Tales from the Darkside

  • Premiered: Sep 1984
  • Episodes: 90
  • Followers: 19
  • Ended
  • CBS
  • Unknown
  • Comedy Drama Fantasy Horror Science-fiction Suspense Thriller

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Season 1
1x1
Pilot: Trick or Treat
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Air date
Oct 31, 1983
Pilot
1x1
The New Man
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Air date
Sep 30, 1984
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. While the .. show full overview
1x2
I'll Give You a Million
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Air date
Oct 07, 1984
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 accepts but .. show full overview
1x3
Pain Killer
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Oct 14, 1984
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...
1x4
The Odds
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Air date
Oct 21, 1984
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 broke .. show full overview
1x5
Mookie and Pookie
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Nov 04, 1984
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 he .. show full overview
1x6
Slippage
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Air date
Nov 11, 1984
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 school .. show full overview
1x7
Inside the Closet
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Air date
Nov 18, 1984
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 .. show full overview
1x8
The Word Processor of the Gods
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Nov 25, 1984
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 soon .. show full overview
1x9
A Case of the Stubborns
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Air date
Dec 02, 1984
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 his .. show full overview
1x10
Djinn, No Chaser
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Jan 13, 1985
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 refuses .. show full overview
1x11
All a Clone by the Telephone
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Jan 20, 1985
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 taking over his life.
1x12
In the Cards
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Air date
Jan 27, 1985
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 .. show full overview
1x13
Anniversary Dinner
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Feb 03, 1985
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 .. show full overview
1x14
Snip, Snip
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Feb 10, 1985
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.
1x15
Answer Me
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Feb 17, 1985
Joan is apartment-sitting for a friend but finds herself tormented by a phone that won't stop ringing.
1x16
The Tear Collector
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Feb 24, 1985
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.
1x17
Madness Room
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May 05, 1985
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 no .. show full overview
1x18
If the Shoes Fit...
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May 12, 1985
Fast-talking politician Bo Gumbs finds himself in serious trouble when he arrives for a meeting and waits at a nearby hotel.
1x19
Levitation
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May 19, 1985
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 .. show full overview
1x20
It All Comes Out in the Wash
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Air date
May 26, 1985
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 unpleasant price to pay.
1x21
Bigalow's Last Smoke
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Air date
Jun 09, 1985
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, informing .. show full overview
1x22
Grandma's Last Wish
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Air date
Jun 16, 1985
An elderly woman's family considers committing her to a retirement community, but grandma has one last wish that will help the family understand exactly what she goes through.
1x23 Season finale
The False Prophet
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Air date
Aug 04, 1985
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 X. .. show full overview

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