Tales from the Darkside

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

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy

Cast:Paul Sparer , Catherine Battistone , John Marzilli , Karen Shallo , Neil Kinsella , Patrick Macnee , Vic Tayback , Fritz Weaver , Harsh Nayyar , Larry Manetti , Kate McGregor-Stewart , Paula Trueman , Tom Newman , Carolyn Seymour , Therese Pare , Philip Roth , Richard Kuhlman , Bradley Fisher

0Season 1

S1.E0 ∙ Trick or Treat (Pilot)

Sat, Oct 29, 1983

Town miser Gideon Hackles spends Halloween hiding IOU's in his house, which he then rigs as haunted and invites local kids to search for the IOU's so he can scare them. This year, he gets his comeuppance.

1Season 1

S1.E1 ∙ The New Man

Sun, Sep 30, 1984

A reformed alcoholic is visited by his young son Jerry; but he doesn't have a son called Jerry.

2Season 1

S1.E2 ∙ I'll Give You a Million

Sun, Oct 7, 1984

Wily millionaire Duncan Williams engages his longtime acquaintance Jack Blaine in a cat & mouse game ... by offering Jack one million dollars for his mortal soul.

3Season 1

S1.E3 ∙ Pain Killer

Sun, Oct 14, 1984

Harvey Turman suffers from both back pain and his nagging wife Nadine. Dr. Roebuck finds nothing physically wrong, concludes that the problem is caused by latent anger toward Nadine, & suggests uxoricide to kill ALL Harvey's pain.

4Season 1

S1.E4 ∙ The Odds

Sun, Oct 21, 1984

Bookie Tom Vale never refuses a bet. Bettor Bill Lacey only bets long shots and beats impossible odds each time. Lacey's latest bet is that Vale will die of natural causes by 8:00 am tomorrow.

5Season 1

S1.E5 ∙ Mookie and Pookie

Sun, Nov 4, 1984

Mookie and Pookie are twins. Computer whiz Mookie is terminally ill. But not even death can sever the bond that exists between the two siblings when his knowledge of technology follows him into the afterlife.

6Season 1

S1.E6 ∙ Slippage

Sun, Nov 11, 1984

When graphic designer Rich Hall fails to receive timely news about the outcome of a job interview, he begins to discover that he is slowly ceasing to exist.

7Season 1

S1.E7 ∙ Inside the Closet

Sun, Nov 18, 1984

What is scurrying around inside the closet of the upstairs room that grad student Gail Aynsley rents from veterinary school dean Dr. Fenner? Gail doesn't know, but she is determined to find out and Dr Fenner isn't telling.

8Season 1

S1.E8 ∙ The Word Processor of the Gods

Sun, Nov 25, 1984

Struggling writer Richard Hagstrom receives an upgraded computer from his computer-whiz nephew Jonathan right before Jonathan dies in an accident. Thanks to Jonathan, this word processor has the power to grant any wish that Richard desires.

9Season 1

S1.E9 ∙ A Case of the Stubborns

Sun, Dec 2, 1984

Jodie and his mum are grief-stricken by the passing away of Jodie's grandfather, but they soon find themselves with a lot more to be upset about when he gets determined not to stay dead.

10Season 1

S1.E10 ∙ Djinn, No Chaser

Sun, Jan 13, 1985

Mental patient Danny Squires tells his unseen psychiatrist the story of how his wife Connie purchased an old lamp, rubbed it, and brought an ill-tempered genie into their lives.

11Season 1

S1.E11 ∙ All a Clone by the Telephone

Sun, Jan 20, 1985

The life of failed TV screenwriter Leon is taken over by a voice that emanates from inside his answering machine.

12Season 1

S1.E12 ∙ In the Cards

Sun, Jan 27, 1985

Soft-hearted Catherine makes a living as a tarot card reader but faces a crisis of conscience in the process.

13Season 1

S1.E13 ∙ Anniversary Dinner

Sun, Feb 3, 1985

Henry and Elinor Colander are preparing to celebrate their 25th wedding anniversary with a special dinner. Hiker Sybil has just broken up with her boyfriend, so they invite her to join them.

14Season 1

S1.E14 ∙ Snip, Snip

Sun, Feb 10, 1985

Warlock Abe North and hairdresser Anne MacColl do battle over a winning lottery ticket.

15Season 1

S1.E15 ∙ Answer Me

Sun, Feb 17, 1985

Joan Matlin's an English actress living in a NYC sublet. She's unable to get any rest - being constantly annoyed by the sound of a ringing phone from the apartment next door.

16Season 1

S1.E16 ∙ The Tear Collector

Sun, Feb 24, 1985

A young woman who can't stop crying meets a mysterious man who collects tears.

17Season 1

S1.E17 ∙ Madness Room

Sun, May 5, 1985

A wealthy couple finds an extra room in their house with the help of a Ouija board.

18Season 1

S1.E18 ∙ If the Shoes Fit...

Sun, May 12, 1985

Gubernatorial candidate Bo Gumbs' belief that politics is nothing more than entertainment, is helpedl at a hotel where the bellboy and maid help him get ready to show the public his true colors.

19Season 1

S1.E19 ∙ Levitation

Sun, May 19, 1985

Two young hecklers goad once-great circus magician Kharma into reviving his legendary wireless levitation trick, which he abandoned years ago because it went horribly wrong.

20Season 1

S1.E20 ∙ It All Comes Out in the Wash

Sun, May 26, 1985

Unsavory real estate developer Carl Gropper pays Chinese laundry man Chow Ting to perform an expensive special service: washing away all of Gropper's sins.

21Season 1

S1.E21 ∙ Bigalow's Last Smoke

Sun, Jun 9, 1985

Chain smoker Frank Bigalow is imprisoned in a simulacrum of his apartment, then forced to quit smoking and punished each time he lights up.

22Season 1

S1.E22 ∙ Grandma's Last Wish

Sun, Jun 16, 1985

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 like to grow old.

23Season 1

S1.E23 ∙ The False Prophet

Sun, Aug 4, 1985

A young woman depends on an astrology machine to help her make all her decisions.

1Season 2

S2.E1 ∙ The Impressionist

Thu, Sep 26, 1985

Nightclub impressionist Spiffy Remo is blackmailed into helping the government establish communication with Hoffgosh, a seemingly hostile alien who holds the secret to nuclear fusion.

2Season 2

S2.E2 ∙ Lifebomb

Sun, Oct 6, 1985

A CEO working himself to death receives an offer of a special service designed to keep him alive.

3Season 2

S2.E3 ∙ Ring Around the Redhead

Sun, Oct 13, 1985

Death Row inmate Billy Malone tells a journalist of how he survived an earthquake and found a portal to another dimension. Out of that portal popped young Keena, whose ensuing relationship with Billy seals his fate.

4Season 2

S2.E4 ∙ Parlour Floor Front

Sun, Oct 20, 1985

After Linda, a landlady, speaks to her tenant, Mars Gillis, who she wants to move out of the parlour floor front apartment, bad things start happening all over the apartment she and her husband live in, and suspect it's Mars's voodoo.

5Season 2

S2.E5 ∙ Halloween Candy

Sun, Oct 27, 1985

Nasty old Mr Killup uses Halloween to taunt kids. This year, he's in for a surprise, from which even his long-suffering son Michael cannot save him.

6Season 2

S2.E6 ∙ The Satanic Piano

Sun, Nov 3, 1985

Struggling composer Pete Bancroft is contacted by strange Wilson Farber, who has invented a synthesizer that can read minds and may be able to help Bancroft in his career.

7Season 2

S2.E7 ∙ The Devil's Advocate

Sun, Nov 10, 1985

A hate-filled host of a radio call-in show discovers where his anger and cynicism leads.

8Season 2

S2.E8 ∙ Distant Signals

Sun, Nov 17, 1985

Mr. Smith is a cult follower of the failed 60's TV show MAX PARADISE and approaches Hollywood studio executives about recreating it, despite the reluctance of its now-alcoholic leading man Van Conway.

9Season 2

S2.E9 ∙ The Trouble with Mary Jane

Sun, Nov 24, 1985

Mrs. Knudsen enlists the aid of bumbling occult students Jack and Nora Mills to exorcise Aisha Candisha, the demon who is possessing her now-goat-footed daughter Mary Jane. The price? Fifty thousand dollars.

10Season 2

S2.E10 ∙ Ursa Minor

Sun, Dec 1, 1985

Richard and Joan's birthday gift for their daughter Susie is a large stuffed teddy bear ... or is it?

11Season 2

S2.E11 ∙ Effect and Cause

Sun, Dec 8, 1985

Artist Kate Collins is afraid to recycle her old canvasses by painting over them because she thinks doing so is bad karma. She soon learns that she has the power to change reality.

12Season 2

S2.E12 ∙ Monsters in My Room

Sun, Dec 22, 1985

Biff doesn't understand children well and winds up at odds with his new wife Helen's young son Timmy, whose life is already complicated by the monsters that Timmy finds in his bedroom.

13Season 2

S2.E13 ∙ Comet Watch

Sun, Jan 12, 1986

An amateur astronomer makes a surprising discovery about Halley's Comet after a young woman falls out of his telescope.

14Season 2

S2.E14 ∙ Dream Girl

Sun, Jan 19, 1986

A theatrical director finds herself trapped along with her colleagues in a dreamlike world created by a stagehand.

15Season 2

S2.E15 ∙ A New Lease on Life

Sun, Jan 26, 1986

Archie Fenton moves into the St. George Apartments, where the lease has caveats: he must take out the trash every night, and he must not hang pictures on the walls. These aren't the only strange things about the St George.

16Season 2

S2.E16 ∙ Printer's Devil

Sun, Feb 2, 1986

A desperate, frustrated writer and auteur is convinced by a shady oversized producer to use animal sacrifices to become successful. Things don't go as planned.

17Season 2

S2.E17 ∙ The Shrine

Sun, Feb 9, 1986

Cecilia Matthews has turned her daughter Christine's bedroom into a shrine. But Christine didn't die; she merely suffered a nervous breakdown, has recovered, and is coming for a visit. But there's a new tenant.

18Season 2

S2.E18 ∙ The Old Soft Shoe

Sun, Feb 16, 1986

A traveling salesman has a ghostly date with an attractive woman in a motel, which turns ominous.

19Season 2

S2.E19 ∙ The Last Car

Sun, Feb 23, 1986

A pretty university student named Stacey (Begona Plaza) waits to board a train that will take her home for Thanksgiving. However Stacey soon discovers there is something unusual and terrifying about the last car of this train.

20Season 2

S2.E20 ∙ A Choice of Dreams

Sun, May 4, 1986

Mobster Jake Corelli has terminal cancer. A stranger promises him his choice of dreams and power over death. The price is ten million dollars.

21Season 2

S2.E21 ∙ Strange Love

Sun, May 11, 1986

A doctor makes a house call and finds his patients are vampires

22Season 2

S2.E22 ∙ The Unhappy Medium

Sun, May 18, 1986

Televangelist Farley Bright, the founder of the Church of the Bright Tomorrow, has died recently. Three greedy relatives gather for the reading of his will. But Farley hasn't finished communicating with them yet.

23Season 2

S2.E23 ∙ Fear of Floating

Sun, May 25, 1986

At an Army recruiting station in Arizona, Arnold Barker asks for protection from the Coopers, who are trying to hold him hostage as "The Human Balloon" in their circus. However, the Coopers are nearby and have a different story to tell.

24Season 2

S2.E24 ∙ The Casavin Curse

Sun, Jul 13, 1986

Beautiful Gina Casavin claims to be under the spell of a decades-old family curse, because everyone with whom she falls in love dies mysteriously.

1Season 3

S3.E1 ∙ The Circus

Sun, Sep 28, 1986

Newspaperman Bragg debunks charlatans as a way of "staying sane." His latest quarry is the obscure circus of Dr. Nis. When Bragg visits, Dr. Nis tries to prove its authenticity.

2Season 3

S3.E2 ∙ I Can't Help Saying Goodbye

Sun, Oct 5, 1986

Asthmatic Max Smith is dating Libby and plans to marry her, until he learns that her sister Karen appears to be able to make people die by touching their faces and saying goodbye.

3Season 3

S3.E3 ∙ The Bitterest Pill

Sun, Oct 12, 1986

When an undeserving couple win the lottery, they're rude to their inventor friend and they ridicule his invention, which happens to be superior intellect pills. Too lazy to clean up the spilled pills, they leave their son to the task.

4Season 3

S3.E4 ∙ Florence Bravo

Sun, Oct 19, 1986

Dr. David McCall is cheating on his emotionally unstable wife Emily, who is visited by the specter of Florence Bravo, who murdered her own adulterous husband.

5Season 3

S3.E5 ∙ The Geezenstacks

Sun, Oct 26, 1986

Sam Hummel notices eerie parallels between events in the life of his own family, and events in the lives of his daughter Audrey's dolls, the Geezenstacks.

6Season 3

S3.E6 ∙ Black Widows

Sun, Nov 2, 1986

On her wedding night, a young bride learns a secret about the women in her family.

7Season 3

S3.E7 ∙ Heretic

Sun, Nov 9, 1986

Arrogant art "dealer" Harte buys an expensive 16th century tempera painting from an art fence, then lands in a Court of Inquisition to face judgment for his act.

8Season 3

S3.E8 ∙ A Serpent's Tooth

Sun, Nov 16, 1986

Disappointed with her unappreciative children, Pearl King enlists the aid of a serpent's tooth talisman that has potent powers and produces instant results.

9Season 3

S3.E9 ∙ Baker's Dozen

Sun, Nov 23, 1986

Elderly cookie baker Ruby Cuzzins teams up with ad exec Henry Hogan to profit from her baking skills with a plan that includes greed, spousal abuse, and voodoo.

10Season 3

S3.E10 ∙ Deliver Us from Goodness

Sun, Nov 30, 1986

Julian Cantrell's bid for mayor in an Alabama town is undermined by his saintly wife Valeria's miraculous behavior. So she decides to change her ways and break the Ten Commandments in order to help Julian get elected.

11Season 3

S3.E11 ∙ Seasons of Belief

Mon, Dec 29, 1986

On Christmas Eve, a father ends his two children's boredom by holding them spellbound with a scary story about a fearsome beast known as the Grither.

12Season 3

S3.E12 ∙ Miss May Dusa

Sun, Jan 18, 1987

Jimmy James is playing his saxophone in the New York City subway when he meets an enigmatic woman named May Dusa, who claims to suffer amnesia and to have caused several accidental deaths.

13Season 3

S3.E13 ∙ The Milkman Cometh

Sun, Jan 25, 1987

Ruth Cooley is curious as to the reason why her husband Garry leaves unusual written requests in their mailbox for the mail carrier to fulfill.

14Season 3

S3.E14 ∙ My Ghostwriter - The Vampire

Sun, Feb 1, 1987

Hack horror writer Peter Prentice receives an offer from Vampire Count Jeffrey Draco: nine hundred years of authentic vampire stories to use as material - in exchange for sanctuary in Peter's home.

15Season 3

S3.E15 ∙ My Own Place

Wed, Feb 18, 1987

A young man gets a great deal on a New York apartment, then discovers he has a mysterious roommate.

16Season 3

S3.E16 ∙ Red Leader

Sun, Feb 15, 1987

A corrupt business man is offered a top position in Hell by the devil.

17Season 3

S3.E17 ∙ Everybody Needs a Little Love

Sun, Feb 22, 1987

A divorced man dotes upon a mannequin.

18Season 3

S3.E18 ∙ Auld Acquaintances

Sun, Mar 1, 1987

Two accused witches covet a talisman for its powers but can't have it all the time. So they agree to take turns keeping it for one year at a time... through the centuries.

19Season 3

S3.E19 ∙ The Social Climber

Sun, Mar 8, 1987

A shoemaker's assistant discovers that he can live other people's lives by putting on their shoes.

20Season 3

S3.E20 ∙ The Swap

Tue, Mar 3, 1987

In the Louisiana bayou, loathsome-looking Bubba is the son of an infamous conjure woman. His wife Annabelle is cheating on him with their handsome handyman Claude. But Bubba has a solution to the problem.

21Season 3

S3.E21 ∙ Let the Games Begin

Sun, May 10, 1987

Harry Carson suffers a heart attack and dies in a hotel room, prompting an angel and a devil to battle each other for possession of Harry's soul.

22Season 3

S3.E22 ∙ The Enormous Radio

Sun, May 17, 1987

A new radio lets a couple overhear their neighbors' private conversations.

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.