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Tales from the Darkside Season 2 Episodes
Season 2 Episode Guide
24 Episodes 1985 - 1986
Episode 1
The Impressionist
Thu, Sep 26, 198523 mins
Spiffy Remo is a perfectionist nightclub impressionist enjoyed by his loyal audience. One night, the government Pudgy takes Remo to a secret base and D. Coe shows him an alien locked in a room. He explains that they need him to make contact with the alien, who has the knowledge of the nuclear fusion, to learn his secrets. Remo refuses but is blackmailed by Pudgy and gets close to the alien.
Episode 2
Lifebomb
Sun, Oct 6, 198530 mins
The president of a company, Ben Martin, receives the visit of the salesman Henry Harris that offers a new product, offered for free by the insurance company, to avoid his death. When he has a heart attack, he calls Henry and accepts the device, but there is a high cost to be paid.
Episode 3
Ring Around the Redhead
Sun, Oct 13, 198522 mins
The inventor Billy Malone is on death row, and journalist Adele asks for an interview in his cell, six hours before the execution by electrocution using an electric chair. He explains that after an earthquake, a ring appeared in his basement, and soon he learned that he could "fish" things from other dimensions and planets. He shows a ruby that he had picked up to his scum acquaintance, Jimbo, and the greedy Jimbo wants to join him and pick up more, but Billy refuses. On his 150th experiment, Billy brings a female alien, Keena, through who is also an inventor from an advanced civilization and capable of stopping time, and soon they fall in love with each other. But Jimbo comes to the basement to steal the ring, and soon he hurts people from other dimensions. He returns, asking Billy to take the ring back to his basement, but out of the blue, Jimbo, Keena and the ring vanish. Billy is accused of killing Jimbo by his neighbors that overheard their argument; and Keena, that could clear him, has not returned. Now, he is sentenced to die.
Episode 4
Parlour Floor Front
Sun, Oct 20, 198522 mins
The couple Linda and Doug are renovating the apartment of the townhouse they have bought and now are living. However, in the parlour floor lives the former janitor Mars Gillis, who is now their tenant. Linda wants to get rid of Mars, despite her husband does not have any objection to his tenant that is a hard worker and helps him in the renovation, receiving minimum wage. Linda leaves a paint bucket on the floor of her apartment and Mars trips while carrying an antique and she asks Doug to charge him for breaking the statue. Doug is forced to charge and offers to split the cost with his tenant. Then Linda learns that Mars uses voodoo to help his friends, and weird things happen with them. First, she falls off her painting ladder and tells that she has lost her baby. Then Doug harms his arm. Linda accuses Mars of cursing Doug and she and gives her gold ring to Mars undo his voodoo curse. However, Mars commits suicide instead and then Linda confesses to Doug that she lied about all her accusations. Doug decides to leave his wife and Linda decides to retrieve her ring from Mars' parlour floor.
Episode 5
Halloween Candy
Sun, Oct 27, 198522 mins
The grumpy Mr. Killup is a disgusting old man and a sloppy father. His son Michael was raised with a grudge, but now helps his father. In the Halloween night, he buys candies for Mr. Killup to give to the children, but the old man decides to mock the children instead. But this year he taunts the wrong visitor.
Episode 6
The Satanic Piano
Sun, Nov 3, 198530 mins
The successful and arrogant composer Pete Bancroft is incapable of creating good new songs and his failure is affecting his relationship with his daughter Justine and his agent and friend Tony. Out of the blue, he is contacted by a stranger named Wilson Farber that tells him that he has something that can improve his career. Pete meets him and learns that he has invented a synthesizer capable to play what the composer is thinking and offers to lend it to Pete. What he does not know is that the instrument is connected to the devil.
Episode 7
The Devil's Advocate
Sun, Nov 10, 198523 mins
The notorious Luther Mandrake is a host of a radio show. When he arrives late in the radio station, he blames a dead body in a car parked in his parking slot. He begins his show insulting the callers until he recalls where the radio station is.
Episode 8
Distant Signals
Sun, Nov 17, 198523 mins
The stranger Mr. Smith seeks out the agent of the director Gil Hurn in Hollywood and offers a little fortune in gold to contact him. He explains that his investors are people that miss the failed TV show Max Paradise that was interrupted thirteen years ago and now they intend to offer a fortune in gold to produce the sequence based on his screenplay. But the greatest problem is the lead actor Van Conway that is now an alcoholic bartender. Mr. Smith contacts Van Conway and offers him a pill that transforms him in a non-alcoholic man with willpower again. Then they start the aimed sequence of the black and white show.
Episode 9
The Trouble with Mary Jane
Sun, Nov 24, 198522 mins
Mrs. Knudsen summons the clairvoyants Jack Mills and Nora Mills to perform and exorcism in her possessed granddaughter Mary Jane and promises fifty thousand dollars if they succeed. The couple learns that Mary Jane is possessed by the demon Aisha Candisha and they unsuccessfully try techniques to exorcise the girl. Jack has the idea of summoning the powerful demon Gad to expel Aisha Candisha from Mary Jane, but the girl becomes possessed by the two demons instead. What will Jack and Nora Mills do next?
Episode 10
Ursa Minor
Sun, Dec 1, 198522 mins
On the day of her birthday, the girl Susie awakes with a teddy bear at her side on the bed, but her father Richard does not have any recollection of giving the toy to his daughter. Soon, Susie's mother Joan notes that Susie blames the teddy bear for any damage or mischief at home, irritating her. She becomes nervous with the lies that Susie is telling, but soon she learns that they are not lies.
Episode 11
Effect and Cause
Sun, Dec 8, 198530 mins
The aspirant painter Kate Collins lives in a chaotic life style, and meets frequently her friend, the school teacher David, at home. When she has an accident at the stairway of her apartment, her sister Janet helps her. One day, she finds that she has the ability to change reality and her life turns upside down.
Episode 12
Monsters in My Room
Sun, Dec 22, 198522 mins
The little Timmy is a sensitive boy and nerd that is very close to his mother Helen. His stepfather Biff works in a ship and rarely sees his family, and expects that Timmy likes football and other manhood habits. But Timmy finds monsters in his room, but neither Helen nor Biff believe him.
Episode 13
Comet Watch
Sun, Jan 12, 198630 mins
Englebert Ames loves astronomy and his idol is Sir Edmund Halley. On the night that the Halley Comet will pass near Earth, his annoying wife Charlene wishes to have dinner with her father. Englebert decides to stay at home and out of the blue, a woman arrives in his room through his telescope. Soon, Sir Edmund Halley also comes looking for the woman named Lara Burns. Englebert learns that Lara loves astronomy and accidentally joined Halley on the comet through a window that opens every 75.8 years and they shall return in a short time. But things get more complicated when Charlene comes to the room.
Episode 14
Dream Girl
Sun, Jan 19, 198630 mins
The theater director Andrea Caldwell learns that the playmate Didi, the electrician Joe D'Amico and her friend Syd Grossinger have vanished. Out of the blue, she finds all of them being humiliated by the janitor Otto Schrog, who is now a powerful man. Soon she finds that they are trapped in his dream and they need to wake him up to get rid of the situation.
Episode 15
A New Lease on Life
Sun, Jan 26, 198630 mins
Archie Fenton moves to the well located building St. George and the employees Al and Mac brings his few belongings to the apartment. Soon the super Madame Angler arrives and gives instructions to him. He should not drill the walls to hang pictures and he should dispose the organic trash in the disposal area every night. Soon he meets his next door neighbor Helen Tanner that advises him to leave the apartment asap, but Archie says that he would stay since the lease is only two hundred dollars. But soon he finds dark secrets about St. George.
Episode 16
Printer's Devil
Sun, Feb 2, 198630 mins
Junior P. Hammon is a failed writer fighting to survive. One day, he overhears an advertisement on the radio and decides to visit the producer Alex Kellaway, who promises that Hammon will become successful provided he follows his instructions. Hammon accepts the deal and Kellaway demands the sacrifice of animals. The successful Hammon changes his lifestyle and lives with his editor Brenda Hardcastle, who is tired of the frequent animals he receives from Kellaway. Hammon decides to break the contract with Kellaway and soon he returns to the poverty. He excuses to Kellaway but now he needs to pay a higher price to return to his former triumphant life.
Episode 17
The Shrine
Sun, Feb 9, 198630 mins
Six years after having a breakdown, Christine returns to her mother's home in a stormy night. She is welcomed by her mother and is invited to spend the night in the guest room. She snoops around and finds that her old room is kept the way she left it and later Christine overhears voices inside the room. She opens the door and sees a young girl named Chrissy living in her room. Who might be Chrissy?
Episode 18
The Old Soft Shoe
Sun, Feb 16, 198622 mins
The traveling salesman of lingerie Chester Caruso arrives in a low-budget hotel in a windy night and hits on the guest Carol that checks-in the last available room. Chester offers an overprice to the hotel manager Arthur and he says that he has only the room number 7 that is usually locked closed. But Chester convinces Arthur to spend the night in the room. Soon a mysterious woman arrives in the room and Chester talks and dances with her, with tragic consequences.
Episode 19
The Last Car
Sun, Feb 23, 198622 mins
The college student Stacey comes to a small train station to travel home for Thanksgiving, and notes a different train schedule. She buys a two-way ticket and embarks on the last car of the train. She notes that there are only three passengers in the car despite the others cars being crowded. The passengers are an old lady named Mrs. Crane, an old man and a restless boy, and they are all afraid of the tunnels. Stacey decides to move to another car and finds that the communicating door is closed. When the conductor arrives, he returns an one-way ticket to Stacey and does not allow her to move to another car. What is happening in the last car?
Episode 20
A Choice of Dreams
Sun, May 4, 198630 mins
The cruel and ruthless mobster boss Jake Corelli is informed by his doctor that he has a terminal cancer. When the doctor leaves his office, the mysterious scientist Michaelson arrives and tells Corelli that he has an equipment that will allow him to dream selected dreams in the afterlife and the price is ten-million dollars. The reluctant Corelli decides to pay for the dreams and asks his best friend and bodyguard Angelo to bring the money. Then he goes to Michaelson's and learns the dreams he will have forever.
Episode 21
Strange Love
Sun, May 11, 198622 mins
When Marie Alcott twists her ankle while dancing at home, her husband Edmund Alcott seeks out the young Dr. Philip Carrol and asks him to go to his home to treat Marie. Dr. Carrol is impressed with her beauty and soon he finds that they are vampires. Edmund keeps Philip chained to the wall to heal Marie, and he treats her with and he treats her with chivalry. Soon they fall in love with each other, but Edmund is a very possessive male. What will happen with the trio?
Episode 22
The Unhappy Medium
Sun, May 18, 198623 mins
When the founder and leader of the Church of the Bright Tomorrow Farley Bright dies, his greedy sister Caroline Bright and his protégé Jonathan Reed look for his will in his house. His niece Jenny has exposed him as a fake-medium and does not have any ambition in his money or real estate. Out of the blue, Farley uses Jenny to communicate with Caroline and neither heaven nor hell accepts him. What will happen next?
Episode 23
Fear of Floating
Sun, May 25, 198630 mins
In Arizona, Sgt. Buzz Caldwell and Cpl. Marcia Smith are surprised when a man named Arnold Barker comes into Army recruiting station they are responsible for asking for protection. He claims that he has been working in the local circus as the Human Balloon and now the Coopers want to promote him to the lead attraction and do not want to let him go. He takes his heavy shoes off and start to float in the station. Sgt. Caldwell tells that he can only protect him if he enlists the army. When the Coopers arrive in the station, they disclose a totally different story and soon Marcia and Buzz know who is telling the truth.
Episode 24
The Casavin Curse
Sun, Jul 13, 198630 mins
When the lover of the beautiful and wealthy Gina Casavin is found dead on her bed strangled and stabbed, Police Lieutenant Wright and the psychiatrist Dr. Jeffrey Webster attend the call and analyze the crime scene. Gina blames an ancient gypsy course in her family for the death of her lover, but her cousin Nicholas becomes the prime suspect based on information provided by the maid Miranda Dean. Dr. Webster meets Gina several times to convince her that the curse does not exist, and they fall in love with each other. But soon Dr. Webster learns the secret of the gypsy curse.
