The Flypaper

Episode aired Aug 9, 1980
TV-14
22m

IMDb RATING

8.2/10

530

YOUR RATING

Lorna Yabsley in Tales of the Unexpected (1979)

Comedy Drama Horror Mystery Thriller

The police are dragging the marshes for a missing school-girl and a sinister man is approaching other young girls. Young Sylvia is on a bus on the way home from school when a friendly old ma... Read allThe police are dragging the marshes for a missing school-girl and a sinister man is approaching other young girls. Young Sylvia is on a bus on the way home from school when a friendly old man begins to talk to her.The police are dragging the marshes for a missing school-girl and a sinister man is approaching other young girls. Young Sylvia is on a bus on the way home from school when a friendly old man begins to talk to her.

Director
- Graham Evans
Writers
- Robin Chapman
- Elizabeth Taylor
Stars

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IMDb RATING

8.2/10

530

YOUR RATING

Director
- Graham Evans
Writers
- Robin Chapman
- Elizabeth Taylor
Stars

See production info at IMDbPro

Trivia
The first of three appearances by Giles Phibbs, the others being S5 E5, Stranger in Town (1982) and S7 E12, Accidental Death (1984).

Quotes
[first lines]
Roald Dahl: The late Elizabeth Taylor was an English writer who lived not more than six miles from me. And a fine short story writer she was too. This one of hers that you're going to see in a moment is so neat and nice and spooky, I only wish I'd thought of it myself. A plot like this, though it looks so simple, is very hard to come by and harder still to set down in precisely the right manner, giving nothing away until the very end. Watch it carefully.