A couple of days ago I happened to notice that 'Tales of the Unexpected' was on ITV3 one after the other. Each episode was orginally a short story by Roald Dahl. The TV series was first broadcast in the late 70's and early 80's. The first two series were all Roald Dahl stories but the third and final season was written by a variety of authors who wrote similar stories. The episode I watched was called 'The Fly Paper' and it was from the last season. The story is set in what looks like the yorkshire moors with the small town grim bordered by rolling heath which is it's self enclosed in fog. It opened with a news report about a local girl who had gone missing, who about half way though turns up dead in a pond behind the church. The majority of the story is about another girl who is followed around by a strange man. The tension of the program is kept by keeping us guessing as to whether the man will in the end get the girl or indeed if he is a bad guy at all. It's all a bit too realistic and the one word that springs to mind is Sinister. Somehow even the old film footage seems to lend authenticity to the story. With this tale of the unexpected all we really care about is whether the girl will be o.k, so the ending is not entirely unexpected as the answer can only be yes or no. However you really don't know which it will be until right at the end. It scared me a lot, and you can read the short story here (written by Elizabeth Taylor - not the actress).