.0

      Arthur Beauchamp's wife, Pamela, decides to have some fun with their weekend guests, the Snapes - they instal a hidden microphone in the Snapes' bedroom. After a game of bridge for high stakes, the microphone reveals that the Snapes have a complicated system for signalling their bridge hands to each other...

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    • Ep 7
      Taste
      4/12/80
      8.1

      Richard Pratt, a famous middle-aged wine connoisseur, is having dinner with the Schofields for the third time. Twice before, he has won a case of wine from Mike Schofield by correctly identifying the claret served with dinner. This time, Pratt wishes to increase the stakes - he offers his London house and his place in the country against the hand in marriage of the Schofields' teenage daughter, Louise. And Schofield (who is sure he has found a wine no one could identify) persuades Louise to agree to the bet. After all, this wine is unguessable...

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    • Ep 6
      Fat Chance
      4/5/80
      8.2

      The husband of a fat, greedy woman has a clever plan to get rid of her - but the plan is flawed.

    • Ep 5
      Poison
      3/29/80
      8.0

      Harry Pope is a reformed alcoholic working in Kashmir, India, and hoping to go home to England soon. One hot night, Harry is reading in bed, when he feels something moving on his chest. He looks down to see a deadly little snake, a krait, which slides under his pyjamas and goes to sleep on his stomach. All Harry can do is to wait for his friend, Timber, to come home. When he arrives, Timber sends for a local doctor...

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    • Ep 4
      The Hitch-hiker
      3/22/80
      9.2

      Paul Duveen, a writer, gives a lift in his ultra-fast new BMW to a rat-faced elderly hitch-hiker who says he is on his way to Epsom for the Derby. Duveen, cajoled into taking the car to its limit, is promptly booked for speeding. During the rest of the journey, the passenger reveals his astonishing skills as a professional pickpocket - his name for himself is a fingersmith - and before they part, the fingersmith has a little present for Duveen...

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    • Ep 3
      Galloping Foxley
      3/15/80
      8.3
      After more than sixty years, William Perkins is still haunted by memories of being bullied at an English boarding school. Then, one day, he is annoyed by a swaggering passenger on a train and is sure he recognizes him as Foxley, the school prefect who made his life so miserable, long ago. And Perkins makes a mistake.''''moreless
    • Ep 2
      Skin
      3/8/80
      7.9

      Drioli, a penniless old tattoo artist, now a street beggar, has a fabulous work of art, a portrait of his dead wife by his friend Soutine, and is offered a huge amount for it. He desperately needs the money, but how can he deliver the picture to a buyer while he is still alive? - the masterpiece is tattooed on his back.

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    • Ep 1
      Royal Jelly
      3/1/80
      8.0

      In a cottage surrounded by the drone of honey-bees, the bee-keeper's baby daughter is ailing and losing weight. The corner is turned when Albert begins to feed his daughter on Royal Jelly, but a curious transformation is under way...

  • Season 1
    • Ep 9
      The Way Up to Heaven
      5/19/79
      8.4

      An elderly American, Mrs Foster, is planning a long trip to Paris to visit her grandchildren. Foster is staying behind, and his wife writes to him every week. On her return home, she does not seem very surprised to find that the lift in their house is stuck between two floors...

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    • Ep 8
      A Dip in the Pool
      5/12/79
      8.6

      William Botibol, a passenger on a cruise ship, plans to win the sweepstake for predicting the distance the ship will travel in twenty-four hours - if the ship has to turn back to pick up a man overboard, then his own ticket should win. So long as someone sees him go over the side, there can be no real problem...

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    • Ep 7
      Edward the Conqueror
      5/5/79
      7.0

      An elderly couple, Edward and Louisa, find their life invaded by a stray cat. The cat's knowledgeable response to Louisa's piano playing, and the pattern of warts on its face, convince her that pussy is a reincarnation of Franz Liszt, the composer. Liszt, the cat, does not trouble to conceal his dislike for Edward, who is becoming dangerously jealous...

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    • Ep 6
      Neck
      4/28/79
      8.1

      Art collector Sir Basil Turton has an East European wife called Natalia, who wears the trousers and has lovers. The butler, Jelks, disapproves of her. Then Lady Turton, while cavorting with her friend Major Haddock, gets her head stuck in a valuable work of art...

      For more, see Recap.

    • Ep 5
      The Landlady
      4/21/79
      8.8
      A young Londoner arrives in a strange city and finds a room for the night. Something about his landlady's guest book rings a bell - and she has a curious hobby.

      For more, see Recap.
    • Ep 4
      Lamb to the Slaughter
      4/14/79
      8.6
      An enraged detective's wife, Mary Maloney, kills her husband Patrick by smashing in his skull with a heavy blunt instrument - but no murder weapon can be found, and the police are baffled. The answer to the riddle lies under the detectives' noses - or, rather, it did...

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    • Ep 3
      William and Mary
      4/7/79
      8.5
      After the death of Dr William Pearl, a philosophy teacher, his widow Mary gets a letter from him. William tells her his brain is being kept alive by a medical colleague, Dr John Landy, and William also advises Mary on how to lead her new life. Mary goes to visit William's brain - but she has her own ideas about what should happen next.''''For more, see Recap.moreless
    • Ep 2
      Mrs Bixby and the Colonel's Coat
      3/31/79
      8.6
      Cyril Bixby is a New York dentist. Once a month, for years, his wife goes to Baltimore by train to visit her aunt. She does not tell Bixby about her affair with the Colonel, a single man with a big house near Baltimore, who is the real reason for all these visits.''''One Christmas, Mrs Bixby gets a parting gift from the Colonel - a splendid mink coat. So that she can explain the coat to her husband, she devises a complicated scheme which depends on pawning the coat and then 'finding' the pawn ticket... but when she sends Bixby to collect on the pawn ticket, she gets a surprise.moreless
    • Ep 1
      Man From the South
      3/24/79
      8.6
      A young American sailor on shore-leave in the West Indies is tempted by a crazy bet. To win a new Jaguar car, all he needs to do is to make his cigarette-lighter light ten times without any failures. In return, he has to stake one of his fingers. But what is the truth about Carlos, the high-rolling old man who has proposed the bet?moreless

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