Best eps of "Tales from the Darkside" - listed in chronological order - starting with S1
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1.
Tales from the Darkside (1983–1988)
Episode:
The New Man
(1984)
TV-14 | 30 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
A reformed alcoholic is visited by his young son Jerry; but he doesn't have a son called Jerry.
Director: Frank De Palma | Stars: Vic Tayback, Chris Hebert, Kelly Jean Peters, Paul Jenkins
Votes: 557
2.
Tales from the Darkside (1983–1988)
Episode:
Slippage
(1984)
TV-14 | 30 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
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.
Director: Michael Gornick | Stars: David Patrick Kelly, Philip Casnoff, Kerry Armstrong, Harriet Rogers
Votes: 455
3.
Tales from the Darkside (1983–1988)
Episode:
In the Cards
(1985)
TV-14 | 30 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Soft-hearted Catherine makes a living as a tarot card reader but faces a crisis of conscience in the process.
Director: Theodore Gershuny | Stars: Dorothy Lyman, Carmen Mathews, Teri Keane, Wood Romoff
Votes: 379
4.
Tales from the Darkside (1983–1988)
Episode:
Answer Me
(1985)
TV-14 | 22 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
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.
Director: Richard Friedman | Stars: Jean Marsh, Paul Sparer
Votes: 382
5.
Tales from the Darkside (1983–1988)
Episode:
Ursa Minor
(1985)
TV-14 | 22 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Richard and Joan's birthday gift for their daughter Susie is a large stuffed teddy bear ... or is it?
Director: Theodore Gershuny | Stars: Marilyn Jones, Timothy Carhart, Jamie Ohar, Malachy McCourt
Votes: 298
6.
Tales from the Darkside (1983–1988)
Episode:
A New Lease on Life
(1986)
TV-14 | 30 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
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.
Director: John Strysik | Stars: Marie Windsor, Robert Rothman, Ben Frank, Robert Sutton
Votes: 263
7.
Tales from the Darkside (1983–1988)
Episode:
The Last Car
(1986)
TV-14 | 22 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
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.
Director: John Strysik | Stars: Begonya Plaza, Mary Carver, Louis Guss, Scooter Stevens
Votes: 397
probably the very best ep of the series
8.
Tales from the Darkside (1983–1988)
Episode:
I Can't Help Saying Goodbye
(1986)
TV-14 | 22 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
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.
Director: John Strysik | Stars: Brian Benben, Loren Cedar, Alison Sweeney, Helen Duffy
Votes: 263
9.
Tales from the Darkside (1983–1988)
Episode:
The Geezenstacks
(1986)
TV-14 | 30 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
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.
Director: Bill Travis | Stars: Craig Wasson, Tandy Cronyn, Larry Pine, Lana Hirsch
Votes: 299
10.
Tales from the Darkside (1983–1988)
Episode:
Baker's Dozen
(1986)
TV-14 | 23 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
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.
Director: John Harrison | Stars: Mabel King, Larry Manetti, Vernon Washington, Therese Pare
Votes: 234
11.
Tales from the Darkside (1983–1988)
Episode:
Miss May Dusa
(1987)
TV-14 | 30 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
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.
Director: Richard Blackburn | Stars: Sofia Landon Geier, Gary Majchrazak, Yolanda Childress, Steve Tracy
Votes: 243
12.
Tales from the Darkside (1983–1988)
Episode:
The Milkman Cometh
(1987)
TV-14 | 22 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
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.
Director: John Strysik | Stars: Robert Forster, Seymour Cassel, Shannon Wilcox, Chad Allen
Votes: 246
13.
Tales from the Darkside (1983–1988)
Episode:
The Social Climber
(1987)
TV-14 | 30 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
A shoemaker's assistant discovers that he can live other people's lives by putting on their shoes.
Director: Armand Mastroianni | Stars: Albert Hague, Robert Romanus, Talia Balsam, Leslie Chain
Votes: 189
14.
Tales from the Darkside (1983–1988)
Episode:
Sorry, Right Number
(1987)
TV-14 | 30 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
A woman is troubled by a mysterious phone call and tries desperately to help the person on the other end of the line.
Director: John Harrison | Stars: Deborah Harmon, Arthur Taxier, Rhonda Dotson, Katherine Britton
Votes: 319
imo the second best ep of the series
15.
Tales from the Darkside (1983–1988)
Episode:
Payment Overdue
(1988)
TV-14 | 30 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
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.
Director: John Drury | Stars: Maura Swanson, Lewis Arlt, Wanda De Jesus, Paul Sparer
Votes: 193
16.
Tales from the Darkside (1983–1988)
Episode:
The Apprentice
(1988)
TV-14 | 30 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
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.
Director: Eleanor Gaver | Stars: Wayne Tippit, Haviland Morris, Katherine Elizabeth Neuman, Gary Lahti
Votes: 201
17.
Tales from the Darkside (1983–1988)
Episode:
Do Not Open This Box
(1988)
TV-14 | 22 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
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.
Director: Jodie Foster | Stars: Eileen Heckart, William LeMassena, Richard B. Shull, Fay Gold
Votes: 257
18.
Tales from the Darkside (1983–1988)
Episode:
Family Reunion
(1988)
TV-14 | 30 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
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.
Director: Tom Savini | Stars: Stephen McHattie, Daniel Terrence Kelly, Patricia Tallman, Marilyn Rockafellow
Votes: 259
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