Tales Of The Unexpected

Frank Jesmond is on hard times and in danger of losing his family when a man named Laughlin gives him a job as a hitman. The mark is Peter Madison, a school contemporary of Frank who has done very well for himself in the States and is back on a visit. Things take a turn when the two men reconnect...

Colin Mearns scrapes a living with a business helping people improve their memory but it is not a huge success and his girlfriend wants out. Then a new client turns up seeking Colin's help. He is agitated and bad-tempered, having placed a bag in a left luggage locker at a station but forgotten the details and the combination. Colin is certainly able to help but things are not what they seem...

Claire Hawksworth and her boyfriend Dave struggle to keep up payments on their Caribbean hotel, relying on Claire's wealthy Aunt Alicia to leave her fortune to them. When Alicia reveals she plans to change her will for her new grandchild, the couple decides Alicia must have a "swimming accident" before altering the will. However, they hadn't accounted for a letter Alicia sent to her solicitor.

While settling his late father's affairs, Paul Standing finds an invoice from a London bookshop and meets the owners, the Carey brothers, who claim Paul's father owed money for pornographic books. The brothers are scammers targeting relatives of the deceased. However, Paul and his mother invite the Careys over and greet them with a shotgun and news that ruins their scam.

One of rich uncle George's identical nephews has murdered him. How can the sheriff identify the guilty one?

George Forester is an annoying practical joker, who tries the patience of work colleague Frank Parker and his wife Laura. When the latest jape, involving the sabotaging of a business dinner party, costs Frank promotion and George's wife Julie goes to Edinburgh, leaving him alone in the house, Laura sees an opportunity to put an end to George's pranks for good.

Gerry T Armstrong is on holiday in England, revisiting some of the places he saw when he was a young GI. The old dance hall is now a tawdry nightclub but Gerry is still looking for a girl he met there during the war. Why does he become increasingly desperate as the night drags on?

Elderly Teuton Von Baden tells his colleague Winterluck a tale from his youth as a student in Heidelberg over fifty years earlier. A bully and skilled swordsman, Cassan, challenged Macker to a fight after finding him in bed with his girlfriend. Cassan chose Von Baden as his second, giving Von Baden the perfect opportunity to do away with the overbearing and unpopular student.

Helmut Weinrich is a German businessman who has just closed a successful deal in Coventry. Feeling very satisfied and now alone for the evening, he impulsively picks up the bar tab of a pretty girl called Molly and invites her back to his hotel room, despite the warning of the hotel detective that Molly is a 'wrong-un'.

Author Tony Medway is thrilled when Susan Mandeville invites him to discuss making a film of his book. Susan, married to an influential film producer, could make Tony's fortune. However, Blundell's, the chosen restaurant, is very expensive. Tony budgets for a minimal meal, but Susan orders items he can barely afford. No matter, her husband will make it worthwhile--assuming he still is her husband.

Three aristocratic ladies now living in reduced circumstances, agree to have lunch together as a tribute to Dench, the woman who worked as a nanny for all of them in many years ago. As they reminisce, it becomes clear that through their meanness and snobbery, they all treated Dench rather poorly. But maybe their lowly servant can have the last laugh?

Dr. Roger Ashburn is heart-broken when his beloved but selfish wife Mary leaves him, in highly public fashion, leaving her wedding ring to be found during a dinner party Roger is giving for a colleague and his wife. In order to get his life back together he decides to get a job in a hospital in a different town, to make a new start. Then, one day, an all too familiar patient is brought in. . .

Dr Humphrey Baxter falls for TV presenter Caroline Coates. A story of love and desire.

Slade is a criminal lawyer who is facing disgrace and asks his colleague Spalding to help cover up for him but Spalding is impervious to corruption and refuses so he needs to be disposed of. Slade lies in wait for him as he takes his customary early morning swim, kills him and drags the body into the sea. But Slade has reckoned without the turn of the tide...