Seasons(9) / Episodes(112)
Plots(1)
Like his children's books, Roald Dahl's adult stories never fail to surprise, though they take more chilling flights of fancy. Darkly humorous and playfully macabre, each standalone episode in this acclaimed series is a brilliantly acted little gem of creepy delight. (official distributor synopsis)
Cast
![Helmut Griem](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/271/271429_b305bd.jpg)
Helmut Griem
German Empire
Best series:
Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980) (series)
Tales of the Unexpected (1979) (series)
Peter the Great (1986) (series)
![Anna Massey](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/271/271293_a4a555.jpg)
Anna Massey
UK
Best series:
The Mayor of Casterbridge (1978) (series)
Tess of the D'Urbervilles (2008) (series)
The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends (1992) (series)
![Richard Johnson](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/164/484/164484366_ad7636.jpg)
Richard Johnson
UK
Best series:
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1962) (series)
Space: 1999 (1975) (series)
Tales of the Unexpected (1979) (series)
![Siân Phillips](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/270/270592_07bf33.jpg)
Siân Phillips
UK
Best series:
I, Claudius (1976) (series)
Doctor Who (2005) (series)
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (1979) (series)
![Laurence Payne](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/165/306/165306808_44b1e9.jpg)
Laurence Payne
UK
Best series:
Tales of the Unexpected (1979) (series)
Dallas Cavell
UK
Best series:
Doctor Who (1963) (series)
Tales of the Unexpected (1979) (series)
The Avengers (1961) (series)
Peggy Thorpe-Bates
UK
Best series:
Tales of the Unexpected (1979) (series)
![Jessie Matthews](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/158/279/158279878_02fe79.jpg)
Jessie Matthews
UK
Best series:
Tales of the Unexpected (1979) (series)
Peter Sallis
UK
Best series:
The Persuaders! (1971) (series)
Tales of the Unexpected (1979) (series)
The Wind in the Willows (1984) (series)
![Roy Marsden](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/164/280/164280124_92425c.jpg)
Roy Marsden
UK
Best series:
Doctor Who (2005) (series)
Shroud for a Nightingale (1984) (series)
A Taste for Death (1988) (series)
![Dudley Sutton](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/271/271776_8d3c70.jpg)
Dudley Sutton
UK
Best series:
Skins (2007) (series)
Widows (1983) (series)
Smiley's People (1982) (series)
John Gill
UK
Best series:
All Creatures Great and Small (1978) (series)
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (1994) (series)
Crime Traveller (1997) (series)
Geoffrey Lumsden
UK
Best series:
Tales of the Unexpected (1979) (series)
Bergerac (1981) (series)
![Betsy Blair](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/272/272402_c8f85e.jpg)
Betsy Blair
USA
Best series:
Tales of the Unexpected (1979) (series)
thirtysomething (1987) (series)
Scarlett (1994) (series)
![Bosco Hogan](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/158/188/158188336_a7557f.jpg)
Bosco Hogan
Ireland
Best series:
Vikings (2013) (series)
A Taste for Death (1988) (series)
The Borgias (2011) (series)
![Julian Fellowes](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/161/719/161719296_fda476.jpg)
Julian Fellowes
Egypt
Best series:
The Final Cut (1995) (series)
Tales of the Unexpected (1979) (series)
Aristocrats (1999) (series)
Robert Mill
UK
Best series:
Are You Being Served? (1972) (series)
Tales of the Unexpected (1979) (series)
The Avengers (1961) (series)
Terry Walsh
UK
Best series:
Tales of the Unexpected (1979) (series)
Bergerac (1981) (series)
![Pauline Collins](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/162/873/162873122_74e11b.jpg)
Pauline Collins
UK
Best series:
Doctor Who (2005) (series)
The Black Tower (1985) (series)
Bleak House (2005) (series)
![Bernard Miles](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/072/312/72312374_725763.jpg)
Bernard Miles
UK
Best series:
Tales of the Unexpected (1979) (series)