Tales of the Unexpected (1979 - 1988)

A young American couple on holiday meet a mysterious old gentleman who makes them a macabre wager.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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