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Episodes: All (90)

Season: 1  |  2  |  3  |  4
Year: 1983  |  1984  |  1985  |  1986  |  1987  |  1988


Season 1


Season 1, Episode 0: Trick or Treat (Pilot)

Original Air Date—29 October 1983
A miser gets his comeuppance on Halloween.

Season 1, Episode 1: The New Man

Original Air Date—30 September 1984
A reformed alcoholic is visited by his young son. Unfortunately, he doesn't have a young son.

Season 1, Episode 2: I'll Give You a Million

Original Air Date—7 October 1984

Season 1, Episode 3: Pain Killer

Original Air Date—14 October 1984

Season 1, Episode 4: The Odds

Original Air Date—21 October 1984

Season 1, Episode 5: Mookie and Pookie

Original Air Date—4 November 1984

Season 1, Episode 6: Slippage

Original Air Date—11 November 1984
A man discovers he is slowly ceasing to exist.

Season 1, Episode 7: Inside the Closet

Original Air Date—18 November 1984

Season 1, Episode 8: The Word Processor of the Gods

Original Air Date—25 November 1984

Season 1, Episode 9: A Case of the Stubborns

Original Air Date—2 December 1984
Dressed in black, a very subdued mother and son (Christian Slater, age 15) sit down to breakfast on a hot summer morn, after Grandpa passed away last night in his bed upstairs. But cantankerous Grandpa shows up for breakfast too, lily in the lapel of his best suit, astonished that there's no plate set up for him ! The more folks insist he play dead and dignified, the more persnickety and odoriferous he becomes.

Season 1, Episode 10: Djinn, No Chaser

Original Air Date—13 January 1985

Season 1, Episode 11: All a Clone by the Telephone

Original Air Date—20 January 1985

Season 1, Episode 12: In the Cards

Original Air Date—27 January 1985

Season 1, Episode 13: Anniversary Dinner

Original Air Date—3 February 1985

Season 1, Episode 14: Snip, Snip

Original Air Date—10 February 1985

Season 1, Episode 15: Answer Me

Original Air Date—17 February 1985

Season 1, Episode 16: The Tear Collector

Original Air Date—24 February 1985

Season 1, Episode 17: The Madness Room

Original Air Date—5 May 1985

Season 1, Episode 18: If the Shoes Fit...

Original Air Date—12 May 1985

Season 1, Episode 19: Levitation

Original Air Date—19 May 1985

Season 1, Episode 20: It All Comes Out in the Wash

Original Air Date—26 May 1985

Season 1, Episode 21: Bigalow's Last Smoke

Original Air Date—9 June 1985

Season 1, Episode 22: Grandma's Last Wish

Original Air Date—16 June 1985

Season 1, Episode 23: The False Prophet

Original Air Date—4 August 1985

Season 2


Season 2, Episode 1: The Impressionist

Original Air Date—26 September 1985

Season 2, Episode 2: Lifebomb

Original Air Date—6 October 1985
A CEO working himself to death receives an offer of a special service designed to keep him alive.

Season 2, Episode 3: Ring Around the Redhead

Original Air Date—13 October 1985

Season 2, Episode 4: Parlour Floor Front

Original Air Date—20 October 1985

Season 2, Episode 5: Halloween Candy

Original Air Date—27 October 1985

Season 2, Episode 6: The Satanic Piano

Original Air Date—3 November 1985

Season 2, Episode 7: The Devil's Advocate

Original Air Date—10 November 1985
A hate-filled host of a radio call-in shows discovers where his anger and cynicism leads.

Season 2, Episode 8: Distant Signals

Original Air Date—17 November 1985

Season 2, Episode 9: The Trouble with Mary Jane

Original Air Date—24 November 1985

Season 2, Episode 10: Ursa Minor

Original Air Date—1 December 1985

Season 2, Episode 11: Effect and Cause

Original Air Date—8 December 1985

Season 2, Episode 12: Monsters in My Room

Original Air Date—22 December 1985

Season 2, Episode 13: Comet Watch

Original Air Date—12 January 1986
An amateur astronomer makes a surprising discovery about Halley's Comet after a young woman falls out of his telescope.

Season 2, Episode 14: Dream Girl

Original Air Date—19 January 1986
A theatrical director finds herself trapped along with her colleagues in a dreamlike world created by a stagehand.

Season 2, Episode 15: A New Lease on Life

Original Air Date—26 January 1986

Season 2, Episode 16: Printer's Devil

Original Air Date—2 February 1986
An author uses animal sacrifices to become successful.

Season 2, Episode 17: The Shrine

Original Air Date—9 February 1986

Season 2, Episode 18: The Old Soft Shoe

Original Air Date—16 February 1986
A traveling salesman has a weird date in a motel.

Season 2, Episode 19: The Last Car

Original Air Date—23 February 1986

Season 2, Episode 20: A Choice of Dreams

Original Air Date—4 May 1986

Season 2, Episode 21: Strange Love

Original Air Date—11 May 1986
A doctor makes a house call and finds his patients are vampires

Season 2, Episode 22: The Unhappy Medium

Original Air Date—18 May 1986

Season 2, Episode 23: Fear of Floating

Original Air Date—25 May 1986

Season 2, Episode 24: The Casavin Curse

Original Air Date—13 July 1986

Season 3


Season 3, Episode 1: The Circus

Original Air Date—28 September 1986

Season 3, Episode 2: I Can't Help Saying Goodbye

Original Air Date—5 October 1986

Season 3, Episode 3: The Bitterest Pill

Original Air Date—12 October 1986
Based on a story by renowned sci-fi writer Frederick Pohl. Twelve-year-old Jonathan Bender is mercilessly and cruelly dominated by his callous parents. After Mom wins the lottery in spite of her stupidity, they are assailed by money-seekers, including a very dubious old acquaintance who is now the miraculously clever inventor -- he baldly claims -- of pills that will transform anyone into an unthinkably powerful intellect. When Dad throws him out, scattering the pills on the floor, little Jonathan is assigned the task of cleaning up.

Season 3, Episode 4: Florence Bravo

Original Air Date—19 October 1986

Season 3, Episode 5: The Geezenstacks

Original Air Date—26 October 1986

Season 3, Episode 6: Black Widows

Original Air Date—2 November 1986
On her wedding night, a young bride learns a secret about the women in her family.

Season 3, Episode 7: Heretic

Original Air Date—9 November 1986

Season 3, Episode 8: A Serpent's Tooth

Original Air Date—16 November 1986

Season 3, Episode 9: Baker's Dozen

Original Air Date—23 November 1986

Season 3, Episode 10: Deliver Us from Goodness

Original Air Date—30 November 1986

Season 3, Episode 11: Seasons of Belief

Original Air Date—29 December 1986

Season 3, Episode 12: Miss May Dusa

Original Air Date—18 January 1987

Season 3, Episode 13: The Milkman Cometh

Original Air Date—25 January 1987

Next US airings:
Sat. Jan. 95:30 AMSYFY

Season 3, Episode 14: My Ghostwriter - The Vampire

Original Air Date—1 February 1987

Season 3, Episode 15: My Own Place

Original Air Date—18 February 1987
A young man gets a great deal on a New York apartment, then discovers he has a mysterious roommate.

Season 3, Episode 16: Red Leader

Original Air Date—15 February 1987
A corrupt business man is offered a top position in Hell by the devil.

Season 3, Episode 17: Everybody Needs a Little Love

Original Air Date—22 February 1987
A divorced man dotes upon a mannequin.

Season 3, Episode 18: Auld Acquaintances

Original Air Date—1 March 1987

Season 3, Episode 19: The Social Climber

Original Air Date—8 March 1987
A shoemaker's assistant discovers that he can live other people's lives by putting on their shoes.

Season 3, Episode 20: The Swap

Original Air Date—3 May 1987

Season 3, Episode 21: Let the Games Begin

Original Air Date—10 May 1987

Season 3, Episode 22: The Enormous Radio

Original Air Date—17 May 1987
A new radio lets a couple overhear their neighbors' private conversations.

Season 4


Season 4, Episode 1: Beetles

Original Air Date—27 September 1987

Season 4, Episode 2: Mary, Mary

Original Air Date—4 October 1987
A lonely single woman hides behind a mannequin.

Season 4, Episode 3: The Spirit Photographer

Original Air Date—11 October 1987
A man invents a camera which can make ghosts disappear and use it in a room haunted by a violent spirit.

Season 4, Episode 4: The Moth

Original Air Date—18 October 1987

Season 4, Episode 5: No Strings

Original Air Date—25 October 1987

Season 4, Episode 6: The Grave Robber

Original Air Date—1 November 1987
Two grave robbers play strip poker with a mummy.

Season 4, Episode 7: The Yattering and Jack

Original Air Date—8 November 1987

Season 4, Episode 8: Seymourlama

Original Air Date—15 November 1987

Season 4, Episode 9: Sorry, Right Number

Original Air Date—22 November 1987
A woman is troubled by a mysterious phone call and tries desperately to help the person on the other end of the line.

Season 4, Episode 10: Payment Overdue

Original Air Date—14 February 1988
A callous collection agent discovers that she herself has an overdue payment.

Season 4, Episode 11: Love Hungry

Original Air Date—21 February 1988

Season 4, Episode 12: The Deal

Original Air Date—28 February 1988

Season 4, Episode 13: The Apprentice

Original Air Date—1 May 1988

Season 4, Episode 14: The Cutty Black Sow

Original Air Date—8 May 1988

Season 4, Episode 15: Do Not Open This Box

Original Air Date—15 May 1988

Season 4, Episode 16: Family Reunion

Original Air Date—22 May 1988

Season 4, Episode 17: Going Native

Original Air Date—19 June 1988
An alien on Earth who is studying humans in a therapy group envies them and wants to be one.
Next US airings:
Sat. Jan. 95:00 AMSYFY

Season 4, Episode 18: Hush

Original Air Date—10 July 1988
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!

Season 4, Episode 19: Barter

Original Air Date—17 July 1988

Season 4, Episode 20: Basher Malone

Original Air Date—24 July 1988
A pro wrestler fights with a demon wrestler.

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