Tales of the Unexpected - Series 1, Episode 4 - "Lamb to the Slaughter"
"Lamb to the Slaughter"
Mary Marney returns home from shopping for a few groceries, and discovers the body of her husband laying on the floor in their home. He has been bludgeoned to death! Because he was a policeman, she knows who to call, and several of his friends come to investigate. To find the murderer, they conclude, they must discover the weapon. But a search of the house reveals nothing - evidently, the murder has a leg up on law enforcement... ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plVlDgSpblY
"Double Exposure"
A "machete murderer" stalks the city. Ryan gets a glimpse of his face, and swears that the killer is famed newscaster Winston Knight. However, Winston has an ironclad alibi for the time of the murders: he was on live TV receiving calls from the killer. Ryan, Micki, and Jack must figure out how Winston is in two places at first, and what antique he is using to do so.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IU-ZIg6T3o
"The Curse"
A flashy businessman finds out he owns a slum apartment building, and is unwilling to make repairs until strange things begin to happen to him.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zI7ZG-DKQlM
"Legion of Demons"
Beth is a shy young woman who has come to the city to share an apartment with her friend, Janet. Janet gets Beth a job at the company she works for, and tries to encourage Beth to come out and socialize with their coworkers. Beth declines. But when Janet turns up missing, and Beth fills in at Janet's job, she meets Janet's friends, and all is not as it seems. Beth must find out what happened to Janet, and see if she can prevent the same thing from happening to her.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYlJetH8f6A
"Death's Head"
Carol, a woman who hates insects, is unhappily married to Steve, a successful businessman who collects them. She secretly loves Steve's partner, Larry, and would like to make their affair a permanent arrangement. One day while shopping, she encounters a gypsy who sells her something that will help her achieve her goal without leaving any traces. However, when Janet carries out her plan, she begins to be terrorized by a Death's Head moth, and discovers that things are seldom as simple as they seem, and that every action has its consequences.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VaBX2jDJe-k
A bizarre series of murders begins in Los Angeles, where people start going bald and then become homicidal maniacs. But could the blame rest on a particularly dangerous form of LSD called Blue Sunshine the murderers took ten years before?
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAiMDwCThE8
"Their Divided Self"
James (David L. Lander) and Robert Self (Keith MacKechnie) are conjoined twins who have achieved resounding success as a comedic duo. In recent years however, they have put their tours on hold due to their relationship becoming strained. Sick of the brothers' constant fighting with one another, James' girlfriend Elegy (Karen Haber) brings in noted psychiatrist Dr. Blackman (Rich Hall) to help them get along. The Self Brothers do indeed end up getting along in the end, but only after they discover that they have a common enemy in Dr. Blackman.
"The Awakening"
John Loengard and his girlfriend Kim Sayers arrive in Washington DC eager to start their new jobs as a congressional aide and an assistant to Jackie Kennedy respectively. But John's hopes are dashed when one of his first tasks, involving disproving the validity of UFO cases, results in being threatened by a group of shady men dressed in black. Ready to drop the story, John soon changes his mind when the identity of one of the man in black is revealed to be a navy captain by the name of Frank Bach. His pursuit though leads him to a truth he couldn't have possibly imagined, one where the current Cuban Missile Crisis is the least of the country's problems.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vA49U87Va0s
"For Cryin' Out Loud"
Rock promoter Marty Slash (Lee Arenberg) plans to run off with all of the donation money that has been raised and accumulated from a series of "Save the Amazon rainforest" charity benefit concerts, but things unexpectedly become complicated when it turns out that his hearing problems were nothing more than his conscience (voiced by Sam Kinison) trying to get through to him. To make matters worse, his greedy banker (Katey Sagal) soon blackmails him, being annoyed all the while by his conscience, for half of the money.