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Tales From The Darkside Season 1 |
| Tales From The Darkside Season 1 : |
| 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. Horace is uncanny with his predictions but Cassie soon finds that Horace is demanding and possessive - despite her misgivings she enters the booth one more time...and disappears. |
| Episode 0 - [Trick Or Treat] |
| Details : 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. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Eddie Jones | Max Wright | Joshua John Miller | Barnard Hughes | Director : Bob Balaban | |
| Air Date : Sep. 30, 1984 |
| Episode 1 - [The New Man] |
| Details : 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 other family members carry on as if Jerry is a regular member of the family the man insists that he has never seen the boy before in his life. The man's wife assumes that he has begun drinking again and is harboring delusions brought on by his inebriated state. The family disgusted by the father's unwillingness to acknowledge Jerry as his son ultimately leaves him. Driven back to drinking by the ordeal the previously sober father ends up in a state of emotional ruin. In the final scene Jerry visits another man claiming to be HIS son as the nightmarish pattern continues. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Vic Tayback | Billy Jayne | Chris Hebert | Director : John Harrison | |
| Air Date : Sep. 30, 1984 |
| Episode 2 - [I'll Give You A Million] |
| Details : 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 discovers that he is dying of cancer - frightened he tries to buy his soul back. Williams holds out for more money until it's too late - Blaine dies. Soulless he comes back for his soul shocking Williams into a heart attack...and the Devil comes to claim his due from both of them. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Director : Armand Mastroianni | Director : John Harrison | |
| Air Date : Oct. 07, 1984 |
| Episode 3 - [Pain Killer] |
| Details : 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... |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Farley Granger | Peggy Cass | Lou Jacobi | |
| Air Date : Oct. 14, 1984 |
| Episode 4 - [The Odds] |
| Details : 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 gambling with Vale in the past. Now Lacey is back from the dead with tips from the other side and is unbeatable. In a final ghoulish wager Lacey bets that Vale will die at a particular time and he's never been wrong. But the clock chimes and Vale is still alive. Lacey is forced to depart and Vale reveals that he set the clock ahead five minutes then dies right on time. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Danny Aiello | Tom Noonan | |
| Air Date : Oct. 21, 1984 |
| Episode 5 - [Mookie And Pookie] |
| Details : 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 dies. But now that he's in there Pookie must convince her parents not to pull the plug. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Tippi Hedren | Neil Kinsella | |
| Air Date : Nov. 04, 1984 |
| Episode 6 - [Slippage] |
| Details : 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 not only fails to mail him about their reunion but has no records of his existence. The artist soon realizes that since he's drifted through life he's basically slipping through the cracks. Even his mother has no memory of him. At the end even his wife and best friend (now the woman's husband in this new reality) forget he ever existed. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Philip Casnoff | Writer : Michael McDowell | Director : Michael Gornick | |
| Air Date : Nov. 11, 1984 |
| Episode 7 - [Inside The Closet] |
| Details : 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 eventually opens the door and finds the chamber beyond occupied by a small hairless-monkey sort of a creature. It kills her and goes after the professor...only to reveal that it is his deformed daughter which he lovingly dotes on. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Roberta Weiss | Fritz Weaver | Director : Tom Savini | Writer : Michael McDowell | |
| Air Date : Nov. 18, 1984 |
| Episode 8 - [The Word Processor Of The Gods] |
| Details : 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 discovers that anything he types into the processor becomes real and no one but him knows the difference. He begins with simple experiments but then wipes out his son from existence. Even his wife is unaware of the changes. As the machine overheats into self-destruction Hagstrom types in one last story: he makes sure that he and Jonathan's mother married and that Jonathan was his son. As the word processor destroys itself Hagstrom's final wish becomes reality. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Writer : Robert Bloch | Writer : Michael McDowell | |
| Air Date : Nov. 25, 1984 |
| Episode 9 - [A Case Of The Stubborns] |
| Details : 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 rigor mortis lack of appetite and bad smell. His grandson Jody eventually goes to an old voodoo woman for a solution. Rather than magic she provides him with a simple solution: pepper. Jody puts it in his grandpa's handkerchief. When the old man sneezes his nose falls off which finally convinces him to go lie down and give up life for good. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Bill McCutcheon | Christian Slater | Eddie Bracken | Brent Spiner | Writer : Harlan Ellison | |
| Air Date : Dec. 02, 1984 |
| Episode 10 - [Djinn No Chaser] |
| Details : 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 to grant wishes and instead terrorizes the couples with plagues rains of frogs etc. The husband finally has himself committed but a few days later his wife brings him home. Their apartment is now richly decorated and they have plenty of money. The genie is now an amiable and willing wish-granter. The wife's solution to freeing the genie: a can opener. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Colleen Camp | Kareem Abdul-Jabbar | |
| Air Date : Jan. 13, 1985 |
| Episode 11 - [All A Clone By The Telephone] |
| Details : 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. |
| Air Date : Jan. 20, 1985 |
| Episode 12 - [In The Cards] |
| Details : 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 another cursed fortuneteller slipped her a cursed pack of cards and Caterina can only get rid of them by giving them to another fake. She does so by slipping into another fortuneteller's parlor asking for a fortune and slipping her the cursed deck. Unfortunately the first fortune the new cursee reads is of Caterina's death...which rapidly comes true. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Dorothy Lyman | |
| Air Date : Jan. 27, 1985 |
| Episode 13 - [Anniversary Dinner] |
| Details : 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 anniversary dinner. After getting her set up in the hot tub with plenty of wine they start pouring vegetables in. As she passes out the girl realizes exactly how the couple will be having her for dinner. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Alice Ghostley | |
| Air Date : Feb. 03, 1985 |
| Episode 14 - [Snip Snip] |
| Details : 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. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Carol Kane | Bud Cort | Writer : Michael McDowell | |
| Air Date : Feb. 10, 1985 |
| Episode 15 - [Answer Me] |
| Details : Joan is apartment-sitting for a friend but finds herself tormented by a phone that won't stop ringing. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Writer : Michael McDowell | |
| Air Date : Feb. 17, 1985 |
| Episode 16 - [The Tear Collector] |
| Details : 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. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Jessica Harper | John Rothman | Victor Garber | Eric Bogosian | Director : John Hayes | |
| Air Date : Feb. 24, 1985 |
| Episode 17 - [Madness Room] |
| Details : 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 one has ever stayed the night...and survived. In reality it's a set up and Cathy and Michael plan to kill Cathy's husband by scaring him to death. They succeed by faking some supernatural activities but soon find that the curse of the room is all too real... |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Stuart Whitman | Writer : David Gerrold | Director : Armand Mastroianni | |
| Air Date : May. 05, 1985 |
| Episode 18 - [If The Shoes Fit] |
| Details : Fast-talking politician Bo Gumbs finds himself in serious trouble when he arrives for a meeting and waits at a nearby hotel. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Dick Shawn | Writer : David Gerrold | Director : John Harrison | |
| Air Date : May. 12, 1985 |
| Episode 19 - [Levitation] |
| Details : 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 illusions the teenager believes him capable of. When Kharma refuses to do them the kid heckles him until Kharma relents and uses the boy as a subject for his greatest feat of levitation. However Kharma dies of a heart attack and the boy simply keeps on levitating...up into the sky and out of sight. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Writer : David Gerrold | Director : John Harrison | |
| Air Date : May. 19, 1985 |
| Episode 20 - [It All Comes Out In The Wash] |
| Details : 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. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Vince Edwards | Writer : Michael McDowell | |
| Air Date : May. 26, 1985 |
| Episode 21 - [Bigalow's Last Smoke] |
| Details : 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 him that he will quit smoking. Bigalow scoffs at this notion and reaches for a morning cigarette. As soon as he lights up a deafening alarm sounds demanding that he extinguish the cigarette immediately. Bigalow is subjected to various endurance tests and is further tempted to smoke when thousands of cigarettes materialize in the room only to disappear. After being driven to the edge of sanity he wakes up to find that he no longer has a desire to smoke. Believing that the whole ordeal was a dream Biaglow reaches for a cup of coffee at which time the mysterious figure reappears on the television screen insisting that Bigalow now work on his caffeine addiction. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Richard Romanus | Writer : Jule Selbo | Writer : Michael McDowell | |
| Air Date : Jun. 09, 1985 |
| Episode 22 - [Grandma's Last Wish] |
| Details : 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. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Gregory Itzin | Jane Connell | Kate McGregor-Stewart | Writer : Jule Selbo | |
| Air Date : Jun. 16, 1985 |
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