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Tales From The Darkside Season 3 |
| Episode 1 - [The Circus] |
| Details : A skeptical journalist travels on assignment to a sideshow. Seated in a small theatre he is greeted by a perverse caretaker M.C. who promises (in seemingly generic fashion) to unearth strange horrible and presumably fake creatures. The journalist nevertheless feels disgusted when he sees a demonic vampire devour an actual lamb. He chastizes the caretaker for endorsing such horrific entertainment. However when fully realizing that these are actual CREATURES the startled journalist attempts to flee the circus and unknowingly retreats into the arms of the vampire. The caretaker subsequently transforms him into a new exhibit currently on display for the faithful flock of sideshow attendants who DELIGHT in being frightened. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : William Hickey | Ed French | Writer : George A. Romero | |
| Air Date : Sep. 28, 1986 |
| Episode 2 - [I Can't Help Saying Goodbye] |
| Details : A young girl develops a talent for seeing the fate of those about to die and develops the habit of saying Goodbye to them when she does and her family grows increasingly upset as a result. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Alison Sweeney | Writer : Jule Selbo | |
| Air Date : Oct. 05, 1986 |
| Episode 3 - [The Bitterest Pill] |
| Details : A boy treated poorly by his parents gets the upper hand when an eccentric uncle shows up and tries to convince the parents to finance him to develop his newest invention - a pill that increases brain power and memory. He has a stroke and dies but not before the boy swallows the one and only prototype and soon puts his parents into the same position he was before. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Writer : Michael P. Kube-McDowell | Writer : Jule Selbo | Director : Bryan Michael Stoller | |
| Air Date : Oct. 12, 1986 |
| Episode 4 - [Florence Bravo] |
| Details : The ghost of a feminist torments the woman who buys her home. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Writer : Edithe Swensen | |
| Air Date : Oct. 19, 1986 |
| Episode 5 - [The Geezenstacks] |
| Details : A little girl Audrey discovers she can control her family by manipulating her doll family the Geezenstacks within her dollhouse. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Craig Wasson | |
| Air Date : Oct. 26, 1986 |
| Episode 6 - [Black Widows] |
| Details : Audrey Webster is concerned about her reclusive mother but when she pursues the matter discovers exactly why her mother stays away from others and what awaits Audrey on her own upcoming wedding night. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Margaret O'Brien | Theresa Saldana | Writer : Michael McDowell | |
| Air Date : Nov. 02, 1986 |
| Episode 7 - [Heretic] |
| Details : A rich art collector buys a stolen painting from a thief. The painting portrays a man before the Spanish Inquisition. The collector Harte is soon visited by a mysterious man who begs him to repent of his sins and give up the wrongfully-gained picture. Harte ignores the warnings and finds himself sucked into the painting where he is to be tortured as a sinner and heretic. He recants to the Inquisitor who lets him go. Once out of the painting Harte refuses to give it up and receives a personal visit from the Inquisitor in the real world. The thief returns to take the picture and Harte is nowhere to be found...in this world. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Michael O’Hare | Alan Scarfe | Writer : Edithe Swensen | |
| Air Date : Nov. 09, 1986 |
| Episode 8 - [A Serpent's Tooth] |
| Details : A kibbitzing mother Pearl warns her unlistening family but her warnings start to come true. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Jared Rushton | Writer : Edithe Swensen | |
| Air Date : Nov. 16, 1986 |
| Episode 9 - [Baker's Dozen] |
| Details : Ruby Cuzzins a New Orleans baker sells magic cookies and gives unscrupulous Henry adman a sample of her wares. Convinced Henry tries to get her to go into business with him but gets his comeuppance when she refuses. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Larry Manetti | Mabel King | Writer : George A. Romero | Director : John Harrison | |
| Air Date : Nov. 23, 1986 |
| Episode 10 - [Deliver US From Goodness] |
| Details : Valeria is a saint - literally - and finds it more then she can bear. She seeks out a way to fall from Grace but is unable to do so no matter how hard she tries. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Mary Louise Wilson | Writer : Jule Selbo | |
| Air Date : Nov. 30, 1986 |
| Episode 11 - [Seasons Of Belief] |
| Details : On Christmas Eve a couple decide to preoccupy their restless children by telling them a fable concerning a massive winged creature called The Grither. The children initially balk at the story which describes the creature as a proud hateful beast who becomes enraged when it hears its name being spoken aloud. Although it lives at the North Pole its humongous ears allow it to hear its name being spoken from anywhere in the world and the parents assure the children that The Grither is well on its way to their house to kill them. The children become progressively more frightened as the story continues eventually to the point of utter hysteria. Finally in an effort to calm their children the parents reveal that the story is make believe. At that moment the huge arms of The Grither smash through the windows of the house and break the necks of the parents as the children look on in horror. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Writer : Michael McDowell | Director : Michael McDowell | |
| Air Date : Dec. 29, 1986 |
| Episode 12 - [Miss May Dusa] |
| Details : A robber accidentally brings a mannequin to life - its gaze turns him into a statue. The now-living mannequin flees into the night unaware of her powers or the harm she can bring. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Director : Richard Blackburn | |
| Air Date : Jan. 18, 1987 |
| Episode 13 - [The Milkman Cometh] |
| Details : A man Garry hears from his neighbor a bizarre tale of how the unseen neighborhood milkman grants wishes to anyone who leaves their request in the empty bottles to be picked up. Garry tries it for himself and soon finds his every wish granted. His final wish is for a daughter and his curiosity is too great and he tries to confront the milkman. Garry gets a glimpse of a deformed mutant creature before it disapepars and then realizes exactly how the milkman will fulfill his wish - by impregnating his wife. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Seymour Cassel | |
| Air Date : Jan. 25, 1987 |
| Episode 14 - [My Ghostwriter The Vampire] |
| Details : Hack writer Peter writing worse and worse vampire stories buys a coffin for inspiration and finds it occupied by Count Draco. Peter manages to protect himself and the two strike a deal: Draco will supply new inspiration based on his life experiences and Peter will write the books. Peter becomes wealthy but refuses to share the proceeds. With the aid of Peter's secretary Draco manages to get the drop on the writer and kill him and the vampire and secretary strike up a new arrangement. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Jeff Conaway | |
| Air Date : Feb. 01, 1987 |
| Episode 15 - [My Own Place] |
| Details : Laura a desperate woman tries to get an apartment by herself but is forced to take in Ram an immigrant from Calcutta. When Ram dies partly due to her involvement Laura finds that she has inherited an entire family of ghostly Hindus. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Perry Lang | Nancy Travis | |
| Air Date : Feb. 08, 1987 |
| Episode 16 - [Red Leader] |
| Details : A crooked tycoon makes a deal with the Devil in return for power and wealth. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Director : John Harrison | Writer : Edithe Swensen | |
| Air Date : Feb. 15, 1987 |
| Episode 17 - [Everybody Needs A Little Love] |
| Details : Robert a lonely divorced man fixated on a mannequin but the question soon becomes - is the mannequin alive? |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Don Peoples | Writer : John Harrison | Director : John Harrison | |
| Air Date : Feb. 22, 1987 |
| Episode 18 - [Auld Acquaintances] |
| Details : Two long-lived witches Elizabeth and Mary vie once more over an amulet in the modern day that they agreed to share hundreds of years ago. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Writer : Edithe Swensen | |
| Air Date : Mar. 01, 1987 |
| Episode 19 - [The Social Climber] |
| Details : A shoemaker's apprentice discovers a strange power when he finds he can step into other peoples' lives simply by putting on their shoes. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Albert Hague | Director : Armand Mastroianni | |
| Air Date : Mar. 08, 1987 |
| Episode 20 - [The Swap] |
| Details : Anna Belle's plot to murder her husband to gain his money backfires with unpleasant results. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : James Wlcek | |
| Air Date : May. 03, 1987 |
| Episode 21 - [Let The Games Begin] |
| Details : When Harry Carson has a heart attack an angel and a devil fight for who will get his soul and it's up to Harry to make the right choice. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : David Groh | Earl Hindman | Jane Summerhays | |
| Air Date : May. 10, 1987 |
| Episode 22 - [The Enormous Radio] |
| Details : Irene and Jim discover that a new radio they buy lets them overhear the neighbors but Irene soon turns paranoid as she wonders whether they can hear her. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : John Rothman | Kate O'Toole | Christine Estabrook | |
| Air Date : May. 17, 1987 |