The BEST episodes directed by Claude Whatham

The Umbrella Man
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7.33
21 votes

#1 - The Umbrella Man

Tales of the Unexpected - Season 2 - Episode 11

A smart old man, claiming to need his taxi fare home on a wet afternoon in London, persuades a stranger to buy his umbrella. Followed into a pub, it turns out that the Umbrellaa Man spends the money on a large whisky. What is going on?

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The Man at the Top
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7.00
20 votes

#2 - The Man at the Top

Tales of the Unexpected - Season 2 - Episode 16

Hardy is a young seaman down on his luck. He has no money and no ship, and then he gets caught up in a dockland fight and kills a man. Anxious to get a new ship and vanish, Hardy turns to his friend, the lovely Diane, a prostitute. Diane knows where to find the elusive, mysterious Man at the Top - the one person powerful enough to help Hardy. And then Hardy finds he did not know very much about the man he killed...

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Galloping Foxley
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6.82
22 votes

#3 - Galloping Foxley

Tales of the Unexpected - Season 2 - Episode 3

After more than sixty years, William Perkins is still haunted by memories of being bullied at an English private school... One day, he is annoyed by a swaggering passenger on a train and is sure he recognizes him as Foxley, the school prefect who made his life so miserable, long ago. And Perkins makes a mistake.

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