TALES OF THE UNEXPECTED SET2

Details

• Release Year: 1987
• Genre: Horror, Suspense/Thriller
• Plot: The playfull macabre adult stories of Roald Dahl launched this legendary series, which continued with stories of the same humourously creepy ilk. Each standalone episode is a tasty tidbit of horror served up with a startling twist of fate. Episode casts feature stars from both sides of the Atlantic, including John Gielgud, Telly Salvalas, Joan Collins, Pauline Collins, Nigel Havers, Nigel Hawthorne, Rachel Kempson, Michael Kitchen, Roy Mardsen, Robert Morley, Amanda Redman, Eli Wallach and James Warwick.
• 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: 9:35
• Company: Granada International, Acorn Media
• Media Format: Series