Beetles |
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Season:
4
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Episode #:
71 |
Airdate:
9/27/87 |
Overall Rating: |
Director:
Frank De Palma |
Written by:
Robert Bloch |
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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:
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This story was first
published in Weird Tales (December of 1938). |
Mary,
Mary |
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Season:
4
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Episode #:
72 |
Airdate:
10/4/87 |
Overall Rating: |
Director:
Katarina Wittich |
Written by:
Jule Selbo
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Story by:
Jule Selbo &
Katarina Wittich |
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A reclusive woman is drawn deeper into
her own fantasy world after a neighbor shows an interest in
her.
Comments:
Notes:
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The
Spirit Photographer |
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Season:
4
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Episode #:
73 |
Airdate:
10/11/87 |
Overall Rating: |
Director:
Bill Travis |
Written by:
Mark Patrick
Carducci & Brian Thomas Jones |
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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.
Comments:
Notes:
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The
Moth |
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Season:
4
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Episode #:
74 |
Airdate:
10/18/87 |
Overall Rating: |
Director:
Jeffrey Wolf |
Written by:
Michael McDowell |
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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.
Comments:
Notes:
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No
Strings |
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Season:
4
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Episode #:
75 |
Airdate:
10/25/87 |
Overall Rating: |
Director:
David Odell |
Written by:
David Odell |
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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!
Notes:
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The
Grave Robber |
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Season:
4
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Episode #:
76 |
Airdate:
11/1/87 |
Overall Rating:
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Director:
Jeff Schiro |
Written by:
Harvey Jacobs &
Donald Wollner |
Story by:
Harvey Jacobs
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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.
Comments:
Notes:
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The
Yattering and Jack |
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Season:
4
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Episode #:
77 |
Airdate:
11/8/87 |
Overall Rating:
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Director:
David Odell |
Written by:
Clive Barker |
Story by:
Clive Barker |
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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.
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Seymourlama |
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Season:
4
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Episode #:
78 |
Airdate:
11/15/87 |
Overall Rating:
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Director:
Bruce Dolin |
Written by:
Harvey Jacobs &
Donald Wollner |
Story by:
Harvey Jacobs
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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.
Comments:
Notes:
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Sorry,
Right Number |
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Season:
4
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Episode #:
79 |
Airdate:
11/22/87 |
Overall Rating: |
Director:
John Sutherland |
Written by:
Stephen King |
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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".
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Payment
Overdue |
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Season:
4
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Episode #:
80 |
Airdate:
2/14/88 |
Overall Rating:
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Director:
John Drury |
Written by:
Dick Benner |
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A bill collector, who loves her job all
to well, meets an unpleasant fate after driving an immigrant
woman to suicide.
Comments:
Notes:
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