Tales from the Darkside

  • : 1984
  • : 90
  • : 19
  • CBS
  • Comedy Drama Fantasy Horror Science-fiction Suspense Thriller

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2x1
The Impressionist
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29, 1985
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 "contact." .. show full overview
2x2
Lifebomb
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06, 1985
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 .. show full overview
2x3
Ring Around the Redhead
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13, 1985
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.
2x4
Parlour Floor Front
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20, 1985
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 .. show full overview
2x5
Halloween Candy
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27, 1985
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 the .. show full overview
2x6
The Satanic Piano
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03, 1985
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 thinking of .. show full overview
2x7
The Devil's Advocate
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10, 1985
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,"" has .. show full overview
2x8
Distant Signals
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17, 1985
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 cancelled .. show full overview
2x9
The Trouble with Mary Jane
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24, 1985
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.
2x10
Ursa Minor
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01, 1985
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 something very .. show full overview
2x11
Effect and Cause
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08, 1985
Kate wakes up and discovers that for unknown reasons, her life is now running backwards.
2x12
Monsters in My Room
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22, 1985
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.
2x13
Comet Watch
Episode overview
12, 1986
Englebert Ames, an astronomer, is watching Halley's Comet and is in for a shock when Sir Edmond Halley himself arrives - he's been riding "his" comet all these years trying to elude Sarah, the woman pursuing him out of obsessed love.
2x14
Dream Girl
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19, 1986
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.
2x15
A New Lease on Life
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26, 1986
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 with .. show full overview
2x16
Printer's Devil
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02, 1986
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 occasional .. show full overview
2x17
The Shrine
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09, 1986
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...Chrissie - .. show full overview
2x18
The Old Soft Shoe
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16, 1986
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.
2x19
The Last Car
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23, 1986
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 name .. show full overview
2x20
A Choice of Dreams
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04, 1986
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 skeptical at .. show full overview
2x21
Strange Love
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11, 1986
Dr. Carrol visits the Alcotts and discovers that they are vampire and that wife Marie wants an escape.
2x22
The Unhappy Medium
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18, 1986
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 sign.
2x23
Fear of Floating
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25, 1986
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 daughter .. show full overview
2x24
The Casavin Curse
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13, 1986
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.

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