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Trick
or Treat |
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| Season: ( Pilot )
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| Episode #: 1 |
| Airdate: 10/29/83 |
Overall Rating:  |
| Director:
Bob Balaban |
| Written by:
George Romero &
Franco Amurri |
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In a small farming community in the
1940's, a wealthy store owner with a strange sense of humor
offers to erase anyone's debt if their child can find the
IOUs hidden within his haunted house.
Comments:
A Great Episode ! This story
gave us our first glimpse into the darkside, and was a
perfect introduction for the series.
Notes:
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Pictures
- The first season of the series
didn't actually start until almost a year after this episode
was aired in October 1983.
- Max Wright (ALF) plays the role of "Mr. Bundle" .
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The
New Man |
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| Season:
1
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| Episode #:
2 |
| Airdate:
9/30/84 |
Overall Rating:  |
| Director:
Frank De Palma |
| Written by:
Mark Durand
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| Story by:
Barbara Owens |
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An alcoholic who decides to quit drinking, is shocked to discover that he has a son
whose been living with him for many years.
Comments:
Notes:
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Pictures
- This story was first published in Rod Serling's "The Twilight Zone
Magazine" in March of 1982. |
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I'll
Give You a Million |
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| Season:
1
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| Episode #:
3 |
| Airdate:
10/7/84 |
| Overall Rating: |
| Director:
John Harrison |
| Written by:
Mark Durand & David
Spiel |
| Story by:
John Harrison |
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An atheist millionaire sells his eternal soul to his friend for one million dollars.
Comments:
Good
episode, I think this would have made a stronger debut for
the season.
Notes:
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Pain
Killer |
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| Season:
1
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| Episode #:
4 |
| Airdate:
10/14/84 |
| Overall Rating: |
| Director:
Armand Mastroianni |
| Written by:
Haskell Barkin |
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A man experiencing terrible back aches,
learns the only way to stop the pain is to get rid of his
bickering wife.
Comments:
An average episode with a
decent story.
Notes:
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The
Odds |
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| Season:
1
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| Episode #:
5 |
| Airdate:
10/21/84 |
| Overall Rating: |
| Director:
James Sadwith |
| Written by:
James Sadwith |
| Story by:
Carole Lucia Satrina |
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A deceased gambler who committed suicide
because of gambling debts, returns from the grave and makes
a bet with a bookie that he will be dead by the following morning.
Comments:
Very good episode! I like this one alot, the story was very
suspenseful and had a great ending.
Notes:
- Danny Aiello (Jacob's
Ladder, The Godfather: Part II) starred in this episode as
the bookie "Tommy Vale". |
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Mookie
and Pookie |
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| Season:
1
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| Episode #:
6 |
| Airdate:
11/4/84 |
| Overall Rating: |
| Director:
Timna Ranon |
| Written by:
Dan Kleinman |
| Story by:
Marc Fields & Dan
Kleinman |
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A computer genius who hasn't got long to
live, gives his sister instructions on how to transfer his
soul to a computer after he's gone.
Comments:
Another great episode! this is one of my favorite picks from
the first season. The story is very original and bizarre!
Notes:
- Justine Bateman (Family
Ties, Satisfaction) starred in this episode as "Susan 'Pookie'
Anderson".
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Slippage |
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| Season:
1
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| Episode #:
7 |
| Airdate:
11/11/84 |
| Overall Rating: |
| Director:
Michael Gornick |
| Written by:
Mark Durand |
| Story by:
Michael Kube-McDowell |
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A man learns he is fading away from
existence when his mother doesn't recognize him, his
pictures disappear from family albums and his wife reverts
back to using her maiden name.
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Richard Hall is a design artist who
one day finds his life fading away from him. At first his
boss, Mr. Blake, seems to have mysteriously misplaced his
paycheck. Then soon after, a new job prospect collapses when
his college transcripts, portfolio, and social security have
inexplicably vanished. He returns home later that evening
and finds that his car registration letter ( which
strangely was only in his wife's maiden name "Elaine
Anderson" ) had been thrown away in the garbage. Along with
that, he received no high school reunion invitation... which
is even more suspicious because his good friend is on the
committee. Richard then begins to think that he is the victim of some
sick prank created by his wife and friend Chris ( fellow co-worker and
long time friend of his wife Elaine).
Confused and a little upset, Richard travels to see his
mother. After only several years of no communication, it
seems his mother has completely forgotten about Richard, in
fact, she claims to have never given birth.
Richard quietly bids his mother goodbye, whom he now sadly
refers to as "Mrs. Hall". He calls back home to check in
with his wife and Chris, who had come over to console her.
Chris then drives to meet Richard at the art studio, where
Richard explains to him that he is being erased from
existence. Chris can't believe what he hearing and insists
that Richard should get help, but changes his tone when
Richard disappears before him. Confused and bewildered Chris
travels back to see Elaine. He tries to explain what
happened to Richard but Elaine cuts him off by giving him a
very warm reception, as if she was his wife all along.
So who is this Richard? she asks. Chris thinks to himself
for a moment and shakes his head as the memory of Richard
has completely faded away.
The door of the house is then curiously seen opened and
closed.
Comments:
I would consider this the underdog
of the first season, It definitely has that "Twilight Zone"
feel to it.
Notes:
- This story was first published
in Rod Serling's "The Twilight Zone Magazine" in August of
1982. |
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Inside
The Closet |
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| Season:
1
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| Episode #:
8 |
| Airdate:
11/18/84 |
| Overall Rating: |
| Director:
Tom Savini |
| Written by:
Michael McDowell |
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A college student discovers a horrible
creature living inside the closet of a room she has rented.
Comments:
Classic TFTD! this is one of the top episodes from the first
season and one of the best of the series.
Notes:
- Actor Fritz Weaver "Dr.
Fenner" also appears in the episode
Comet Watch as "Sir
Edmund Halley".
- Tom Savini named the closet monster "Lizzie". |
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The
Word Processor of the Gods |
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| Season:
1
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| Episode #:
9 |
| Airdate:
11/25/84 |
| Overall Rating: |
| Director:
Michael Gornick |
| Written by:
Michael McDowell |
| Story by:
Stephen King |
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A writer receives a home-made word
processor from his nephew as a birthday present. Strange
things start to happen when the "delete" key is pressed..
Comments:
The winning streak continues here with a great story by
Stephen King.
Notes:
- This story was first
published in Stephen King's book "Skeleton Crew". |
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A
Case of the Stubborns |
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| Season:
1
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| Episode #:
10 |
| Airdate:
12/2/84 |
| Overall Rating: |
| Director:
Jerry Smith |
| Written by:
James Houghton |
| Story by:
Robert Bloch |
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A stubborn old man refuses to accept that
he is dead, even though his family and friends insist that
he had died.
Comments:
Notes:
- This story was first
published in "The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction"
in October 1976.
- Christian Slater (True Romance, Heathers) plays the role
of "Jody Toliver".
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