Tales of the Unexpected Roald Dahl 'The Eavesdropper' Michael Craig Dorothy Tutin Sheila Ruskin
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- Опубліковано 1 жов 2024
- A wife embarks on the path to disaster after she overhears a conversation which plants the seeds of jealousy in her mind.
She hears a younger woman at an adjacent table tell her friend how she enjoyed an naughty weekend away in Paris with her married lover Donald.
The problem is, she is married to Donald and he was in Paris last week...
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Covid...bored insomnia nights. Thanks for uploading x
Remember these fondly from being very young in the 1980s, still an entertaining watch nowadays, bless you for uploading
Lovely to have you here 😀
Please upload more. Thank you. I'm hopelesssly addicted.
I'll second that!😃👍
Il third that 😊👍
Filmed in Norwich in 1982. That jewellers is still open.
Everything looked so lovely years ago,people dressed nice and it looked so peaceful.Wish them days would come back.Lovely days with no horrible mobile phones,
Yes, I agree, but the interiors were quite horrible.
Yes everyone was dressed so wonderful and classy looking
Smoking in the resturant, lovely??
Being totally honest, I’d never heard of this show until I heard Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant talking about it on an old XFM show. Been addicted to these ever since 👍
It was my favourite programme. I think Thursdays at 9
yeah i listen to their podcasts a lot ad n they recently mentioned some really good ones like the 2 friends who have a car accident n one of them gets decapitated, i won't say anything else as i don't want to give anything away to others lol , but yeah, i wish i could find certain episodes.
They show them on ITV4 quite often.
play a record
Watched it as a kid in the 70s
I hadn't watched Tales of the Unexpected since I was a little kid. This is so good!
Me too! 😊
The music still gives me chills
I was allowed to watch this with nan
Maybe it was even on late and I was aloud to stay up
I lived with my gran and she loved mystery stories and horror tales. I inherited that from her and she always let me stay up,late with her to watch Tales of the Unexpected!
Michael Craig is still kicking it at 95 years young! 😮❤
You can always date these programs by the sound the telephone makes
Dorothy Tutin is a masterclass in this of restrained paranoia.
Roald Dahl was the masterclass. Long before PTSD and Asperger's.
Another twisted mind before his time.
This is the epitome of 'the drama only exists in one's head'.
spoilerz brah
She was really top-notch. Was absolutely electrifying as the doomed Anne Boleyn in the trial scenes from The Six Wives of Henry the 8th.
Ronald Dahl is superb.
This… wow. So incredibly dark and played MASTERFULLY by Dorothy Tutin!
Strangely though, this appearance isn’t mentioned on her Wiki page 😢
@@heeeeeresrossy Someone needs to update it ASAP.
When I was a kid my favourite programmes were this and The Hammer House of Horror. I still love both of them.
Me Too. The opening credits for 'House of Horror' creeped me out.
@@willhay6148 House of Horror: a spooky and mesmerizingly atmospheric opening even when viewed to this day, and actually really quite beautiful music. In middle-age I find this comfort-viewing though, as a kid I had no idea how genuinely creepy and horrific adult life would turn out to be! : )
@@jonathanwalker8730 Yeah the music was strange and memorable but I always wondered what was going on inside that house; the movement in the window.
Me too!
Oh! Hammer House of Horror! I'd forgotten that!
her voice gets right inside your head lol
nice one cheers mate
😀
Back when only actresses shaved off their eyebrows and painted them back on at ridiculous angles...
Eyebrows were plucked, not shaved.
Jealousy can be a killer, along with paranoia....
Brilliant! The 'narrated cinema' approach by Moira (the wife) allows you get right inside her thoughts and feelings - really effective!
omg such great acting its very hard to do what she did 10/10 ty x
😂at school we read the kiss kiss book (,by Rold Dahl and watched the tales ,always loved tales well done roald rip xx
This was the first episode I ever saw of these, with my Nan. I lived in Norwich then and remember thinking that Moira didn’t half take some funny old routes to get to where she was going.
Love this
Exceptional story, performances and directorial pacing. A sublime tale that tours the darker recesses of the psyche, taking one's most vulnerable insecurities about growing older/becoming obsolete and building the resulting paranoia from a resigned whimper to a deadly, impulsive resolve.
Plot twist: the two ladies WERE talking about her, the watch in the suitcase is one of two. She saved her won life by pushing the girl in front of the car.
I discovered this series by accident (on Sky Arts) and I must say, I love it! Thanks for uploading them, Steve Hume.
Loved this show as a kid, thanks for uploading.
Hi Mr Karloff. Glad to see you beat that whole death thing. Terrible bloody business.
Oh the nostalgia. 👌💕
Thank you, dear Steve Hume, for uploading (part of) this wonderful series onto UA-cam; I'd actually only heard of these, before. Since I was born in 1978, I fortunately grew up listening to great 70s and 80s pop/rock/disco music and also
watching lots of television programmes, series and movies (esp. 're-runs' I guess) at the time; I'm especially very fond of the mystery/detective (eg. Agatha Christie) ánd thriller/horror genres (eg. Hammer Studio productions); but somehow strangely, I never got to see this
well-made 'classic' series (for myself); yet I am now truely delighted to get the chance ánd pleasure to watch it for myself - first hand; all thanks to you, Steve! I'm sincerely grateful to you, for giving the 'younger' generations ánd me as well, the opportunity to be slightly 'mesmerized' - for a while at least! - by these marvelous, somehow 'enigmatic' psychological thriller - stories!... So much obliged, dear friend!👌 Greetings from 🇳🇦!
Hello George. Thank you for such a kind and thoughtful message. Great to meet you. I’m happy that you’ve enjoyed these stories.
Thank you for uploading, I've found a new favourite channel for my insomniac nights. Also just watched Visitors, give really stoked some memories 👍
Welcome aboard! Visitors is a bit of a trip isn’t it ! 🤪
Thanks Steve for posting these! I’ve subbed to your channel. Being American i don’t always know all the hidden gems from your side of the pond.
Love to watch again and again all these episodes they're so addicted seen years ago thanks Steve🥰
Hi Rosabelle. Thanks for joining us! Ration the episodes.. 🤣
@@hammersteve ❤
@@hammersteve, to me this series should individually savored and not "binged"! Roald Dahl was one cool cat! 10-Q Steve and peace
2022 who's still watching?
Never ever jump to conclutions.
I'm a huge fan of Inside No 9. If you like Tales of the the Unexpected, you'll love IN9 too, currently on the air is series 6. I have a feeling the third episode called 'Lip Service' will be similar or inspired by this episode.. 🤔
LIKE ALL THE EPISODE EXCEPT 3 0F THEM
What a lovely house they live in. It certainly looks 21st century with the midcentury vibe .
Looks kinda modern, art deco or whatever they call it with that glass orangery.
They usually do live in grand houses on here. Also childless
A trip down memory lane. Used to watch this when I was a little boy, with my grandmother.
Thanks for the upload Steve, these are great. 👍🏻
I discovered by chance. Never heard of this. Well written, acted anthology-like series. Thx for the upload.
Glad you stopped by Ozzie.
Have watched this before better 2nd time around. I am sure i have seen them all, hope not
Everyone has a neurotic girlfriend like that at some point in life, run for the hills if you get one 🤣
What do you do if you ARE that girlfriend!?
@@WaterKatara speak to a doctor 😂
Back in the day when you could smoke indoors
As an asthmatic I'm glad those days are over. 😁
As someone who hated second hand smoke I'm glad it's now illegal.
I miss it in pubs
Haha yes! You could smoke almost anywhere even upstairs in the bus or at cinema etc.. Will probably go same way as snuff - obsolete
Wahay, you're back, Thank you so much ☮️
That iconic theme tune 😁😁 followed by a great pisode every time.
Great episode. Shadows of Fear is also well worth watching for similar tales.
I'm three months out of a relationship that was killed by this sort of overthinking and jealousy so at this time it's an episode that really resonated with me. Would love to tell my ex to watch this! Fortunately she hasn't killed anyone...yet.
I’m sorry to hear this. Mr Dahl’s stories seem to resonate with so many. He was so talented to be able to pick up on human emotions, both male and female.
@@hammersteve Thanks and I really appreciate the kind words. I should also have expressed my gratitude to you for uploading. Regardless of any personal matters it's amazing to have this great programme on UA-cam for people to enjoy and I couldn't agree more about the astute observations of the writers.
Steve,
Thanks for adding a further two instalments to this series. Tales of put-upon husbands and eavesdropping wives- do you by any chance run a marriage bureau? lol
Best wishes and stay safe!
That’s so funny 🤣 Tom
Wow! Good one.
Thank you Steve 🙏🏼💜
So it was quite a locally famous bloke whoever it was.
One of my favourites 😜
Shiela Ruskin is Gorgeous 😃
Such a great series .. Saw one recently with Alfred Burke in, who ALWAYS played the goodie so it was a real twist at the end.. Saying no more. Dorothy Tutin such a classy clever actress x
The episode with Alfred Burke was called "The Flypaper" probably the best episode of the entire series, really disturbing.
Oh yes - it really was disturbing!
Good episode. Thank you for uploading! 😄
Ooh, a new favorite!
oops
That's _one_ way of putting it.
I didn't expect the ending.
21:37
"She's dead!"
"Someone better call an ambulance!"
*Me: How do you think ambulances work...*
I assume you've never been unsettled by anything going by your clever remarks :)
to be both that neurotic and that timid... whew! the actress did a great job here.
Both factors can be in a person.
at last one I havnt seen such a treat danke Steve x
19:10 that Sony alarm clock must have looked like some futuristic alien technology!
A good story, though I find it hard to believe that the two women would be speaking that loudly and openly (especially about the hired killer) in a restaurant!
No no you have missed the point. They never were discussing hiring a killer! Moira misinterpretted it. They were on about a lawyer or summat. She only heard part of it.
Although i agree. They were not exactly talking discretely.
Dorothy Tutin!!! ♥️🥇😉
Another good episode! I remember Dorothy Tutin 🌹who plays the suspicious wife earlier in the film The Importance of Being Earnest. And Sheila Ruskin 🌹in the later episodes of the 1974 series The Pallisers.
The shopkeeper in the opening sequence was in many films including with Norman Wisdom in “On the Beat” as hairdressing assistant ‘Oberon’…
This happens when you don't give the wife some kids XD also the separate beds, I am gone x_x
The main actress in this is MILES sexier and more alluring than the supposed illicit girlfriend. Am I the only one who thinks this? 😀
You are not, main woman is way hotter
19:34 That man is probably the other "Don" as he's not credited in the end credits.
Thank you so much for uploading this i was looking for it on sky arts yesterday but they are showing episodes from the fifth series
Thank you for posting this great series .
I expected some scary twist ending like her thinking the police were coming and striking her husband on the head. Probably end screen of her in frozen shock and being pushed herself by an unknown
Why would he give a second hand watch anyway. Surely he would buy a lover a brand new watch.
She's going to talk her way out of a marriage. This is when you hire the private investigator, no awkward questions. Just answers
The involvement of private investigators suggest implicit mistrust.
If there is no trust _that_ time, what if the would be spouse is accused by a third party in the future?
Will his denials be believed by his wife under those circumstances??
Oh my god, what a twist at the end 😳... I loved this... perfect to take my mind off of food (intermittent fasting 🍽)
Where is the part where they are standing in front of Lloyd's bank on Gentlemen's Walk? Was there really a crossing there in 1982?
thanks for uploading... for some reason I have zero recollection of this episode despite the fact I owned the first 6 series on dvd at one point. some episodes were kinda forgettable, but surely not this one?!
I’m glad people can’t hear my inner monologue out loud in restaurants. I’m always lamenting the fact they never do spaghetti hoops on toast.
That was a good one , loved it
Love Dahl
Thanks for uploading- love watching these. I enjoy the old locations and set as much as the stories, such an iconic show of its time.
It was a Zebra Crossing. The driver killed her - not Moira!
Tales of the much as expected.
Been looking for this fora while now. I'm American and last time I seen this, I stumbled upon it in heroin withdawal. Brought hope for me.
I remember crying in the corner wetting my pants when this came on tv because i was only 33 at the time, but im a big boy now and dont need to cry in the corner,i just wish the wetting of my pants would stop. Great show for the era.
I was shit scared of it too lol.
She did some other woman a favour.
Another lesson in life ,you must never assume because you make an ass out of u and me😅
Everyone here is assuming it wasn’t ‘her’ Don. It might not have been but it equally wasn’t confirmed to not be… he suddenly had a space free for her on the Munich trip after cutting off his gf/ her getting killed? The watch symbolising he is hers again after the end of that relationship? Also the coincidences of the Paris and Scotland trips. I don’t think we truly know if it was Don or not.
When would he have had time to travel from wherever he was at the time, have {somebody} remove the watch from her wrist, take it back home, put it in his wife's suitcase, AND get back to his office to telephone her though??
This was between lunch and the end of office hours when the murder and the telephone call took place, was it not??
And surely somebody's personal effects aren't just automatically given to those closest to a victim so soon after a fatality... There are formalities to see to first.
And if the watch was removed from her wrist at the scene - which, with a large audience and inevitable subsequent intervention from police thereafter - that would have to raise eyebrows, and THAT would affect his position at work if it came to light.
He'd surely had to have made a trip to the coroner's office to collect it first, which would be quite a feat, considering the only person to have planned her "murder" was his wife - how would he have been able to know about Louise's death so soon afterward??
Perhaps his details were written in her diary I suppose one might argue, however, with *_that_* being said, how would he even know to replace the watch in the first place???
And even getting in touch with those nearest to the deceased would have to take a while.
And if there were no suspicious circumstances surrounding the death, then why would he be so willing to remove her watch in the first place, if there was nothing to suggest that his wife was somehow involved??
The only person with the awareness OF the watch being on Louise's wrist was Moira, was it not??
Her husband wasn't there to physically see Moira actively noticing the watch.
If he knew Moira was on to Louise - or even somehow *_suspected_* - then he'd have reason to be more inclined to "overact" pleasantly towards her to compensate for it.
His behaviour did nothing to suggest he was searching for evidence of suspicion on her part.
Another factor (not really shown), was - how soon after the murder, did Moira arrive home?
One trip for her, two trips for her husband.
Moira would inevitably have gone *_straight_* home after killing someone (which wouldn't be far away one might imagine, if it was a regular place she went to), whereas her husband, would've needed to have gone (presumably) to his office to actually BE contacted by the police to both inform him of her death, AND inform him of where the coroner's office was situated - which would take some time IF have witnessed the murder (somehow) and had prior knowledge of it, AND then go to the coroner's office, AND then go home - all before Moira made it back without knowing in any way that he'd been there before her.
If this were some sort of court case to determine whether or not he *_was_* having an affair with Louise, then I think he would be acquitted, as the circumstantial evidence against him would be weak, but also, the logistical evidence also appears flimsy.
This was a pretty good episode.
Hang on. The man at the end wasn't her husband???
This theme tune is a classic 😊
Surely the best ever episode
A woman with far too much time on her hands. Why did the wives in TOTU not work?
It was more common for wives to be housewives in them days.
Different times
You know what thought Did...no ....thought he farted ...But he shit himself ...abit like this really !
Facts !!! Must have Facts ....
hahaha brilliant!
This is the result of a woman with far too much time on her hands.
Ohh I can't find my past times ...Necklace & Bracelet ...I looked for it the other day ....I thought I had it in my dressing table ....XXX
Always good stories with a twist. Thankyou
They slept in twin beds so I’d safely say the marriage was over
my thoughts exactly
Twin beds so one's vitality could not be leeched.
Many couples still do that
It's healthy to have twin beds if it means that underlying problems in a marriage can be amicably resolved without relegating one partner (usually the husband) to the sofa.
Super👌
Trim phone!