Tales from the Darkside - Season 2
Season 2
Network
Episodes24
Datessept. 29, 1985 - juil. 13, 1986
Episodes
Season 2Episode 130 min
The Impressionist
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 alien departs and Mr. Personalities is depressed...until the alien returns for him.
sept. 29, 1985
Season 2Episode 230 min
Lifebomb
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 device which, every time he ""dies,"" activates and places him in a cocoon until the corporation can arrive and revive him. His wife soon leaves him and since Ben is close to death, the Lifebomb goes off constantly. Tired of life, he finds that he is trapped since Lifebomb refuses to call off the policy so that they can make money off of him.
oct. 6, 1985
Season 2Episode 330 min
Ring Around the Redhead
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 attractive woman.
oct. 13, 1985
Season 2Episode 430 min
Parlour Floor Front
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 kind, the woman regards him as a threatening and undesirable tenant. The husband sees the man as a well meaning and harmless, albeit strange individual, a view that is contradictory to his wife's feelings. She decides to hatch a plot to expel the man from her building. When the child that she has been pregnant with miscarries and her cat turns up dead, she blames the incidents on the black magic of the tenant. Guilt-ridden, the tenant hangs himself in his room. When the husband confronts the wife about the incident, the truth soon reveals itself. It was the wife that caused the miscarriage and killed the couple's cat. Disgusted by her malicious actions, the husband leaves her. Later that night, while in bed, the woman is woken by the sound of horrific groans coming up the stairs to her room....
oct. 20, 1985
Season 2Episode 530 min
Halloween Candy
A miser who refuses to give out Halloween candy finds himself trapped in his house with no escape... and the food running out.
oct. 27, 1985
Season 2Episode 630 min
The Satanic Piano
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.
nov. 3, 1985
Season 2Episode 730 min
The Devil's Advocate
An abrasive radio talk show host discovers that he's been selected to broadcast to a unique audience.
nov. 10, 1985
Season 2Episode 830 min
Distant Signals
A mysterious investor attempts to revive an obscure TV show from the 60s... and is willing to pay in gold bars to do it.
nov. 17, 1985
Season 2Episode 930 min
The Trouble with Mary Jane
Two bickering occultists could be $50,000 richer, that is, if they can work together successfully to exorcise a possessed girl.
nov. 24, 1985
Season 2Episode 1030 min
Ursa Minor
When Joan finds a new teddy bear in her son's room no one seems to know where it came from. Then night after night huge claw marks are found on the walls and the sounds of something very large can be heard moving through the house. It seems that this little bear has a murderous life all its own...
déc. 1, 1985
Season 2Episode 1130 min
Effect and Cause
Kate wakes up and discovers that for unknown reasons, her life is now running backwards.
déc. 8, 1985
Season 2Episode 1230 min
Monsters in My Room
A stepfather believes that his son is making up stories about the monsters hiding in his room.
déc. 22, 1985
Season 2Episode 1330 min
Comet Watch
Englebert Ames, an astronomer, is watching Hailey's Comet and is in for a shock when Sir Edmond Hailey himself arrives - he's been riding ""his"" comet all these years trying to elude Sarah, the woman pursuing him out of obsessed love.
janv. 12, 1986
Season 2Episode 1430 min
Dream Girl
A group of people find themselves trapped in a scenario with Otto, only to discover that he is a stagehand and they are a theater group all trapped in his dream.
janv. 19, 1986
Season 2Episode 1530 min
A New Lease on Life
A young man moves into an apartment that later takes on a frightening characteristics whenever he breaks the landlady's rules.
janv. 26, 1986
Season 2Episode 1630 min
Printer's Devil
Junior Harman is a third-rate writer who discovers that his new agent, Mr. Kellaway, can make things happen for him. All it requires is a little blood - a few animals, the occasional bum... Junior is reluctant to go along but he soon finds he has no choice in the matter.
févr. 2, 1986
Season 2Episode 1730 min
The Shrine
A young woman, Christine, returns home to find her mother cold and distant, and living isolated from everyone else. The woman soon discovers that her mother has summoned up...Chrissie - Christine as a young girl, before she moved away and gained a life of her own. Christine soon finds there is no way she can compete with her mother's idealized image of herself.
févr. 9, 1986
Season 2Episode 1830 min
The Old Soft Shoe
Salesman Chester checks into a motel and makes an off-hand pass at a woman. She rejects him, but soon another, jealous woman shows up to haunt him.
févr. 16, 1986
Season 2Episode 1930 min
The Last Car
Stacey is on her way home from college and rides the last car on a train. She is soon perplexed by the bizarre behavior of her fellow passengers, including a woman who knows her name despite the fact they've never met. Stacey soon discovers that she, and everyone else, are dead and on a one-way trip from which there is no escape.
févr. 23, 1986
Season 2Episode 2030 min
A Choice of Dreams
A mob boss suffering from a terminal illness is visited by an odd man who claims that he has the ability to offer the dying a choice of dreams after death. The mob boss is skeptical at first and threatens to kill the man for insulting his intelligence. After some contemplation, he accepts the man's offer and subjects to his medical experimentations. At first, the boss experiences nothing but pleasant memories. However, after a few days, memories of the people he has destroyed through his evil and ruthless lifestyle begin to creep into his dreams. The mob boss reports these dreams to the man and demands that these images not recur after he dies. The man assures the mob boss that the disturbing memories are only a momentary side effect that will subside after further medical alterations. As the mob boss subjects himself to the final operation which will complete the procedure, the horrible memories become permanent, completely taking the place of the pleasant ones. Inside the mob boss's
mai 4, 1986
Season 2Episode 2130 min
Strange Love
Dr. Carrol visits the Alcotts and discovers that they are vampire and that wife Marie wants an escape.
mai 11, 1986
Season 2Episode 2230 min
The Unhappy Medium
The family of a dead preacher show up for a reading of the will but discovers he left them nothing specific. Rather, he warns them on his video-taped will that he will send them a sign.
mai 18, 1986
Season 2Episode 2330 min
Fear of Floating
A hapless yokel, Arnold, runs into an Army recruiting office and asks for help, claiming to float. It turns out that he's telling the truth, but then Mr. Cooper and his pregnant daughter (pregnant by Arnold) show up and demand he do the right thing - it turns out that the more Arnold lies, the more he floats.
mai 25, 1986
Season 2Episode 2430 min
The Casavin Curse
A family finds themselves cursed because of their great grandfather killing his wife, and the curse won't die until they all die too and there is no one else to carry on his name.
juil. 13, 1986
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