YMMV / Tales of the Unexpected

• Alternate Character Interpretation: Did Gerry Williams in "Shatterproof" really love his wife, or did he marry her for her looks and money?
• Harsher in Hindsight: Joan Hackett who played the doomed heroine in "Scrimshaw" was dying of ovarian cancer when this episode was filmed.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: Regarding "Shatterproof", it's not the first time Eli Wallach played a character with a friend named Harry and a wife named Ellen.
• Hollywood Homely: Millicent from "Wet Saturday" is supposed to be hopelessly unattractive to men but is actually rather cute with her Girlish Pigtails.
• Jerkass Woobie: Myra, the spoilt, self-centered model in "Blue Marigold" is callously dropped by her agency when it decides it needs a fresher face.
• Nightmare Fuel: The titular invention of "The Sound Machine" makes it clear that plants suffer intense pain when picked or cut, meaning that every harvest is equivalent to a massacre.
  • The larva-like baby at the end of "Royal Jelly."
• Retroactive Recognition:
  • Carmen La Rosa from "Neck" is played by Carmen Silvera, who would later be best known for playing Edith Artois in 'Allo 'Allo!.
  • Milly Dobson from "The Verger" is played by Patricia Routledge, who would later be best known for playing Hyacinth Bouquet in Keeping Up Appearances.
  • Walter from "The Last of the Midnight Gardeners" is played by Patrick Mower, who would later be best known for playing Rodney Blackstock in Emmerdale.
  • Heather Locklear plays Pat Ward in "Youth from Vienna" in the final season.
• Squick: There are a fair number of gruesome corpses in episodes such as "Way Up to Heaven" and "The Landlady."
  • The crunching sound made by the stranger's umbrella-sword when it penetrates Latham's breastbone in "Stranger in Town."

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