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Tales of the Unexpected

ITV1 (Ended 1988)
 

Episode Guide

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    9 Superb 2 Votes
    Season 9, Episode 10 – Aired: 5/13/1988

    Mr Know-All

    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.

    For more, see Recap.

  •  
    7 Good 1 Vote
    Season 9, Episode 9 – Aired: 5/6/1988

    A Time to Die

    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.

  •  
    N/A Never Rated
    Season 9, Episode 8 – Aired: 4/29/1988

    The Finger of Suspicion

    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.

  •  
    N/A Never Rated
    Season 9, Episode 7 – Aired: 4/22/1988

    The Dead Don't Steal

    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.

    For more, see Recap.

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    N/A Never Rated
    Season 9, Episode 6 – Aired: 4/15/1988

    Wink Three Times

    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.

  •  
    9.6 Superb 1 Vote
    Season 9, Episode 5 – Aired: 1/29/1988

    The Facts of Life

    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.

  •  
    9.8 Superb 2 Votes
    Season 9, Episode 4 – Aired: 1/22/1988

    The Verger

    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.

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    N/A Never Rated
    Season 9, Episode 3 – Aired: 1/15/1988

    The Surgeon

    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 - and Robert has to face up to his own lust for money. Dr Sandy's death comes as a surprise - but was it a form of rough justice?

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    9.4 Superb 1 Vote
    Season 9, Episode 2 – Aired: 1/8/1988

    The Colonel's Lady

    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.

  •  
    9.1 Superb 2 Votes
    Season 9, Episode 1 – Aired: 12/18/1987

    Skeleton in the Cupboard

    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.