An elderly woman makes one request of her unsympathetic family, who want to put her in a nursing home against her will.
Written by Jule Selbo.
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Americans start acting strangely after eating an alien ice cream called “The Stuff.”
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Season 1 Episode 21
Mr. Bigalow wakes up in a replica of his apartment, overseen by an addiction counselor who will allow him to leave only if he quits smoking.
Written by Michael McDowell.
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Season 1 Episode 20
A laundromat offers to wash away the sins of its clients.
Written by Harvey Jacobs.
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Corporate exec Miles Creighton dies, and is cryogenically frozen in the hopes that he can be revived. 10 years later, the procedure is a success, and Miles returns–without his soul.
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Season 1 Episode 19
A teenager goads a once-famous magician into performing his greatest feat of levitation, with disastrous results.
Based on a short story by Joseph Payne Brennan and adapted by David Gerrold.
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Season 1 Episode 18
Politician Bo Gumbs checks into a hotel to prepare for a speech. After he tells the hotel wait staff that politics is all showmanship, they help him prepare for his best show ever.
Co-Written by Armand Mastoianni and David Gerrold, directed by Mastroianni, starring Dick Shawn.
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Season 1 Episode 17
A wife and her friend plot to scare a rich man to death in the cursed “Madness Room.”
Written by Thomas Epperson and guest-starring Stuart Whitman.
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Two crews from competing corporations are sent to Titan (Saturn’s largest moon) to retrieve canisters containing the remains of ancient beings. One by one, the scientists are overcome by a horrifying Creature – a parasite which takes over their bodies.
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A teenage girl in a country manor falls asleep while reading a magazine, and has a disturbing dream involving wolves prowling the woods below her bedroom window.
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Stephen King, the modern master of horror, offers up two terrifying tales from his bestselling book “Night Shift,” and an all-new tale written especially for this movie.
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Season 2 Episode 10
Dr. Peter Milne, an unethical psychiatrist, abuses his position to manipulate a female patient. His mind-bending medical practices only intensify her psychosis as she can no longer distinguish reality from dreams. When he finally has her act out her dreams, Dr. Milne finds himself the victim of her murderous feelings.
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Season 2 Episode 9
Kay Mason is the abusive owner of a dressmaking sweatshop. One day she is cursed by an angry worker who exclaims that she will be paid back by the devil for her actions. When Kay hires a mysterious stranger to do some odd jobs around the house, she doesn’t realize that she has hired a devil in disguise.
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Season 2 Episode 8
Ex-addict and screenwriter Arthur Brown steals the life and words of Diane Hampton. Diane is struggling to maintain her marriage with her abusive jealous husband John and to keep the affair with her female lover Catherine a secret. Arthur tips John off about Diane’s affair and soon finds himself the target of John’s anger.
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Season 2 Episode 7
Lew Bridgeman and Joe Caldwell are Vietnam vets and best friends. But when Joe has an affair with Rae, Lew finds out and a night of deer hunting turns deadly.
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Season 1 Episode 16
A young woman who can’t stop crying meets a man who collects tears.
Written by Geoffrey Loftus and John Drimmer and guest-starring Jessica Harper and Victor Garber.
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Season 1 Episode 15
A ringing telephone with a life of its own bothers a woman in the room next door.
Written by Michael McDowell.
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Season 2 Episode 6
Jack Rhodes is a salesman who wears many disguises to get what he wants: women. One day, he gets a video letter from a mysterious woman, Barbara, who challenges him to meet her. She plays him like a fiddle and takes advantage of him. Now the tables are turned and he can’t escape, not even with his life.
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Season 1 Episode 14
Confident that he is about to win the lottery, a man studying the black arts quits his job, only to find out that he has lost to a woman.
Written by Howard Smith and Tom Allan. Guest starring Carol Kane.
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Season 1 Episode 13
An elderly couple take in a girl escaping from her boyfriend, just in time for their 25th anniversary dinner. Unfortunately, the couple plans on serving a very specific-and revolting-dish…
Story by D.J. Pass, adapted by James Houghton. Guest starring Alice Ghostley.
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Season 2 Episode 5
Mickey is a con artist only willing to commit to one way of thinking: making the quick buck. In exchange for his life, Mickey is willing to sell his soul by giving Pearl, his girlfriend, away to drug lord Joey Stregga. What Mickey doesn’t realize is that he will have to pay for selling off part of his soul.
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Horror History: Sunday, January 27, 1985: “Tales From The Darkside” episode “In the Cards” premiered
Horror History: Sunday, January 27, 1985: “Tales From The Darkside” episode “In the Cards” premiered
Season 1 Episode 12
Catherine is a tarot reader who attracts business by giving out only good predictions, but she soon finds herself stuck with a new deck of cards – one which makes terrible predictions come true.
Written and directed by Ted Gershuny.
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Season 1 Episode 11
An answering machine with a will of its own helps out a television writer and gradually begins to take over his life. Written by Haskell Barkin and guest-starring Harry Anderson.
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When a college student inherits an old mansion he finds he has also inherited its residents–a bunch of slimy, hairy, fanged creatures who’ll do anything for him…even kill.
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Season 2 Episode 4
Todd Fields is a married high school photography teacher and one of his students, Roseanne Lucas, develops a mad and obsessive crush on him. When Todd steps over the line and sleeps with her, he finds more than he ever bargained for.
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Season 1 Episode 10
A comedic story in which a couple finds a lamp which turns out to hold a genie, who is extremely annoyed at being trapped for thousands of years. He punishes them with plagues and problems, but the wife offers a simple solution to his problem. Based on a story by Harlan Ellison and adapted by Haskell Barkin and guest-starring Kareem Abdul-Jabbar as the genie.
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Two streetwise detectives try to solve a murder case. They devise a plan to catch the killer, only to find that they themselves have been deceived and are being pursued by the killer.
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