'Strange Stories' consists of two stories, 'The Strange Mr Bartleby' and 'The Strange Journey'. The stories were sometimes shown individually on television.
Un écrivain tente d'obtenir de l'argent en écrivant un livre sur le monstre du Loch Ness. Aucun éditeur ne le prendra parce qu'ils pensent tous qu'il n'y a pas vraiment de monstre. L'écrivain et certains de ses amis font un faux monstre et prennent des photos avant de se rendre en Écosse pour voir s'ils peuvent convaincre les locaux.
Stranger from Venus (a.k.a. Immediate Disaster and The Venusian) is the story of a woman who meets a stranger with no pulse who has the power of life and death at his touch. He is here from Venus to warn Earth about the atom.
Henry Crossley is an artist whose wife is spending a week's holiday with her aunt. But when her aunt comes to see him, worried because her niece has not arrived, a police investigation into her disappearance begins. It seems that Henry was fully occupied at the time his wife went missing; but is his alibi completely truthful?