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词条 List of Tales from the Darkside episodes
释义

  1. Series overview

  2. Episodes

     Pilot (1983)  Season 1 (1984–85)  Season 2 (1985–86)  Season 3 (1986–87)  Season 4 (1987–88) 

  3. See also

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This is an episode list for the 1980s anthology series Tales from the Darkside.

Series overview

SeasonEpisodesOriginally aired
First aired Last aired
Pilot1October 29, 1983October 29, 1983
123September 30, 1984August 4, 1985
224September 29, 1985July 13, 1986
322September 28, 1986May 17, 1987
420September 27, 1987July 24, 1988

Episodes

Pilot (1983)

TitleOriginal air date{{Episode listShortSummary = A rich and spiteful old man named Gideon Hackles whose obsession for documenting and exploiting debts owed to him, annually offers trick-or-treaters the chance to search his house on Halloween night for their parents' IOUs, only to terrify them with animatronic "ghosts". In the course of this night's events, Mr. Hackles finds himself terrified by real ghosts... or in this case, demons.
Guest starring Barnard Hughes as Gideon Hackles, and Max Wright, written by George A. Romero. | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1983|10|29}}		 LineColor = 000000
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Season 1 (1984–85)

No.TitleOriginal air date{{Episode listTitle = The New Man | ShortSummary = Alan Coombs, a bad-tempered recovering alcoholic, meets a young man named Jerry who claims to be his son. Coombs insists that he's never seen or met Jerry before, but Jerry says otherwise.
Based on a short story by Barbara Owens, adapted by Mark Durand, and guest-starring Vic Tayback. | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1984|9|30}}		 LineColor = 2C6156 }} {{Episode listTitle = I'll Give You a Million | ShortSummary = An offer to buy a friend's soul goes a bit too far, especially when the seller returns to finalize the deal.
Written by Mark Durand and David Spiel and guest-starring Keenan Wynn | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1984|10|7}}		 LineColor = 2C6156 }} {{Episode listTitle = Pain Killer | ShortSummary = A henpecked husband (Lou Jacobi) who suffers from excruciating backaches visits a doctor (Farley Granger) who prescribes a drastic cure. | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1984|10|14}} LineColor = 2C6156 }} {{Episode listTitle = The Odds | ShortSummary = A bookie who never turns down a bet meets the luckiest man he may ever know (Tom Noonan), who is determined to break the bookie at any cost. The bookie ends up wagering on the time of his death, and must outsmart a man who has never lost.
Written and directed by James Sadwith and guest-starring Danny Aiello. | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1984|10|21}}		 LineColor = 2C6156 }} {{Episode listTitle = Mookie and Pookie | ShortSummary = A teenage girl discovers that her recently deceased twin brother's spirit lives on in a computer, but no one will believe her. When she tries to fulfill her brother's last wish by inputting data into his computer, her parents begin to get worried.
Guest starring Justine Bateman and Tippi Hedren, written by Dan Kleinman. | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1984|11|4}}		 LineColor = 2C6156 }} {{Episode listTitle = Slippage | ShortSummary = A man discovers that he is literally slipping from existence.
Based on a short story by Michael Kube-McDowell, adapted by Mark Durand and guest-starring David Patrick Kelly. | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1984|11|11}}		 LineColor = 2C6156 }} {{Episode listTitle = Inside the Closet | ShortSummary = A young woman takes up board in an elderly man's house and insists that there is something lurking inside of the small, locked closet in her bedroom.
Directed by Tom Savini and guest-starring Fritz Weaver. | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1984|11|21}}		 LineColor = 2C6156 }} {{Episode listTitle = The Word Processor of the Gods | ShortSummary = A man discovers his new word processor, a gift from his deceased nephew, is more powerful than he could ever have imagined: everything he types into it becomes real.
Based on the short story by Stephen King and adapted by Michael McDowell. | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1984|11|25}}		 LineColor = 2C6156 }} {{Episode listTitle = A Case of the Stubborns | ShortSummary = Grandpa refuses to believe that he is dead.
Written by James Houghton, based on a short story by Robert Bloch and guest-starring Christian Slater as Jody, Brent Spiner as the Reverend and Eddie Bracken as Grandpa. | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1984|12|2}}		 LineColor = 2C6156 }} {{Episode listTitle = Djinn, No Chaser | ShortSummary = A comedic story in which a couple finds a lamp which turns out to hold a genie, who is extremely annoyed at being trapped for thousands of years. He punishes them with plagues and problems, but the wife offers a simple solution to his problem.
Based on a story by Harlan Ellison and adapted by Haskell Barkin and guest-starring Kareem Abdul-Jabbar as the genie. | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1985|1|13}}		 LineColor = 2C6156 }} {{Episode listTitle = All a Clone by the Telephone | ShortSummary = An answering machine with a will of its own helps out a television writer and gradually begins to take over his life.
Written by Haskell Barkin and guest-starring Harry Anderson. | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1985|1|20}}		 LineColor = 2C6156 }} {{Episode listTitle = In the Cards | ShortSummary = Catherine is a tarot reader who attracts business by giving out only good predictions, but she soon finds herself stuck with a new deck of cards - one which makes terrible predictions come true.
Written and directed by Ted Gershuny. | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1985|1|27}}		 LineColor = 2C6156 }} {{Episode listTitle = Anniversary Dinner | ShortSummary = An elderly couple take in a girl escaping from her boyfriend, just in time for their 25th anniversary dinner. Unfortunately, the couple plans on serving a very specific-and revolting-dish...
Story by D.J. Pass, adapted by James Houghton. Guest starring Alice Ghostley. | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1985|2|3}}		 LineColor = 2C6156 }} {{Episode listTitle = Snip, Snip | ShortSummary = Confident that he is about to win the lottery, a man studying the black arts quits his job, only to find out that he has lost to a woman.
Written by Howard Smith and Tom Allan. Guest starring Carol Kane. | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1985|2|10}}		 LineColor = 2C6156 }} {{Episode listTitle = Answer Me | ShortSummary = A ringing telephone with a life of its own bothers a woman in the room next door.
Written by Michael McDowell. | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1985|2|17}}		 LineColor = 2C6156 }} {{Episode listTitle = The Tear Collector | ShortSummary = A young woman who can't stop crying meets a man who collects tears.
Written by Geoffrey Loftus and John Drimmer and guest-starring Jessica Harper and Victor Garber. | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1985|2|24}}		 LineColor = 2C6156 }} {{Episode listTitle = Madness Room | ShortSummary = A wife and her friend plot to scare a rich man to death in the cursed "Madness Room."
Written by Thomas Epperson and guest-starring Stuart Whitman. | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1985|5|5}}		 LineColor = 2C6156 }} {{Episode listTitle = If the Shoes Fit... | ShortSummary = Politician Bo Gumbs checks into a hotel to prepare for a speech. After he tells the hotel wait staff that politics is all showmanship, they help him prepare for his best show ever.
Co-Written by Armand Mastoianni and David Gerrold, directed by Mastroianni, starring Dick Shawn. | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1985|5|12}}		 LineColor = 2C6156 }} {{Episode listTitle = Levitation | ShortSummary = A teenager goads a once-famous magician into performing his greatest feat of levitation, with disastrous results.
Based on a short story by Joseph Payne Brennan and adapted by David Gerrold. | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1985|5|19}}		 LineColor = 2C6156 }} {{Episode listTitle = It All Comes Out in the Wash | ShortSummary = A laundromat offers to wash away the sins of its clients.
Written by Harvey Jacobs. | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1985|5|26}}		 LineColor = 2C6156 }} {{Episode listTitle = Bigalow's Last Smoke | ShortSummary = Mr. Bigalow wakes up in a replica of his apartment, overseen by an addiction counselor who will allow him to leave only if he quits smoking.
Written by Michael McDowell. | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1985|6|9}}		 LineColor = 2C6156 }} {{Episode listTitle = Grandma's Last Wish | ShortSummary = An elderly woman makes one request of her unsympathetic family, who want to put her in a nursing home against her will.
Written by Jule Selbo. | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1985|6|16}}		 LineColor = 2C6156 }} {{Episode listTitle = The False Prophet | ShortSummary = Cassie Pines, a superstitious woman, travels by bus to Texas on the advice of a psychic machine. Before she reaches her destination, however, she comes across another machine that warns her against continuing on her way.
Written by Jule Selbo and guest-starring Ronee Blakley. | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1985|8|4}}		 LineColor = 2C6156 }

Season 2 (1985–86)

No. in
series		No. in
season		TitleOriginal air date{{Episode listEpisodeNumber2 = 1 | Title = The Impressionist | ShortSummary = The government brings in a failing comedian to try to communicate with an alien.
Based on the short story "Impersonations" by M. Coleman Easton, adapted by Haskell Barkin and guest-starring Chuck McCann. | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1985|9|29}}		 LineColor = 58585C }} {{Episode listEpisodeNumber2 = 2 | Title = Lifebomb | ShortSummary = An unhealthy corporate executive is offered a life-saving medical device with a price.
Written by Michael P. Kube-McDowell, based on his own short story of the same name. Guest-starring Bill Macy. | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1985|10|6}}		 LineColor = 58585C }} {{Episode listEpisodeNumber2 = 3 | Title = Ring Around the Redhead | ShortSummary = A man sentenced to Death Row for a murder tells his story of a redhead... from another dimension.
Based on the short story by John D. MacDonald, adapted by Ted Gershuny. Guest-starring Penelope Ann Miller and John Heard. | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1985|10|13}}		 LineColor = 58585C }} {{Episode listEpisodeNumber2 = 4 | Title = Parlour Floor Front | ShortSummary = A young couple learns that their tenant is a voodoo practitioner. The wife sees the tenant as a danger and attempts to drive him out of the building, blaming him for various mishaps.
Written by Carole Lucia Satrina. Guest-starring Adolph Caesar. | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1985|10|20}}		 LineColor = 58585C }} {{Episode listEpisodeNumber2 = 5 | Title = Halloween Candy | ShortSummary = A misanthropic old man torments trick-or-treating children and is visited by a terrifying goblin demanding candy.
Written by Michael McDowell, directed by Tom Savini. Guest-starring Roy Poole. | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1985|10|27}}		 LineColor = 58585C }} {{Episode listEpisodeNumber2 = 6 | Title = The Satanic Piano | ShortSummary = A musician in a creative slump buys a revolutionary machine that reads the thoughts of a person and transforms it into music. However, the piano comes with a very high price, one which the musician may not be willing to pay.
Story by Carl Richard Jacobi, adapted by John Harrison.

Guest-starring Michael Warren and Lisa Bonet.

1985|11|3}} LineColor = 58585C }} {{Episode listEpisodeNumber2 = 7 | Title = The Devil's Advocate | ShortSummary = The rude host of a late-night radio show, "The Devil's Advocate," finds out where his anger and cynicism will eventually lead.
Written by George A. Romero and guest-starring Jerry Stiller. | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1985|11|10}}		 LineColor = 58585C }} {{Episode listEpisodeNumber2 = 8 | Title = Distant Signals | ShortSummary = A director is approached by a mysterious investor who asks him to complete a previous short-run and unpopular detective series called Max Paradise, which was canceled 20 years ago before the final episodes were shown. The investor and his mysterious backers will pay any price to see the series finished, complete with bringing the original actor out of retirement. After the filming is complete, it is discovered that the investor is an alien from a planet that gets TV signals from Earth 20 years after they air. Max Paradise was popular there, so he came to Earth to finish the show.
Story by Andrew Weiner, adapted by Ted Gershuny and guest-starring Darren McGavin. The plot was adapted somewhat in the Futurama episode "When Aliens Attack" where aliens invade Earth and demand a cancelled Ally McBeal-like show (Single Female Lawyer) which is popular on their planet conclude its various unresolved storylines. | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1985|11|17}}		 LineColor = 58585C }} {{Episode listEpisodeNumber2 = 9 | Title = The Trouble with Mary Jane | ShortSummary = A family offers $50,000 to whoever can rid young Mary Jane of the demons possessing her.


Guest starring - Phyllis Diller and Lawrence Tierney, written by Edithe Swensen.


(Note: The young actress, Tanya Fenmore, who played Mary Jane, was nominated for a Young Artist Award in 1987 for her performance in this episode.)

1985|11|24}} LineColor = 58585C }} {{Episode listEpisodeNumber2 = 10 | Title = Ursa Minor | ShortSummary = A little girl blames her new teddy bear for various pranks in her parents' house. They do not believe her-until giant claw marks on the walls and lumbering sounds at night convince them. The mother destroys the teddy, but forgets one of the most basic rules of the wild-harm the child, and you must meet the mother...
Written and directed by Ted Gershuny, based on a story by John Sladek. | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1985|12|1}}		 LineColor = 58585C }} {{Episode listEpisodeNumber2 = 11 | Title = Effect and Cause | ShortSummary = A woman learns she can change the world around her at random, but soon loses control of events.
Written by Michael P. Kube-McDowell. | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1985|12|8}}		 LineColor = 58585C }} {{Episode listEpisodeNumber2 = 12 | Title = Monsters in My Room | ShortSummary = A little boy who fears an octopus, a living buzz saw, and a demon are in his room finds they are all too real.
Written and directed by James Sadwith and guest-starring Seth Green. | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1985|12|22}}		 LineColor = 58585C }} {{Episode listEpisodeNumber2 = 13 | Title = Comet Watch | ShortSummary = A man and his henpecking wife gets unexpected guests when Sir Edmond Halley and a young lady from the long-ago past on the night Halley's Comet appears.
Written by Harvey Jacobs and Jule Selbo. Guest-starring Fritz Weaver and Anthony Heald. | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1986|1|2}}		 LineColor = 58585C }} {{Episode listEpisodeNumber2 = 14 | Title = Dream Girl | ShortSummary = A theatrical director finds herself acting out the dreams of a meek stagehand along with her co-workers.
Written and directed by Timna Ramon, based on a short story by Barbara Paul. | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1986|1|19}}		 LineColor = 58585C }} {{Episode listEpisodeNumber2 = 15 | Title = A New Lease on Life | ShortSummary = A man gets the modern, fully equipped apartment of his dreams in exchange for providing his new landlady with lots of garbage.
Written by Harvey Jacobs and Michael McDowell. Guest-starring Marie Windsor. | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1986|1|26}}		 LineColor = 58585C }} {{Episode listEpisodeNumber2 = 16 | Title = Printer's Devil | ShortSummary = A writer learns that his new agent can make his novels succeed, and all he needs is a small sacrifice involving animals.
Written and directed by John Harrison, based on a story by Ron Goulart and guest-starring Larry Manetti. | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1986|2|2}}		 LineColor = 58585C }} {{Episode listEpisodeNumber2 = 17 | Title = The Shrine | ShortSummary = A woman competes against a little girl for the affection and attention of her own mother.
Written by Jule Selbo from a story by Pamela Sargent and guest-starring Lorna Luft. | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1986|2|9}}		 LineColor = 58585C }} {{Episode listEpisodeNumber2 = 18 | Title = The Old Soft Shoe | ShortSummary = A salesman hits on an attractive woman at a motel and is subsequently pursued by another angry, jealous woman.
Written by Art Monterastelli and guest-starring Paul Dooley. | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1986|2|16}}		 LineColor = 58585C }} {{Episode listEpisodeNumber2 = 19 | Title = The Last Car | ShortSummary = A young woman on her way home from college rides the last car of a train and discovers bizarre passengers.
Written by Michael McDowell.

(Note: The young boy, Scooter Stevens, was nominated for a Young Artist Award in 1987 for his performance in this episode.)

1986|2|23}} LineColor = 58585C }} {{Episode listEpisodeNumber2 = 20 | Title = A Choice of Dreams | ShortSummary = A mob boss with a terminal illness is offered the chance to experience his dreams after death.
Written by James Houghton from a story by Edward F. Shaver. Guest-starring Abe Vigoda. | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1986|5|4}}		 LineColor = 58585C }} {{Episode listEpisodeNumber2 = 21 | Title = Strange Love | ShortSummary = A doctor makes a late-night house call to fix a woman's leg and discovers that his patient and her husband are vampires.
Written by Edithe Swensen and guest-starring Marcia Cross. | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1986|5|11}}		 LineColor = 58585C }} {{Episode listEpisodeNumber2 = 22 | Title = The Unhappy Medium | ShortSummary = A recently deceased preacher leaves a video-taped will which tells his family that he will send them a sign.
Written by Edithe Swensen. Guest-starring Connie Stevens. | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1986|5|18}}		 LineColor = 58585C }} {{Episode listEpisodeNumber2 = 23 | Title = Fear of Floating | ShortSummary = A man who levitates whenever he lies tries to enlist in the Army, while hotly pursued by a young pregnant girl and her angry father.
Written by Donald Wollner from a story by Scott Edelman and guest-starring Yeardley Smith and Howard Sherman. | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1986|5|23}}		 LineColor = 58585C }} {{Episode listEpisodeNumber2 = 24 | Title = The Casavin Curse | ShortSummary = A family learns that their great-grandfather murdered his wife, resulting in a curse upon the family line.
Written by Edith Swensen. | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1986|7|13}}		 LineColor = 58585C }

Season 3 (1986–87)

No. in
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season		TitleOriginal air date{{Episode listEpisodeNumber2 = 1 | Title = The Circus | ShortSummary = An investigative journalist who enjoys debunking tales of the strange and bizarre investigates a circus that offers monsters on display.
Written by George A. Romero and guest-starring William Hickey. | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1986|9|28}}		 LineColor = AE181B }} {{Episode listEpisodeNumber2 = 2 | Title = I Can't Help Saying Goodbye | ShortSummary = Libby and her fiance Max notice that people keep dying after Libby's little sister Karen says goodbye to them; apparently, she can sense the impending death. In anger, they tell her not to say good-bye to anyone ever again.
Written by Jule Selbo, guest-starring Alison Sweeney and Brian Benben. | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1986|10|5}}		 LineColor = AE181B }} {{Episode listEpisodeNumber2 = 3 | Title = The Bitterest Pill | ShortSummary = The uncle of a mistreated boy develops a miraculous pill which increases brain power and memory, and comes to the boy's parents for financing; the boy takes the prototype and finally gets power over his parents.
Based on the short story "The Richest Man in Levittown" by Frederik Pohl, adapted by Michael P. Kube-McDowell. | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1986|10|12}}		 LineColor = AE181B }} {{Episode listEpisodeNumber2 = 4 | Title = Florence Bravo | ShortSummary = A couple moves into an old house in which a woman murdered her cheating husband. The spirit of the woman has been seeking company to ease her loneliness, so she decides to recreate the events by having the female real estate agent feel weak, forcing the husband to take her home. Pressured by the ghost, the wife overhears her husband talking to the woman the next day, mistaking their conversation as one about cheating on her; in reality, he decided the house is giving the wife's imagination too much to work with. When he tries explaining things to her, she is now fully under the ghost's sway and kills him in exactly the same spot as the ghost's husband.
Written by Edithe Swensen. | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1986|10|19}}		 LineColor = AE181B }} {{Episode listEpisodeNumber2 = 5 | Title = The Geezenstacks | ShortSummary = A little girl is given a dollhouse by her uncle, who tells her that he found it when the previous owners suddenly abandoned their home, leaving only the dollhouse behind. The girl's father soon notices that whatever happens to the new dolls happens to their family. The ending displays a unique variation on the Droste effect.
Based on the short story by Frederic Brown and adapted by Nancy Doyne. | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1986|10|26}}		 LineColor = AE181B }} {{Episode listEpisodeNumber2 = 6 | Title = Black Widows | ShortSummary = On her wedding night, a young woman discovers the reason for her mother's mysterious reclusiveness and a dark family secret.
Written by Michael McDowell and guest-starring Theresa Saldana. | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1986|11|2}}		 LineColor = AE181B }} {{Episode listEpisodeNumber2 = 7 | Title = Heretic | ShortSummary = A thief sells a stolen painting from the Spanish Inquisition to a wealthy art collector, who soon regrets his purchase when he discovers the world within the painting.
Written by Edithe Swensen. | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1986|11|9}}		 LineColor = AE181B }} {{Episode listEpisodeNumber2 = 8 | Title = A Serpent's Tooth | ShortSummary = A controlling mother is given the title item by a friend, causing her warnings and metaphors to come true. This forces her children to obey her; her son studies to be a dentist, while her daughter is forced to dress in outdated and feminine styled clothes. After she accidentally turns her daughter's boyfriend into a slice of bread, her children snap at her. The episode ends with the mother now a pilar of salt after saying to be turned into one if she was a terrible mother.
Written by Edithe Swensen and guest-starring Renee Taylor. | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1986|11|16}}		 LineColor = AE181B }} {{Episode listEpisodeNumber2 = 9 | Title = Baker's Dozen | ShortSummary = A voodoo witch opens a bakery, sells magic cookies and partners up with an unscrupulous advertising agent.
Written by George A. Romero and guest-starring Mabel King. | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1986|11|23}}		 LineColor = AE181B }} {{Episode listEpisodeNumber2 = 10 | Title = Deliver Us From Goodness | ShortSummary = A saintly woman tires of her goodness and seeks a fall from grace.
Story by Suzette Haden Elgin, written by Jule Selbo. | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1986|11|30}}		 LineColor = AE181B }} {{Episode listEpisodeNumber2 = 11 | Title = Seasons of Belief | ShortSummary = Two rowdy kids who don't believe in Santa Claus demand a story during Christmas, and their mean parents decide to tell them a different kind of Christmas story, a horrific tale of the monstrous "Grither."
Written and directed by Michael McDowell, story by Michael Bishop and guest-starring E.G. Marshall and Jenna Von Oy. | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1986|12|29}}		 LineColor = AE181B }} {{Episode listEpisodeNumber2 = 12 | Title = Miss May Dusa | ShortSummary = A woman who has no memory of her past befriends a saxophone player and slowly uncovers the truth behind the deaths she's accidentally caused everywhere she's been.
Written and directed by Richard Blackburn. | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1987|1|18}}		 LineColor = AE181B }} {{Episode listEpisodeNumber2 = 13 | Title = The Milkman Cometh | ShortSummary = A milkman (whom no one has ever actually seen) grants wishes to people if they leave him a note with their discarded bottles. To the horror of one man, he learns the milkman can mix up the meaning of the wishes if they're written metaphorically. This comes to haunt him when his wife (previously barren after their first child) gives birth again.
Written by Donald Wollner, based on the short story "Temperature Days on Hawthorne Street" by Charles L. Grant. Guest-starring Robert Forster and Chad Allen. | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1987|1|25}}		 LineColor = AE181B }} {{Episode listEpisodeNumber2 = 14 | Title = My Ghostwriter - The Vampire | ShortSummary = A horror writer discovers a real vampire in the coffin he bought for inspiration, and makes a deal with him to provide material for his novels.
Story by Scott Edelman, adapted by Peter O'Keefe. | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1987|2|1}}		 LineColor = AE181B }} {{Episode listEpisodeNumber2 = 15 | Title = My Own Place | ShortSummary = A yuppie gets his first apartment - with an unexpected roommate.
Written and directed by Ted Gershuny, co-written by and guest-starring Perry Lang. | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1987|2|8}}		 LineColor = AE181B }} {{Episode listEpisodeNumber2 = 16 | Title = Red Leader | ShortSummary = A wealthy and unscrupulous businessman strikes a deal with the Devil.
Written by Edithe Swensen. | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1987|2|15}}		 LineColor = AE181B }} {{Episode listEpisodeNumber2 = 17 | Title = Everybody Needs a Little Love | ShortSummary = A divorced and lonely man talks to and dotes over a mannequin he calls Estelle, while his friend begins to get concerned about his mental stability.
Based on the short story by Robert Bloch, adapted and directed by John Harrison (as John Sutherland), and guest-starring Jerry Orbach. | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1987|2|22}}		 LineColor = AE181B }} {{Episode listEpisodeNumber2 = 18 | Title = Auld Acquaintances | ShortSummary = Two ancient witches fight over an amulet yet again.
Written by Edithe Swensen. | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1987|3|1}}		 LineColor = AE181B }} {{Episode listEpisodeNumber2 = 19 | Title = The Social Climber | ShortSummary = A young shoemaker's assistant finds that he can actually live other people's lives by walking in their shoes.
Written by Ellen Sandhaus. | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1987|3|8}}		 LineColor = AE181B }} {{Episode listEpisodeNumber2 = 20 | Title = The Swap | ShortSummary = A woman decides to murder her wealthy husband for his money but her plans go horribly awry.
Written by Dick Benner. | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1987|5|3}}		 LineColor = AE181B }} {{Episode listEpisodeNumber2 = 21 | Title = Let the Games Begin | ShortSummary = An angel and a devil fight over a dead man's soul.
Written by Peter O'Keefe. | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1987|5|10}}		 LineColor = AE181B }} {{Episode listEpisodeNumber2 = 22 | Title = The Enormous Radio | ShortSummary = A couple purchases a new radio which transmits their neighbor's private discussions.
Written by Guy Gallo, story by John Cheever, and guest-starring Christine Estabrook. | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1987|5|17}}		 LineColor = AE181B
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Season 4 (1987–88)

No. in
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season		TitleOriginal air date{{Episode listEpisodeNumber2 = 1 | Title = Beetles | ShortSummary = An Egyptologist ignores a sarcophagus's warnings and unearths a curse.
Written by Robert Bloch and based on his short story and guest-starring Arnold Stang. | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1987|9|27}}		 LineColor = 62492f }} {{Episode listEpisodeNumber2 = 2 | Title = Mary, Mary | ShortSummary = An isolated woman who fears the world turns to her dolls and mannequins for friendship.
Written by Jule Selbo. | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1987|10|4}}		 LineColor = 62492f }} {{Episode listEpisodeNumber2 = 3 | Title = The Spirit Photographer | ShortSummary = A photographer decides to take photographs of ghosts.
Written by Mark Patrick Carducci and Brian Thomas Jones. | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1987|10|11}}		 LineColor = 62492f }} {{Episode listEpisodeNumber2 = 4 | Title = The Moth | ShortSummary = A dying woman is convinced that after death her soul will be trapped in a moth.
Written by Michael McDowell, Guest starring Debbie Harry. | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1987|10|18}}		 LineColor = 62492f }} {{Episode listEpisodeNumber2 = 5 | Title = No Strings | ShortSummary = A cruel mob boss (T.J. Castronova, who also executive-produced the series) forces a ventriloquist (Barry Dennen) to string up the corpse of his defeated rival as a puppet. A one-man show is held... with results that none involved had counted on.
Written and directed by David Odell (author of The Dark Crystal, in which Dennen lent his voice to the Skeksis Chamberlain). | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1987|10|25}}		 LineColor = 62492f }} {{Episode listEpisodeNumber2 = 6 | Title = The Grave Robber | ShortSummary = A pair of unscrupulous archaeologists unearth an Egyptian tomb of a prince and awaken the mummy Tapok (Arnold Stang), luring them into a game of strip poker to compete for their lives.
Written by Harvey Jacobs and Donald Wollner. Guest-starring Arnold Stang | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1987|11|1}}		 LineColor = 62492f }} {{Episode listEpisodeNumber2 = 7 | Title = The Yattering and Jack | ShortSummary = A minor demon named The Yattering (played by a moustachio-ed midget wearing a studded dogcollar and horns) is sent by Beelzebub to corrupt a man named Jack, but according to the rules, if the Yattering touches Jack, the demon then falls under the man's control. Complicating matters, the man refuses to believe the demon exists, though his daughter is with him when various poltergeist phenomena caused by the demon take place, including a Christmas turkey which flaps around and lands on the tip of the Xmas tree. The Yattering touches Jack by mistake and becomes the man's servant; the man says that his mother was a witch, which is why Hell wanted him damned so badly. Like Barker's original story, this is played for laughs.
Adapted for television by Clive Barker from his short story of the same name. | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1987|11|8}}		 LineColor = 62492f }} {{Episode listEpisodeNumber2 = 8 | Title = Seymourlama | ShortSummary = A nerdy and spoiled young boy is proclaimed the religious leader of a nation, but his parents want to know what the catch is. Written by Harvey Jacobs and Donald Wollner. Guest-starring David Gale and Divine. | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1987|11|15}} LineColor = 62492f }} {{Episode listEpisodeNumber2 = 9 | Title = Sorry, Right Number | ShortSummary = A woman receives a bizarre and frightening phone call and figures out its meaning too late.
Written by Stephen King. | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1987|11|22}}		 LineColor = 62492f }} {{Episode listEpisodeNumber2 = 10 | Title = Payment Overdue | ShortSummary = A heartless debt collection agent is harassed by a delinquent client from beyond the grave.
Written by Dick Benner. | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1988|2|14}}		 LineColor = 62492f }} {{Episode listEpisodeNumber2 = 11 | Title = Love Hungry | ShortSummary = An overweight woman goes to drastic measures to lose weight, but finds herself even more attached to her food than ever before. She received glasses and a hearing aid that show her food is sentient; to her horror, the items become fused to her head and she cannot remove them. Starved, she eats a banana and takes drastic action to stop eating. The next day, her body is found with her lips sewn shut.


Based on the short story "Food for Thought" by Roberts Gannaway. Written and directed by John Strysik, co-written by Jule Selbo. | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1988|2|21}}

 LineColor = 62492f }} {{Episode listEpisodeNumber2 = 12 | Title = The Deal | ShortSummary = A screenwriter makes a deal with Satan.
Written by Granville Burgess and Allen Coulter. Guest-starring Bradley Whitford. | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1988|2|28}}		 LineColor = 62492f }} {{Episode listEpisodeNumber2 = 13 | Title = The Apprentice | ShortSummary = A woman goes to work for a museum and is transported to the past and forced to work as a near-slave.
Written by Ellen Sandhaus. Guest-starring Haviland Morris and Wayne Tippit. | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1988|5|1}}		 LineColor = 62492f }} {{Episode listEpisodeNumber2 = 14 | Title = The Cutty Black Sow | ShortSummary = On Halloween, a boy is warned by his dying great-grandmother about the Cutty Black Sow, a Celtic demon that steals the souls of those who die on All Hallow's Eve, and tries to prevent it from getting hers.
Based on a story by Thomas F. Monteleone, adapted by Michael McDowell and guest-starring Paula Trueman. | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1988|5|8}}		 LineColor = 62492f }} {{Episode listEpisodeNumber2 = 15 | Title = Do Not Open This Box | ShortSummary = Charlie is a sweet-natured but unsuccessful inventor. His wife Ruth (an acid-tongued opportunist who sorely regrets her choice of spouse, and who is openly jealous of their well-to-do neighbor) takes advantage of a deliveryman's generosity, after the latter expresses his need for a mistakenly delivered item with the title warning inscribed on it. When it becomes evident that Ruth has no intention of returning the box, our deliveryman reveals his true identity. It doesn't help that Ruth has already opened the apparently empty box...or that the box in fact contained something which, literally, money cannot buy.
Written by Franco Amurri and directed by Jodie Foster and guest-starring Eileen Heckart. | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1988|5|15}}		 LineColor = 62492f }} {{Episode listEpisodeNumber2 = 16 | Title = Family Reunion | ShortSummary = A man guards his sick son closely and has sole custody, while the boy's worried mother desperately wants to be reunited with her child. Its later revealed the mother is a werewolf, and their son inherited her lycanthropy; she kills the father to reunite with her son, who has been unable to control his changes.
Written by Edithe Swensen, directed by Tom Savini, and guest-starring Patricia Tallman. | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1988|5|22}}		 LineColor = 62492f }} {{Episode listEpisodeNumber2 = 17 | Title = Going Native | ShortSummary = An alien visitor studies human nature as a photographer.
Written and directed by Ted Gershuny (who, the following year, collaborated with Tommy Lee Wallace on the script for Drew Barrymore's movie Far From Home) | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1988|6|19}}		 LineColor = 62492f }} {{Episode listEpisodeNumber2 = 18 | Title = Hush | ShortSummary = A child innocently builds a device that eats sound in order to make his mother happy, but soon loses control of the creepy machine (which silences things by sucking out their energy and killing them).
Based on a story by Zenna Henderson, adapted by John Harrison (under the name John Sutherland). | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1988|7|10}}		 LineColor = 62492f }} {{Episode listEpisodeNumber2 = 19 | Title = Barter | ShortSummary = A parody of I Love Lucy, an alien comes to a family's door asking for ammonia and hilarity ensues.
Written by Jule Selbo | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1988|7|17}}		 LineColor = 62492f }} {{Episode listEpisodeNumber2 = 20 | Title = Basher Malone | ShortSummary = A religious wrestler and his mother contend against a crooked fight manager, played by Vic Tayback, who holds ties to a devilish opponent.
Written by Peter O'Keefe. | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1988|7|24}}		 LineColor = 62492f }

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