This is an episode list for the 2020s anthology series Stories from the Darkside.
Episodes[]
Pilot (2019)[]
No. in Series | Airdate | |
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''Trick or Treat'' | 31st October 2019 | |
Gideon Hackles, a rich and spiteful old man who holds an obsession for documenting and exploiting debts owed to him, annually offers trick-or-treaters the chance to search his house on Halloween night for their parents' IOUs, only to terrify them with animatronic "ghosts". Over the course of the night, Mr. Hackles finds himself terrified by a real witch and genuine monsters and demons. |
Season 1 (2020-2021)[]
No. | Title | Airdate |
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1 | ''The New Man'' | 5th September 2020 |
Alan Coombs, a bad-tempered recovering alcoholic, meets Jerry, a young boy who claims to be his son. Coombs insists that he has never seen or met Jerry before, but Jerry and Coombs' own family say otherwise, eventually driving Coombs to madness. | ||
2 | ''I'll Give You a Million'' | 12th September 2020 |
Millionaire Duncan Williams offers his longtime acquaintance Jack Blaine $1,000,000 to buy his soul. When Jack ends up dying shortly after, Duncan races to claim his soul, but faces a troubling complication when another party becomes interested in it as well. | ||
3 | ''Mookie and Pookie'' | 19th September 2020 |
Susan "Pookie" Anderson discovers that the spirit of her recently deceased twin brother, Kevin "Mookie" Anderson, lives on through his computer, but her parents don't believe her. When her father threatens to sell the computer due to her growing obsession with it, Susan must prove to her parents that her brother is still alive before they follow through on their promise. | ||
4 | ''The Odds'' | 26th September 2020 |
Tommy Vale, a bookie who never turns down a bet, meets Bill Lacey, a mysterious bettor who manages to successfully predict outcomes on every gamble he makes, and becomes determined to break Tommy at any cost. When Tommy ends up wagering on the time of his death, he must do everything he can to outsmart a man who has never lost. | ||
5 | ''No Through Road'' | 3rd October 2020 |
Steven, Ollie, Chris and James, a group of British teenagers, are driving around in their car trying to find their way home to their hometown, Stevenage. Partway through their drive, they encounter a private road at an abandoned farm and a sign saying ''NO THROUGH ROAD''. Despite the warning of the sign, the boys briefly drive under the tunnel before deciding to reverse and go the other way in high spirits. After witnessing some strange occurrences and passing the same street sign several times, the boys discover that they are trapped in a time loop with no escape seemingly in sight. | ||
6 | ''Faded'' | 10th October 2020 |
A young graphic designer Richard Hall discovers that he has been turned down for a promotion, hasn't received an invitation to his school reunion, and that his own mother has failed to recognize him. Putting everything together, Richard determines that the source of the problem is that he is mysteriously being erased from existence. | ||
7 | ''Inside the Closet'' | 17th October 2020 |
College student Amelia Aynsley takes up a room for rent in an old cottage owned by Mr. Fenner. She discovers that her new room has a strange miniature door inside it, and estimates that there may be something lurking on the other side. | ||
8 | ''The Word Processor of the Gods'' | 24th October 2020 |
Richard Hagstrom, a struggling novelist married to a shrewish wife and father to an ungrateful son, discovers that his new word processor, a gift from his deceased nephew Johnathan, is more powerful than he could ever have imagined: every sentence he types into it alters reality. | ||
9 | ''A Case of the Stubborns'' | 31st October 2020 |
Bobby and his sister and mother mourn the death of Grandpa Titus. The next morning Titus rises and carries on as if nothing happened. Bobby and his family enlist several townsfolk to help convince the stubborn man that he is dead. | ||
10 | ''Djinn, No Chaser'' | 7th November 2020 |
Newlyweds Danny and Connie Squires purchase a lamp which turns out to hold a genie. Extremely angered at being trapped for 10,000 years, the genie lashes out at his new masters, torturing them with various plagues. Fortunately, Connie offers a simple solution to the genie's problem. | ||
11 | ''A Writer's Retreat'' | 14th November 2020 |
Struggling writer Simon Williams sits alone at his computer late at night, desperately seeking help on that one great idea. Someone responds, but the idea given by this stranger is somehow a deep, dark secret from the writers past. | ||
12 | ''In the Cards'' | 21st November 2020 |
Catherine is a false tarot reader who attracts business by only giving out good predictions. One day, she soon finds herself stuck with a new deck of tarot cards, and this new deck is cursed to make terrible predictions come true, with Catherine forced to peer into these horrific futures against her will. | ||
13 | ''Annerverisy Dinner'' | 2nd January 2021 |
Elderly couple Henry and Elinor Colander take in Sybil, a drifter escaping from her boyfriend, just in time for their 25th wedding anniversary. Unfortunately for Sybil, the couple plan on serving a very revolting dish for the occasion. | ||
14 | ''Snip, Snip'' | 9th January 2021 |
Abe North, a put-upon math professor who studies the dark arts, quits his job, confident that his magic is about to help him win the lottery. Unfortunately, Abe finds out that he has lost by one number to hairdresser Anne MacColl. When he comes to confront her, Abe discovers that she too studies the dark arts... and that she is more skilled, bitter, and unhinged than he is. | ||
15 | ''Answer Me'' | 16th January 2021 |
Joan, an English aspiring actress who has moved to New York City in the hopes of finding work, is driven to near insanity by a telephone in the next apartment that rings constantly. She attempts to complain to the tenants inside, but finds that the apartment has been vacant for some time. She tries to have the phone disconnected, but it is gradually revealed that the phone has a life of its own. | ||
16 | ''The Tear Collector'' | 23rd January 2021 |
Jessica, a young woman who suffers from clinical depression, meets Cavender, a peculiar therapist who collects the tears of his patients, insisting they are for a purpose. It isn't long before Jessica wonders if Cavender is merely pretending to help her and is actually exploiting her constant crying fits to gather more tears. | ||
17 | ''The Madness Room'' | 30th January 2021 |
Cathy and Edward Osbourne, along with their attorney Michael Fox, discover through communication with a spirit known as Ben that their house contains a boarded up room that causes anyone that steps inside it to go insane. Cathy and Michael, who are lovers, plot to scare Edward to death in the supposedly cursed "Madness Room" so they can abscond with his fortune. | ||
18 | "If the Shoes Fit..." | 6th February 2021 |
Smarmy politician Bo Gumbs checks into a hotel to prepare for a speech. After he tells the hotel waitstaff his philosophy that politics is solely about entertaining people, they help him to get ready by dressing him up as the clown that he truly is. | ||
19 | ''Levitation'' | 13th February 2021 |
College student Frank, accompanied by his friend Ernie, goads The Great Kharma, a once-famous magician, into performing his greatest feat: wireless levitation. When Kharma relents and finally manages to perform the trick on Frank, the results are disastrous. | ||
20 | ''It All Comes Out in the Wash'' | 20th February 2021 |
Real estate developer Carl Smith discovers that Chinese laundromat owner Chow Ting is purportedly able to wash away the sin of his clients. With this in mind, Carl pays Ting for his special service, then goes onto engage in various increasingly mean-spirited actions to move up in the world, believing that his guilt will be washed away. | ||
21 | ''The Remaining Patron'' | 27th February 2021 |
Lewis Cowley works night hours as a bartender in a local bar in Atlanta. One night he serves the last call to the only remaining patron, who is revealed to be the Devil himself who makes a propitiation for him but will he accept? | ||
22 | ''Grandma's Last Wish'' | 6th March 2021 |
A doddering and slightly senile Grandma is treated as a burden by her self-centered, unsympathetic family, who plan to throw her in a nursing home against her will. When she is told to make a wish the week before she leaves, her family grows to understand, quite literally, the hardships that come with old age. | ||
23 | ''The False Prophet'' | 13th March 2021 |
Lucy Syntt, a ditzy, idiotic, superstitious woman, travels by bus to Texas to find her soulmate on the advice of a psychic machine. Before she reaches her destination however, she comes across another psychic machine that warns her against continuing on her trip, citing the threat of a potential false prophet. | ||
24 | ''Taboo Tattoo'' | 20th March 2021 |
Rebellious 17 year old teenager Madison longs for a tattoo since she was a little girl but is forbidden to have one from her religious parents. On her 18th birthday however she decides to go against her parents wishes and ends up getting her very first tattoo on her arm. However to her horror she soon discovers that her new tattoo comes alive and begins to control her. | ||
25 | ''The Sleepwalker'' | 27th March 2021 |
Sarah Jones, has had serious issues with sleepwalking. While there isn’t too much information on this case, it seems that neither her nor her boyfriend Finley had any idea initially. But the truth soon came out, and is a lot more terrifying than your average sleepwalking case. | ||
26 | ''Tooth Fairy'' | 3rd April 2021 |
Lily Westfield, a 5 year old little girl, ends up losing her first tooth during dinner. Her mother Rosey Westfield (who was only joking at the time) tells her about the Tooth Fairy, a magical being that collects the lost teeth of children while they're asleep and replaces them with a coin, which she leaves under their pillows. Lily ends up making her mission to catch the Tooth Fairy |
Season 2 (2021-2022)[]
No. in series | No. in season | Title | Airdate |
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27 | 1 | ''The Impressionst'' | 4th September 2021 |
Through a combination of blackmail and boredom with his career, nightclub impressionist Spiffy Remo/"Mr. Personalities" is brought to a secret government facility that houses an alien family. Seeing that Hoffgosh communicates primarily in gestures, Remo is tasked with emulating said gestures with absolute perfection in order to communicate with the aliens, who happen to hold the secret to nuclear fusion. | |||
28 | 2 | ''Lifebomb'' | 11th September 2021 |
Ben Martin, a workaholic corporate executive with an ailing heart, is given the chance to have a "Lifebomb", a medical device that incases him in a life-preserving cocoon should he suffer a heart attack, installed on his back. It isn't long before Ben begins growing tired of repeatedly being brought back to life, especially after his family leaves him and his health continues to decline. | |||
29 | 3 | ''Ring Around the Redhead'' | 18th September 2021 |
Billy Malone, an inventor sentenced to death for a murder he didn't commit, tells his story to a journalist named Adele. According to Billy, after an earthquake, a strange, metallic ring appeared in his workshop. Discovering that the ring acted as a gateway to alien planets and alternate dimensions, he began sending various probes into the ring to investigate whatever might be on the other side. During his one of his tests, he accidentally brought back Keena, a woman from another planet who he eventually fell in love with, leading to the somewhat improbable circumstances leading to his arrest. | |||
30 | 4 | "Parlour Floor Front" | 25th September 2021 |
Young couple and landlords Doug and Linda learn that one of their tenants, Mars Gillis, is a practitioner of voodoo. Linda sees Gillis as a burden to their property, especially seeing as how he resides in the building's best room. She attempts to drive him out of the building, but is unable to evict him under the city's rent control laws. She instead hatches a new method to get rid of Mars by blaming him for various mishaps after he supposedly places a voodoo curse on them. | |||
31 | 5 | ''Halloween Candy'' | 2nd October 2021 |
Mr. Killup is a grumpy and misanthropic old man who hates Halloween, often spending the 31st of October tormenting trick-or-treaters who come to his door. This year however, he is visited by a sinister goblin who insistently demands candy. When its offer is repeatedly refused, the goblin punishes Mr. Killup by trapping him outside of time with little-to-no food, forcing him to sustain himself on the candy his son gave him to hand out. | |||
32 | 6 | ''The Satanic Piano'' | 9th October 2021 |
Pete Bancroft, a musician in a creative slump, buys a revolutionary instrument that can read a person's thoughts and transform them into music. However, the instrument comes with a very high price; a price which Bancroft may not be willing to pay, especially since it leads to his daughter Paige. being kidnapped by Wilson Farber, the man who sold Bancroft the instrument, who is actually a Satanist who uses it to drain her soul in a ploy to gain immortality. | |||
33 | 7 | ''The Devil's Advocate'' | 16th October 2021 |
Luther Mandrake is the incredibly rude, arrogant, and mean-spirited host of a late-night radio show known as "The Devil's Advocate", where he unleashes the unbridled hatred he has accumulated through a life full of misery, hardship, and suffering onto callers eagerly seeking advice for the world's problems. One night, while taking some peculiar callers, Luther discovers that his constant anger and cynicism have led him into a deadly position. Luther is later contracted to be the literal devil's advocate; in exchange for continuing to make people miserable (and thus vulnerable to making deals with said devil), he gets great perks. | |||
34 | 8 | ''Distant Signals'' | 23rd October 2021 |
Television studio executive Gil Hurn is approached by Mr. Smith, a mysterious investor who asks him to complete the final episodes of Max Paradise, a short-run detective series from 2001 that was cancelled before said episodes were aired. Mr. Smith and his mysterious backers are willing to pay any price, specifically gold bars, to see the series finished, complete with bringing the original actor, Van Conway, out of retirement. Unknown to the others, Mr. Smith is an alien from a planet that has received TV signals from Earth 20 years after they originally aired, and Max Paradise has become immensely popular on their planet. | |||
35 | 9 | ''The Problem with Mary Jane'' | 30th October 2021 |
In a comedic parody of The Exorcist, inept occult practitioners Nora and Jack Mills are offered $50,000 to perform an exorcism on a young teenage girl possessed by a demonic seductress known as Aisha Conway. Things go from bad to worse when the incompetent couple end up summoning another demon, a commander known as Gad, to get rid of Aisha, only for both demons to end up possessing the little girl. | |||
36 | 10 | ''Ursa Minor'' | 6th November 2021 |
A 5 year old little girl named Susie blames her birthday present, a stuffed bear named Teddy, for various incidents around the house. Her parents, who don't remember purchasing Teddy in the first place, do not believe her... until Susie mother Marilyn discovers giant claw marks on the walls and overhears lumbering sounds at night. In the end, the mother destroys Teddy, but then has to deal with Teddy's mother: a bearskin rug in the attic. | |||
37 | 11 | "Effect and Cause" | 13th November 2021 |
Former hippie and free-spirited artist Kate, after discovering a sinister painting in her collection and reusing the canvas, discovers that the laws of cause and effect are beginning to operate in reverse. She further discovers that she can also alter reality itself at random, but when she begins losing control of her newfound powers, which she believes are the result of "bad karma" accumulated from erasing the painting, things build up to an explosive conclusion. | |||
38 | 12 | ''Monsters in My Room'' | 18th December 2021 |
Timmy, a young boy who lives with his mother and his abusive stepfather named Biff, discovers that various monsters (a witch, an octopus, a living buzz saw, and a troll) that may or may not be in his imagination are hiding in his room. Fortunately, his experiences with his stepfather allow Timmy to toughen himself up, whereupon he takes a stand against the creatures inhabiting his room. | |||
39 | 13 | ''The Princess Bride'' | 1st January 2022 |
In 1839, Lauren, a royal princess, who has lost her wealth and status, must find a way to make a life for herself, and in the process, finds love with a prince who is also struggling with his own challenge | |||
40 | 14 | ''Dream Girl'' | 8th January 2022 |
Theatrical director Andrea Caldwell finds herself and her co-workers trapped in the dreams of weaselly stagehand Otto Schrog. Able to control reality in his dreams, Otto forces his prisoners put on a poorly-written play in which he is the star, having them cater to his every whim and fulfill his fantasies. Eventually, Andrea and the others formulate a plan to awaken Otto and return to the real world. | |||
41 | 15 | "A New Lease on Life" | 15th January 2022 |
Archie Fenton moves into an apartment complex to be closer to his new job, where he receives the modern, fully equipped apartment of his dreams. However, after noting that some of his neighbours are frightened and are subsequently going missing, Archie discovers that the building is actually a giant dragon shaped like a building, and that the dragon is fed leftovers and disrespectful tenants by landlady Madame Angler and a pair of repairmen. | |||
42 | 16 | ''Printer's Devil'' | 22nd January 2022 |
Struggling author Junior P. Harmon hires Alex Kellaway, a jolly and obese man, as his new agent. Upon meeting with Junior, Kellaway tells him that there is only one way he can make his novels succeed: animal sacrifice. As such, Junior regularly begins ordering and sacrificing animals, his work becoming more and more successful with each sacrifice. Alex also tells him that if he wants his dream novel to succeed, he needs to escalate the sacrifices. | |||
43 | 17 | ''The Shrine'' | 29th January 2022 |
Christine Matthews, arriving at her childhood home to make amends with her mother following a nervous breakdown, discovers that her mother, has turned her old bedroom into a shrine. Christine also meets and competes against Chrissie, a sinister spirit taking the form of her younger self who her mother favors over her. | |||
44 | 18 | ''The Old Soft Shoe'' | 5th February 2022 |
Chester Caruso, a former dancer turned lingerie salesman, rents a room at a motel. Inside his room, Chester is subsequently harassed by Glenda, an alluring but volatile ghost of a woman who seems to confuse him for Harry, a man who had supposedly been cheating on her. | |||
45 | 19 | ''The Last Car'' | 12th February 2022 |
College student Stacey boards a mysterious train to travel home for Thanksgiving. After being seated in the train's last car, meeting 3 mysterious passengers, an elderly lady, an old man and a 9 year old boy, and witnessing various oddities occur whenever the car passes through a tunnel, Stacey soon discovers a horrific truth about the train, its passengers, and herself. | |||
46 | 20 | ''A Choice of Dreams'' | 19th February 2022 |
Jake Vigoda s a mob boss who discovers he is dying of terminal cancer. He is offered the chance to test Afterlife, a scientific process that keeps his brain alive so he can experience peaceful dreams forever after his death. It isn't long before the scientist who created Afterlife tampers with its workings, causing Abe's dreams to become nightmares. | |||
47 | 21 | ''Strange Love'' | 26th February 2022 |
In 1935, Dr. Philip Carrol makes a late-night house call to fix the broken leg of a woman named Marie Alcott. Marie and her husband Edmund, who are revealed to be vampires, proceed to make Dr. Carrol their slave. They force him to heal Marie's leg, then plan to kill and feed on him when he is no longer of use to them. Growing attracted to Carrol however, Marie begins to have second thoughts about her husband's plans. | |||
48 | 22 | ''Unhappy Medium'' | 5th March 2022 |
Farley Bright, recently deceased, was a corrupt televangelist and founder of the Church of the Bright Tomorrow. Through his videotaped will, Farley tells his surviving family, niece Jenny, her boyfriend Johnathan, and her mother Caroline that he will send them a sign. The sign ultimately comes when his equally crooked relatives find themselves trapped between Heaven and Hell. Farley also possesses Jenny, planning to use her both as a vessel for his comeback and as a means to escape being condemned to Hell for his corrupt ways. | |||
49 | 23 | ''Fear of Floating'' | 12th March 2022 |
Arnold Barker is a compulsive liar who miraculously has the ability to float whenever he lies. Having supposedly been exhibited as "The Human Balloon" in a circus and subsequently escaping, he seeks shelter in an police office. Soon after, a young pregnant girl and her angry father offer a different explanation as to why Arnold is on the run. | |||
50 | 24 | ''The Casavin Curse'' | 19th March 2022 |
Gina Casavin, born into a wealthy family, brutally murders her latest lover. She assures the psychologist that analyzes her, Dr. Webster, that she has been cursed. While Webster initially deduces that the curse is a ploy by Gina's incestuous cousin to keep her under his power, it is ultimately revealed that Gina has been telling the truth: her great-grandfather Anton Casavin had the opportunity to marry into a wealthy family. He had previously been married to a gypsy named Mirabel, and when refused a divorce, proceeded to kill her. With her last breath, Mirabel put a curse on Anton and his descendants... a curse that ensures any member the Casavin family will destroy whoever they love. | |||
51 | 25 | ''The Soot Man'' | 26th March 2022 |
Kat and Manny are a young couple of unscrupulous grifters who go from town to town cleaning houses and robbing wealthy homeowners. One day Kat goes to an old house and takes a job with a strange recluse, Ms. Calloway where she tells her about the Soot Man, a humanoid rake-like creature that resides in the fireplace and appears whenever the fireplace is on. Kat dismisses her warnings and carries on her mission to find the money that is hidden in the house, but is the creature real or a myth? | |||
52 | 26 | ''Grandma's Will'' | 2nd April 2022 |
Karen, Britney and Freya Bennett, three sisters who likely haven't seen each other in a long time, are brought together by the unexpected death of their grandma and the reading of her will. The will reveals that their grandmother has left them a valuable diamond necklace, but with a catch – they must compete for it, likely through a series of challenges or tasks. The competition for the necklace inevitably leads to conflict, both psychological and physical, as the sisters' personalities and past resentments clash. |
Season 3 (2022-2023)[]
No. in eries | No. in season | Title | Airdate |
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53 | 1 | ''Clowns'' | 3rd September 2022 |
Dr. Nis is the founder and ringmaster of the "Exhibition of Horror", a twisted circus that showcases various types of monstrous, humanoid clowns as its main attractions. Graig Hobbs, a cynical and sceptical newspaper columnist who specialises in debunking charlatans, investigates Nis's' circus. When he sticks his nose where it does not belong, he ends up becoming part of the troupe. | |||
54 | 2 | ''I Can't Help Saying Goodbye'' | 10th September 2022 |
Libby and her choir director fiance Mark notice that people keep dying in the presence of her younger sister Lily. It become apparent that Lily can sense when people around her are about to die, and does so by placing her hands on their face and saying "goodbye" to them; however, they think she induces the fatalities, including her parents. In a mix of sorrow, anger, and fear, Libby and Mark tell Lily to never say "goodbye" to anyone again, but when Lily ends up "saying goodbye" to Mark, Libby takes drastic (and ultimately tragic) measures to solve the problem. | |||
55 | 3 | ''The Smartest Pill'' | 17th September 2022 |
Jameson Jr Bender, a boy mistreated and called "stupid" by his parents, is visited by Tinker an eccentric scientist and family friend. Tinker has developed a miraculous pill that increases brain power and memory, and as Jameson Jr's family have recently won the lottery, he approaches the boy's parents Jameson and Margery for financial support. Eventually, Tinker ends up dying from the excruciating amount of knowledge he has absorbed. Afterwards, Jameson Jr ingests the prototype pill, using his astounding new intellect to gain power over his parents. | |||
56 | 4 | ''Florence Bravo'' | 24th September 2022 |
Following a case of adultery, lawyer David King and his wife Emily move into an old house in which a woman murdered her cheating husband. A man-hating spirit named Florence Bravo she decides to recreate the events that led to her husband's death; to make Emily her companion. Pressured by the ghost, Emily overhears her husband talking to estate agent Juliet the next day, mistaking their conversation as a proposition for sex; in reality, David has decided the house is giving his wife's imagination too much to work with. | |||
57 | 5 | ''The Geezenstacks'' | 1st October 2022 |
Audery Hummel, a cheerful little girl, is given a dollhouse by her Uncle Richard, who explains that the house he originally found it in was empty. Audrey's father Sam soon notices that whatever his daughter describes happening to her doll family, the Geezenstacks, carries over into reality and affects the Hummel family as well. The ending displays a unique variation on the Droste effect. | |||
58 | 6 | ''Black Widows'' | 8th October 2022 |
Against the wishes of her reclusive mother Mildred, 18 year old teenager Audrey Webster has decided to marry who she believes to be the man of her dreams. On her wedding night however, Audrey ends up killing and devouring her new husband; horrifying her. In the process, she finally discovers the reason for her mother's mysterious reclusiveness, as well as a dark secret about the women in her family. | |||
59 | 7 | ''Heretic'' | 15th October 2022 |
Harte, an unscrupulous art dealer, buys a stolen painting of the Spanish Inquisition from a thief. Harte soon regrets his purchase when he is visited by a mysterious monk who begs him to repent his sins and return the painting. When Harte refuses, he is suddenly transported inside the painting, where he is tortured and forced to confess his crimes before the Inquisition itself. | |||
60 | 8 | "A Serpent's Tooth'' | 22nd October 2022 |
Controlling mother Pearl King is given a serpent's tooth by her mother, causing her various metaphors and hyperbole to come true. Her newfound power also forces her children to obey her; her teenage son Mark studies dentistry instead of agriculture, while her teenage daughter Madeline is forced to dress in outdated and feminine styled clothes. After she accidentally turns her daughter's boyfriend into a slice of bread, Pearl's children snap at her. In the end, Pearl accidentally turns herself into a pillar of salt after saying to be turned into one if she was a bad mother; though the shock makes Mark and Madeline live 50% of what Pearl wanted. A still conscious, but immobile Pearl thinks "They're nice kids. It was worth it." | |||
61 | 9 | ''Baker's Dozen'' | 29th October 2022 |
In New Orleans, Voodoo witch Rose Cuzzins owns and operates the Cuzzins Dozens cookie shop where she bakes and sells cookies with magical properties. Rose also regularly punishes her assistant and father Aloysius, who routinely ran out on her and her mother to get drunk on moonshine, by painfully transforming him into a rat. One day, Rose partners up with Patrick Hogan, an unscrupulous advertising executive who seeks to profit from her special recipes. Little does Patrick know that Rose hopes to profit from him as well, and uses her special recipes to exact revenge when she is denied her share of the profits. | |||
62 | 10 | ''Deliver Us From Goodness'' | 5th November 2022 |
Victoria Cantrell, an incredibly generous, wholesome, and faithful housewife, discovers that she has somehow been sainted; granted the ability to perform actual miracles. Fearing that her newfound sainthood is becoming a burden to her teenage daughter Verity and effecting the popularity of her mayoral candidate husband Julian, Victoria attempts to break each of the Ten Commandments in numerical order to fall from grace. | |||
63 | 11 | ''Seasons of Belief'' | 24th December 2022 |
On Christmas Eve, a pair of siblings named Jimbo and Skye demand to be told a story. Their mean-spirited parents decide to tell them a different kind of Christmas story. They tell their children about the "Grither", a monster that lives in a cave at the North Pole that hunts down and kills anyone who says its name, regardless of how far away they are. | |||
64 | 12 | ''Miss May Dusa'' | 7th January 2023 |
In a neo-noir adaptation of an ancient myth, Medusa (who calls herself "May Dusa"), suffering from amnesia, finds herself inside a department store in New York City. Making her way to the subway, she meets and befriends Jimmy James, a saxophone player who happens to be blind. As she falls in love with James, "May" slowly uncovers the truth behind the deaths she's accidentally caused everywhere she's been, leading to her love story becoming a tragedy. | |||
65 | 13 | ''The Wishing Milkman'' | 14th January 2023 |
A mysterious being known as the Milkman (whom no one in the neighbourhood has ever actually seen) grants the wishes of people who leave a note with their discarded milk bottles. To the horror of father and husband Garry Cooley, he learns that the Milkman can mix up the meaning of the notes he receives if they are written metaphorically. This comes back to haunt Cooley when his wife, previously infertile after their first child, gives birth again. | |||
66 | 14 | ''My Ghostwriter - The Vampire'' | 21st January 2023 |
Talentless vampire novel author Peter Prentice, known for stealing ideas from his assistant and ghostwriter Jayne, discovers Count ''Jeffery'' Draco, an actual vampire who had been slumbering in the coffin he bought for inspiration. Peter makes a deal with Draco offering him sanctuary if he helps provide material for his failing novels. Eventually, Peter's latest book, 900 Years of Darkness, becomes wildly successful, but Draco begins growing bitter when refused his royalties. | |||
67 | 15 | ''My Own Place'' | 4th February 2023 |
Investment banker in finance Sandy Godfry, after spending many years being forced to live with roommates for financial security, finally receives a lavish apartment to own for himself for only $235 a month. He soon discovers that his new home comes with Ram, a mysterious guest from India who appears to live in the apartment as well, but only appears when Sandy is alone. | |||
68 | 16 | ''Red Leader'' | 11th February 2023 |
Alex Hayes, a shady and unscrupulous construction mogul, ends up meeting his deceased business partners Jake and Sammy who literally climb out of Hell to see him. Alex also comes face to face with the Devil himself. Thoroughly impressed by his lifetime of sin, the Devil offers Alex a position among his forces. | |||
69 | 17 | ''Everybody Needs a Little Love'' | 18th February 2023 |
In a tribute to classic film noir, socially awkward virgin Lewis, who has spent most of life struggling with women in the dating market, decides to purchase a mannequin he names "Estelle'' to cope with his sex life. Lewis's only friend Robert notices that not only has he been having sex with the mannequin but has begun talking to and doting over the mannequin, treating it like a real person. As Robert begins to grow concerned about his friend's apparently deteriorating mental stability, it is hinted that Lewis's love may have sinister intentions. | |||
70 | 18 | ''Auld Acquaintances'' | 25th February 2023 |
Mary Hobbs and Elizabeth Grace, a pair of powerful witches, meet and ultimately lock themselves in the prison cell where they first met in the 1600s, which has since become part of a museum. The witches had previously made an arrangement to share an antique talisman that carries great power for one year at a time, and promptly reignite their centuries-old feud over the item. | |||
71 | 19 | ''The Social Climber'' | 4th March 2023 |
Kyle, an apprentice of a talented shoemaker named Anthony finds that he can actually live other people's lives by wearing the shoes Anthony makes for them. As Kyle has no ambition whatsoever to put in the work necessary to make a name for himself, he continues, against his boss' warnings, to wear these magic shoes to live the lives of people more successful than him, which leads to a ghastly outcome., | |||
72 | 20 | ''The Swap'' | 11th March 2023 |
Bubba, a very lecherous and wealthy man covered in skin lesions, discovers that his young beautiful wife Alison Sibbles is having an affair with his handsome handyman Patryk Sadowski and that the duo plan to murder him for his money. Upon learning this, Bubba turns to the spells of his late mother, a powerful sorceress, to ensure that their plot doesn't succeed by swapping bodies with someone else. | |||
73 | 21 | ''Let the Drinking Begin'' | 18th March 2023 |
Since his mother's death, office worker Ben Moore has been coping with drinking. One day Ben is drunk driving and crashes his car, killing him instantly. He then comes face to face with ''Death'', a psycho-comp in the form of a hooded skeletal figure, carrying a scythe that guides decreased souls to the afterlife. Death decides make a deal with Ben. He will give Ben a 50 year expansion but in one condition.. If he goes through an entire year of no alcohol, but if he fails Death will take his soul to afterlife. | |||
74 | 22 | ''Killing Eve'' | 25th March 2023 |
Eve Polastri, a bored, whip-smart MI5 security services operative whose desk-bound job doesn't fulfil her fantasies of being a spy, becomes a MI6 foreign intelligence operative when she is tasked with finding Villanelle, a psychopathic, ruthless, Russian assassin who works for a secret organisation called The Twelve and clings to the luxuries her violent job affords her. When Eve and Villanelle cross paths, the two fierce women, equally obsessed with each other, go in an epic game of cat and mouse. |
Season 4 (2023-2024)[]
No. in Series | No. in season | Title | Airdate |
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75 | 1 | ''Beetles'' | 2nd September 2023 |
Archeologist Arthur Hartley has recently come into the possession of a stolen sarcophagus filled with treasure. He is visited by a mysterious man known as Hammid Bey, who warns him against touching the mummy that is also housed in the sarcoghagus, as it is cursed. When Arthur ignores Hammid's warning and touches the mummy, he notices that scarab beetles have mysteriously begun appearing throughout his house. | |||
76 | 2 | ''Mary, Mary'' | 9th September 2023 |
Mary Jones, a photographer who suffers from cripplingly low self-esteem, isolates herself from the world and turns to dolls and mannequins for friendship. Mary also becomes gripped with fear after a neighbor, David, makes romantic advances towards her, believing herself not to be worthy his or anyone's love. Eventually, Mary's continuous self-loathing leads to a tragic conclusion. | |||
77 | 3 | ''The Spirit Photographer'' | 16th September 2023 |
Paranormal investigator Algernon Colesbury invents a special camera capable of taking perfect photographs of ghosts. Ignoring the skepticism of his best friend Harry Bainbridge, Algernon has purchased a haunted house so he can use it as a testing site for the camera, hoping to once and for all prove to the world that ghosts do exist. | |||
78 | 4 | ''The Moth'' | 23rd September 2023 |
Sybil, a mischievous and heartless witch, returns home fatally stabbed. Convinced that her soul will exit her body in the form of a moth upon her death, Sybil demands that her good-hearted, Christian mother to capture the moth and utilize it in a ritual that will allow Sybil to return to life so she can continue wreaking havoc. The circumstances of Sybil's last request ultimately cause her mother, who has loved her in spite of all the pain and misery she caused her and the townspeople, to suffer a crisis of faith and conscience. | |||
79 | 5 | ''No Strings'' | 30th September 2023 |
Eddie Minelli, a cruel and twisted mob boss, has his subordinate Nicky kidnap noted puppeteer Aldo De Calasuro, whereupon Eddie forces him to string up the corpse of his murdered rival Fat Paulie. With his floozy Tiffany at his side, Eddie celebrates the defeat of his rival by watching Aldo puppeteer the corpse to put on a one-man show where "Paulie" praises Eddie, but the result of such an act is unexpected for all involved. | |||
80 | 6 | ''The Grave Robber'' | 7th October 2023 |
Unscrupulous but cowardly grave robber Harold Gormley and his girlfriend Aileen discover an Egyptian tomb filled with treasure. In the process, they awaken Tapok, a short-tempered mummy who was once Lord Chamberlain to the Pharaoh, but now serves as guardian of the tomb. After some negotiation from Aileen, Tapok allows the duo to leave the tomb alive, but only if they can best him in a series of games... culminating in a round of strip poker. | |||
81 | 7 | ''The Yattering and Jack'' | 9th December 2023 |
A diminutive demon known as The Yattering is assigned by Beelzebub to obtain the soul of pickle salesman Jack Polo; intending to drive him insane to the point where he renounces his faith in God. As his master warns him, the Yattering must proceed with caution on its mission, for if the demon touches Jack before claiming his soul, the demon will become Jack's slave for eternity. Complicating matters, the carefree Jack refuses to acknowledge the paranormal phenomena The Yattering creates, frustrating the demon to no end. In contrast, Jack's daughter Amanda does indeed notice the strange happenings throughout her father's house, and her father's devil-may-care attitude leaves her gravely concerned. | |||
82 | 8 | "Seymourlama" | 16th December 2023 |
Henry and Ellen Strand are visited one night by Chai Fung and Madame, representatives of a small Himalayan country known as Lo Poa. The Strands are surprised to learn that the duo have come to collect their teenage son Seymour, who has been signified by an ancient religious prophecy to become the next lama of their nation. Overcome by the fame, fortune, and women his new position grants him, Seymour promptly lets the power go to his head, using his authority to torment his parents. | |||
83 | 9 | ''Sorry, Right Number'' | 23rd December 2023 |
Katie Weiderman, wife of famed horror novelist William Weiderman, receives a peculiar phone call one night. The voice on the other end sounds horribly distraught and traumatized, prompting Katie to believe that it may belong to a member of her family. To that end, Katie calls and visits every relative she can think of, but they all appear to be safe. When she returns home, she discovers Bill has died of a heart attack. On the fifth anniversary of Bill's death, Katie finally discovers the truth behind the mysterious call, but is far too late to do anything about it. | |||
84 | 10 | ''Payment Overdue'' | 13th January 2024 |
Jeanette is a heartless debt collector who gets her clients, primarily children, the elderly, and the less fortunate, to pay her by threatening legal action and even imprisonment upon them. One such client, a poor woman suffering from a brain tumour named Rita Valdez, commits suicide when Jeanette threatens to take her to court if she doesn't receive payment. After receiving calls from Rita from beyond the grave, Jeanette is visited by Rita's attorney, Jophiel Nelson. Jophiel is ultimately revealed to actually be Rita's guardian angel, having been sent to punish Jeanette for her amoral behaviour and her role in Rita's death. | |||
85 | 11 | ''Love Hungry'' | 20th January 2024 |
Overweight telemarketer Betsy Cowland discovers that her high school lover, Elmo Shroud , is back in town. Desperate to lose weight and have Elmo find her attractive again, Betsy is inspired to try a mysterious weight loss program known as "Weight Away". She receives a pair of glasses and a hearing aid which makes her visualize all food as sentient beings that feel excruciating pain when eaten. To Betsy's horror, the items become fused to her head, so she slowly starves herself in order to keep her now self-aware food alive longer. | |||
86 | 12 | ''The Deal'' | 27th January 2024 |
Aspiring screenwriter Tom Dash has moved to Hollywood to become the next big thing in the movie industry. Unfortunately, his work is continuously rejected by film studios all throughout the town. Out of options, Tom is offered help with his plight by his neighbour Donald, who claims to have connections in the movie business. Little does Tom realise that Donald is actually the Devil, who expects Tom to give him his soul in exchange for his newfound success. Donald does tell Tom that he can get out of their deal, but only if he finds someone as desperate for success as he once was to replace him. | |||
87 | 13 | ''The Apprentice'' | 3rd February 2024 |
Feminist college student Sarah McBride applies for a part-time job in Magistrate, a living museum that recreates life in 17th century Salem. Eventually, Sarah wanders through a mist-shrouded closet and falls unconscious. When she awakens, Sarah discovers that she has actually traveled back in time to 1692, where her supposed superior, Thomas Branford, reacts to her modern, rebellious and feminist mindset by forcing her to work as a near-slave and ultimately having her be condemned as a witch. | |||
88 | 14 | ''The Cutty Black Sow'' | 10th February 2024 |
On the night before Halloween, young Jamie is warned by his dying great-grandmother about the Cutty Black Sow, a demon of Celtic lore that steals the souls of all who die on All Hallow's Eve. In an effort to protect his great-grandmother's soul, as well as the souls of his family, Jamie attempts to ward off the Cutty Black Sow by performing a ritual with supplies his great-grandmother has stored away. | |||
89 | 15 | ''Do Not Open This Box'' | 17th February 2024 |
Charles Pennywell is a meek would-be-inventor who is content with "the quiet life." Yet Ruth, his overbearing and opportunistic wife of 35 years, is anything but content; she openly regrets her choice of husband...and is bitterly jealous of their neighbor Clarissa Sanderson, a wealthy and sweet-tempered widow. One day, Charlie comes across a box in his basement-workshop...a box with the title warning inscribed on it. Being Ruth, she forces open the box despite Charlie's objections; it seems to be empty. That's when the postman who delivered said box comes to collect it...offering the Pennywells whatever they desire for its safe return, providing the box hasn't been opened. When it soon becomes apparent that Ruth has no intention of giving back the box -- which, in fact, contained something money literally cannot buy -- the postman reveals his true identity. | |||
90 | 16 | ''Family Reunion'' | 24th February 2024 |
Robert Perry keeps his ill son Bobby chained up and locked away from the world until he can be cured. Bobby's worried mother Janice desperately wants to be reunited with her child, so she enlists Trudy, a social worker, in an attempt to regain custody of Bobby. It is later revealed that there is more to Bobby's "illness" than meets the eye, and that Janice had a very good reason for why she wanted her son back. | |||
91 | 17 | ''Going Native'' | 2nd March 2024 |
Claire is an emotionless agent from an alien planet masquerading as a photographer. Every photograph she takes on her mission is sent to her superiors back on her world, who wish to learn about humanity. For the final part of her assignment, Claire is tasked with joining a therapy group in an effort to understand human emotion. Claire must take great care not to get emotional herself, for if she feels what the humans feel, she will be banished from her planet forever. | |||
92 | 18 | ''Hush'' | 9th March 2024 |
Buddy Warren, a child prodigy and the son of a talented inventor, creates the Noise Eater, a machine that is able to silence things by sucking the life out of them. When the Noise Eater ends up destroying its control mechanism and goes haywire, Buddy enlists his babysitter Jennifer to help him stop the machine before it escapes the confines of the house and makes everything quiet. | |||
93 | 19 | ''Sorcery Ring'' | 16th March 2024 |
Anna Hill buys a beautiful ring from the 1800s in an antique store. For the past couple of nights while she's asleep, Anna has been having nightmares that either a male figure was choking her or she was drowning in a very dark body of water. She also realises that she keeps having the same dreams anytime she wears the ring, eventually leading Anna to learn a dark secret she's been suffering ever since she brought ring. | |||
94 | 20 | ''Basher Malone'' | 23rd March 2024 |
Basher Malone, a professional wrestler with a heart of gold, is at the top of his game. Accompanied by his affectionate mother at every match, Basher hopes to use his unbeatable skills to rid the wrestling world of competitors who play dirty, while also giving the "impressionable children" watching a good role model to look up to. Incensed with Basher's popularity, crooked manager Tippy Ryan, whose own unscrupulous wrestlers once ruled the circuit before Basher came along, challenges Basher to a final, one-on-one fight against his newest client, a demonic wrestler known as Trog. If Basher wins, Tippy must close his gym and lay off his fighters, but if Basher loses, he must give up professional wrestling forever. | |||
95 | 21 | ''My Little Kingdom'' | 30th March 2024 |
An 8 year old elf named Ben Elf and 8 year old fairy princess named Holly Thistle are a duo of best friends that live in a fairy kingdom called the little kingdom, which is a miniature kingdom hidden among bushes ruled by fairies. Suddenly the kingdom is terrorised by a dragon that was once its greatest protector, now driven mad by dark magic. The only hope lies in an ancient prophecy that foretells the rise of a new hero. | |||
96 | 22 | ''Mermaid Love'' | 6th April 2024 |
Peter Hobbs, a young fisherman fishing in the middle of the ocean, accidentally catches a mermaid in his net named Marina. The two get to know each other and begin to fall in love with one another. Marina then tells Peter that she is actually trying to get away from her controlling family and the sea gods/goddesses who are trying to force her to marry a merman, who she does not love, leading to a situation where the mermaid pleads for her freedom or the fisherman must make a difficult choice. |