Tales of Unease: The Complete Series [DVD]

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It’s no surprise that this preening creep faces the consequences of his art’s endorsement of reactionary violence, but the manner in which it happens remains truly weird and uncomfortable, and Herlihy’s every line is a gem.

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Jack Griffiths’s The Black Goddess is an ensemble piece, but it’s just as well-performed by a cast including Ronald Lewis and Talfryn Thomas.

Here, two businessmen played by John Stratton and Michael Culver face the consequences of their decision to automate their factory when a disgruntled employee seizes the controls. It’s in such situations that the TV play comes into its own, as the script and the acting are all that’s needed to carry the piece and here we are in the midst of its golden age.

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Produced by LWT, Tale of Unease ran for one series of seven episodes towards the end of 1970, with the first episode - Ride, Ride- airing the day before Halloween in a late-night 10. The present becomes strangely entangled with the past when Lucy’s aunt dies and she must leave the peaceful countryside to live with trendy relatives in London. The data collected including the number visitors, the source where they have come from, and the pages visted in an anonymous form.

Filmed almost entirely on location during the spring of 1969 and broadcast during the winter of 1969-1970, this remarkable adaptation of Alan Garner's award-winning novel was a radical production that raised the bar for what viewers could expect from a teenage drama – and which was a significant influence on children's television throughout the 1970s. There is the touch on the shoulder that comes when you are walking quickly homewards in the dark hours, full of anticipation of the warm room and bright fire, and when you pull up, startled, what face or no-face do you see? Ride, Ride, for example, may be successful in creating a spooky sense of unease, some fine visual pieces and an early appearance by James Hazeldine, but the narrative fails to make sense.

Curious British Telly: DVD Review: Tales of Unease

There are many ways to ask an artist if they worry about their impact with society, but none as deliciously quotable as “Well, sir, have you ever wondered about being murdered in some wonderfully campy way? It's perhaps interesting that, whilst I wouldn't describe any of these episodes as being particularly scary, it's the outcome of one of the "human" ones (Bad Bad Jo Jo) that has stayed with me the longest. A rarely-seen anthology drama series featuring stories full of menace and black humour, Tales of Unease avoids overt horror for a subtler and altogether more unsettling sense of the uncanny.I've written reviews for each episode of this, but I thought I'd also put something here about the series in general. A rarely seen anthology series featuring stories full of menace and black humour, Tales of Uneaseavoids overt horror for a subtler and altogether more unsettling sense of the uncanny. It may be one for the purists of British TV, but that's the Curious British Telly audience to a tee. Starring James Bate as an isolated teenage boy who undergoes a disturbing loss of identity and Milton Johns as his unlikely nemesis, The Intruderis featured here as a brand-new high definition remaster from original film elements in its original fullscreen aspect ratio.

DVD Review: Tales of Unease Curious British Telly: DVD Review: Tales of Unease

As it's an anthology series, it's perhaps not surprising that my enjoyment of the episode was varied.

An author meets big fans of his most controversial work and a couple try to abandon their old car across London.