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.
Read more “Horror History: Sunday, February 10, 1985: “Tales From The Darkside” episode “Snip, Snip” premiered”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.
Read more “Horror History: Sunday, February 3, 1985: “Tales From The Darkside” episode “Anniversary Dinner” premiered”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.
Read more “Horror History: Tuesday, January 29, 1985: “The Hitchhiker” episode “Petty Thieves” 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.
Read more “Horror History: Sunday, January 27, 1985: “Tales From The Darkside” episode “In the Cards” premiered”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.
Read more “Horror History: Sunday, January 20, 1985: “Tales From The Darkside” episode “All a Clone by the Telephone” premiered”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.
Read more “Horror History: Tuesday, January 15, 1985: “The Hitchhiker” episode “And If We Dream” premiered”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.
Read more “Horror History: Sunday, January 13, 1985: “Tales From The Darkside” episode “Djinn, No Chaser” premiered”Season 2 Episode 3
Dr. Christopher Hamilton, an ambitious and pompous plastic surgeon, meets his challenge in Nina Russell, a patient in the process of a gender change. But when he shows up to surgery the next day unprepared, he completely botches up the procedure.
Read more “Horror History: Tuesday, December 4, 1984: “The Hitchhiker” episode “Face To Face” premiered”Season 1 Episode 9
Grandpa refuses to believe that he is dead. Written by James Houghton, based on a short story by Robert Bloch and guest-starring Christian Slater as Jody, Brent Spiner as the Reverend and Eddie Bracken as Grandpa.
Read more “Horror History: Sunday, December 2, 1984: “Tales From The Darkside” episode “A Case of the Stubborns” premiered”Season 2 Episode 2
Attorney Ted Miller’s world falls apart when his old friend and lover Melody shows up at his door looking for a place to stay and he makes the mistake of turning her down.
Read more “Horror History: Tuesday, November 27, 1984: “The Hitchhiker” episode “Remembering Melody” premiered”Season 1 Episode 8
A man discovers his new word processor, a gift from his deceased nephew, is more powerful than he could ever have imagined: everything he types into it becomes real. Based on the short story by Stephen King and adapted by Michael McDowell.
Read more “Horror History: Sunday, November 25, 1984: “Tales From The Darkside” episode “The Word Processor of the Gods” premiered”Season 1 Episode 7
A young woman takes up board in an elderly man’s house and insists that there is something lurking inside of the small, locked closet in her bedroom.
Directed by Tom Savini and guest-starring Fritz Weaver.
Read more “Horror History: Sunday, November 18, 1984: “Tales From The Darkside” episode “Inside the Closet” premiered”Season 2 Episode 1
For months, Eric Dunlap has been hard at work on a special sound system for Kurt Hoffman, a temperamental conductor who is impossible to please. During that time, he fell deeply in love with Hoffman’s much younger wife, Veronica. It isn’t long before Eric realises the computer he created, which only responds to him, is something special. When Veronica realises she returns Eric’s feelings and the two become lovers, Hoffman learns of his wife’s infidelity and exacts his revenge on the two, but Eric’s creation avenges the man who gave it life.
Read more “Horror History: Tuesday, November 13, 1984: “The Hitchhiker” episode “Lovesounds” premiered”Season 1 Episode 6
A man discovers that he is literally slipping from existence. Based on a short story by Michael Kube-McDowell, adapted by Mark Durand and guest-starring David Patrick Kelly.
Read more “Horror History: Sunday, November 11, 1984: “Tales From The Darkside” episode “Slippage” premiered”Season 1 Episode 5
A teenage girl discovers that her recently deceased twin brother’s spirit lives on in a computer, but no one will believe her. When she tries to fulfill her brother’s last wish by inputting data into his computer, her parents begin to get worried. Guest starring Justine Bateman and Tippi Hedren, written by Dan Kleinman.
Read more “Horror History: Sunday, November 4, 1984: “Tales From The Darkside” episode “Mookie and Pookie” premiered”Season 1 Episode 4
A bookie who never turns down a bet meets the luckiest man he may ever know (Tom Noonan), who is determined to break the bookie at any cost. The bookie ends up wagering on the time of his death, and must outsmart a man who has never lost. Written and directed by James Sadwith and guest-starring Danny Aiello.
Read more “Horror History: Sunday, October 21, 1984: “Tales From The Darkside” episode “The Odds” premiered”Season 1 Episode 3
A henpecked husband (Lou Jacobi) who suffers from excruciating backaches visits a doctor (Farley Granger) who prescribes a drastic cure.
Read more “Horror History: Sunday, October 14, 1984: “Tales From The Darkside” episode “Pain Killer” premiered”Season 1 Episode 2
An offer to buy a friend’s soul goes a bit too far, especially when the seller returns to finalize the deal. Written by Mark Durand and David Spiel and guest-starring Keenan Wynn
Read more “Horror History: Sunday, October 7, 1984: “Tales From The Darkside” episode “I’ll Give You a Million” premiered”Season 1 Episode 1
Alan Coombs, a bad-tempered recovering alcoholic, meets a young man named Jerry who claims to be his son. Coombs insists that he’s never seen or met Jerry before, but Jerry says otherwise.
Based on a short story by Barbara Owens, adapted by Mark Durand, and guest-starring Vic Tayback.
Read more “Horror History: Sunday, September 30, 1984: “Tales From The Darkside” episode “The New Man” was released in theaters”Season 1 Episode 3
John ‘Jake’ McElhaney will do anything to make a sale, absolutely anything. Faced with losing his job, he decides to make his next sale really count, and thinks he has it made when he signs on to work for the Packard twins, two women who have problems sharing and so split everything directly down the middle. Frances makes it clear straight away that she likes Jake, but Jake also plays up to Priscilla, hoping to not only sell the house for the two women but sell each of them homes as well. Unfortunately, the bond between the sisters is stronger than any bond they could form with him.
Read more “Horror History: Wednesday, December 14, 1983: “The Hitchhiker” episode “Split Decision” premiered”Season 1 Episode 2
Bob is a married advertising executive who enjoys picking up women throughout his travels. After picking up a hitchhiker, he runs into a beautiful blonde who he ends up spending the night with. After hearing a report on the radio that there is an escaped blonde mental patient named Ann Marie Brown on the loose who enjoys slitting men’s throats, Bob becomes convinced that the woman he picked up is really the escaped mental patient, but things are not always as they seem.
Read more “Horror History: Wednesday, November 30, 1983: “The Hitchhiker” episode “When Morning Comes” premiered”Season 1 Episode 1
Jeff Boder marries a much older woman to get at her fortune, but finds himself falling for her beautiful step-daughter. He uses a mysterious statuette he received from his grandmother to get rid of his wife, only to find that he must also pay the consequences for his actions.
Read more “Horror History: Wednesday, November 23, 1983: “The Hitchhiker” episode “Shattered Vows” premiered”Pilot
A rich and spiteful old man named Gideon Hackles whose obsession for documenting and exploiting debts owed to him, annually offers trick-or-treaters the chance to search his house on Halloween night for their parents’ IOUs, only to terrify them with animatronic “ghosts”. In the course of this night’s events, Mr. Hackles finds himself terrified by real ghosts… or in this case, demons. Guest starring Barnard Hughes as Gideon Hackles, and Max Wright, written by George A. Romero.
Read more “Horror History: Saturday, October 29, 1983: “Tales From The Darkside” episode “Trick Or Treat” premiered”A woman is slowly stalked to the brink of madness by a man watching her from the opposite tower block.As the police not taking her seriously,leaves no option for her than to track him down.
Read more “Horror History: Wednesday, November 29, 1978: Someone’s Watching Me debuted on television”Season 2 Episode 4
A writer (Richard Haydn) believes machines are conspiring against him.
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Season 2 Episode 3
A nervous gangster (Joe Mantell) faces himself when his boss (William D. Gordon) gives him his latest assignment.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, October 14, 1960: “The Twilight Zone” episode “Nervous Man in a Four Dollar Room” premiered”Season 2 Episode 2
A genie (Joseph Ruskin) grants four wishes to an unsuccessful pawnbroker (Luther Adler) and his wife (Vivi Janiss).
Read more “Horror History: Friday, October 7, 1960: “The Twilight Zone” episode “The Man in the Bottle” premiered”Season 2 Episode 1
The sole survivor of a World War II bomber crash (Robert Cummings) cannot find any trace of his crew, but he does see jet planes flying overhead.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, September 30, 1960: “The Twilight Zone” episode “King Nine Will Not Return” premiered”Season 1 Episode 36
A playwright makes characters come to life.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, July 1, 1960: “The Twilight Zone” episode “A World of His Own” premiered”Season 1 Episode 35
Dr. Stillman arranges to have his human-looking robot signed up as the star pitcher of the Hoboken Zephyrs. The team zooms to fourth place thanks to Casey. After he’s beaned by a ball, a doctor discovers Casey has no heart. The rules say nine men make up a team, and without a heart Casey is not a man. Dr. Stillman gives Casey a heart, but he becomes too compassionate to strike out other players. The Zephyrs lose the pennant, and Casey is washed up in baseball. Dr. Stillman gives the coach, Mouth McGarry, Casey’s blueprints as a memento. Looking at them, McGarry gets a sudden inspiration, and chases after the doctor.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, June 17, 1960: “The Twilight Zone” episode “The Mighty Casey” premiered”
