Tales from the Darkside
Tales from the Darkside is an anthology horror TV series created by George A. Romero, each episode was an individual short story that ended with a plot twist. The series' episodes spanned the genres of horror, science fiction, and fantasy, and some episodes featured elements of black comedy or more lighthearted themes.
Season 1 Episodes
E1
A recovering alcoholic is disturbed to find a young boy who shows up at his office claiming to be his son Jerry. The man…
E2
Two old, rich men like to wager among themselves on trivial matters for huge amounts. One of them, Williams, offers his …
E3
Harvey goes to Dr. Roebuck with back pains and Roebuck prescribes a miraculous cure. It's not until later that Harvey fi…
E4
Tommy Vale, a barroom bookie finds himself in a curious predicament: a man comes in who can't lose. As the story unravel…
E5
Twin siblings, Mookie and Pookie, are extremely close. But Mookie has a terminal illness. Later the scientific genius Mo…
E6
A young ad-design artist begins to literally "slip" out of reality. Slowly but surely he seems to be fading out of exist…
E7
A student takes a room with an abrupt, somewhat rude anthropology professor. He instructs her never to open the small do…
E8
Richard Hagstrom is dismayed with the way life has treated him (a rude son, a shrewish wife). His nephew Jonathan gives …
E9
In the backwoods, a family patriarch dies...only to come back, unaware that he's dead. The townspeople are up in arms, b…
E10
A couple inadvertently buy a magic lamp that contains a genie. Unfortunately, the genie is anything but amiably. Confine…
E11
Leon, a hapless TV writer, buys an answering machine that has a mind of its own - it initially helps him out by providin…
E12
A fake fortuneteller, Caterina, soon finds that every fortune she tells comes true...but she can only predict gruesome a…
E13
A young girl fleeing her boyfriend finds herself in a small country home with a genial older couple. They take pity on h…
E14
A warlock and a witch get into a battle over a $10 million lottery ticket when each claims that the spirits gave them th…
E15
Joan is apartment-sitting for a friend but finds herself tormented by a phone that won't stop ringing.
E16
Prudence is a young woman who can't stop crying, but finds a peculiar way to make a profit when she meets Ambrose Cavend…
E17
Cathy Osborne brings her husband up to a previously-unknown room in their house and along with her friend Michael, relat…
E18
Fast-talking politician Bo Gumbs finds himself in serious trouble when he arrives for a meeting and waits at a nearby ho…
E19
A teenager enraptured with magicians goes to a flee-bitten circus to seek out one of the greater: Kharma. However, Kharm…
E20
Henry, a greedy developers, stumbles upon a Chinese laundry that offers a unique service - it can "wash out" guilt. Henr…
E21
Mr. Bigalow, a lifelong cigarette smoker, wakes up to find that his windows have bars on them and his door is sealed shu…
E22
Given one last wish to enliven her days before she is moved into the Tranquil Gardens retirement home, elderly Grandma s…
E23
Cassie Pines is a woman travelling on her own who believes in astrology, tea leaves...everything. She comes into a diner…
Cast
