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Title: Mookie and Pookie (04 Nov 1984)
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| Justine Bateman | ... | Susan 'Pookie' Anderson | |
| Tippi Hedren | ... | Ruth Anderson | |
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George Sims | ... | Harold Anderson |
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Ron Asher | ... | Kevin 'Mookie' Anderson |
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Neil Kinsella | ... | Delivery Man |
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Paul Sparer | ... | Narrator (voice) |
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.
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MOOKIE AND POOKIE - horrible title, by the way - is an early episode of the TALES FROM THE DARKSIDE TV series, but it doesn't contain anything in the way of horror. Instead this is more of a genteel family drama with some fantasy elements added to the mix. The storyline involves a couple of twins; the brother, who is a computer geek, is terminally ill, so he decides to transfer his spirit into his computer upon death.
There's no more story to it than that. The rest of the episode plays out with his sister trying to convince their parents that the brother's soul now resides within the computer. Most of the fun here comes from seeing the dated, 1984-era computer technology, which has always had nostalgia value for me. That and the presence of Tippi Hedren (THE BIRDS), the only familiar face in the cast...