Tales Of The Unexpected is a Britishtelevision series that originally aired between 1979 and 1988, made by Anglia Television for ITV. This page refers to the year 1979. ... 1988 is a leap year starting on a Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Anglia Television is the ITV station for East Anglia. ... Independent Television (ITV) is the name given to the original network of British commercial television broadcasters, set up to provide competition to the BBC. In England and Wales the channel was recently rebranded ITV1 by ITV plc who own the regional broadcasting licences for the regions. ...
The series was an anthology of various different tales, initially based on short stories by authorRoald Dahl that were sometimes sinister, sometimes wryly humourous and usually had a twist ending. Anthology may also mean a Alien Ant Farm album ANThology, see Anthology (AAF Album) An anthology is a collection of literary works, originally of poems, but in recent years its usage has broadened to be applied to collections of short stories and comic strips. ... The word author has several meanings: The author of a book, story, article or the like, is the person who has written it (or is writing it). ... Patricia Neal and Roald Dahl, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1954 Roald Dahl (September 13, 1916 – November 23, 1990) was a British novelist and short story author of Norwegian descent, famous as a writer for both children and adults. ...
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Not unnaturally the unusual dinner led to conversations about unlikely foods in unlikely places and there were tales of roasted impala in South Africa, bear steaks in Montreal and Buffalo Grills in France.
And then I remembered a pizzeria in Sydney, Australia, which decided that it would be good to reinvent the pizza and offered Chinese and Thai pizzas and - and this was my favorite - the "Great Ozzie Pizza" which featured a lamb chop and a fried egg on the top.
Another early pair of tales is "The Archduke's Tea" and "The Missing Husband" (1926), in which an outsider wife is suspected of attacks on her aristocratic husband.
Even the more minor tales in the collection, such as "The Widow" (1937), "The Danger Point" (1937), "The Frenchman's Gloves" (1938) and "The White Elephant" (1936), have their charms, and the collection should probably be read as a whole.
The old lady in the tale is just as concerned with her furniture, being horrified by a ring on a table again.
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