Tales from the Darkside: Season 1
Episode Guide
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The New Man
Sep 30, 1984 · 23 min
A recovering alcoholic is disturbed to find a young boy who shows up at his office claiming to be his son Jerry. The man is further angered when the boy shows up at his house. Whil
I'll Give You a Million
Oct 7, 1984 · 23 min
Two old, rich men like to wager among themselves on trivial matters for huge amounts. One of them, Williams, offers his friend a million dollars for his immortal soul. Blaine accep
Pain Killer
Oct 14, 1984 · 23 min
Harvey goes to Dr. Roebuck with back pains and Roebuck prescribes a miraculous cure. It's not until later that Harvey finds the price he must pay...
The Odds
Oct 21, 1984 · 23 min
Tommy Vale, a barroom bookie finds himself in a curious predicament: a man comes in who can't lose. As the story unravels, he finds out that his opponent is Lacey, a man who went b
Mookie and Pookie
Nov 4, 1984 · 23 min
Twin siblings, Mookie and Pookie, are extremely close. But Mookie has a terminal illness. Later the scientific genius Mookie succesfully downloads his mind into the computer before
Slippage
Nov 11, 1984 · 23 min
A young ad-design artist begins to literally "slip" out of reality. Slowly but surely he seems to be fading out of existence: first his payroll checks disappear, then his high scho
Inside the Closet
Nov 18, 1984 · 23 min
A student takes a room with an abrupt, somewhat rude anthropology professor. He instructs her never to open the small door in the back of her closet. Hearing strange noises, she ev
The Word Processor of the Gods
Nov 25, 1984 · 23 min
Richard Hagstrom is dismayed with the way life has treated him (a rude son, a shrewish wife). His nephew Jonathan gives him a birthday present: a homemade word processor. Hagstrom
A Case of the Stubborns
Dec 2, 1984 · 23 min
In the backwoods, a family patriarch dies...only to come back, unaware that he's dead. The townspeople are up in arms, but the old man is too stubborn to admit he's dead, despite h
Djinn, No Chaser
Jan 13, 1985 · 23 min
A couple inadvertently buy a magic lamp that contains a genie. Unfortunately, the genie is anything but amiably. Confined in the lamp for thousands of years and still trapped, he r
All a Clone by the Telephone
Jan 20, 1985 · 23 min
Leon, a hapless TV writer, buys an answering machine that has a mind of its own - it initially helps him out by providing him with new material, but Leon soon finds that it's takin
In the Cards
Jan 27, 1985 · 23 min
A fake fortuneteller, Caterina, soon finds that every fortune she tells comes true...but she can only predict gruesome and horrific ends for her customers. She soon discovers that
Anniversary Dinner
Feb 3, 1985 · 23 min
A young girl fleeing her boyfriend finds herself in a small country home with a genial older couple. They take pity on her and invite her in, and even invite her to their special a
Snip, Snip
Feb 10, 1985 · 23 min
A warlock and a witch get into a battle over a $10 million lottery ticket when each claims that the spirits gave them the winning number.
Answer Me
Feb 17, 1985 · 23 min
Joan is apartment-sitting for a friend but finds herself tormented by a phone that won't stop ringing.
The Tear Collector
Feb 24, 1985 · 23 min
Prudence is a young woman who can't stop crying, but finds a peculiar way to make a profit when she meets Ambrose Cavender, a man who collects tears.
Madness Room
May 5, 1985 · 23 min
Cathy Osborne brings her husband up to a previously-unknown room in their house and along with her friend Michael, relates the tale of how the room is the "madness room" from which
If the Shoes Fit...
May 12, 1985 · 23 min
Fast-talking politician Bo Gumbs finds himself in serious trouble when he arrives for a meeting and waits at a nearby hotel.
Levitation
May 19, 1985 · 23 min
A teenager enraptured with magicians goes to a flee-bitten circus to seek out one of the greater: Kharma. However, Kharma now does cheap magic for the crowds, and none of the great
It All Comes Out in the Wash
May 26, 1985 · 23 min
Henry, a greedy developers, stumbles upon a Chinese laundry that offers a unique service - it can "wash out" guilt. Henry employs their services but soon finds there is a unpleasan
Bigalow's Last Smoke
Jun 9, 1985 · 23 min
Mr. Bigalow, a lifelong cigarette smoker, wakes up to find that his windows have bars on them and his door is sealed shut. A mysterious figure appears on Bigalow's television, info
Grandma's Last Wish
Jun 16, 1985 · 23 min
Given one last wish to enliven her days before she is moved into the Tranquil Gardens retirement home, elderly Grandma sees to it that her self-centered family finds out what it's
The False Prophet
Aug 4, 1985 · 23 min
Cassie Pines is a woman travelling on her own who believes in astrology, tea leaves...everything. She comes into a diner with a most unusual mechanical fortune teller named Horace