I'm partial to...
1. "The Man from the South"
2. "Death in the Morning"
3. "Scrimshaw"
4. "Neck"
5. "The Hitchhiker"
I've never seen the episode based on "Skin" (surely one of Dahl's most unsettling stories), but I'd love to...
My top 5 would be
The Hitch-hiker
The Landlady
A dip in the pool
Galloping Foxley
Light Fingers
Not many have seen 'Light Fingers', but it has a really good ending.
I haven't seen that one, either. Which season is it from? I'm thinking seriously of buying at least two seasons of "Tales" on DVD...my old VHS tapes are pretty much worn out.
shareIts in series five.
There is a complete dvd set available consisting of all the series. Would work out cheaper.
Thanks for the tip, lunar11! I'll keep an eye out for the complete set.
shareTop 5 is tricky but I always like watching:
1. Parson's Pleasure
2. The Eavesdropper
3. The Memory Man
4. The Flypaper
5. The Moles
"Fasten your seat belts, it's going to be a bumpy night" (Margo Channing in All About Eve)
Always difficult as any top 5 goes with my mood. currently:
1. The Eavesdropper
2. Would you Believe it?
3. Taste
4. The Tribute
5. The Flypaper
My top five
1 Fat Chance
2 The Flypaper
3 The Way up to heaven
4 Dig your own grave
5 Taste
Yes!!! - "Kindly Dig Your Grave" is my favourite.
shareDoesnt seem to be very popular but i think its fantastic.
shareI agree, an excellent episode. Not in my top 5 though.
http://www.tv-time-machine.com/
Tales Of The Unexpected, UFO, Blake's 7, Sapphire & Steel
I have great memories of being allowed to stay up and watch TOTU as a youngster in the late 70s & early 80s and the episodes that are fondly remembered from this time are:
1.Lamb to the slaughter
2.The Landlady
3.The Hitchhiker
4.Royal Jelly
5.Dip in the pool
These were all early episodes and I cannot recall ever watching the later ones, so I was delighted when ITV3 began to show them all.
Whilst times have changed and some episodes are, by today's standards a bit old hat and predictable, some of the episodes I have just recently watched for the first time still have that genuine element of surprise. The ones that I particularly liked were:
A man with a fortune
A Harmless Vanity
Clerical Error
and of course,the universally appreciated The Fly-paper.
I watched The Fly-paper for the first time just recently I was genuinely disturbed by this truly chilling episode!!!
Stranger in Town is one I remember more than the others.
shareWhat about The Stinker, anyone?
shareI like the whole premise but I'm never a fan of cringeworthy episode. Cringeworthy as in feeling for a character rather than the episode itself makes me cringe.
http://www.tv-time-machine.com/
Tales Of The Unexpected, UFO, Blake's 7, Sapphire & Steel
Makes me chuckle and the cast is superb.
sharemy favs in no particular order:
Man from the South
Parsons Pleasure
Skin
Neck
Lamb to the slaughter
The Moles
The Party
Lamb to the Slaughter
I know that's only 3 but I've not seen all of them. Watching them on Sky Arts 2. Georgy Porgy and Flypaper were scary!
"Hey! Ladies! That was fun!"
Also really like A Picture of a Place and Fat Chance.
"Hey! Ladies! That was fun!"
I just love The Party - one of my favourites!!!
sharei will try to give 2 lists
The Dahl stories
Landlady
Royal Jelly
Lamb To The Slaughter
William And Mary
The Man Of The South
a rock tight solid list...very very hard to beat imho
Non Dahl stuff
Hijack
Flypaper
The Verger
Shatterproof
Blue Marigold