Thursday, April 19, 2012

Wednesday, April 18 - Tales of the Unexpected

Tales of the Unexpected (1979–1988)

The Umbrella Man
S2, Ep11
May 10, 1980

An elderly con-man works a scam whereby he steals an umbrella from a rack in a public building and sells it to another person, who needs it to shield them from the rain. In the process, a mix-up with the umbrellas means that he exposes a couple who are cheating on the woman's husband and leads to fisticuffs.

Genesis & Catastrophe
S2, Ep12
May 17, 1980

In 1889 Austrian customs officer Alois is desperate that his wife Klara will pull through a difficult labour and that she and her baby son will survive. They do. They call the child Adolf.

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