Series - Tales From The Darkside
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1.
Tales from the Darkside (1983–1988)
Episode:
Trick or Treat (Pilot)
(1983)
TV-14 | 30 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
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.
Director: Bob Balaban | Stars: Barnard Hughes, I.M. Hobson, Max Wright, Joe Ponazecki
Votes: 643
2.
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: 560
3.
Tales from the Darkside (1983–1988)
Episode:
I'll Give You a Million
(1984)
TV-14 | 22 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Wily millionaire Duncan Williams engages his longtime acquaintance Jack Blaine in a cat & mouse game ... by offering Jack one million dollars for his mortal soul.
Director: John Harrison | Stars: Keenan Wynn, George Petrie, Michael Freeman, Bradley Fisher
Votes: 508
4.
Tales from the Darkside (1983–1988)
Episode:
Pain Killer
(1984)
TV-14 | 30 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Harvey Turman suffers from both back pain and his nagging wife Nadine. Dr. Roebuck finds nothing physically wrong, concludes that the problem is caused by latent anger toward Nadine, & suggests uxoricide to kill ALL Harvey's pain.
Director: Armand Mastroianni | Stars: Farley Granger, Peggy Cass, Lou Jacobi, Fay Sappington
Votes: 463
5.
Tales from the Darkside (1983–1988)
Episode:
The Odds
(1984)
TV-14 | 22 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Bookie Tom Vale never refuses a bet. Bettor Bill Lacey only bets long shots and beats impossible odds each time. Lacey's latest bet is that Vale will die of natural causes by 8:00 am tomorrow.
Director: James Steven Sadwith | Stars: Danny Aiello, Tom Noonan, Robert Weil, Anthony Bishop
Votes: 503
6.
Tales from the Darkside (1983–1988)
Episode:
Mookie and Pookie
(1984)
TV-14 | 23 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Mookie and Pookie are twins. Computer whiz Mookie is terminally ill. But not even death can sever the bond that exists between the two siblings when his knowledge of technology follows him into the afterlife.
Director: Timna Ranon | Stars: Justine Bateman, Tippi Hedren, George Sims, Ron Asher
Votes: 468
7.
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: 457
8.
Tales from the Darkside (1983–1988)
Episode:
Inside the Closet
(1984)
TV-14 | 30 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
What is scurrying around inside the closet of the upstairs room that grad student Gail Aynsley rents from veterinary school dean Dr. Fenner? Gail doesn't know, but she is determined to find out and Dr Fenner isn't telling.
Director: Tom Savini | Stars: Fritz Weaver, Roberta Weiss, Paul Sparer, Patrick Macnee
Votes: 675
9.
Tales from the Darkside (1983–1988)
Episode:
The Word Processor of the Gods
(1984)
TV-14 | 20 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Struggling writer Richard Hagstrom receives an upgraded computer from his computer-whiz nephew Jonathan right before Jonathan dies in an accident. Thanks to Jonathan, this word processor ... See full summary »
Director: Michael Gornick | Stars: Bruce Davison, Karen Shallo, Patrick Piccininni, Bill Cain
Votes: 562
10.
Tales from the Darkside (1983–1988)
Episode:
A Case of the Stubborns
(1984)
TV-14 | 21 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Jodie and his mum are grief-stricken by the passing away of Jodie's grandfather, but they soon find themselves with a lot more to be upset about when he gets determined not to stay dead.
Director: Gerald Cotts | Stars: Eddie Bracken, Bill McCutcheon, Tresa Hughes, Christian Slater
Votes: 555
11.
Tales from the Darkside (1983–1988)
Episode:
Djinn, No Chaser
(1985)
TV-14 | 22 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Mental patient Danny Squires tells his unseen psychiatrist the story of how his wife Connie purchased an old lamp, rubbed it, and brought an ill-tempered genie into their lives.
Director: Shelley Levinson | Stars: Charles Levin, Colleen Camp, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Nate Esformes
Votes: 412
12.
Tales from the Darkside (1983–1988)
Episode:
All a Clone by the Telephone
(1985)
TV-14 | 22 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
The life of failed TV screenwriter Leon is taken over by a voice that emanates from inside his answering machine.
Director: Frank De Palma | Stars: Harry Anderson, Marcie Barkin, Dick Miller, Tom Newman
Votes: 369
13.
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: 381
14.
Tales from the Darkside (1983–1988)
Episode:
Anniversary Dinner
(1985)
TV-14 | 22 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Henry and Elinor Colander are preparing to celebrate their 25th wedding anniversary with a special dinner. Hiker Sybil has just broken up with her boyfriend, so they invite her to join them.
Director: John Strysik | Stars: Alice Ghostley, Mario Roccuzzo, Fredrica Duke, Michael Cedar
Votes: 415
15.
Tales from the Darkside (1983–1988)
Episode:
Snip, Snip
(1985)
TV-14 | 22 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Warlock Abe North and hairdresser Anne MacColl do battle over a winning lottery ticket.
Director: Terence Cahalan | Stars: Carol Kane, Bud Cort, Ed Kenney, Paul Micale
Votes: 379
16.
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: 383
17.
Tales from the Darkside (1983–1988)
Episode:
The Tear Collector
(1985)
TV-14 | 30 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
A young woman who can't stop crying meets a mysterious man who collects tears.
Director: John Drimmer | Stars: Jessica Harper, Victor Garber, Linda Lee Johnson, Eric Bogosian
Votes: 356
18.
Tales from the Darkside (1983–1988)
Episode:
Madness Room
(1985)
TV-14 | 22 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
A wealthy couple finds an extra room in their house with the help of a Ouija board.
Director: John Hayes | Stars: Stuart Whitman, Nick Benedict, Therese Pare, Paul Sparer
Votes: 363
19.
Tales from the Darkside (1983–1988)
Episode:
If the Shoes Fit...
(1985)
TV-14 | 22 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Gubernatorial candidate Bo Gumbs' belief that politics is nothing more than entertainment, is helpedl at a hotel where the bellboy and maid help him get ready to show the public his true colors.
Director: Armand Mastroianni | Stars: Dick Shawn, Harry Goz, John Zarchen, Catherine Anne Hayes
Votes: 346
20.
Tales from the Darkside (1983–1988)
Episode:
Levitation
(1985)
TV-14 | 22 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Two young hecklers goad once-great circus magician Kharma into reviving his legendary wireless levitation trick, which he abandoned years ago because it went horribly wrong.
Director: John Harrison | Stars: Joe Turkel, Brad Cowgill, Cynthia Frost, Anthony Thompkins
Votes: 368
21.
Tales from the Darkside (1983–1988)
Episode:
It All Comes Out in the Wash
(1985)
TV-14 | 22 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Unsavory real estate developer Carl Gropper pays Chinese laundry man Chow Ting to perform an expensive special service: washing away all of Gropper's sins.
Director: Frank De Palma | Stars: Vince Edwards, James Hong, Ellen Winthrop, Philip Roth
Votes: 332
22.
Tales from the Darkside (1983–1988)
Episode:
Bigalow's Last Smoke
(1985)
TV-14 | 22 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Chain smoker Frank Bigalow is imprisoned in a simulacrum of his apartment, then forced to quit smoking and punished each time he lights up.
Director: Timna Ranon | Stars: Richard Romanus, Sam Anderson, Howard Dayton, Catherine Battistone
Votes: 354
23.
Tales from the Darkside (1983–1988)
Episode:
Grandma's Last Wish
(1985)
TV-14 | 30 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
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.
Director: Warner Shook | Stars: Jane Connell, Kate McGregor-Stewart, Paul Avery, Kelly Wolf
Votes: 319
24.
Tales from the Darkside (1983–1988)
Episode:
The False Prophet
(1985)
TV-14 | 22 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
A young woman depends on an astrology machine to help her make all her decisions.
Director: Gerald Cotts | Stars: Ronee Blakley, Justin Deas, Ann Hillary, Bill Fiore
Votes: 337
25.
Tales from the Darkside (1983–1988)
Episode:
The Impressionist
(1985)
TV-14 | 23 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Nightclub impressionist Spiffy Remo is blackmailed into helping the government establish communication with Hoffgosh, a seemingly hostile alien who holds the secret to nuclear fusion.
Director: Armand Mastroianni | Stars: Chuck McCann, Bobby Di Cicco, Jack Andreozzi, Claudia Templeton
Votes: 307
26.
Tales from the Darkside (1983–1988)
Episode:
Lifebomb
(1985)
TV-14 | 30 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
A CEO working himself to death receives an offer of a special service designed to keep him alive.
Director: Frank De Palma | Stars: Bill Macy, Robert Riesel, Samantha Harper, Geneva Simmons
Votes: 281
27.
Tales from the Darkside (1983–1988)
Episode:
Ring Around the Redhead
(1985)
TV-14 | 22 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Death Row inmate Billy Malone tells a journalist of how he survived an earthquake and found a portal to another dimension. Out of that portal popped young Keena, whose ensuing relationship with Billy seals his fate.
Director: Theodore Gershuny | Stars: John Heard, Penelope Ann Miller, Caris Corfman, Greg Thornton
Votes: 296
28.
Tales from the Darkside (1983–1988)
Episode:
Parlour Floor Front
(1985)
TV-14 | 22 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
After Linda, a landlady, speaks to her tenant, Mars Gillis, who she wants to move out of the parlour floor front apartment, bad things start happening all over the apartment she and her husband live in, and suspect it's Mars's voodoo.
Director: Richard Friedman | Stars: Adolph Caesar, Rosetta LeNoire, Donna Bullock, John Calonius
Votes: 298
29.
Tales from the Darkside (1983–1988)
Episode:
Halloween Candy
(1985)
TV-14 | 22 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Nasty old Mr Killup uses Halloween to taunt kids. This year, he's in for a surprise, from which even his long-suffering son Michael cannot save him.
Director: Tom Savini | Stars: Roy Poole, Tim Choate, David K. Varney, John Edward Allen
Votes: 470
30.
Tales from the Darkside (1983–1988)
Episode:
The Satanic Piano
(1985)
TV-14 | 30 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Struggling composer Pete Bancroft is contacted by strange Wilson Farber, who has invented a synthesizer that can read minds and may be able to help Bancroft in his career.
Director: John Harrison | Stars: Michael Warren, Lisa Bonet, Philip Roth, Felice Orlandi
Votes: 298
31.
Tales from the Darkside (1983–1988)
Episode:
The Devil's Advocate
(1985)
TV-14 | 23 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
A hate-filled host of a radio call-in show discovers where his anger and cynicism leads.
Director: Michael Gornick | Stars: Jerry Stiller, Todd Oleson, Patrick Farrelly, Karen Shallo
Votes: 349
32.
Tales from the Darkside (1983–1988)
Episode:
Distant Signals
(1985)
TV-14 | 23 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Mr. Smith is a cult follower of the failed 60's TV show MAX PARADISE and approaches Hollywood studio executives about recreating it, despite the reluctance of its now-alcoholic leading man Van Conway.
Director: Bill Travis | Stars: Darren McGavin, Lenny von Dohlen, David Margulies, Joseph Bova
Votes: 325
33.
Tales from the Darkside (1983–1988)
Episode:
The Trouble with Mary Jane
(1985)
TV-14 | 22 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Mrs. Knudsen enlists the aid of bumbling occult students Jack and Nora Mills to exorcise Aisha Candisha, the demon who is possessing her now-goat-footed daughter Mary Jane. The price? Fifty thousand dollars.
Director: T.J. Castronovo | Stars: Phyllis Diller, Lawrence Tierney, Anita Dangler, Tanya Fenmore
Votes: 279
34.
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: 299
35.
Tales from the Darkside (1983–1988)
Episode:
Effect and Cause
(1985)
TV-14 | 30 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Artist Kate Collins is afraid to recycle her old canvasses by painting over them because she thinks doing so is bad karma. She soon learns that she has the power to change reality.
Director: Mark Jean | Stars: Susan Strasberg, Ben Marley, Judith-Marie Bergan, Gary Hershberger
Votes: 262
36.
Tales from the Darkside (1983–1988)
Episode:
Monsters in My Room
(1985)
TV-14 | 22 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Biff doesn't understand children well and winds up at odds with his new wife Helen's young son Timmy, whose life is already complicated by the monsters that Timmy finds in his bedroom.
Director: James Steven Sadwith | Stars: Greg Mullavey, Seth Green, Beth McDonald, Elia Braca
Votes: 334
37.
Tales from the Darkside (1983–1988)
Episode:
Comet Watch
(1986)
TV-14 | 30 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
An amateur astronomer makes a surprising discovery about Halley's Comet after a young woman falls out of his telescope.
Director: Warner Shook | Stars: Fritz Weaver, Anthony Heald, Kate McGregor-Stewart, Sarah Rush
Votes: 258
38.
Tales from the Darkside (1983–1988)
Episode:
Dream Girl
(1986)
TV-14 | 30 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
A theatrical director finds herself trapped along with her colleagues in a dreamlike world created by a stagehand.
Director: Timna Ranon | Stars: Carolyn Seymour, Jon Cedar, Lou Cutell, Shannon Kriska
Votes: 242
39.
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: 264
40.
Tales from the Darkside (1983–1988)
Episode:
Printer's Devil
(1986)
TV-14 | 30 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
A desperate, frustrated writer and auteur is convinced by a shady oversized producer to use animal sacrifices to become successful. Things don't go as planned.
Director: John Harrison | Stars: Larry Manetti, Charles Knapp, Kate Charleson, Tony Montesion
Votes: 235
41.
Tales from the Darkside (1983–1988)
Episode:
The Shrine
(1986)
TV-14 | 30 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Cecilia Matthews has turned her daughter Christine's bedroom into a shrine. But Christine didn't die; she merely suffered a nervous breakdown, has recovered, and is coming for a visit. But there's a new tenant.
Director: Christopher T. Welch | Stars: Lorna Luft, Coleen Gray, Virginya Keehne, Janet Wood
Votes: 241
42.
Tales from the Darkside (1983–1988)
Episode:
The Old Soft Shoe
(1986)
TV-14 | 22 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
A traveling salesman has a ghostly date with an attractive woman in a motel, which turns ominous.
Director: Richard Friedman | Stars: Paul Dooley, John Fiedler, Kathy McLain, Dorothy Parke
Votes: 264
43.
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: 400
44.
Tales from the Darkside (1983–1988)
Episode:
A Choice of Dreams
(1986)
TV-14 | 30 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Mobster Jake Corelli has terminal cancer. A stranger promises him his choice of dreams and power over death. The price is ten million dollars.
Director: Gerald Cotts | Stars: Abe Vigoda, David Chandler, Ralph Monaco, David Glen
Votes: 241
45.
Tales from the Darkside (1983–1988)
Episode:
Strange Love
(1986)
TV-14 | 22 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
A doctor makes a house call and finds his patients are vampires
Director: Theodore Gershuny | Stars: Harsh Nayyar, Marcia Cross, Patrick Kilpatrick, Paul Sparer
Votes: 267
46.
Tales from the Darkside (1983–1988)
Episode:
The Unhappy Medium
(1986)
TV-14 | 23 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Televangelist Farley Bright, the founder of the Church of the Bright Tomorrow, has died recently. Three greedy relatives gather for the reading of his will. But Farley hasn't finished communicating with them yet.
Director: Dusty Nelson | Stars: Connie Stevens, Carolyn Ann Clark, Richard Kuhlman, Peter Miller
Votes: 221
47.
Tales from the Darkside (1983–1988)
Episode:
Fear of Floating
(1986)
TV-14 | 30 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
At an Army recruiting station in Arizona, Arnold Barker asks for protection from the Coopers, who are trying to hold him hostage as "The Human Balloon" in their circus. However, the Coopers are nearby and have a different story to tell.
Director: John Lewis | Stars: Sherman Howard, Anne Lange, Leon Russom, Yeardley Smith
Votes: 229
48.
Tales from the Darkside (1983–1988)
Episode:
The Casavin Curse
(1986)
TV-14 | 30 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Beautiful Gina Casavin claims to be under the spell of a decades-old family curse, because everyone with whom she falls in love dies mysteriously.
Director: Frank De Palma | Stars: Joe Cortese, Catherine Parks, Scott Lincoln, Julie Ariola
Votes: 226
49.
Tales from the Darkside (1983–1988)
Episode:
The Circus
(1986)
TV-14 | 22 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Newspaperman Bragg debunks charlatans as a way of "staying sane." His latest quarry is the obscure circus of Dr. Nis. When Bragg visits, Dr. Nis tries to prove its authenticity.
Director: Michael Gornick | Stars: William Hickey, Kevin O'Connor, Ed French, Jacques Sandulescu
Votes: 250
50.
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: 264
51.
Tales from the Darkside (1983–1988)
Episode:
The Bitterest Pill
(1986)
TV-14 | 30 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
When an undeserving couple win the lottery, they're rude to their inventor friend and they ridicule his invention, which happens to be superior intellect pills. Too lazy to clean up the spilled pills, they leave their son to the task.
Director: Bryan Michael Stoller | Stars: Mark Blankfield, Joe Carafello, Catherine Battistone, Jason Horst
Votes: 231
52.
Tales from the Darkside (1983–1988)
Episode:
Florence Bravo
(1986)
TV-14 | 30 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Dr. David McCall is cheating on his emotionally unstable wife Emily, who is visited by the specter of Florence Bravo, who murdered her own adulterous husband.
Director: John Lewis | Stars: Lori Cardille, David Hayward, Carol Levy, Lauren Klein
Votes: 220
53.
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: 300
54.
Tales from the Darkside (1983–1988)
Episode:
Black Widows
(1986)
TV-14 | 22 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
On her wedding night, a young bride learns a secret about the women in her family.
Director: Karl Epstein | Stars: Margaret O'Brien, Theresa Saldana, Paul Eiding, Joe D'Angerio
Votes: 239
55.
Tales from the Darkside (1983–1988)
Episode:
Heretic
(1986)
TV-14 | 30 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Arrogant art "dealer" Harte buys an expensive 16th century tempera painting from an art fence, then lands in a Court of Inquisition to face judgment for his act.
Director: Gerald Cotts | Stars: Roberts Blossom, Bruce MacVittie, Michael O'Hare, Alan Scarfe
Votes: 203
56.
Tales from the Darkside (1983–1988)
Episode:
A Serpent's Tooth
(1986)
TV-14 | 30 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Disappointed with her unappreciative children, Pearl King enlists the aid of a serpent's tooth talisman that has potent powers and produces instant results.
Director: Frank De Palma | Stars: Renée Taylor, Louis Quinn, JoAnn Willette, Brett Marx
Votes: 286
57.
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: 235
58.
Tales from the Darkside (1983–1988)
Episode:
Deliver Us from Goodness
(1986)
TV-14 | 30 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Julian Cantrell's bid for mayor in an Alabama town is undermined by his saintly wife Valeria's miraculous behavior. So she decides to change her ways and break the Ten Commandments in order to help Julian get elected.
Director: Warner Shook | Stars: Kaiulani Lee, Mary Louise Wilson, Albert Macklin, Steve Vinovich
Votes: 226
59.
Tales from the Darkside (1983–1988)
Episode:
Seasons of Belief
(1986)
TV-14 | 22 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
On Christmas Eve, a father ends his two children's boredom by holding them spellbound with a scary story about a fearsome beast known as the Grither.
Director: Michael McDowell | Stars: E.G. Marshall, Margaret Klenck, Sky Berdahl, Jenna von Oÿ
Votes: 406
60.
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: 246
61.
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: 249
62.
Tales from the Darkside (1983–1988)
Episode:
My Ghostwriter - The Vampire
(1987)
TV-14 | 23 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Hack horror writer Peter Prentice receives an offer from Vampire Count Jeffrey Draco: nine hundred years of authentic vampire stories to use as material - in exchange for sanctuary in Peter's home.
Director: Frank De Palma | Stars: Jeff Conaway, Roy Dotrice, Jillie Mack, Chi Chi Navarro
Votes: 210
63.
Tales from the Darkside (1983–1988)
Episode:
My Own Place
(1987)
TV-14 | 30 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
A young man gets a great deal on a New York apartment, then discovers he has a mysterious roommate.
Director: Theodore Gershuny | Stars: Perry Lang, Harsh Nayyar, Nancy Travis, Bina Sharif
Votes: 204
64.
Tales from the Darkside (1983–1988)
Episode:
Red Leader
(1987)
TV-14 | 30 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
A corrupt business man is offered a top position in Hell by the devil.
Director: John Harrison | Stars: Joe E. Tata, Carmine Caridi, Brioni Farrell, Peter Bromilow
Votes: 193
65.
Tales from the Darkside (1983–1988)
Episode:
Everybody Needs a Little Love
(1987)
TV-14 | 22 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
A divorced man dotes upon a mannequin.
Director: John Harrison | Stars: Jerry Orbach, Richard Portnow, Philip Lenkowsky, Don Peoples
Votes: 221
66.
Tales from the Darkside (1983–1988)
Episode:
Auld Acquaintances
(1987)
TV-14 | 30 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Two accused witches covet a talisman for its powers but can't have it all the time. So they agree to take turns keeping it for one year at a time... through the centuries.
Director: Richard Friedman | Stars: Sally Gracie, Linda Thorson, Paul Sparer
Votes: 192
67.
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: 190
68.
Tales from the Darkside (1983–1988)
Episode:
The Swap
(1987)
TV-14 | 30 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
In the Louisiana bayou, loathsome-looking Bubba is the son of an infamous conjure woman. His wife Annabelle is cheating on him with their handsome handyman Claude. But Bubba has a solution to the problem.
Director: John Drury | Stars: Charles Ludlam, Maria Manuche, James Wlcek, Timothy Jenkins
Votes: 186
69.
Tales from the Darkside (1983–1988)
Episode:
Let the Games Begin
(1987)
TV-14 | 30 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Harry Carson suffers a heart attack and dies in a hotel room, prompting an angel and a devil to battle each other for possession of Harry's soul.
Director: John Lewis | Stars: David Groh, Jane Summerhays, Earl Hindman, Willie Reale
Votes: 188
70.
Tales from the Darkside (1983–1988)
Episode:
The Enormous Radio
(1987)
TV-14 | 30 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
A new radio lets a couple overhear their neighbors' private conversations.
Director: Bill Travis | Stars: Christine Estabrook, John Rothman, Kate O'Toole, Peter Webster
Votes: 199
71.
Tales from the Darkside (1983–1988)
Episode:
Beetles
(1987)
TV-14 | 22 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Archaeologist Arthur Hartley is accused of stealing expensive artifacts from a museum, is warned of a curse that befalls those who touch the artifacts, but won't be stopped in his quest for wealth.
Director: Frank De Palma | Stars: Rod McCary, Sirri Murad, Donald MacKechnie, Colm Meaney
Votes: 217
72.
Tales from the Darkside (1983–1988)
Episode:
Mary, Mary
(1987)
TV-14 | 30 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
A lonely single woman hides behind a mannequin.
Director: Katarina Wittich | Stars: Margaret Whitton, A.C. Weary, Fred Burstein, Paul Sparer
Votes: 214
73.
Tales from the Darkside (1983–1988)
Episode:
The Spirit Photographer
(1987)
TV-14 | 30 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
A man invents a camera which can make ghosts disappear and use it in a room haunted by a violent spirit.
Director: Bill Travis | Stars: Frank Hamilton, Richard Clarke, Terres Unsoeld, Paul Sparer
Votes: 197
74.
Tales from the Darkside (1983–1988)
Episode:
The Moth
(1987)
TV-14 | 30 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Dying Sybil uses her last hours on Earth to curse her enemies and plan for the afterlife, much to the chagrin of her mother.
Director: Jeffrey Wolf | Stars: Debbie Harry, Jane Manning, Paul Sparer
Votes: 230
75.
Tales from the Darkside (1983–1988)
Episode:
No Strings
(1987)
TV-14 | 23 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Mobster Eddie Minelli plans a private performance by a famous puppeteer, but with a ghoulish new puppet: the bloody remains of Don Paulie, the man Eddie has just murdered.
Director: David Odell | Stars: T.J. Castronovo, Barry Dennen, Cameron Milzer, Bradley Fisher
Votes: 217
76.
Tales from the Darkside (1983–1988)
Episode:
The Grave Robber
(1987)
TV-14 | 30 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Two archaeologists turned grave robbers are forced to play strip poker with an angry mummy that protects the tomb they broke into.
Director: Jeff Schiro | Stars: Arnold Stang, Polly Draper, Daren Kelly, Ed Kovens
Votes: 211
77.
Tales from the Darkside (1983–1988)
Episode:
The Yattering and Jack
(1987)
TV-14 | 22 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Happy-go-lucky salesman Jack Polo receives a yuletide visit from the 3.5-foot-tall Yattering, a snarling horned demon that wants to claim Jack's soul.
Director: David Odell | Stars: Phil Fondacaro, Antony Carbone, Tom Newman, Danielle Brisebois
Votes: 243
78.
Tales from the Darkside (1983–1988)
Episode:
Seymourlama
(1987)
TV-14 | 30 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
On a bitter cold night, Henry and Ellen Strand's home is visited by exotic Himalayan strangers who claim that son Seymour Strand has been chosen to replace the recently deceased Lama of their faraway country Lo Pu.
Director: Bruce Dolin | Stars: Divine, J.D. Roth, Kathleen Doyle, David Gale
Votes: 209
79.
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
80.
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: 194
81.
Tales from the Darkside (1983–1988)
Episode:
Love Hungry
(1988)
TV-14 | 22 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Desperate to lose weight in order to please an old boyfriend from high school, compulsive eater Betsy Cowland uses mysterious, and possibly unsafe, products that she receives in the mail.
Director: John Strysik | Stars: Sharon Madden, Larry Gelman, Diana Hale, John Romo
Votes: 243
82.
Tales from the Darkside (1983–1988)
Episode:
The Deal
(1988)
TV-14 | 22 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Starving screenwriter Tom Dash claims he would give anything to sell a script in Hollywood. His acquaintance Donald has the means to help him give anything.
Director: T.J. Castronovo | Stars: Allen Garfield, Bradley Whitford, Robert Costanzo, Elyssa Paternoster
Votes: 189
83.
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: 202
84.
Tales from the Darkside (1983–1988)
Episode:
The Cutty Black Sow
(1988)
TV-14 | 22 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Young Jamie receives, and takes seriously, a deathbed warning from his great-grandmother to guard against the legendary Cutty Black Sow.
Director: Richard Glass | Stars: Huckleberry Fox, Paula Trueman, Mary Griffin, Timothy Landfield
Votes: 284
85.
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: 258
86.
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
87.
Tales from the Darkside (1983–1988)
Episode:
Going Native
(1988)
TV-14 | 30 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
An alien on Earth who is studying humans in a therapy group envies them and wants to be one.
Director: Andrew Weiner | Stars: Kim Greist, John Aprea, Cynthia David, Richard Kuhlman
Votes: 204
88.
Tales from the Darkside (1983–1988)
Episode:
Hush
(1988)
TV-14 | 22 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
On a seemingly "ordinary night", a teenage babysitter, and a young boy, are terrorized by the boy's latest invention, that's gone awry: a "noise eater", which -- in reality -- sucks the life out of its victims!
Director: Allen Coulter | Stars: Nile Lanning, Eric Jason, Bonnie Gallup, Paul Sparer
Votes: 241
89.
Tales from the Darkside (1983–1988)
Episode:
Barter
(1988)
TV-14 | 30 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Harried housewife Ruthie receives a visit from bizarre salesman Klaatzu, whose mechanical device may help her shut out the sound of her son Nicky's constant drum-playing... in a way that Ruthie never imagined.
Director: Christopher T. Welch | Stars: Jack Carter, Jill Jaress, Michael Santiago, Miguel Alamo
Votes: 209
90.
Tales from the Darkside (1983–1988)
Episode:
Basher Malone
(1988)
TV-14 | 30 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Professional wrestler Basher Malone fights Trog, a demon wrestler summoned by unscrupulous promoter Tippy Ryan for a private match in Tippy's gym.
Director: Anthony Santa Croce | Stars: Vic Tayback, Marie Denn, Marlene Casamento, Steve Strong
Votes: 206
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