Tales from the Darkside - Season 4

Tales from the Darkside - Season 4

Season 4

Network
Episodes20
Datessept. 27, 1987 - juil. 23, 1988
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Episodes

Beetles
Season 4Episode 130 min

Beetles

An Egyptologist working on a sarcophogus ignores a curse and meets a horrific fate when he ignores it.
sept. 27, 1987
Mary, Mary
Season 4Episode 230 min

Mary, Mary

A woman who lives with mannequins because she is unable to deal with real people gets a rude awakening.
oct. 4, 1987
The Spirit Photographer
Season 4Episode 330 min

The Spirit Photographer

Despite the discouragement of his friend, a middle-aged photographer, Algernon, tries to captures spirits on film.
oct. 11, 1987
The Moth
Season 4Episode 430 min

The Moth

Sybil, a woman on the verge of death, is obsessed with the thought that after she dies her soul will dwell within a moth, and she begs her mother to hold the moth until she can be restored to life.
oct. 18, 1987
No Strings
Season 4Episode 530 min

No Strings

A mobster who has finally defeated his old rival hires a reluctant puppeteer to string up his rival and make it dance for him. The mobster is unaware that puppet and puppeteer both have agendas of their own...
oct. 25, 1987
The Grave Robber
Season 4Episode 630 min

The Grave Robber

In this comedic episode, two treasure hunters discover a lost Egyptian tomb and accidentally revive a mummy. The mummy, Tapok, doesn't try to strangle them, but rather challenges the male explorer to a game of strip poker. The explorer loses, and with each piece of clothing he loses he takes on more of Tapok's wrappings until finally Tapok transfers his curse and leaves with the other explorer.
nov. 1, 1987
The Yattering and Jack
Season 4Episode 730 min

The Yattering and Jack

The daughter of a pickle salesman is surprised when he denies the strange phenomenon happening in his house... caused by a Yatterling, a demon sent from Hell to drive the salesman to renounce God.

nov. 8, 1987
Seymourlama
Season 4Episode 830 min

Seymourlama

Much to his parents' frustration, a spoiled young boy, Seymour, is declared the High Lama by a group of monks.
nov. 15, 1987
Sorry, Right Number
Season 4Episode 930 min

Sorry, Right Number

Katie receives a mysterious phone call from a woman warning about her husband's death...but he isn't dead yet. Katie ignores the phone call, and her husband dies. At the funeral, a despairing Katie calls up herself...and finds herself talking to...herself. She tries to warn her past self, despite knowing that it won't do any good, then collapses in despair.
nov. 22, 1987
Payment Overdue
Season 4Episode 1030 min

Payment Overdue

Michael, a heartless collection agent, finds out that Jeanette doesn't quite understand the rules of going into debt, and has some unpleasant problems as a result.
févr. 14, 1988
Love Hungry
Season 4Episode 1130 min

Love Hungry

Betsy, an overweight woman, receives an anonymous package with an earpiece that will supposedly help her diet. It transmits the ""voices"" of her food as is being eaten, but Betsy still has problems and the next gift is a pair of glasses that let her ""see"" her food as well...
févr. 21, 1988
The Deal
Season 4Episode 1230 min

The Deal

Screenwriter Tom Dash unwittingly makes a deal with the Devil and finds he must get out of it by finding a new victim or offer up his soul.
févr. 28, 1988
The Apprentice
Season 4Episode 1330 min

The Apprentice

Jane is hired by a Puritan museum but ends up mysteriously going back in time where she is forced to work as a near slave in the past.
mai 1, 1988
The Cutty Black Sow
Season 4Episode 1430 min

The Cutty Black Sow

On her deathbed, Jamie's great grandmother tells him the tale of a Celtic demon, the Cutty Black Sow, that comes to claim the soul of anyone dying that night, and Jamie vows to protect her soul from the beast.
mai 8, 1988
Do Not Open This Box
Season 4Episode 1530 min

Do Not Open This Box

An aged inventor and his wife come into possession of a box marked ""Do not open this box."" The wife opens it and finds it empty. The next day a man comes to claim the box and the lady makes up a story about losing the box. The man begins giving them nice things in exchange for eventually getting the box back. The couple begin living the sweet life thanks to the stranger but when they finally give the box back, the man tells them that it contained a human soul - since the box was opened the soul has escaped and now the man needs a replacement.
mai 15, 1988
Family Reunion
Season 4Episode 1630 min

Family Reunion

Janice, a young mother, swears to a social worker, Trudy, that her husband Robert kidnapped their son Bobby six months ago and she hasn't seen either of them since. Trudy agrees to find the father and son, but discovers that everything isn't what she was led to believe.
mai 22, 1988
Going Native
Season 4Episode 1730 min

Going Native

An alien is sent to Earth to study the nature and behavior of human beings. The alien, who resembles a normal Earth female, meticulously studies photographs of still life from large cities, simultaneously fascinated with and disgusted by the disarray and degeneration depicted in the pictures. The alien joins a therapeutic support group in an effort to better understand the seemingly contradictory humans. As she develops personal relationships with each group member, she begins to further understand the origin of and reasons for the behavior of humans, albeit from an outside observer's vantage point. The other members of the group see the alien as distant and detached, a condition that they assume is rooted in a self-denial complex. As the alien speaks at one of the group meetings, she suddenly realizes that she has been experiencing the exact same feelings as the humans that she has been studying. She has become human-like through assimilation, trapped within the emotional shell of ano
juin 19, 1988
Hush
Season 4Episode 1830 min

Hush

A babysitter is called in to take care of a sick boy. As a game, the two make up a pretend creature out of household parts, one that eats sounds. The creature comes to life, sucking the sound and the life out of everything in the house. The two try to evade it, but the boy's uncontrollable coughing gives him away. The creature then becomes sensitive enough to the girl's heartbeat to find and kill her too, then goes out into the world for more ""food"".
juil. 10, 1988
Barter
Season 4Episode 1930 min

Barter

A mother tries to get a reprieve from her noisy drums-practicing son by making a deal with an ammonia-seeking alien.
juil. 17, 1988
Basher Malone
Season 4Episode 2030 min

Basher Malone

A wrestler seeking one great opponent finds himself tricked into fighting a demon from Hell.
juil. 23, 1988

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