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.
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Air Date: 1984-09-30
A recovering alcoholic is disturbed to find a young boy who shows up at his office claiming to be his son Jerry. The ...
Air Date: 1984-10-07
Two old, rich men like to wager among themselves on trivial matters for huge amounts. One of them, Williams, offers h...
Air Date: 1984-10-14
Harvey goes to Dr. Roebuck with back pains and Roebuck prescribes a miraculous cure. It's not until later that Harvey...
Air Date: 1984-10-21
Tommy Vale, a barroom bookie finds himself in a curious predicament: a man comes in who can't lose. As the story unra...
Air Date: 1984-11-04
Twin siblings, Mookie and Pookie, are extremely close. But Mookie has a terminal illness. Later the scientific genius...
Air Date: 1984-11-11
A young ad-design artist begins to literally "slip" out of reality. Slowly but surely he seems to be fading out of ex...
Air Date: 1984-11-18
A student takes a room with an abrupt, somewhat rude anthropology professor. He instructs her never to open the small...
Air Date: 1984-11-25
Richard Hagstrom is dismayed with the way life has treated him (a rude son, a shrewish wife). His nephew Jonathan giv...
Air Date: 1984-12-02
In the backwoods, a family patriarch dies...only to come back, unaware that he's dead. The townspeople are up in arms...
Air Date: 1985-01-13
A couple inadvertently buy a magic lamp that contains a genie. Unfortunately, the genie is anything but amiably. Conf...
Air Date: 1985-01-20
Leon, a hapless TV writer, buys an answering machine that has a mind of its own - it initially helps him out by provi...
Air Date: 1985-01-27
A fake fortuneteller, Caterina, soon finds that every fortune she tells comes true...but she can only predict gruesom...
Air Date: 1985-02-03
A young girl fleeing her boyfriend finds herself in a small country home with a genial older couple. They take pity o...
Air Date: 1985-02-10
A warlock and a witch get into a battle over a $10 million lottery ticket when each claims that the spirits gave them...
Air Date: 1985-02-17
Joan is apartment-sitting for a friend but finds herself tormented by a phone that won't stop ringing.
Air Date: 1985-02-24
Prudence is a young woman who can't stop crying, but finds a peculiar way to make a profit when she meets Ambrose Cav...
Air Date: 1985-05-05
Cathy Osborne brings her husband up to a previously-unknown room in their house and along with her friend Michael, re...
Air Date: 1985-05-12
Fast-talking politician Bo Gumbs finds himself in serious trouble when he arrives for a meeting and waits at a nearby...
Air Date: 1985-05-19
A teenager enraptured with magicians goes to a flee-bitten circus to seek out one of the greater: Kharma. However, Kh...
Air Date: 1985-05-26
Henry, a greedy developers, stumbles upon a Chinese laundry that offers a unique service - it can "wash out" guilt. H...
Air Date: 1985-06-09
Mr. Bigalow, a lifelong cigarette smoker, wakes up to find that his windows have bars on them and his door is sealed ...
Air Date: 1985-06-16
Given one last wish to enliven her days before she is moved into the Tranquil Gardens retirement home, elderly Grandm...
Air Date: 1985-08-04
Cassie Pines is a woman travelling on her own who believes in astrology, tea leaves...everything. She comes into a di...