Tales of the Unexpected

The flamboyant stranger (JOSE FERRER) goads a young sailor (MICHAEL ONTKEAN) into taking a frightening bet while on holiday in Jamaica. The stakes are high. He could win an expensive car or lose a finger. What will be the outcome of this gruesome gamble, and who is the mysterious woman (KATY JURADO) with a macabre secret?

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. She gives it to Cyril to redeem on her behalf but is taught that two can play at her game when he comes home with rather less than she expected, and she sees that his dental assistant will be warm for the winter.

When her husband William dies Mary Pearl is shocked that his will stipulates that his brain should be kept alive and observing her from the lounge sideboard. She determines that, even though he is dead, she will continue to annoy him.

A distraught pregnant wife (SUSAN GEORGE) arrives home to find her policeman husband strangely murdered. A colleague (BRIAN BLESSED) called in to investigate the killing is baffled. What mysterious weapon did the killer use to batter in the dead man's skull? And why can't it be found?

Arriving in Bath to take up his first job away from home young Billy Weaver decides to take a room with a charmingly maternal if eccentric landlady. Her dog and cat are both stuffed and the only other names in her guest-book seem vaguely familiar to him from the newspaper but he cannot think why.

Invited to a weekend house party by Sir Basil Turton and his younger wife Natalia, John Bannister is struck by the lady's infidelity. She tries to undo his pyjamas and is plainly having an affair with another guest Major Haddock. Jelks, Sir Basil's loyal butler, has also noticed and when Natalia gets her head stuck in an abstract sculpture he knows precisely how to cut her down to size.