TALES OF THE UNEXPECTED SET 4

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• Release Year: 1987
• Genre: Horror, Suspense/Thriller
• Plot: Mixing dark humour with horror and fantasy, these entertaining tales each build up to a startling final twist. Roald Dahl's playfully macabre adult stories launched this legendary British television series, which continued with stories of the same creepy ilk. A little bit Hitchcock, a little bit Twilight Zone, and wickedly entertaining. Authors of the tales in this set include Roald Dahl, W. Sommerset Maugham, and Antonia Fraser. Episode casts feature top-drawer talent, including John Alderton, Pauline Collins, Gayle Hnnicutt, Michael Jayston, Jane Asher, Roy Marsden, Joss Ackland, Cyril Cusack, Richard Briers, David Suchet, and Patricia Routledge.
• Cast: Roald Dahl; Andrew Ray; Forbes Collins; Richard Johnson; Joan Collins; Sheila Gish; John Mills; Lucy Gutteridge; Cyril Luckham; Mark Lewis; Douglas Lambert; Jean Kitson; Giles Phibbs; Richard Foxton; Roy Marsden; Anthony Valentine; Colin Blakely; John Duttine; Siobhan McKenna; Joss Ackland; Derek Jacobi; Simon Cadell; Susan Penhaligon; Susan Strasberg; Tom Smothers; Elaine Stritch; Jack Weston; Julie Harris; John Alderton; Pauline Collins; John Castle; Cyril Cusack; Gloria Grahame; Shane Rimmer; Jeremy Clyde; Kate Harper; Joseph Cotten; Susan George; Bosco Hogan; Elizabeth Spriggs; Celia Gregory; Rachel Kempson; Constantine Gregory; Roland Culver; Brewster Mason; Paul Spurrier; Anthony Steel; Andrew Burt; Leonard Preston; Geoffrey Bayldon; Lally Bowers; Judy Geeson; Elizabeth Richardson; Lynette Davies; Kenneth Tigar; Charles Hallahan; Jim Norton; Paul Herzberg; Alan Rowe; Amanda Redman; Suzanne Danielle; Ronnie Stevens; Andrew Bicknell; John Gielgud; Avril Elgar; David Healy; Anthony Carrick; Graham Weston; Geoffrey Chater; Michael Troughton; Richard Hampton; Pauline Letts; Olivier Pierre; John Rees; Helen Horton; Neil Daglish; Gladys Spencer; John Biggerstaff; Bernadette Windsor; Tony Alleff; Penelope Gillette; Jacqueline Hill; Allan Corduner; Richard Barnes; Andrew MacLachlan; David Hanson; Nigel Caliburn; Tony Osoba; William Hootkins; Neville Phillips; Stuart Turton; Virginia Clay; Peter Tuddenham; Graham Bell; John Stamp; Genevieve Allenbury; Michael Quinto; Rex Taylor; Bryan Matheson; Janet Leigh; Laurence Payne; John King; Denholm Elliott; Robert Morley; Harry Andrews; Gary Burghoff; Frank Finlay; Anthony Franciosa; Michael Kitchen; Joanna Pettet; Micheline Presle; Anthony Quayle; Denis Quilley; Telly Savalas; Stuart Whitman; Edward Albert; Peter Barkworth; Tom Bosley; Leslie Caron; Peter Egan; Ian Holm; Cherie Lunghi; Fulton Mackay; Dorothy Tutin; Toyah Willcox; Richard Basehart; Phyllis Calvert; David Cassidy; Peter Cushing; Gayle Hunnicutt; Van Johnson; Evelyn Laye; Bryan Marshall; Hayley Mills; Dick Smothers; Jane Asher; Kevin Dobson; Brad Dourif; Richard Dow; Michael Jayston; Sondra Locke; Carol Lynley; Patrick O'Neal; Roger Rees; Fritz Weaver; Bud Cort; Joan Hackett; Arthur Hill; Charles Dance; Glynis Barber; Michael Brandon; Richard Briers; Liza Goddard; David Suchet; Benedict Taylor; Topol; José Ferrer; Wendy Hiller; Betsy Blair; Alfred Burke; Peter Firth; Helmut Griem; Robert Lang; Jessie Matthews; Ron Moody; Joyce Redman; Rod Taylor; Hilary Tindall; Timothy West; John Beck; Warren Clarke; Patrick Field; Rita Gam; Joan Greenwood; Deborah Harmon; Nigel Havers; Nigel Hawthorne; Shirley Knight; Heather Sears; Eli Wallach; James Warwick; Keith Barron; Ralph Bates; Michael Craig; Michael Harbour; Roxanne Hart; Cyd Hayman; Jennie Linden; Peter Machin; Bill Owen; Clive Swift; Victoria Tennant; Frances Tomelty; Moray Watson; Benjamin Whitrow; Tim Woodward; Tom Chadbon; Gretchen Corbett; Bernard Cribbins; Sharon Gless; Anthony Higgins; Darren McGavin; Anna Neagle; Richard Pearson; George Sewell; Stuart Wilson; MacKenzie Allen; Dennis Christopher; Frank Converse; Valerie Mahaffey; Robert Morse; Patrick Mower; George Peppard; Mary Sinclair; Samantha Eggar; Max Gail; Jennifer Holmes; Charles Kimbrough; Zoë Wanamaker; Nicholas Ball; Jim Broadbent; Peter Davison; Patricia Routledge; Kim Thomson; Nina Van Pallandt; Thorley Walters; Michael Aldridge; Brian Blessed; Marius Goring; Michael Hordern; Katy Jurado; John Carson; Rachel Davies; Raymond Francis; Pat Keen; Anna Massey; Bill Maynard; Bernard Miles; Dame Siân Phillips; Patricia Quinn; Zhivila Roche; Dudley Sutton; Sean Barrett; Christopher Blake; Gary Bond; David Buck; Keith Drinkel; Deborah Geffner; Nat Jackley; Bill la Voie; Margery Mason; Belinda Mayne; Elaine Paige; Logan Ramsey; Anthony Shaw; Robert H. Thomson; James Aubrey; Robert Beatty; Harry H. Corbett; Carol Drinkwater; Sharon Duce; Maggie Fitzgibbon; Lou Jacobi; Peter Jeffrey; Bernard Kay; Robbie MacNab; Carol MacReady; June Ritchie; Sheila Ruskin; Susan Tracy; Frank Wylie; John Bailey; Tara Buckman; Sheila Burrell; Margaret Courtenay; Hugh Fraser; Stephen Greif; Nicholas Hormann; James Carroll Jordan; Charles Keating; Ray Lonnen; Penelope Nice; Lynsey Baxter; Ed Begley Jr.; Amanda Boxer; Kathleen Doyle; Lisa Dunsheath; Randall Edwards; Susannah Fellows; Robert Loggia; Richard Marr; Jenny O'Hara; Lois Smith; Elaine Giftos; Don Johnson; Warren Oates; Buddy Owen; Francesca Brill; Lois Baxter; Alison Fiske; Caroline Goodall; Carol Leader; Nadim Sawalha; Edward Wiley; Peter Bowles; Phil Brown; Michael Byrne; Anthony Dawes; Don Fellows; Richard Greene; Angus MacKay; Michael Ontkean; Lisa Eichhorn; James Faulkner; Julian Fellowes; John Forgeham; Michael Gambon; Mercia Glossop; Diane Holland; Boris Isarov; Miriam Margolyes; Cassie McFarlane; Lee Montague; Patricia Mort; Maureen O'Brien; Hana Maria Pravda; Lorna Yabsley; Martin Benson; Edward Grover; Cheryl Hall; Vivien Heilbron; Caroline Langrishe; Gérard Lartigau; Annie McGreevey; Jo Rowbottom; Aaron Shirley; Vic Tablian; Ramsay Williams; Edward Burnham; Patsy Byrne; Julie Dawn Cole; Donald Eccles; Colin Farrell; Jan Francis; Helen Fraser; Joe Gladwin; Terry O'Quinn; Ian Redford; Frank Sinatra Jr.; Bernice Stegers; June Watson; Royce D. Applegate; Brenda Blethyn; Eleanor Bron; Anne Carroll; Philip Jackson; Phyllida Law; Janette Legge; Elspeth March; Hazel McBride; Harry Northup; Elliott Reid; David Webb; Wendy Austin; Barbara Bolton; Miriam Byrd-Nethery; Rick Crom; Meg Davies; Ted Gehring; Dina Merrill; Peter Murphy; Clifford Parrish; Ian Tyler; Tamara Ustinov; Bettye Ackerman; A.C. Daily; Denise Galik; Philip Dunbar; Rosalind Bennett; Jonathan Coy; Rowland Davies; Stefan Kalipha; Leslie Lyon; Jemma Redgrave; Albert Welling; Paul Williamson; John Bryant; Frederick Farley; Davyd Harries; Mark Jones; Jeremy Longhurst; Jane Paton; Paul Bacon; John Bennett; Tim Bentinck; Stephen Boswell; Christopher Bramwell; Roger Brierley; Debbie Farrington; John Gill; Jennifer Hilary; Saeed Jaffrey; Godfrey James; Alastair Llewellyn; Artro Morris; Nancy Nevinson; Donald Pickering; Peter Sallis; Margaretta Scott; Jonathan Scott-Taylor; Peggy Thorpe-Bates; Judi Bowker; Patricia Browning; Robert Casper; Peter Copley; Carlos Douglas; Alan Gifford; Kenneth Hadley; Oscar James; Linda Liles; Albert Moses; Brian Osborne; Godfrey Talbot; Raymond Thorne; Michael A. Candela; Bruce Clark; Tom Cotcher; Howard Dayton; Michael Forrest; Nigel Greaves; Billy Hamon; Diana King; Hilary Mason; Phoebe Nicholls; Fanny Rowe; Harry Webster; Heinz Bernard; Paul Davies Prowles; Ann Doran; Penelope Fischer; Matthew Francis; Christopher Fulford; Ellen Geer; John Judd; Phyllida Nash; Daragh O'Malley; Maggie Peach; Brian Tipping; Bill Bailey; Julie Burton; Barry Cahill; Michael Galloway; Vincent Howard; John Hug; Mark Jax; Joanne Lara; Matthew Leddick; Annamaria Macchi; Sydney Swire; George Todisco; Harry Richard; Jay Varela; Matthew Jones; Shirley Cain; Peter Frye; Jeremy Gittins; Gerald Logan; Michael O'Hagan; Gareth Thomas; Michael Wisher; Anthony Bailey; Jess Davies; George Little; Jimmy Mac; Sandra Payne; Jana Shelden; Carmen Silvera; Pamela Stephenson; Ann Beach; Peter Cellier; Stephanie Cole; James Greene; Paul Greenhalgh; Teris Hebrew; Harry Jones; Geoffrey Lumsden; Beth Porter; Judy Riley; Anthony Roye; Graham Seed; Johnny Shannon; Paul Sherman; Marshall Ward; Janthea Williams; Anthony Woodruff; Imogene Bliss; William Boyett; Kevin Brennan; Lesley Goldie; Annie Leon; Graham Evans; John Gorrie; Alan Gibson; Herbert Wise; John Jacobs; John Peyser; Bert Salzman; Peter Hammond; Rodney Bennett; Claude Whatham; Ray Danton; Paul Annett; Simon Langton; Michael Tuchner; Philip Dudley; Alastair Reid; Peter Duffell; Norman Lloyd; Leonard Lewis; Leo Penn; John Davies; Donald McWhinnie; Christopher Miles; Wendy Toye; Philip Leacock; Christopher Lukas; William Slater; Gordon Hessler; Dezsö Magyar; Gareth Davies; John Glenister; Paul Ableman; Robert Edmond Alter; Jeffrey Archer; Robert Arthur; John Bakkenhoven; George Baxt; Chaim Bermant; Miriam Bienstock; Robert Bloch; Lawrence Block; Julian Bond; Michael Brett; Johnny Byrne; Denis Cannan; Sidney Carroll; Robin Chapman; John Charters; John Collier; James Gould Cozzens; Joseph Dougherty; Victor Edwards; Bernard Eismann; Stanley Ellin; Robert L. Fish; C.S. Forester; Antonia Fraser; Jane Gardam; Tonita S. Gardner; Brian Garfield; C.B. Gilford; Kevin Goldstein-Jackson; Ella Griffiths; James Andrew Hall; Ronald Harwood; Theda O. Henle; Patricia Highsmith; Edward D. Hoch; Pat Hoddinott; Donald Honig; Richard Huggett; Philip Ketchum; Zia Kruger; Peter Lovesey; Dana Lyon; J.J. Maling; Wolf Mankowitz; W. Somerset Maugham; Patricia McGerr; David Scott Milton; Ferenc Molnár; Nicholas Monsarrat; Doug Morgan; Patricia Moyes; Hector Hugh Munro; Luther Murdoch; Helen Nielsen; Jeremy Paul; Talmage Powell; Bill Pronzini; Robert Quigley; Peter Ransley; Ruth Rendell; Jack Ritchie; A.A. Roberts; Roy Russell; Gerald Savory; Alan Seymour; Henry Slesar; Noella Smith; Graham Sutton; Julian Symons; Elizabeth Taylor; Ross Thomas; David Trainer; Aileen Wheeler; Tony Wilmot; Ruth Wissman
• Director: Graham Evans
• Runtime: 8:42
• Company: Granada International, Acorn Media
• Media Format: Series