The series originally adapted various stories from Dahl's anthologies such as Kiss Kiss and Someone Like You. Despite the low budget the series attracted guest stars of the highest calibre, such as Timothy West, John Gielgud, Elaine Stritch, John Mills, Derek Jacobi, Janet Leigh and Siobhán McKenna.

Episodes include William and Mary in which Elaine Stritch learns that her husband has cheated death via a brain transplant, The Landlady in which a seemingly charming old lady is really murdering and stuffing her tenants, and The Way Up To Heaven, in which an abusive husband is trapped in a lift, and his long suffering wife deliberately leaves him there to die.

Dahl introduced all of his own stories himself. These were short monologues which Dahl explains what inspired him to write the story; when he introduced the story Lamb To The Slaughter, in which a wronged wife batters her husband to death with a leg of lamb, Dahl explained he got the idea from Ian Fleming (who he refers to in the introduction as "the James Bond Man.") Having been served a tough and under cooked leg of lamb, Fleming said the cook should be shot - Dahl replied that he had a better idea.

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