My Top 13 Favorite Tales From the Darkside Episodes Part 2

And now for the second half of my list.
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[@ak11472]

"Tales from the darkside" is one of the best TV horror series, with great writing stories, improvisations, great camera work, with right point of views and so on, that come from real life, from real issues, dark, unfair things and so on., sometimes a fair verdict at the end, sometimes a double meaninig of ending, or twisted ending and so on.

[@jordanbenson7497]

This and Tales from the crypt are the best

[@xXLunatikxXlul]

Same goes for TFTC, TFTCK, TZ, and a plethora of other creepy shows! Ya gotta love 'em! 👻🦇💀🕸🎃

[@raywalton1291]

Good list. Here are my favorites. 15. Anniversary Dinner 14. I Can't Help Saying Goodbye 13. Inside The Closet 12. The Geezenstacks 11. Ursa Minor 10. Monsters In My Room 9. Black Widows 8. The Word Processor Of The Gods 7. Levitation 6. Miss May Dusa 5. The Old Soft Shoe 4. The Milkman Cometh 3. Seasons of Belief 2. The Last Car 1. Sorry, Right Number

[@johnathanstrong1496]

Favorite episode is Baker’s Dozen, starring Mabel King, who played Evilene on The a Wiz. Saw this with my mom when the episode actually premiered, when I was four years old.

[@daedricfork4760]

Gawd. I miss these smaller horror stories. Because they were half an hour you were never bored and even if one of them was not quite good, you didnt thought you lost your time

[@Culminist]

Great list. I think my favorite episode is "Distant Signals" it's just so charming & dreamy with some stellar acting & a sweet story, It's different. A close second is Miss May Dusa. The Circus is so good & Strange Love is great too. Trick or Treat is a classic, they're so many to mention. I'm watching the Night Gallery series back to back with Tales and they just compliment each other.

[@Culminist]

@Donnie Delvecchio I so agree, they should've had a happy ending, they were really nice characters, destined for each other. The show is called Tales from the DARKside, I guess it earns it's name. ✌️💀🖤

[@94Trish]

I am so happy you mentioned The Impressionist as an honorable mention. Its such an underated episode. I just loved it.

[@kaylagueths4832]

I also loved the episode about the blind man, and Medusa.

[@mantaco500]

Miss May Dusa is title, i love that one as well.

[@Culminist]

Just watched it right now & I loved it so much I had to repeat it again. One of my favs. 🎷♥️🤘🎭

[@RoccoGibson330]

The bumper music was the CREEPIEST music I've ever heard. The witch in Trick Or Treat traumatized me as a kid!!! Awesome video!!! In The Cards was my #1!!

[@millenniumman75]

It was stock library music....very effective

[@millenniumman75]

Trivia! 3:05 - you may not recognize him here, or well, not all of him. That's Earl Hindman, better known as "Wilson" from Home Improvement; 3:19 David Groh, famous for playing Joe Girard, Rhoda Morgenstern's husband

[@Theasworld1984]

Too many to list here but most of them made your list Alot of people thought I was an evil child because tales from the darkside, monsters, the 1980s twilight zone and Friday the 13th the series were some of my favorite shows back then but it's not because it's creepy and scary it's because I watched it with my all time favorite person in the world my grandmother I really miss her and those days she made my life awesomely amazing

[@loyaltyman2000]

I liked Seasons of Misbelief, Monsters in my Closet, The Last Car was a pure fright fest. Baker's Dozen, but the one of The most unique one ever in my opinion was If The Shoe Fits. It was weird but lighthearted too for Tales From The Darkside.

[@samuelgates5935]

You're right "The Last Car and "Baker's Dozen are really good episodes.

[@adrionjones]

Had many of my favorites on here and under honorable mention. But I love Seasons of Belief and the episode with the older couple that get the girl in their hot tub, drugs her, and then later has her for dinner, like they did to their children. I also liked Answer Me. That episode scared the crap out of me as a kid.

[@DaleRibbons]

Next to the Twilight Zone, Tales From The Darkside had the coolest opening narration of any of these anthology shows. I recently bought the DVD collection and am slowly rewatching the episodes, hoping to find some I haven't seen before or remind myself of ones I've forgotten. I'm glad you listed 'Let The Games Begin'. That one is one of my favorites as well. Some of my other favorites are: 'Distant Signals'. I'm a big Darren McGavin fan, so it was nice seeing him in this one. It's an odd episode, as it has no horror, and seems more like an 80's Twlight Zone or Amazing Stories episode; 'Dream Girl'. To be honest, part of that is because I was a hormonal teenager when I first saw it, and seeing Carolyn Seymour in her Swiss Miss costume really stuck with me through the years. Speaking of 1980's anthology shows, I'm hoping you will cover my favorite, the Ray Bradbury Theater.

[@madzskiej.mariveles]

The episodes "The Case Of The Stubborns", "The Levitation", "Seasons Of Belief", and "In The Cards" are also considerably good stories of Tales From The Darkside worth remembering..👍

[@samuelgates5935]

The "No strings attached" episode was also done on the cop show "Criminal Minds." A killer was turning his victims into marionette puppets!!! "The Geezenstacks and "I can't help saying Goodbye" are really creepy good stories.

[@towedarray7217]

Jesus Christ. This is extremely good and well written. You’re good at this.

[@TheAdorkableRJ]

Thank you very much!

[@towedarray7217]

TheAdorkableRJ you’re quite welcome, and it’s clear you put a lot of work into these. Very awesome. Where can I buy the series? I can’t find it and I want to watch this series.

[@TheAdorkableRJ]

@@towedarray7217 Amazon has the complete series DVD set for about $30 or so. Not a bad price for 4 whole seasons together.

[@towedarray7217]

TheAdorkableRJ thank you for the info!!

[@kellymarie5246]

I love the fact that u showed clips during this review...i really miss these old shoes so bad .cant find them anywhere to watch

[@mirandahall9566]

Oh man I absolutely love all the videos for tales from the dark side!!! 💯☠️💀

[@jeremykegley1669]

One of my favorite's was The Biitterest Pill!

[@patkmulderig]

Levitation always stuck with me, perhaps the most Twilight Zone like episode of the show. A case of the Stubborns is one of my favorites overall.

[@jimringomartin]

Thanks for showing this. I'm amazed how few of these I had seen. Trick or Treat (No. 3) is my all time favorite. Then Monsters in the Closet. Wish they'd rerun these or post whole episodes on You Tube, but I know, copywrite laws. happy halloween

[@JamiJR]

I can't remember if it was a Tales From The Darkside episode or the Outer Limits remake, but I always remember this one episode about a man who sleeps with lots of women who was cursed to be an immortal black cat when he slept with a wizard's wife. He takes up with a virginal woman who reads lots of romance novels and at first she thinks he's going to be her One True Love, until he starts sleeping with her pretty neighbor and he laughs at her for thinking he could love anyone. So she drugs his drink and when he wakes up in cat form the next morning he's locked in a carrier and is at the vet to get neutered.

[@Cassxowary]

Nice list and well done! Personally, my four faves are mookie and pookie, comet watch, the last car (love that it’s your number two!), the apprentice! Also, I honestly couldn’t remember this series existed and thought I hallucinated these episodes since I couldn’t find anything mentioning anything I remembered and no one else knew either!

[@empiresmemory667]

Halloween Candy only made the honourable mentions! Good list though mate.

[@LoganSewell83]

The Devil's Advocate was the template for MSNBC, Fox News, CNN, and social media in general. The Last Car reminds me of the Phantom Train from Final Fantasy.

[@animefan25]

Only Fox News (and a lesser extent social media) falls into the template for "The Devil's Advocate".

[@SaRENRampaiger]

@@animefan25 And yet in the episode, the DJ is also anti-cops.. Sounds familiar..

[@Mojosfire]

I have a couple questions, as I thought it was Tales from the Darkside, but since it was so long ago, I'm wondering if I'm mixing it up with another series like Tales from the Darkside. The first one is an episode where a guy who works for a company like Fed Ex or Ups and drives to this mysterious area where he ends up at a diner, and he cannot seem to find the address for a package he has to deliver. He stops in the diner, and asks where it is, but becomes frustrated when one of the customers says to him, he needs to drink some coffee first. I remember all the customers just seemed strange, anyhow the guy refuses to drink any coffee, and heads out trying to find the address, but every road he takes leads him back to this creepy diner. Eventually, he finally gives in to the man who had kept telling him to drink some of the coffee, and then after he does drink it, he loses his mind, which is what then you realize why the others seemed strange, as they all had probably stopped like he had and drank the coffee only to end up losing their minds and are stuck at this diner forever. There was no blood and gore in this, or creepy monsters, but that episode was more terrifying to me than a lot of episodes I have watched. I guess it's because it gives you that claustrophobia feeling. What made it more creepy for me was an experience I had later on, and it reminded me of that episode. I was traveling with my husband of that time back to central Florida, after a trip to New Orleans to see a rock concert we had been wanting to attend. Anyhow, it was lunch time and we were both hungry. We took some exit that was along interstate 10 and it was in a quite desolate area. The restaurant was large and had a barn style look to it, from what I remember. It wasn't crowded for such a big place at the peak hour of lunch time, which should have been a red flag, right off the bat, for a place that was so large. I remember when we walked in, it literally smelled like blood and grease! It wasn't dirty looking inside, but it did look old. I remember there being some dated looking blue wallpaper on the walls that had a yellowing color from being old, and there was the old style wood paneling below that, from what I remember. Anyhow, I began to feel a bit freaked out. A young hostess came up, and she seemed pretty normal acting, so I thought to myself that maybe I was just over reacting and scaring myself maybe. I remember there only being one other customer in the whole restaurant. He was an older gentleman with a beard, with a cup of coffee by his plate and looking down. We decided to order coffee's for ourselves, after the hostess asked what we would like to drink. She handed us menus then walked off. I remember reading the menu, but I couldn't seem to shake the very uneasy feeling I had being in there. Well, it had been like 20 minutes, and the hostess had not come back with our drinks and there was no waitress around in sight anywhere, and we still had not gotten our coffees. I remember noticing that the other customer still in the back of the restaurant was still looking down, and I just thought at the time that it seemed so odd, that he never lifted his head up from what I had noticed. Finally, I couldn't stand it anymore, between the strange sickening smell, and the whole unnerving vibe of the place. I finally mentioned it to my husband of the time, who was relieved that I told him how uneasy I felt in there, and that it had been an awfully long time waiting for coffee, with the hostess never appearing since. He said, he also felt the same thing, and just wanted to leave, but didn't want to say anything, thinking I would think he was just being super paranoid. We both decided to get out of there, and forget about the coffee. We got out of there so quick, and never looked back. Since then I have wanted to see if I could find that place along I-10, but have not been able to find it, even though it was a large building that you couldn't miss. Was wondering if anyone from the panhandle of Florida between Tallahassee and Lake City may know about this place or seen it? LOL, sorry for the long post. My other question is an episode, where a woman is an artist, and she gets this real creepy painting, and she props it up, then kind of goes about her business painting scenes, but what she ends up painting are bad future events that happen to her later on. I want to say the title episode is something with Bad Karma in the title, I think. Anyhow, not sure these are Tales from the Darkside episodes, but if they are, I'd love to know the proper names of them, and see them again. They were both two of my favorite most creepy horror shorts I've seen.

[@beneathdatrees0]

"The New Man," "The Geezenstacks," and "The Milkman Cometh" would be on my top 13.

[@animefan25]

I like "Let the Games Begin", "The Word Processor of the Gods", "Ring Around the Redhead", and "The Unhappy Medium".

[@Fiver565]

I loved bakers dozen

[@jordil6152]

I like the Christmas one.

[@bobbyricigliano2799]

The intro music was 100x more frightening than the show content. It was sort of campy horror / comedy, but a great show.

[@sammydane5988]

6:18 Good advice

[@karalianisthmus8548]

Black cutty sow!

[@Pelcurus]

What? No Grither?

[@paulamiles9559]

O I am the Grither ...

[@tiffanylewis7633]

My favorite episode was with the werewolf and the vampires

[@jesusramirez4537]

I used to watch this show religiously when I was young, on my little black and white TV. They used to play it once a week on friday or saturday night on a local channel. I would wait with sickening joy for that intro. The shows were slightly humorous or tacky yet deeply disturbing. Never seen anything like it, and I bought the DVD set for my birthday 8 years ago. Sometimes made me feel voyeuristic, sometimes apathetic. Looking back, the underlying theme of the series was that Life is a horror movie (where all horrors come true :( till next time.....

[@venomwise]

Halloween candy is my favorite lol Trick or Treat Mr Neville

[@susanburgess820]

These were so good❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@davidvega462]

0:11 this episode TERRIFIED me as a kid.

[@christianmalick]

"Cats Eye", and "Twilight Zone: The Movie", are pretty good anthology horror type movies,...like "Creepshow" 1 and 2....I watched Tales from The Darkside every late Sunday night when it was on, and the episodes are really hit or miss...Most of them are soooooo bad, but every once in a while there is something good...

[@avengercannon]

Quilter's Inc is the even better version of the smoking story

[@FreakyLynx]

I’m surprised The Grither didn’t make the list.

[@rochellecrump-mcnulty9675]

My absolute favorite episode is "No Strings"

[@zachellis0]

Is there a link or name for the soundtrack on "The Circus?"

[@bobbyricigliano2799]

There was an episode where a guy was obsessively listening to the same record over and over on an old time Victrola. Anyone remember the name?

[@nagilumsnangilima]

Question: What is Emperor Palpatine's favourite TV show? Answer: Tales from the Darkside.

[@lordteabelly]

All great episodes you mentioned, there are also a ton of awful ones too with bad acting, just boring or terrible stories, which would be cool to see listed too. Mookie and Pookie is 1 i disliked the most, and the 1s with the guy who trys to steal the winning lottery ticket of carol kane, nice idea but just terribly executed, and the 1 with the answer machine that takes over the guys life, both are bad episodes, decent ideas but there's zero development and the acting is terrible even for the time lol.

[@tbonestallone2689]

I'm looking for the episode. With a old couple that rents a room to a group of girls. But their mutant child in the basement kills them. Any help would be appreciated

[@tatikay3660]

Okay but what about "the last car" and "the telephone" 😅

[@charles1203]

Tati Kay I have to admit, the Last Car that episode sounds like me being around the people I grew up around my whole life. Nice but weird people, grumpy, tired old people. Basically, liberal democrats.

[@asiasmaster]

Ok this is great, but I can't remember the title of two of my favorites, 1 the disfigured man face who whistles. 2 the movie director who drives into a fog and lands into an old village and he try's to save this young girl.

[@FenrirInFlowers]

Those aren't Tales from the Darkside episodes. Those are stories from an anthology movie named The Monster Club. It's from 1980 and stars Vincent Price and John Carradine in the wraparound tale. There was a DVD release. I think there's probably still a video of the whole movie up on KZbin too.

[@Michael-mr9kn]

Starnge love is my favorite many others are also good.

[@eduardo_corrochio]

Over the years this TV series to me has often seemed like a cousin or forgotten stepchild of HBO's later anthology show "Tales from the Crypt". "Darkside" seems to have become eclipsed by the other show, and comes off more as a cult item. Of course TFTC had more budget money, but both shows were similar: sensational and macabre stories featuring famous actors and (usually) talented writers. Naturally, airing on premium cable, TFTC was able to do more with sexuality and violence/blood and language ... although those things do not guarantee a better story experience for the viewer. Also, I find that every anthology TV series has been 80% mediocrity and 20% gold when it comes to quality episodes ... whether it was "Twilight Zone", "Black Mirror", "Ray Bradbury Theater" or whatever. Lots of duds. But about "Darkside": "Inside the Closet" would be in my top five, no doubt. So simple and creepy. And Fritz Weaver makes anything better. Plus, you gotta love Lizzie the monster. That puppet must be around somewhere today. I found "Darkside" in my college days (mid to late 1980's) on WPIX channel 11 in the New York area. I enjoyed all the familiar faces in it-- Debbie Harry, William Hickey, Dorothy Lyman, Jerry Stiller, Darren McGavin, Christian Slater, Harry Anderson, etc. Of course, this viewpoint comes from a Gen X person, lol. Nicely done countdown and narration here. My only criticism is that you could lose the occasional profanity, as it smacks of shock value and nothing more; but that's my baggage, not yours. :)

[@tatikay3660]

Never mind! 🤣🤣 maybe I should watch the full video before commenting next time

[@susanburgess820]

Trying to find the episode, where this poor guy gets some kind of operation (i think), and is promised his large tatoo on his back will stay on his back. But be was lied to, and he was skinned to get that beautiful huge tatoo on his back. I know it was a tales from the darkside. I used to watch this show at midnight on saturdays, and was scared so badly from this particular episode, i refused to go to sleep for sure that night. Another scaring me and scarring me, was the episode of a woman jealous of her rival, who's going to star in a beauty pagent. The shocking end of what the beauty pagent was really all about. Sweet dreams everyone😄😄😄😉😉😉🤯🤯🤯

[@TunesAndToys]

pretty sure that tattoo one was tales from the crypt. season 4 i think?

[@cassicampbell2043]

Wish I could see Black Widows again.

[@SupermarketSweep777]

How did Seasons of Belief not even get an honorable mention?

[@TheAdorkableRJ]

It's just not one of my all time favorites. Doesn't mean it's not still good.

[@SupermarketSweep777]

@@TheAdorkableRJ I see.

[@Cassxowary]

Frank Martinez yes, shocking someone has a different taste than you...

[@volcaniadread]

lol, this guy is sick

[@hedevilbyday488]

I personally hate devil's advocate, but great show.

[@volcaniadread]

what year was it made

[@TheAdorkableRJ]

The pilot episode premiered in 1983. The series followed in 1984.

[@redbaron474]

@@TheAdorkableRJ Do you recall the name of the episode where a kid turns a vacuum cleaner into a sound eater?

[@robgalloway48]

@@redbaron474 Hush

[@robgalloway48]

Wasn't telling you to, that is literally the name of the episode lol

[@redbaron474]

@@robgalloway48 You: "Hush" Me: "WTH????" lol