Tales from the Darkside Season 2 Episode 8
A famous director is surprised when he is approached by a mysterious investor who wants him to finish up a “”Fugitive””-like series that he had done twenty years ago that…
Tales from the Darkside Season 2 Episode 7
A hate-style radio host, Mandrake, spews out venom at anyone who calls in. He soon discovers, however, after receiving calls across all of time that he is dead but that…
Tales from the Darkside Season 2 Episode 6
Pete Bancroft is a talented pianist who has lost his inspiration, but is contacted by a mysterious inventor who gives him a piano that lets him play as never before…
Tales from the Darkside Season 2 Episode 5
A mean old man harboring an intense hatred for the celebration of Halloween is left alone by his son to hand out candy to the neighborhood children. The old man…
Tales from the Darkside Season 2 Episode 4
A woman becomes concerned when she discovers that a man that she and her husband rent a room to has been practicing voodoo. Although the man is good intentioned and…
Tales from the Darkside Season 2 Episode 3
As Billy is waiting to be executed in the electric chair, he relates the bizarre tale of how he came to be in his predicament at the hands of an…
Tales from the Darkside Season 2 Episode 2
Ben Martin, a rich businessman, is contacted by a special medical firm, “”Lifebomb”” which offers him an expensive policy that will let him live forever. They give him an implanted…
Tales from the Darkside Season 2 Episode 1
An impressionist, “Mr. Personalities,” is brought in by the government to try to help them communicate with an alien. Mr. Personalities is at first stumped but finally makes “contact.” The…
Tales from the Darkside Season 1 Episode 23
Cassie Pines is a woman travelling on her own who believes in astrology, tea leaves…everything. She comes into a diner with a most unusual mechanical fortune teller named Horace X….
Tales from the Darkside Season 1 Episode 22
Given one last wish to enliven her days before she is moved into the Tranquil Gardens retirement home, elderly Grandma sees to it that her self-centered family finds out what…
Tales from the Darkside Season 1 Episode 21
Mr. Bigalow, a lifelong cigarette smoker, wakes up to find that his windows have bars on them and his door is sealed shut. A mysterious figure appears on Bigalow’s television,…
Tales from the Darkside Season 1 Episode 20
Henry, a greedy developers, stumbles upon a Chinese laundry that offers a unique service – it can “”wash out”” guilt. Henry employs their services but soon finds there is a…
Tales from the Darkside Season 1 Episode 19
A teenager enraptured with magicians goes to a flee-bitten circus to seek out one of the greater: Kharma. However, Kharma now does cheap magic for the crowds, and none of…
Tales from the Darkside Season 1 Episode 18
Fast-talking politician Bo Gumbs finds himself in serious trouble when he arrives for a meeting and waits at a nearby hotel.
Tales from the Darkside Season 1 Episode 17
Cathy Osborne brings her husband up to a previously-unknown room in their house and along with her friend Michael, relates the tale of how the room is the “”madness room””…
Tales from the Darkside Season 1 Episode 16
Prudence is a young woman who can’t stop crying, but finds a peculiar way to make a profit when she meets Ambrose Cavender, a man who collects tears.
Tales from the Darkside Season 1 Episode 15
Joan is apartment-sitting for a friend but finds herself tormented by a phone that won’t stop ringing.
Tales from the Darkside Season 1 Episode 14
A warlock and a witch get into a battle over a $10 million lottery ticket when each claims that the spirits gave them the winning number.
Tales from the Darkside Season 1 Episode 13
A young girl fleeing her boyfriend finds herself in a small country home with a genial older couple. They take pity on her and invite her in, and even invite…
Tales from the Darkside Season 1 Episode 12
A fake fortuneteller, Caterina, soon finds that every fortune she tells comes true…but she can only predict gruesome and horrific ends for her customers. She soon discovers that another cursed…
Tales from the Darkside Season 1 Episode 11
Leon, a hapless TV writer, buys an answering machine that has a mind of its own – it initially helps him out by providing him with new material, but Leon…
Tales from the Darkside Season 1 Episode 10
A couple inadvertently buy a magic lamp that contains a genie. Unfortunately, the genie is anything but amiably. Confined in the lamp for thousands of years and still trapped, he…
Tales from the Darkside Season 1 Episode 9
In the backwoods, a family patriarch dies…only to come back, unaware that he’s dead. The townspeople are up in arms, but the old man is too stubborn to admit he’s…
Tales from the Darkside Season 1 Episode 8
Richard Hagstrom is dismayed with the way life has treated him (a rude son, a shrewish wife). His nephew Jonathan gives him a birthday present: a homemade word processor. Hagstrom…
Tales from the Darkside Season 1 Episode 7
A student takes a room with an abrupt, somewhat rude anthropology professor. He instructs her never to open the small door in the back of her closet. Hearing strange noises,…
Tales from the Darkside Season 1 Episode 6
A young ad-design artist begins to literally “”slip”” out of reality. Slowly but surely he seems to be fading out of existence: first his payroll checks disappear, then his high…
Tales from the Darkside Season 1 Episode 5
Twin siblings, Mookie and Pookie, are extremely close. But Mookie has a terminal illness. Later the scientific genius Mookie succesfully downloads his mind into the computer before he dies. But…
Tales from the Darkside Season 1 Episode 4
Tommy Vale, a barroom bookie finds himself in a curious predicament: a man comes in who can’t lose. As the story unravels, he finds out that his opponent is Lacey,…
Tales from the Darkside Season 1 Episode 3
Harvey goes to Dr. Roebuck with back pains and Roebuck prescribes a miraculous cure. It’s not until later that Harvey finds the price he must pay…
Tales from the Darkside Season 1 Episode 2
Two old, rich men like to wager among themselves on trivial matters for huge amounts. One of them, Williams, offers his friend a million dollars for his immortal soul. Blaine…
Tales from the Darkside Season 1 Episode 1
A recovering alcoholic is disturbed to find a young boy who shows up at his office claiming to be his son Jerry. The man is further angered when the boy…
Spitting Image Season 1 Episode 2
Thatcher is seranaded by her Cabinet in the back garden of Number 10 while Mary Whitehose strengthens her convictions about how awful Spitting Image really is. Dylan is still protesting…
Spitting Image Season 1 Episode 1
While Margaret Thatcher impersonates the Queen, can Joan collins really be in bed with John McEnroe? As Bob Dylan protests against the use of cheese, Mick Jagger gets in trouble…
Shaka Zulu Season 1 Episode 10
A long-ago foretold prophecy comes to pass when a proposal to negotiate a peaceful alliance between the Zulu Empire and Great Britain fails. Zulu Queen Mother Nandi finally dies, and…
Shaka Zulu Season 1 Episode 9
After burying the dead, Farewell asks for help in building a boat to return to Cape Town. Shaka agrees, but he keeps with him most of the party —including Dr….
Shaka Zulu Season 1 Episode 8
Farewell and his men establish Port Natal on the coast. However, the men are restless, and they wish to return home, but Shaka forces them to join him in a…
Shaka Zulu Season 1 Episode 7
Farewell and his men become Shaka’s guests. Shaka is severely wounded during an assassination attempt and Dr. Fynn saves his life. In gratitude, Shaka gives Farewell both land and permission…
Shaka Zulu Season 1 Episode 6
Shaka goes deep into the Nkandla forest and asks a blacksmith to forge a stabbing spear, named “ixwa.” Shaka returns to his regiment and convinces the king that his new…
Shaka Zulu Season 1 Episode 5
Shaka has grown into a fine young man. Senzangakona invites him to return to Zululand and become his heir. Shaka returns but disrupts a ceremony and is forced to flee…
Shaka Zulu Season 1 Episode 4
Nandi’s father demands that the Zulu recognize Nandi and the baby Shaka. Senzangakona, now king of the Zulu, takes her as his wife. However, he continually abuses Nandi, until one…