My top 25 Tales from the Darkside episodes
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- DirectorJodie FosterStarsEileen HeckartWilliam LeMassenaRichard B. ShullCharles is a meek inventor living with his greedy nagging wife Rose. The mail brings them a misdirected box saying "Do Not Open This Box". Then the postman comes looking for it and says there will be Hell to pay if he doesn't get it back.
- DirectorBob BalabanStarsBarnard HughesI.M. HobsonMax WrightTown miser Gideon Hackles spends Halloween hiding IOU's in his house, which he then rigs as haunted and invites local kids to search for the IOU's so he can scare them. This year, he gets his comeuppance.
- 1983–198822mTV-146.4 (266)TV EpisodeDirectorJohn StrysikStarsBrian BenbenLoren CedarAlison SweeneyAsthmatic Max Smith is dating Libby and plans to marry her, until he learns that her sister Karen appears to be able to make people die by touching their faces and saying goodbye.
- DirectorJohn StrysikStarsBegonya PlazaMary CarverLouis GussA pretty university student named Stacey (Begona Plaza) waits to board a train that will take her home for Thanksgiving. However Stacey soon discovers there is something unusual and terrifying about the last car of this train.
- 1983–198821mTV-147.3 (561)TV EpisodeDirectorGerald CottsStarsEddie BrackenBill McCutcheonTresa HughesJodie and his mum are grief-stricken by the passing away of Jodie's grandfather, but they soon find themselves with a lot more to be upset about when he gets determined not to stay dead.
- DirectorTom SaviniStarsRoy PooleTim ChoateDavid K. VarneyNasty old Mr Killup uses Halloween to taunt kids. This year, he's in for a surprise, from which even his long-suffering son Michael cannot save him.
- DirectorMichael McDowellStarsE.G. MarshallMargaret KlenckSky BerdahlOn Christmas Eve, a father ends his two children's boredom by holding them spellbound with a scary story about a fearsome beast known as the Grither.
- DirectorJohn StrysikStarsRobert ForsterSeymour CasselShannon WilcoxRuth Cooley is curious as to the reason why her husband Garry leaves unusual written requests in their mailbox for the mail carrier to fulfill.
- DirectorTom SaviniStarsFritz WeaverRoberta WeissPaul SparerWhat is scurrying around inside the closet of the upstairs room that grad student Gail Aynsley rents from veterinary school dean Dr. Fenner? Gail doesn't know, but she is determined to find out and Dr Fenner isn't telling.
- DirectorJeffrey WolfStarsDebbie HarryJane ManningPaul SparerDying Sybil uses her last hours on Earth to curse her enemies and plan for the afterlife, much to the chagrin of her mother.
- DirectorJohn HarrisonStarsJoe TurkelBrad CowgillCynthia FrostTwo young hecklers goad once-great circus magician Kharma into reviving his legendary wireless levitation trick, which he abandoned years ago because it went horribly wrong.
- DirectorDavid OdellStarsT.J. CastronovoBarry DennenCameron MilzerMobster Eddie Minelli plans a private performance by a famous puppeteer, but with a ghoulish new puppet: the bloody remains of Don Paulie, the man Eddie has just murdered.
- 1983–198822mTV-146.3 (248)TV EpisodeDirectorDavid OdellStarsPhil FondacaroAntony CarboneTom NewmanHappy-go-lucky salesman Jack Polo receives a yuletide visit from the 3.5-foot-tall Yattering, a snarling horned demon that wants to claim Jack's soul.
- DirectorRichard GlassStarsHuckleberry FoxPaula TruemanMary GriffinYoung Jamie receives, and takes seriously, a deathbed warning from his great-grandmother to guard against the legendary Cutty Black Sow.
- DirectorJohn StrysikStarsAlice GhostleyMario RoccuzzoFredrica DukeHenry and Elinor Colander are preparing to celebrate their 25th wedding anniversary with a special dinner. Hiker Sybil has just broken up with her boyfriend, so they invite her to join them.
- DirectorJohn StrysikStarsSharon MaddenLarry GelmanDiana HaleDesperate to lose weight in order to please an old boyfriend from high school, compulsive eater Betsy Cowland uses mysterious, and possibly unsafe, products that she receives in the mail.
- DirectorFrank De PalmaStarsBill MacyRobert RieselSamantha HarperA CEO working himself to death receives an offer of a special service designed to keep him alive.
- DirectorAllen CoulterStarsNile LanningEric JasonBonnie GallupOn a seemingly "ordinary night", a teenage babysitter, and a young boy, are terrorized by the boy's latest invention, that's gone awry: a "noise eater", which -- in reality -- sucks the life out of its victims!
- DirectorKarl EpsteinStarsMargaret O'BrienTheresa SaldanaPaul EidingOn her wedding night, a young bride learns a secret about the women in her family.
- DirectorBruce DolinStarsDivineJ.D. RothKathleen DoyleOn a bitter cold night, Henry and Ellen Strand's home is visited by exotic Himalayan strangers who claim that son Seymour Strand has been chosen to replace the recently deceased Lama of their faraway country Lo Pu.
- 1983–198823mTV-146.5 (213)TV EpisodeDirectorFrank De PalmaStarsJeff ConawayRoy DotriceJillie MackHack horror writer Peter Prentice receives an offer from Vampire Count Jeffrey Draco: nine hundred years of authentic vampire stories to use as material - in exchange for sanctuary in Peter's home.
- 1983–198822mTV-146.4 (515)TV EpisodeDirectorJohn HarrisonStarsKeenan WynnGeorge PetrieMichael FreemanWily millionaire Duncan Williams engages his longtime acquaintance Jack Blaine in a cat & mouse game ... by offering Jack one million dollars for his mortal soul.
- DirectorJames Steven SadwithStarsGreg MullaveySeth GreenBeth McDonaldBiff doesn't understand children well and winds up at odds with his new wife Helen's young son Timmy, whose life is already complicated by the monsters that Timmy finds in his bedroom.
- DirectorRichard FriedmanStarsPaul DooleyJohn FiedlerKathy McLainA traveling salesman has a ghostly date with an attractive woman in a motel, which turns ominous.
- DirectorJeff SchiroStarsArnold StangPolly DraperDaren KellyTwo archaeologists turned grave robbers are forced to play strip poker with an angry mummy that protects the tomb they broke into.