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Tales From The Darkside: Season 2

Tales from the Darkside

Tales From The Darkside: Season 2

Paramount (1983)
DVD
TV Series | Drama | Horror | Suspense
USA | English | Color | 08:35

"Man lives in the sunlit world of what he believes to be reality. But... there is, unseen by most, an underworld, a place that is just as real, but not as brightly lit... a Darkside." This 30-minute horror/fantasy anthology series follows in the vein of The Twilight Zone. Each week presents another standalone story of horror fantasy, and/or science fiction. Some episodes are gruesome, a few are of a lighter comedic style. Like many such shows, Tales... adapted the work of famous genre authors of the period such as Harlan Ellison, Stephen King, and Clive Barker. Many episodes also featured veteran actors of the 40's and 50's that saw very little work in their later years. "The Darkside is always there waiting for us to enter; waiting to enter us. Until next time, try to enjoy the daylight."


Episodes View details

1 The Impressionist 23 min | Sep 26, 1985

Nightclub impressionist Spiffy Remo is blackmailed into helping the government establish communication with Hoffgosh, a seemingly hostile alien who holds the secret to nuclear fusion.

2 Lifebomb 30 min | Oct 06, 1985

A CEO working himself to death receives an offer of a special service designed to keep him alive.

3 Ring Around the Redhead 22 min | Oct 13, 1985

Death Row inmate Billy Malone tells a journalist of how he survived an earthquake and found a portal to another dimension. Out of that portal popped young Keena, whose ensuing relationship with Billy seals his fate.

4 Parlour Floor Front 22 min | Oct 20, 1985

After Linda, a landlady, speaks to her tenant, Mars Gillis, who she wants to move out of the parlour floor front apartment, bad things start happening all over the apartment she and her husband live in, and suspect it's Mars's voodoo.

5 Halloween Candy 22 min | Oct 27, 1985

Nasty 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.

6 The Satanic Piano 30 min | Nov 03, 1985

Struggling composer Pete Bancroft is contacted by strange Wilson Farber, who has invented a synthesizer that can read minds and may be able to help Bancroft in his career.

7 The Devil's Advocate 23 min | Nov 10, 1985

A hate-filled host of a radio call-in show discovers where his anger and cynicism leads.

8 Distant Signals 23 min | Nov 17, 1985

Mr. Smith is a cult follower of the failed 60's TV show MAX PARADISE and approaches Hollywood studio executives about recreating it, despite the reluctance of its now-alcoholic leading man Van Conway.

9 The Trouble with Mary Jane 22 min | Nov 24, 1985

Mrs. Knudsen enlists the aid of bumbling occult students Jack and Nora Mills to exorcise Aisha Candisha, the demon who is possessing her now-goat-footed daughter Mary Jane. The price? Fifty thousand dollars.

10 Ursa Minor 22 min | Dec 01, 1985

Richard and Joan's birthday gift for their daughter Susie is a large stuffed teddy bear ... or is it?

11 Effect and Cause 30 min | Dec 08, 1985

Artist Kate Collins is afraid to recycle her old canvasses by painting over them because she thinks doing so is bad karma. She soon learns that she has the power to change reality.

12 Monsters in My Room 22 min | Dec 22, 1985

Biff 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.

13 Comet Watch 30 min | Jan 12, 1986

An amateur astronomer makes a surprising discovery about Halley's Comet after a young woman falls out of his telescope.

14 Dream Girl 30 min | Jan 19, 1986

A theatrical director finds herself trapped along with her colleagues in a dreamlike world created by a stagehand.

15 A New Lease on Life 30 min | Jan 26, 1986

Archie Fenton moves into the St. George Apartments, where the lease has caveats: he must take out the trash every night, and he must not hang pictures on the walls. These aren't the only strange things about the St George.

16 Printer's Devil 30 min | Feb 02, 1986

A desperate, frustrated writer and auteur is convinced by a shady oversized producer to use animal sacrifices to become successful. Things don't go as planned.

17 The Shrine 30 min | Feb 09, 1986

Cecilia Matthews has turned her daughter Christine's bedroom into a shrine. But Christine didn't die; she merely suffered a nervous breakdown, has recovered, and is coming for a visit. But there's a new tenant.

18 The Old Soft Shoe 22 min | Feb 16, 1986

A traveling salesman has a ghostly date with an attractive woman in a motel, which turns ominous.

19 The Last Car 22 min | Feb 23, 1986

A 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.

20 A Choice of Dreams 30 min | May 04, 1986

Mobster Jake Corelli has terminal cancer. A stranger promises him his choice of dreams and power over death. The price is ten million dollars.

21 Strange Love 22 min | May 11, 1986

A doctor makes a house call and finds his patients are vampires

22 The Unhappy Medium 23 min | May 18, 1986

Televangelist Farley Bright, the founder of the Church of the Bright Tomorrow, has died recently. Three greedy relatives gather for the reading of his will. But Farley hasn't finished communicating with them yet.

23 Fear of Floating 30 min | May 25, 1986

At an Army recruiting station in Arizona, Arnold Barker asks for protection from the Coopers, who are trying to hold him hostage as "The Human Balloon" in their circus. However, the Coopers are nearby and have a different story to tell.

24 The Casavin Curse 30 min | Jul 13, 1986

Beautiful Gina Casavin claims to be under the spell of a decades-old family curse, because everyone with whom she falls in love dies mysteriously.

Cast View all

Paul Sparer Narrator
Penelope Ann Miller Keena
Carolyn Seymour Andrea Caldwell
Begonia Plaza Stacey
Catherine Battistone Person on Telephone
Patrick Farrelly Telephone Caller
Seth Green Timmy
John Heard Billy Malone
Paul Dooley Chester Caruso
Yeardley Smith Betty Ann Cooper
John Fiedler Arthur the hotel manager
Anthony Heald Englebert Ames
Timothy Carhart Richard
Leon Russom Sgt. Buzz Caldwell
Jerry Stiller Luther Mandrake
Patrick Kilpatrick Dr. Philip Carrol
Dominic Chianese Correlli's Father
David Margulies Gil Hurn
Abe Vigoda Jake Corelli
Gene Borkan Angel
Harsh Nayyar Edmund Alcott
Chuck McCann Spiffy Remo
Darren McGavin Van Conway
Lawrence Tierney Jack Mills
Sherman Howard Arnold Barker

Edition details

Nr Discs 1
Layers Single side, Single layer

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Location DVD Library
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