Tales of Unease – The Old Banger: Conjuring Half-Hour Worlds of Unsettling Tension and Intrigue / A Warning to Take Care

Tales of Unease (1970) is an anthology drama series that was broadcast by ITV for just one series of seven episodes, each of which was directed and written by a different writer. It was based on and adapted some of the stories from the first two in a trilogy of anthology horror books that were released under the “Unease” banner – Tales of Unease (1966), More Tales of Unease (1969) and New Tales of Unease (1976) – which were edited by John Burke, who also script edited the series and wrote the second episode, Calculated Nightmare. The stories are eclectic in their nature and, via their short runtime, they serve to demonstrate the potentially versatile nature of half-hour anthology drama series and how they can concisely create and weave self-contained stories, worlds and characters. The series has had a limited distribution and availability: to date it hasn’t been distributed digitally officially but in 2022 it was released on a now out of print DVD by Network Distributing Ltd1 which…