Tales from the Darkside - Episode Guide

Episode: 1x01 | Airdate: Sep 30, 1984

Episode: 1x02 | Airdate: Oct 7, 1984

A millionaire makes his fellow millionaire a deal: a million dollars for his soul. But when the second man dies, the Devil comes to collect what is due him.

Episode: 1x03 | Airdate: Oct 14, 1984

Episode: 1x04 | Airdate: Oct 21, 1984

An aging bookie finds himself in a battle of wills against a gambler who can't seem to lose.

Episode: 1x05 | Airdate: Nov 4, 1984

A bed-ridden boy with an interest in computers dies... and his twin sister discovers that he left instructions to let her bring him back as a computer.

Episode: 1x06 | Airdate: Nov 11, 1984

A young advertising executive discovers that he is slowly slipping out of reality as people forget him.

Episode: 1x07 | Airdate: Nov 18, 1984

A college anthopology professor takes on a female student a a boarder, and warns her to never open the closet.

Episode: 1x08 | Airdate: Nov 25, 1984

An semi-professional writer receives a homemade word processor from his dying nephew... and soon realizes that the boy has endowed it with the power to change the world.

Episode: 1x09 | Airdate: Dec 2, 1984

A family's grandfather decides that he's not dead... even though he is.

Episode: 1x10 | Airdate: Jan 13, 1985

A young couple find a magical lamp that contains a genie... but he is onyl interested in making their lives miserable.

Episode: 1x11 | Airdate: Jan 20, 1985

Episode: 1x12 | Airdate: Jan 27, 1985

A disreputable fortuneteller finds herself cursed with a card that predicts death... and she can't get rid of it.

Episode: 1x13 | Airdate: Feb 3, 1985

An elderly country couple invite a young hitchhiker to dinner.

Episode: 1x14 | Airdate: Feb 10, 1985

Episode: 1x15 | Airdate: Feb 17, 1985

Episode: 1x16 | Airdate: Feb 24, 1985

Episode: 1x17 | Airdate: May 5, 1985

Episode: 1x18 | Airdate: May 12, 1985

Episode: 1x19 | Airdate: May 19, 1985

Two teenagers go to the circus to see a magician with a unique levitation act.

Episode: 1x20 | Airdate: May 26, 1985

Episode: 1x21 | Airdate: Jun 9, 1985

Episode: 1x22 | Airdate: Jun 16, 1985

Episode: 1x23 | Airdate: Aug 4, 1985

Episode: 2x01 | Airdate: Sep 29, 1985

Episode: 2x02 | Airdate: Oct 6, 1985

Episode: 2x03 | Airdate: Oct 13, 1985

Episode: 2x04 | Airdate: Oct 20, 1985

Episode: 2x05 | Airdate: Oct 27, 1985

A miser who refuses to give out Halloween candy finds himself trapped in his house with no escape... and the food running out.

Episode: 2x06 | Airdate: Nov 3, 1985

An inventor offers a fading composer a way to create the music that he's always dreamed of... at a price he may not wish to pay.

Episode: 2x07 | Airdate: Nov 10, 1985

An abrasive radio talk show host discovers that he's been selected to broadcast to a unique audience.

Episode: 2x08 | Airdate: Nov 17, 1985

A mysterious investor attempts to revive an obscure TV show from the 60s... and is willing to pay in gold bars to do it.

Episode: 2x09 | Airdate: Nov 24, 1985

Two bickering occultists could be $50,000 richer, that is, if they can work together successfully to exorcise a possessed girl.

Episode: 2x10 | Airdate: Dec 1, 1985

Episode: 2x11 | Airdate: Dec 8, 1985

Episode: 2x12 | Airdate: Dec 22, 1985

A stepfather believes that his son is making up stories about the monsters hiding in his room.

Episode: 2x13 | Airdate: Jan 12, 1986

Episode: 2x14 | Airdate: Jan 19, 1986

Episode: 2x15 | Airdate: Jan 26, 1986

A young man moves into an apartment that later takes on a frightening characteristics whenever he breaks the landlady's rules.

Episode: 2x16 | Airdate: Feb 2, 1986

Episode: 2x17 | Airdate: Feb 9, 1986

Episode: 2x18 | Airdate: Feb 16, 1986

Episode: 2x19 | Airdate: Feb 23, 1986

Episode: 2x20 | Airdate: May 4, 1986

Episode: 2x21 | Airdate: May 11, 1986

Episode: 2x22 | Airdate: May 18, 1986

Episode: 2x23 | Airdate: May 25, 1986

Episode: 2x24 | Airdate: Jul 13, 1986

Episode: 3x01 | Airdate: Sep 28, 1986

A journalist tries to prove that the freaks at a sideshow are fakes.

Episode: 3x02 | Airdate: Oct 5, 1986

A young girl is cursed: anyone she says goodbye to soon dies.

Episode: 3x03 | Airdate: Oct 12, 1986

Episode: 3x04 | Airdate: Oct 19, 1986

Episode: 3x05 | Airdate: Oct 26, 1986

Episode: 3x06 | Airdate: Nov 2, 1986

Episode: 3x07 | Airdate: Nov 9, 1986

A mysterious monk comes to visit an art dealer who has picked up a painting of the Inquisition on the black market.

Episode: 3x08 | Airdate: Nov 16, 1986

Episode: 3x09 | Airdate: Nov 23, 1986

Episode: 3x10 | Airdate: Nov 30, 1986

Episode: 3x11 | Airdate: Dec 29, 1986

A grandfather entertains his grandchildren on Christmas Eve with the tale of a creature that comes from the North Pole looking for bad boys and girls.

Episode: 3x12 | Airdate: Jan 18, 1987

Episode: 3x13 | Airdate: Jan 25, 1987

Episode: 3x14 | Airdate: Feb 1, 1987

Episode: 3x15 | Airdate: Feb 8, 1987

Episode: 3x16 | Airdate: Feb 15, 1987

Episode: 3x17 | Airdate: Feb 22, 1987

Episode: 3x18 | Airdate: Mar 1, 1987

Episode: 3x19 | Airdate: Mar 8, 1987

Episode: 3x20 | Airdate: May 3, 1987

Episode: 3x21 | Airdate: May 10, 1987

Episode: 3x22 | Airdate: May 17, 1987

Episode: 4x01 | Airdate: Sep 27, 1987

Episode: 4x02 | Airdate: Oct 4, 1987

Episode: 4x03 | Airdate: Oct 11, 1987

Episode: 4x04 | Airdate: Oct 18, 1987

Episode: 4x05 | Airdate: Oct 25, 1987

Episode: 4x06 | Airdate: Nov 1, 1987

Episode: 4x07 | Airdate: Nov 8, 1987

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.

Episode: 4x08 | Airdate: Nov 15, 1987

Episode: 4x09 | Airdate: Nov 22, 1987

Episode: 4x10 | Airdate: Feb 14, 1988

Episode: 4x11 | Airdate: Feb 21, 1988

Episode: 4x12 | Airdate: Feb 28, 1988

Episode: 4x13 | Airdate: May 1, 1988

Episode: 4x14 | Airdate: May 8, 1988

Episode: 4x15 | Airdate: May 15, 1988

Episode: 4x16 | Airdate: May 22, 1988

Episode: 4x17 | Airdate: Jun 19, 1988

Episode: 4x18 | Airdate: Jul 10, 1988

Episode: 4x19 | Airdate: Jul 17, 1988

Episode: 4x20 | Airdate: Jul 23, 1988

Episode: S01 Special | Airdate: Oct 29, 1983 (22 min)

Episode: S04 Special | Airdate: May 4, 1990 (90 min)

Episode: S05 Special | Airdate: Oct 19, 2010 (22 min)

Episode: S05 Special | Airdate: Oct 19, 2010 (22 min)