Tales from the Darkside
Drama • Series

Tales from the Darkside

7.3/10 1984 4 Seasons 89 Episodes Ended

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 2 3 4

Season 1 Episodes

S1E1
E1
The New Man
23 min 1984

A recovering alcoholic is disturbed to find a young boy who shows up at his office claiming to be his son Jerry. The man…

S1E2
E2
I'll Give You a Million
23 min 1984

Two old, rich men like to wager among themselves on trivial matters for huge amounts. One of them, Williams, offers his …

S1E3
E3
Pain Killer
23 min 1984

Harvey goes to Dr. Roebuck with back pains and Roebuck prescribes a miraculous cure. It's not until later that Harvey fi…

S1E4
E4
The Odds
23 min 1984

Tommy Vale, a barroom bookie finds himself in a curious predicament: a man comes in who can't lose. As the story unravel…

S1E5
E5
Mookie and Pookie
23 min 1984

Twin siblings, Mookie and Pookie, are extremely close. But Mookie has a terminal illness. Later the scientific genius Mo…

S1E6
E6
Slippage
23 min 1984

A young ad-design artist begins to literally "slip" out of reality. Slowly but surely he seems to be fading out of exist…

S1E7
E7
Inside the Closet
23 min 1984

A student takes a room with an abrupt, somewhat rude anthropology professor. He instructs her never to open the small do…

S1E8
E8
The Word Processor of the Gods
23 min 1984

Richard Hagstrom is dismayed with the way life has treated him (a rude son, a shrewish wife). His nephew Jonathan gives …

S1E9
E9
A Case of the Stubborns
23 min 1984

In the backwoods, a family patriarch dies...only to come back, unaware that he's dead. The townspeople are up in arms, b…

S1E10
E10
Djinn, No Chaser
23 min 1985

A couple inadvertently buy a magic lamp that contains a genie. Unfortunately, the genie is anything but amiably. Confine…

S1E11
E11
All a Clone by the Telephone
23 min 1985

Leon, a hapless TV writer, buys an answering machine that has a mind of its own - it initially helps him out by providin…

S1E12
E12
In the Cards
23 min 1985

A fake fortuneteller, Caterina, soon finds that every fortune she tells comes true...but she can only predict gruesome a…

S1E13
E13
Anniversary Dinner
23 min 1985

A young girl fleeing her boyfriend finds herself in a small country home with a genial older couple. They take pity on h…

S1E14
E14
Snip, Snip
23 min 1985

A warlock and a witch get into a battle over a $10 million lottery ticket when each claims that the spirits gave them th…

S1E15
E15
Answer Me
23 min 1985

Joan is apartment-sitting for a friend but finds herself tormented by a phone that won't stop ringing.

S1E16
E16
The Tear Collector
23 min 1985

Prudence is a young woman who can't stop crying, but finds a peculiar way to make a profit when she meets Ambrose Cavend…

S1E17
E17
Madness Room
23 min 1985

Cathy Osborne brings her husband up to a previously-unknown room in their house and along with her friend Michael, relat…

S1E18
E18
If the Shoes Fit...
23 min 1985

Fast-talking politician Bo Gumbs finds himself in serious trouble when he arrives for a meeting and waits at a nearby ho…

S1E19
E19
Levitation
23 min 1985

A teenager enraptured with magicians goes to a flee-bitten circus to seek out one of the greater: Kharma. However, Kharm…

S1E20
E20
It All Comes Out in the Wash
23 min 1985

Henry, a greedy developers, stumbles upon a Chinese laundry that offers a unique service - it can "wash out" guilt. Henr…

S1E21
E21
Bigalow's Last Smoke
23 min 1985

Mr. Bigalow, a lifelong cigarette smoker, wakes up to find that his windows have bars on them and his door is sealed shu…

S1E22
E22
Grandma's Last Wish
23 min 1985

Given one last wish to enliven her days before she is moved into the Tranquil Gardens retirement home, elderly Grandma s…

S1E23
E23
The False Prophet
23 min 1985

Cassie Pines is a woman travelling on her own who believes in astrology, tea leaves...everything. She comes into a diner…

Cast

Paul Sparer
Paul Sparer
Narrator (voice)

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