24 episodes • October 22, 1988 - May 27, 1989

A horror anthology about a family of monsters watching a different horror story every week on their TV. Each tale is separate, often cautionary with occasional dark humor and irony, and features various deadly creatures.

24 episodes

1. 

   #1

   The Feverman

   22 min • Oct 22, 1988 (38 years ago)

   When a doctor is unable to heal a man's sick daughter, the desperate father goes to a 'Feverman', a mysterious healer who literally fights the illness by summoning a physical manifestation of it from within the patient. The doctor, angry at the father's belief in superstition, tries to expose the Feverman as a fraud. In doing so, not only does he learn the truth, but there's also a price to pay for faith.

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   #2

   Holly's House

   22 min • Oct 29, 1988 (38 years ago)

   Katherine is the star of Holly's House, a popular children's television show. Holly herself is a remote-controlled child-size robot. When Katherine is linked to the robot via wires and radio waves, she can make Holly walk and talk like a real person. Lenny, who plays 'Mike the Mailman', has gotten Katherine pregnant and asks her to marry him. But a stressed-out Katherine begins to think Holly is talking to her, and 'Holly' becomes jealous of Lenny and others on the show. Is Katherine going mad, or is something sinister going on?

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   #3

   New York Honey

   22 min • Nov 5, 1988 (38 years ago)

   A greedy married man blackmails his eccentric beekeeper neighbor to profit off his tasty honey. He also falls for the beekeeper's mysterious, seductive vamp girlfriend.

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   #4

   The Vampire Hunter

   22 min • Nov 12, 1988 (37 years ago)

   Can famous vampire hunter Ernest Chariot save his assistant Jack before his old enemy Charles Poole can kill the young man, or worse, turn him into another bloodsucker?

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   #5

   My Zombie Lover

   22 min • Nov 19, 1988 (37 years ago)

   One night each year, the dead come back to life. A young zombie falls for his living female classmate but his hunger for human flesh and her prejudiced, zombie hunter father stand in the way of their happiness.

6. 

   #6

   Where's the Rest of Me?

   22 min • Nov 26, 1988 (37 years ago)

   In a right-wing South American dictatorship on the verge of leftist rebellion, mad scientist Dr. Willard Wingite keeps a rebel's cadaver alive to harvest its organs for his rich friends. But the undead rebel decides to get his organs back.

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   #7

   The Legacy

   22 min • Dec 3, 1988 (37 years ago)

   Dale finds the private sanctuary of late horror icon Fulton Pierce. Dale can see Fulton's image in the old makeup case that was owned by the actor, and his life soon goes down a dark road.

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   #8

   Sleeping Dragon

   22 min • Dec 10, 1988 (37 years ago)

   A mysterious prehistoric capsule is found outside Reno. Four scientists study it, but a lizard-looking monster hatches from it. With a heavy snowstorm raging outside, they must fight for their survival.

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   #9

   Pool Sharks

   22 min • Dec 17, 1988 (37 years ago)

   Pool hustler Gabe challenges seductive but evil Natasha to a game. The kicker is she is a vampire and he is out for revenge against her.

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    #10

    Pillow Talk

    22 min • Dec 24, 1988 (37 years ago)

    Miles goes to great lengths to keep his bed possessed by a Lovecraftian nightmare full. But an assertive female writer who seems to fancy him challenges his status quo.

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    #11

    Rouse Him Not

    22 min • Dec 31, 1988 (37 years ago)

    A painter with strange visions who lives in an old cottage is visited by a warlock who used to live there. But his arrival wakes an ancient beast buried far below the cottage.

12. 

    #12

    Fools' Gold

    22 min • Jan 21, 1989 (37 years ago)

    Three construction workers find a hidden cave with treasure guarded by a troll.

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    #13

    Glim-Glim

    22 min • Feb 4, 1989 (37 years ago)

    A mysterious disease has killed most of the people in town and Amy's father believes that the hideous alien holed up in the library is responsible. But as Amy soon learns, Glim-Glim may be their only hope for survival.

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    #14

    Parents from Space

    22 min • Feb 11, 1989 (37 years ago)

    An orphan named Cindy receives a blessing in disguise when her abusive foster parents are taken over by friendly aliens whose ship has broken down.

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    #15

    The Mother Instinct

    22 min • Feb 18, 1989 (37 years ago)

    A slimy, good-for-nothing husband tries to get money from his mother-in-law, especially when he finds out that her fruit can produce a serum that can boost the human strength. He is prepared to do anything to get rich from it, but hasn't counted on just how protective a mother can be.

16. 

    #16

    Their Divided Self

    22 min • Feb 25, 1989 (37 years ago)

    One stormy evening, Dr. Blackman tries to counsel successful professional comedians James and Robert Self, who also happen to be conjoined twins who won't stop bickering and trying to kill each other.

17. 

    #17

    Taps

    22 min • Mar 4, 1989 (37 years ago)

    Professional dancer/actress Suzy St. Claire wants independence from her possessive dancing partner and boyfriend, so she poisons and dismembers him. However, his severed leg in a red tap shoe seeks revenge.

18. 

    #18

    The Match Game

    22 min • Apr 15, 1989 (37 years ago)

    In a haunted Victorian mansion, two couples play a game where each person tells part of a ghost story about the late former owner while a match burns. The story somehow comes true, and he rises from the grave to take their lives.

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    #19

    Rain Dance

    22 min • Apr 22, 1989 (37 years ago)

    During a drought, a struggling treasure hunter for profit and his vain wife get more than they bargained for when he buys a cursed rainmaking idol from an old indigenous woman who bears ill will towards the whites.

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    #20

    Cocoon

    22 min • Apr 29, 1989 (37 years ago)

    A cop asks his psychic girlfriend to help a beautiful amnesiac remember who she is. It turns out she's a woman who feeds on the life energies of her lovers in order to maintain eternal youth.

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    #21

    All in a Day's Work

    22 min • May 6, 1989 (37 years ago)

    A man haunted by his doppelgänger asks a white witch and single mother to help him raise a demon to defeat it before it takes him and her son.

22. 

    #22

    Satan in the Suburbs

    22 min • May 13, 1989 (37 years ago)

    A charming devil forces a down-on-her-luck but principled suburbanite single mother to be his ghost writer, and if his biography gets published, he'll get a better position in hell. She tries to convert him to the side of goodness.

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    #23

    Mannikins of Horror

    22 min • May 20, 1989 (37 years ago)

    In an Orwellian society, a female doctor in an insane asylum tries to help her patient, a former brilliant surgeon obsessed with giving life to his clay figurines, before the institution director deems him incurable and therefore expendable.

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    #24

    La Strega

    22 min • May 27, 1989 (37 years ago)

    A young man tries to destroy a beautiful witch, whom he thinks has placed his mother under a deadly curse.