Screenplay: Hector Hugh Munro

Direction Lucila Las Heras

Cast Paloma Alvarez · Susana Pampín · Ariel Aguirre · Gustavo Cornillón

Plot Based on "The open window", the famous short story by Saki. A man travels to a distant aunt's house in the countryside looking for peace and quiet. But once there,...

Direction James Rogan

Cast Charlotte Ritchie · Michael Sheen · Cherie Lunghi · Ben Lambert

Direction John Ballard

Cast Peggy Feury · Mark Owens · David Foreman · Joanna Miles

Plot The film plots a child's descent into madness without the guiding forces of a benevolent adult. After the mysterious nasty death of both his Roaring '20s party animal parents, young...

Direction Angela Murray

Cast David Kinnaird · Fergus Nimmo · Sian Thomas

Plot Young Conradin prays to an imaginary deity that he be freed from the guardianship of his virago aunt. His prayers are answered.

Direction Andrew Birkin

Cast Sacha Puttnam · Judy Campbell · Lila Kaye · Patty Hannock

Direction Richard Dunlap

Cast Hermione Gingold · Elspeth March · Doris Lloyd · Patricia Hitchcock

Plot Charlotte Hope arrives in the Wellington household to act as a governess of their children. She's a somewhat brash, opinionated person who boldly announces she uses the Shartz-Metterklume method for...

Direction Samuel Askland Gordon

Cast Ivan Mallon · Lauren Peterson · Michael Mapél

Plot A boy's game of make-believe takes a sinister turn when the religion he has invented starts becoming real.

Direction Alan Gibson · Peter Sasdy · Silvio Narizzano · Bryan Stonehouse

Cast Norman Rodway · Noel Hood · Roland Culver · Jane Eccles

Direction Shyam Benegal · Krishan Sethi · Anil Ganguly · Kundan Shah

Cast Beena Banerjee · Ajit Vachani · Saeed Jaffrey · Vijayendra Ghatge

Plot The series featured a collection of stories by short story writers such as Guy De Maupassant, Tolstoy, O. Henry, Chekov etc. The series had different stories in each episode and...