Tag: Tales From The Darkside
Horror History: Sunday, October 21, 1984: “Tales From The Darkside” episode “The Odds” 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.
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Season 2 Episode 4
A young couple learns that their tenant is a voodoo practitioner. The wife sees the tenant as a danger and attempts to drive him out of the building, blaming him for various mishaps. Written by Carole Lucia Satrina. Guest-starring Adolph Caesar.
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Season 3 Episode 4
A couple moves into an old house in which a woman murdered her cheating husband. The spirit of the woman has been seeking company to ease her loneliness, so she decides to recreate the events by having the female real estate agent feel weak, forcing the husband to take her home. Pressured by the ghost, the wife overhears her husband talking to the woman the next day, mistaking their conversation as one about cheating on her; in reality, he decided the house is giving the wife’s imagination too much to work with. When he tries explaining things to her, she is now fully under the ghost’s sway and kills him in exactly the same spot as the ghost’s husband. Written by Edithe Swensen.
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Season 4 Episode 4
A dying woman is convinced that after death her soul will be trapped in a moth. Written by Michael McDowell, Guest starring Debbie Harry.
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Season 1 Episode 3
A henpecked husband (Lou Jacobi) who suffers from excruciating backaches visits a doctor (Farley Granger) who prescribes a drastic cure.
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Season 2 Episode 3
A man sentenced to Death Row for a murder tells his story of a redhead… from another dimension. Based on the short story by John D. MacDonald, adapted by Ted Gershuny. Guest-starring Penelope Ann Miller and John Heard.
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Season 3 Episode 3
The uncle of a mistreated boy develops a miraculous pill which increases brain power and memory, and comes to the boy’s parents for financing; the boy takes the prototype and finally gets power over his parents. Based on the short story “The Richest Man in Levittown” by Frederik Pohl, adapted by Michael P. Kube-McDowell.
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Season 4 Episode 3
A photographer decides to take photographs of ghosts. Written by Mark Patrick Carducci and Brian Thomas Jones.
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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
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Season 2 Episode 2
An unhealthy corporate executive is offered a life-saving medical device with a price. Written by Michael P. Kube-McDowell, based on his own short story of the same name. Guest-starring Bill Macy.
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