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”Season 1 Episode 34
A woman discovers that the floor of a department store, on which she bought a gold thimble, doesn’t exist – and that her “saleslady” is really a mannequin!
Read more “Horror History: Friday, June 10, 1960: “The Twilight Zone” episode “The After Hours” premiered”Season 1 Episode 33
An eccentric loser gets a new life from his guardian angel, but there is a price to keeping it.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, June 3, 1960: “The Twilight Zone” episode “Mr. Bevis” premiered”Season 1 Episode 32
A trumpet player who’s convinced he’ll never amount to anything attempts suicide and finds himself in a world where no one can hear or see him.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, May 20, 1960: “The Twilight Zone” episode “A Passage for Trumpet” premiered”Season 1 Episode 31
A man, desperate to win the affection of a beautiful woman, slips her a love potion. He is overjoyed that the potion works so well…at first.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, May 13, 1960: “The Twilight Zone” episode “The Chaser” premiered”Season 1 Episode 30
Riding home on the train one day, a man falls asleep and dreams it is 1880, and he is entering a small town called Willoughby.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, May 6, 1960: “The Twilight Zone” episode “A Stop at Willoughby” premiered”Season 1 Episode 29
Schoolteacher Helen Foley finds a strange and very serious little girl on the stairs outside her apartment. The little girl seems to know her, and tries to jog her memory about a man she saw earlier that day. The man arrives at Helen’s door…
Read more “Horror History: Friday, April 29, 1960: “The Twilight Zone” episode “Nightmare as a Child” premiered”Season 1 Episode 28
After being shot to death, Rocky Valentine encounters the amiable white-haired Mr. Pip, who gives Rocky everything he wishes for.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, April 15, 1960: “The Twilight Zone” episode “A Nice Place to Visit” premiered”Season 1 Episode 27
An over-the-hill boxer gets a boost from one of his biggest fans – a little boy with an unwavering belief in magic.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, April 8, 1960: “The Twilight Zone” episode “The Big Tall Wish” premiered”Season 1 Episode 26
Just before being hanged for shooting a man in the back, a man in 1880 is transported into the year 1959 by a professor who soon realizes that he has brought forward a savage killer.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, April 1, 1960: “The Twilight Zone” episode “Execution” premiered”Season 1 Episode 25
When a space exploration crashes on Mars, the surviving passenger is surprised to find that Martians are human-looking, very friendly and apparently just like us…
Read more “Horror History: Friday, March 25, 1960: “The Twilight Zone” episode “People Are Alike All Over” premiered”Season 1 Episode 24
Walter Jameson is an excellent history teacher who talks about the past as if he had lived it.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, March 18, 1960: “The Twilight Zone” episode “Long Live Walter Jameson” premiered”Season 1 Episode 23
Businessman Arthur Curtis discovers that life as he knows it doesn’t really exist.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, March 11, 1960: “The Twilight Zone” episode “A World of Difference” premiered”Season 1 Episode 22
Paranoia strikes the residents of Maple Street when they believe human-looking aliens have invaded the neighborhood.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, March 4, 1960: “The Twilight Zone” episode “The Monsters are Due on Maple Street” premiered”Season 1 Episode 21
Millicent Barnes finds herself playing cat-and-mouse at a bus depot with a mysterious duplicate that seems intent on taking over her life.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, February 26, 1960: “The Twilight Zone” episode “Mirror Image” premiered”Season 1 Episode 20
Three astronauts land on what looks like Earth 200 years before they left–only all of the people seem frozen in time.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, February 19, 1960: “The Twilight Zone” episode “Elegy” premiered”
