Tales of the Unexpected

[chappie]

I recorded Tales of the Unexpected, where a surgeon was given a very valuable diamond. For safe keeping he froze it in an ice cube tray.

Intruders broke into the house, helped themselves to drinks with ice, and accidentally swallowed the diamond.

Unfortunately my recorder cut off unexpectedly, and I missed the ending. Can anyone tell me how it ended please? Thanks.

[squarebear]

I don't know that one but would assume the obvious ending is that the surgoen caught them and operated on them to get the diamond back?

[chappie]

Thanks for your reply squarebear. They did get operated on but by a different surgeon, who retrieved the diamond and took it to be valued. The valuer had previously valued it for the surgeon it had been given to. The valuer phoned the original surgeon and asked if he had lost the diamond. That's when the my recording abruptly ended unfortunately.

[Postdog]

Happened to me too! Luckily, it has happened in the past, so I have learned to record the one after too, even if I have seen it.

Dunno where you saw up to, but colleagues of his had to operate on the person who swallowed the ice, found the diamond, and then took it to a jeweller - the same one - to get it valued. He realised it was the same, rang the other doctor to find out if it had gone walkies, and the police were called.

Well it was realised THEY didn't actually steal it, then it cut to the doctor and his wife having a drink on the bed, joking about what had happened. Then, I'm sorry to say the sound was a bit muffled, but she said something like "where is it now?", only to realise it was in the ice in her drink and she had swallowed it.

Bit of a let down really, but then apart from one or two of these, I have always seen the end coming.....

[chappie]

Thanks for that Postdog. I too am usually disappointed with the plots, they are pretty weak by today's standards, but I like to watch it occasionally because it reminds me of the good old days when it was first shown, and sad though I am, I like to have a chuckle about the fashions, huge telephones, seeing some well-known actors in their younger days, hair-do's of that time etc.

But the storylines are very predictable. I guess we enjoyed it more in the old days because we only had 3 channels to choose from, and now we are very much spoilt for choice!

Thanks again for reply.

[jedimistress]

Was is it one of the Tales of the Expected series where William Shatner saw a gremlin on the plane's wing?

[JUNKMAN]

That sounds more like the Twilight Zone, jedimistress

[chappie]

jedimistress, I can't remember one where William Shatner saw a gremlin.

Does anyone remember the one where a priest in a prison had made an arrangement with one of the inmates, when the next person died the priest would arrange for the inmate to escape in the coffin holding the deceased?

Don't know why this particular one sticks out in my mind, but it does.

Can anyone remember the ending please?

Thanks.

[WoWo]

chappie - That was Alfred ******* presents.

The story was that the prisoner would break in to the place the coffin was kept and get in the coffin with the dead person, then the preist/undertaker (can't remember which) would arrange for the person to be dug up the night after the burial.

The person gets in the coffin and it is placed 6 feet under as usual, and the prisoner waits to be dug up. It takes some time so the prisoner decides to see who they are in the coffin with so lights a match and it turns out it's the preist/undertaker and therefore there is nobody to dig up the coffin meaning the prisoner is there for good.

The gremlin on the plane was from the twilight zone film (fourth part) and starred John Lithgow, no William Shatner in sight.

[chappie]

WoWo, thanks so much for that reply. I keep watching Tales of the Unexpected, wondering if it will be the one, and of course I have been watching the wrong programme!

What a great site Answerbank is.

Thanks again.