Tales From The Darkside
I absolutely love this show. I woke up late for work today because my alarm clock mysteriously didn’t work. I guess it’s about time to invest in a new one. Anyway, while I was working the TV spent the day on the Sci-Fi channel and about 8 episodes came on this afternoon.
Here are my favorites:
Trick Or Treat (Pilot)
Season: 01, Episode: 01
Writer(s): Franco Amurri, George A. Romero
First Aired: 10/29/1983
A miser taunts his neighbors by daring them to send their children in to find their debt records inside of his “haunted house,” but he gets some unusual late-night visitors.
A Case of the Stubborns
Season: 01, Episode: 10
Writer(s): James Houghton
First Aired: 12/02/1984
In a backwoods community, a family is plagued by their grandpa… who refuses to acknowledge that he’s dead.
Bigalow’s Last Smoke
Season: 01, Episode: 22
Writer(s): Michael McDowell
First Aired: 06/09/1985
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, informing him that he will quit smoking. Bigalow scoffs at this notion and reaches for a morning cigarette. As soon as he lights up, a deafening alarm sounds, demanding that he extinguish the cigarette immediately. Bigalow is subjected to various endurance tests and is further tempted to smoke when thousands of cigarettes materialize in the room, only to disappear. After being driven to the edge of sanity, he wakes up to find that he no longer has a desire to smoke. Believing that the whole ordeal was a dream, Biaglow reaches for a cup of coffee, at which time the mysterious figure reappears on the television screen, insisting that Bigalow now work on his caffeine addiction.
I tried to find a few pictures but this show was made in the early 80’s so you can imagine what the quality looked like!
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Wednesday March 19, 2008