Tales of the Unexpected - William & Mary ( A Roald Dahl Story)

They seek him here, they seek him there, his patients seek him everywhere

Elaine Stritch plays Mary, the widow. I haven't thought of this actress for at least 30 years.

The wonderful Elaine Stritch!

Love these. Classic good storytelling

Marius Goring is such a remarkable actor!! I always liked him. He's unforgettable... Even in small roles like in The Spy in Black

Don't need to whisper, he can't hear u, but he can see u.....hahhahah...lololol

Did Roald Dahl literally just give the definition of Dark Humor in the beginning?

She was absolutely brilliant!

I didn't get it, bit of a shitty story tbh. I think it would have been better if she'd got his 'brain' home and started talking to him how she'd pulled off the perfect murder of him and got all his money or something, then for the pigs to come in and we find out the brain was a hoax and it was just a surveillance device all along.

This was such a original episode. The wife gets revenge and satisfaction. Thanks for the uploud!👍

I recall my Dad, reading this story from Roald Dahl`s 'Kiss Kiss" to me while camping by the Appalacian Trail, in 1963 ? It was a collection of shortstories, bizarre & original.

Ha ha she got what she wanted

Well done 🤣

I read the written story long before watching the televised version. I didnt think it can ever be translated from print to screen.

I was right.

What a delicious story.

I think Roald Dahl was a very spooky individual.

Funny, but too gross, even as a sick joke.

Good job William....Good one Mary. Nice plot change...Kia Ora

I remember watching these programs it was always on a Sunday night but I don`t remember seeing this episode but it was brilliant I used to watch her in the series where Donald Siden was her butler she had such a dry sense of humour..

really hafta stop watchin this shite

Great one, Elaine Stritch was an amazing actress.

This was a very strange episode, can anyone explain it to me. I couldn't understand what the doctor was saying.

Man, that woman is tall!

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I loved it. she should killed it.

Love this actress

Still with the power to shock and reveal.

The first story of his I ever read. She blew smoke all over his eyeball. Exquisite.

Hilariously creepy

The electroencephalograph sounded like Jean-Michel Jarre's music - very much in the tune of the time. I was expected to see the widow (or "widow") making love with the postman in front of the brain... This motif was much used at the time, in movies like Legacy (1978) and Strange Behaviour (1981(.

M7&

Oh my stars it's decades since I saw this and I remembered it!!

Her acting is superb!

Way back in March 1961, Dahl had this story adapted as the first episode of a similar anthology series he hosted on CBS, "WAY OUT".

I haven't read the short story yet, but I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that the line "I didn't marry him for his looks" is plucked straight from said story, as it was used in the "Way Out" adaptation.

Me to my wife: Youd love to do that to me wouldnt you?
My wife: Oh yeah.

if you've never seen that "dog head" video, don't watch it. I find it quite creepy. It was almost like "The Thing". and I felt really bad for that poor dog. :(

this episode though, was pretty funny :) especially the end.

I really must watch Source Code again.

The Red Shoes

I wonder if this is where Jordan Peele got his idea for the brain transplant in Get Out…

Metaverse ♾

Bbnnn

If you are over 55-60 we all love Elaine Stritch in UK from her superb acting. She was one of the few Americans who endeared themselves into the British hearts in the post war years until the 80's.

Cybeepunk born in that episode

great story

Amazing storyline, I just wish more people would watch it

Heres Mud In Your Eye

Niatjok bro

It strikes me as quite insensitive of that doctor to subject that poor widow to the grotesque prospect that her husband's head is detached and alive.