Tales from the Darkside

Tales from the Darkside

A horror anthology series where the viewer is taken through ghost stories, science fiction adventures, and creepy, unexplained events.

Genre: ComedyDramaFantasy

Cast:Paul SparerCatherine BattistoneJohn MarzilliKaren ShalloNeil KinsellaPatrick MacneeVic TaybackFritz WeaverHarsh NayyarLarry ManettiKate McGregor-StewartPaula TruemanTom NewmanCarolyn SeymourTherese ParePhilip RothRichard KuhlmanBradley Fisher


1Season 4

S4.E1 ∙ Beetles

Sun, Sep 27, 1987

Archaeologist Arthur Hartley is accused of stealing expensive artifacts from a museum, is warned of a curse that befalls those who touch the artifacts, but won't be stopped in his quest for wealth.

2Season 4

S4.E2 ∙ Mary, Mary

Sun, Oct 4, 1987

A lonely single woman hides behind a mannequin.

3Season 4

S4.E3 ∙ The Spirit Photographer

Sun, Oct 11, 1987

A man invents a camera which can make ghosts disappear and use it in a room haunted by a violent spirit.

4Season 4

S4.E4 ∙ The Moth

Sun, Oct 18, 1987

Dying Sybil uses her last hours on Earth to curse her enemies and plan for the afterlife, much to the chagrin of her mother.

5Season 4

S4.E5 ∙ No Strings

Sun, Oct 25, 1987

Mobster Eddie Minelli plans a private performance by a famous puppeteer, but with a ghoulish new puppet: the bloody remains of Don Paulie, the man Eddie has just murdered.

6Season 4

S4.E6 ∙ The Grave Robber

Sun, Nov 1, 1987

Two archaeologists turned grave robbers are forced to play strip poker with an angry mummy that protects the tomb they broke into.

7Season 4

S4.E7 ∙ The Yattering and Jack

Sun, Nov 8, 1987

Happy-go-lucky salesman Jack Polo receives a yuletide visit from the 3.5-foot-tall Yattering, a snarling horned demon that wants to claim Jack's soul.

8Season 4

S4.E8 ∙ Seymourlama

Sun, Nov 15, 1987

On a bitter cold night, Henry and Ellen Strand's home is visited by exotic Himalayan strangers who claim that son Seymour Strand has been chosen to replace the recently deceased Lama of their faraway country Lo Pu.

9Season 4

S4.E9 ∙ Sorry, Right Number

Sun, Nov 22, 1987

A woman is troubled by a mysterious phone call and tries desperately to help the person on the other end of the line.

10Season 4

S4.E10 ∙ Payment Overdue

Sun, Feb 14, 1988

A callous collection agent discovers that she herself has an overdue payment involving Rita Valdez, a client who took drastic steps to end her financial woes.

11Season 4

S4.E11 ∙ Love Hungry

Sun, Feb 21, 1988

Desperate to lose weight in order to please an old boyfriend from high school, compulsive eater Betsy Cowland uses mysterious, and possibly unsafe, products that she receives in the mail.

12Season 4

S4.E12 ∙ The Deal

Sun, Feb 28, 1988

Starving screenwriter Tom Dash claims he would give anything to sell a script in Hollywood. His acquaintance Donald has the means to help him give anything.

13Season 4

S4.E13 ∙ The Apprentice

Sun, May 1, 1988

College sophomore Sarah McBride accepts a job at Colonial Village, a tourist attraction that recreates Puritan life in 1692 Salem and allows nothing from the 20th century. But things aren't quite what they seem.

14Season 4

S4.E14 ∙ The Cutty Black Sow

Sun, May 8, 1988

Young Jamie receives, and takes seriously, a deathbed warning from his great-grandmother to guard against the legendary Cutty Black Sow.

15Season 4

S4.E15 ∙ Do Not Open This Box

Sun, May 15, 1988

Charles is a meek inventor living with his greedy nagging wife Rose. The mail brings them a misdirected box saying "Do Not Open This Box". Then the postman comes looking for it and says there will be Hell to pay if he doesn't get it back.

16Season 4

S4.E16 ∙ Family Reunion

Sun, May 22, 1988

Janice Perry claims that her husband Robert has kidnapped their son Bobby, but Robert maintains that the boy needs to be cured of an illness. After all, Bobby hasn't been himself lately.

17Season 4

S4.E17 ∙ Going Native

Sun, Jun 19, 1988

An alien on Earth who is studying humans in a therapy group envies them and wants to be one.

18Season 4

S4.E18 ∙ Hush

Sun, Jul 10, 1988

On a seemingly "ordinary night", a teenage babysitter, and a young boy, are terrorized by the boy's latest invention, that's gone awry: a "noise eater", which -- in reality -- sucks the life out of its victims!

19Season 4

S4.E19 ∙ Barter

Sun, Jul 17, 1988

Harried housewife Ruthie receives a visit from bizarre salesman Klaatzu, whose mechanical device may help her shut out the sound of her son Nicky's constant drum-playing... in a way that Ruthie never imagined.

20Season 4

S4.E20 ∙ Basher Malone

Sun, Jul 24, 1988

Professional wrestler Basher Malone fights Trog, a demon wrestler summoned by unscrupulous promoter Tippy Ryan for a private match in Tippy's gym.