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"Tales from the Darkside" The Apprentice (1988)
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Ellen Sandhaus (writer)
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1 May 1988
(Season 4, Episode 13)
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Decent Tales from the Darkside episode.
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(Episode Credited cast) | Wayne Tippit | ... | Magistrate Thomas Branford |
| Haviland Morris | ... | Sarah McBride |
| Katherine Elizabeth Neuman | ... | Jane |
| Gary Lahti | ... | Peter |
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| Martin Marinaro | ... | Tourist |
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Tales from the Darkside: The Apprentice starts in 1986 where Sarah McBride (Haviland Morris) is a young student about to take a major in American history, she just loves the past & as such applies for a job at colonial village a living museum. Sarah talks to Thomas Branford (Wayne Tippit) & he offers her a job as an apprentice which she accepts. Thomas show's her the way to where she will be working & is blinded by a flash of light, when Sarah comes round she quickly discovers that the past at the museum is rather more authentic than she had originally anticipated...
Episode 13 from season 4 this Tales from the Darkside story originally aired in the US during May 1988, directed by Eleanor Gaver one has to say that The Apprentice is a pretty good supernatural themed Tales from the Darkside episode. The script by Ellen Sandhaus isn't anything that original with a contemporary character of some sort being transported back in time & finding out the way things were the hard way, in this case it comes as no real surprise that Sarah is accused of being a Witch. The twist ending is a little predictable but still decent & while the majority of the episode is spent waiting for Sarah to work out what us the audience already knows it's a entertaining way to pass twenty odd minutes. The basic moral issue of how we used to live is sound if a little familiar.
The period production design on The Apprentice is fairly impressive, the costumes & sets look suitably seventeenth century although having said that for all I know it may not be accurate at all. I mean what do I know about the seventeenth century & the way things were back then? Not a lot to be honest, not a lot. There are no scares or gore or suspense but the story is engaging enough to pass the time. The acting is fine from the cast.
The Apprentice is a good Tales from the Darkside episode, while not the scariest or goriest or most intriguing it's got a decent enough story that at least makes sense & has a point.