Tales from the darkside trick or treat episode

Tales from the darkside trick or treat pilot tv episode 1983 cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. I rave about the tales from the darkside episode halloween candy. A miser taunts his neighbors by daring them to send their children in to find their debt records inside of his haunted. Tales from the darkside shares its name with a great old creepy 80s horror tv show. Tell me what you think trick or treat pilot in the closet s1ep8 halloween candy s2ep5 the circus. An atmospheric pilot, trick or treat serves as a testament to the fact that george a. Tales from the darkside trick or treat pilot tv episode 1983 trivia on imdb. Romeros creative genius could, on rare occasions, extend beyond his contributions to the zombie genre. This episode the pilot involves rich but bitter old man holding a contest in his haunted house every year for trickortreaters. Hackless animatronic monsters scare bessie, however, and she runs out of the house to her mother, failing in her task. Bill mumy discusses the twilight zone episode its a good life.

Tales from the darkside trick or treat pilot tv episode. Tales from the darkside, the uniquely terrifying, frighteningly popular horror anthology series, is back. Trick or treat is a halloweenthemed episode of the horror anthology tv series tales from the darkside. Trick or treat is the pilot episode of the television anthology series tales from the darkside, cowritten by george a. In the first episode trick or treat, the focus is on scares and is set on halloween. Trick or treat i love that tales from the darkside gave us multiple halloweenthemed episodes and that they were usually among the best of the series. Famous faces on tales from the darkside season one. Tales from the darkside trick or treat pilot tv episode 1983. Tales from the darkside was a horror anthology show that ran 4 seasons and 90 episodes, from 1984 to 1988. Tales from the dark side by cbs home entertainment. As far as first impressions are concerned, tales from the darkside could hardly have made a better one than this episode that premiered a few days before halloween 1983. Tales from the darkside season 2 1985 carnage count.

Debuting in october 1983 with a pilot episode and then being picked up for syndication in september 1984, the show ran for 4 seasons through july 1988. Hes a cruel old man whose favourite season of the year is halloween. As they are crunching numbers, the three men talk about hackless business practices. Dark, scary and with a bizarre sense of justice, tales from the darksides spinetingling first season will capture your imagination. Trick or treat from season 1 at join sign up keep track of your favorite shows and movies, across all your devices. It originally aired in the united states in syndication on october 29, 1983. Trick or treat is a simple campfire tale, but it is executed with such finesse and a palpable sense of fun that its impossible not to enjoy it. You have outmoded ideas in some, a feel for how technology was seen at the time, creature effects, cheesiness, and so. This is the sort of episode that must have scared a lot of kids and some adults. Bundle, and gideon hackles are sitting around a table doing accounting. This is tales from the darkside halloween candy by alex s on vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them. A longtime favorite among fans of smallscreen terror, the first season of the syndicated anthology series tales from the darkside 19831988 finally arrives on dvd to bring a new generation of viewers into its murky domain.

Watch tales from the darkside episodes, get episode information, recaps and more. Watch tales from the darkside season 1, episode 1 trick or treat. Trick or treat october 29, 1983 a rich and spiteful old man named gideon hackles whose obsession for documenting and exploiting debts owed to him, annually offers trickortreaters the chance to search his house on halloween night for their parents ious, only to terrify them with animatronic ghosts. The series originally aired as a pilot in october 1983 as trick or treat starring barnard hughes. I prefer trick or treat, although i think that the ending was rushed and could have been done a little better see my other thread on that. Gideon hackles barnard hughes is an elderly miser who keeps the residents of his rural town mired in debt. Tales from the darkside is a 1980s american anthology horror tv series created by george a. Trick or treat gideon hackles is an old, grumpy and cold miser who runs an antique type store shop for a living. Home series tales from the darkside absolute order season 1 episode 1 pilot. Whoever wins gets his or her parents debts expunged. This one also gets points for being an exceptional pilot. Packed with haunting stories that at first light appear to be about normal situations, these tales are gradually twisted until they become something sinister, shocking and totally unsettling. Town miser gideon hackles spends halloween hiding ious in his house, which he then rigs as haunted and invites local kids to search for the ious so he can scare them. List of tales from the darkside episodes wikipedia.

It is also the shows pilot episode, written by show creator george a. Though marred by a nonsensical twist ending, this episode balances dark humor and frightening situations in such a way that will appeal to tales. Tales from the darkside pilot trick or treat 102983 boob tube chronicles. Its the perfect way to start a short horror series. Trick or treat is the pilot episode of tales from the darkside. The original broadcast wasnt intended as a episode of it until the tales from the darkside intro was tacked on future repeats of it.

I never really got into halloween candy, and i think that the main reason is because while ive always felt that you should happily give trickortreaters their treats on halloween night as we got them when we were kids, its okay if you choose not. Similar to the twilight zone, rod serlings night gallery, the outer limits and tales from the crypt, each episode was an individual short story that ended with a plot twist. This is tales from the darkside trick or treat by alex s on vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them. Each episode, aired originally by tribune broadcasting late at night, was an individual short story that often ended with a plot twist.

With a pilot episode airing on october 29, 1983 as trick or treat, tales from the darksideseason 1 was a syndicated horrorfantasy series airing from september 30, 1984 to august 4, 1985. Anyway, ive seen them all and this is what i think are the 5 scariest episodes of the series. The tv show very rarely dipped into comedy, whereas the movie is fully aware of its cheesiness embraces it actually. Tales from the darkside is an anthology tv series from the 80s produced by george a. But the ones that really stand out feel that much more successful because of that. Apparently, this was before it became tales from the darkside. A horror anthology series where the viewer is taken through ghost stories, science fiction adventures, and creepy, unexplained events. It was originally aired in syndication by tribune broadcasting on october 29, 1983.

This is tales from the darkside halloween candy by alex s on vimeo, the home for high quality. Stories of suspense and the supernatural were presented in this anthology series by executive producer george romero n. On tales from the darkside, the show is a stellar 1980s showcasetype series, with some awesome twilight zonefriday the th the seriesmonstersothers kind of feel to it. Tales from the darkside episodes tv series 1983 1988. Unlike these other series, tales from the darkside centered mostly on horror stories.