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Yeah just about every brit actor on the scene ended up in an episode at some point, xeb.
But overall i think it was another of those tv series like Black Beauty and Tarzan where the music was fantastic and inspiring but the series itself didnt live up to the quality of the music.
When youre young n sent to bed, forbidden fruit always sounds more appealing.
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I think Bill's right. I was a bit older than him at the time (although I'm younger now) and I could see how lacklustre the show was. Videotaped, cheap looking - but with inevitably good material from Dahl and others. I think the same was true of Orson Welles Great Mysteries - very promising cast and credits (and even a John Barry theme) but ultimately underwhelming.
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I wondered if there were any standouts as I'd started looking and must have stumble down on a duffer.
Around 15 segments are 'standouts' for me.
There are very few television series from the 1980s that I like; Tales of the Unexpected is one such, mostly because it was an anthology show.
Quite a number of the earlier episodes were re-makes of Dahl stories previously adapted for TV decades before on such American programs like Alfred Hitchcock Presents or Way Out.
[Not unlike Amicus omnibus productions featuring stories by Robert Bloch already presented by Boris Karloff in Thriller]
Curious that Mr. Watt did not mention the episode starring his beloved Peter Cushing entitled "The Vorpal Blade" … is it possible Graham doesn't know about this one?
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Curious that Mr. Watt did not mention the episode starring his beloved Peter Cushing entitled "The Vorpal Blade" … is it possible Graham doesn't know about this one?
Oh yes, you're right. I forgot he was in that. In fact I don't think I ever saw that episode. It's on YouTube so I might give it a shot. It's only 25 minutes out of my life. I think I was initially confusing the Pete Cush episode with the one he did for "Orson Welles Great Mysteries". If I'm not mistaken - and I often am - in "Tales of the Unexpected" he's got his normal hair, or hairpiece. In "Orson Welles Great Mysteries" he wears a Helen Hayes wig, the same curly affair he sported in FRANKENSTEIN AND THE MONSTER FROM HELL and AND NOW THE SCREAMING STARTS.
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Every time I channel hop via Sky Arts and Tales is on, it’s the one with Susan George and Brian Blessed where she finds an ingenious way of disposing of a murder weapon.
Is that the one where the police eat it?
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Every time I channel hop via Sky Arts and Tales is on, it’s the one with Susan George and Brian Blessed where she finds an ingenious way of disposing of a murder weapon.
Is that the one where the police eat it?
Bingo! It’s not Unexpected now, of course, but it’s been forty years.
Sorry about the spoiler. Well, no. We'd all read the collection of short stories at school in 1943 anyway, hadn't we? Even back then I found it...not unexpected exactly, more unbelievable, how the police didn't notice that she'd "simply" microwaved a shotgun. I mean, microwaves? In 1943?
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Every time I channel hop via Sky Arts and Tales is on, it’s the one with Susan George and Brian Blessed where she finds an ingenious way of disposing of a murder weapon.
Is that the one where the police eat it?
Bingo! It’s not Unexpected now, of course, but it’s been forty years.
That's "Lamb to the Slaughter". Cooked up for Alfred Hitchcock Presents in 1958 .. So alter that to more than 60 years by now.
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If Xebec, TallGuy, et al are still interested, here are the episodes I like most:
1980
Skin
The Hitch-hiker
Taste
Georgy Porgy
The Man at the Top
1981
Would You Believe It?
Shatterproof
1982
Operation Safecrack
Stranger in Town
Pattern of Guilt
A Harmless Vanity
A Man with a Fortune
1984
The Mugger
1987/'88
The Verger
The 1st season from 1979 was half remakes but the one I like best wasn't: "Neck" with Joan Collins and John Gielgud.
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I seem to recal georgy porgy was joan collins too?
Its the only 1 i can recall, not coz it was good.
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I seem to recal georgy porgy was joan collins too?
Its the only 1 i can recall, not coz it was good.
Yeah, Joan Collins was in at least 3 tales.
I like "Georgy Porgy", though. It's a black comedy about ecclesiatical celibacy. Any story with pulchritude & an anti-cleric stance is 'good' with me.
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