Tales from the Darkside: Season 2
Season 2 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of Tales from the Darkside Season 1.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
Season 2 Progress Shield
The Impressionist
Sep 29, 1985 · 22 min
An impressionist, "Mr. Personalities," is brought in by the government to try to help them communicate with an alien. Mr. Personalities is at first stumped but finally makes "conta
Lifebomb
Oct 6, 1985 · 22 min
Ben Martin, a rich businessman, is contacted by a special medical firm, "Lifebomb" which offers him an expensive policy that will let him live forever. They give him an implanted d
Ring Around the Redhead
Oct 13, 1985 · 22 min
As Billy is waiting to be executed in the electric chair, he relates the bizarre tale of how he came to be in his predicament at the hands of an attractive woman.
Parlour Floor Front
Oct 20, 1985 · 22 min
A woman becomes concerned when she discovers that a man that she and her husband rent a room to has been practicing voodoo. Although the man is good intentioned and kind, the woman
Halloween Candy
Oct 27, 1985 · 22 min
A mean old man harboring an intense hatred for the celebration of Halloween is left alone by his son to hand out candy to the neighborhood children. The old man initially ignores t
The Satanic Piano
Nov 3, 1985 · 22 min
Pete Bancroft is a talented pianist who has lost his inspiration, but is contacted by a mysterious inventor who gives him a piano that lets him play as never before simply by think
The Devil's Advocate
Nov 10, 1985 · 22 min
A hate-style radio host, Mandrake, spews out venom at anyone who calls in. He soon discovers, however, after receiving calls across all of time that he is dead but that the "Boss,"
Distant Signals
Nov 17, 1985 · 22 min
A famous director is surprised when he is approached by a mysterious investor who wants him to finish up a "Fugitive"-like series that he had done twenty years ago that was cancell
The Trouble with Mary Jane
Nov 24, 1985 · 22 min
Two occultists are offered $50,000 if they can rid a girl of the multiple demons possessing her, but they soon find themselves in over their heads.
Ursa Minor
Dec 1, 1985 · 22 min
When Joan finds a new teddy bear in her son's room no one seems to know where it came from. Then night after night huge claw marks are found on the walls and the sounds of somethin
Effect and Cause
Dec 8, 1985 · 22 min
Kate wakes up and discovers that for unknown reasons, her life is now running backwards.
Monsters in My Room
Dec 22, 1985 · 22 min
A little boy, Timmy, tries to convince his skeptical parents that there is a horrible monster beneath his bed - they learn too late that he is telling the truth.
Comet Watch
Jan 12, 1986 · 22 min
Englebert Ames, an astronomer, is watching Hailey's Comet and is in for a shock when Sir Edmond Hailey himself arrives - he's been riding "his" comet all these years trying to elud
Dream Girl
Jan 19, 1986 · 22 min
A group of people find themselves trapped in a scenario with Otto, only to discover that he is a stagehand and they are a theater group all trapped in his dream.
A New Lease On Life
Jan 26, 1986 · 22 min
A man is overjoyed to find a nice apartment with all the modern conveniences at an incredibly cheap price. The eccentric landlady asks nothing more than for the man to provide her
Printer's Devil
Feb 2, 1986 · 22 min
Junior Harman is a third-rate writer who discovers that his new agent, Mr. Kellaway, can make things happen for him. All it requires is a little blood - a few animals, the occasion
The Shrine
Feb 9, 1986 · 22 min
A young woman, Christine, returns home to find her mother cold and distant, and living isolated from everyone else. The woman soon discovers that her mother has summoned up...Chris
The Old Soft Shoe
Feb 16, 1986 · 22 min
Salesman Chester checks into a motel and makes an off-hand pass at a woman. She rejects him, but soon another, jealous woman shows up to haunt him.
The Last Car
Feb 23, 1986 · 22 min
Stacey is on her way home from college and rides the last car on a train. She is soon perplexed by the bizarre behavior of her fellow passengers, including a woman who knows her na
A Choice of Dreams
May 4, 1986 · 22 min
A mob boss suffering from a terminal illness is visited by an odd man who claims that he has the ability to offer the dying a choice of dreams after death. The mob boss is skeptica
Strange Love
May 11, 1986 · 22 min
Dr. Carrol visits the Alcotts and discovers that they are vampire and that wife Marie wants an escape.
The Unhappy Medium
May 18, 1986 · 22 min
The family of a dead preacher show up for a reading of the will but discovers he left them nothing specific. Rather, he warns them on his video-taped will that he will send them a
Fear of Floating
May 25, 1986 · 22 min
A hapless yokel, Arnold, runs into an Army recruiting office and asks for help, claiming to float. It turns out that he's telling the truth, but then Mr. Cooper and his pregnant da
The Casavin Curse
Jul 13, 1986 · 22 min
A family finds themselves cursed because of their great grandfather killing his wife, and the curse won't die until they all die too and there is no one else to carry on his name.