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 Beetles
Season: 4                 
Episode #: 71
Airdate: 9/27/87
Overall Rating:
Director: Frank De Palma
Written by: Robert Bloch
 
 
 
An archaeologist suffers a terrible fate after opening a cursed mummy's case.

Comments:
The forth and final season begins with this average episode.

Notes:
- This story was first published in Weird Tales (December of 1938).


 Mary, Mary
Season: 4         
Episode #: 72
Airdate: 10/4/87
Overall Rating:
Director: Katarina Wittich
Written by: Jule Selbo
Story by: Jule Selbo & Katarina Wittich
 
 
A reclusive woman is drawn deeper into her own fantasy world after a neighbor shows an interest in her.

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 The Spirit Photographer
Season: 4         
Episode #: 73
Airdate: 10/11/87
Overall Rating:
Director: Bill Travis
Written by: Mark Patrick Carducci & Brian Thomas Jones
 
 
 
A photographer makes a machine which has the ability to capture spirits on film, but for the price of draining life out of the living.

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 The Moth
Season: 4         
Episode #: 74
Airdate: 10/18/87
Overall Rating:
Director: Jeffrey Wolf
Written by: Michael McDowell
 
 
 
A dying sorceress, afraid her soul will be transferred to a moth after she dies, asks her mother to trap the moth until she can restore herself back to life.

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 No Strings
Season: 4         
Episode #: 75
Airdate: 10/25/87
Overall Rating:
Director: David Odell
Written by: David Odell
 
 
 
After killing his rival, a mobster hires a renowned puppeteer to put on a show with the corpse.

Comments:

This was an average episode, but I think the dancing corpse deserves an extra half star!

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 The Grave Robber
Season: 4        
Episode #: 76
Airdate: 11/1/87
Overall Rating:
Director: Jeff Schiro
Written by: Harvey Jacobs & Donald Wollner
Story by: Harvey Jacobs
 
 
After a mummy's grave is disrupted by two explorers, the mummy comes to life and challenges them to a game of strip poker rather then killing them.

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 The Yattering and Jack
Season: 4         
Episode #: 77
Airdate: 11/8/87
Overall Rating:
Director: David Odell
Written by: Clive Barker
Story by: Clive Barker
 
 
The son of a witch, uses indifference toward a demon sent to torment him, hoping to get the demon to brake his one rule which could enslave him eternally.

Comments:
This was a decent episode, a little comedic but a good story.


Notes:
- This short story was written by renowned horror writer Clive Barker, and was originally published in Books of Blood Vol. 1 and later released as a graphic novel.


 Seymourlama
Season: 4        
Episode #: 78
Airdate: 11/15/87
Overall Rating:
Director: Bruce Dolin
Written by: Harvey Jacobs & Donald Wollner
Story by: Harvey Jacobs
 
 
A couple is shocked when their spoiled teenage brat of a son is visited by a group of monks from the far east who declare him the High Lama.

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 Sorry, Right Number
Season: 4         
Episode #: 79
Airdate: 11/22/87
Overall Rating:
Director: John Sutherland
Written by: Stephen King
 
 
 
Soon before her husband's death, a woman receives a brief and distraught phone call from somebody with a strangely familiar voice.

Comments:

Great Episode! definitely a favorite pick from the forth season.

Notes:
- This story appears in Stephen King's anthology book "Nightmares and Dreamscapes".


 Payment Overdue
Season: 4         
Episode #: 80
Airdate: 2/14/88
Overall Rating:
Director: John Drury
Written by: Dick Benner
 
 
 
A bill collector, who loves her job all to well, meets an unpleasant fate after driving an immigrant woman to suicide.

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