The BEST episodes directed by Ted Gershuny

Ursa Minor
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7.38
57 votes

#1 - Ursa Minor

Tales from the Darkside - Season 2 - Episode 10

When Joan finds a new teddy bear in her son's room no one seems to know where it came from. Then night after night huge claw marks are found on the walls and the sounds of something very large can be heard moving through the house. It seems that this little bear has a murderous life all its own...

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In the Cards
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6.88
72 votes

#2 - In the Cards

Tales from the Darkside - Season 1 - Episode 12

A fake fortuneteller, Caterina, soon finds that every fortune she tells comes true...but she can only predict gruesome and horrific ends for her customers. She soon discovers that another cursed fortuneteller slipped her a cursed pack of cards, and Caterina can only get rid of them by giving them to another fake. She does so by slipping into another fortuneteller's parlor, asking for a fortune, and slipping her the cursed deck. Unfortunately the first fortune the new cursee reads is of Caterina's death...which rapidly comes true.

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My Own Place
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6.11
18 votes

#3 - My Own Place

Tales from the Darkside - Season 3 - Episode 15

Laura, a desperate woman, tries to get an apartment by herself but is forced to take in Ram, an immigrant from Calcutta. When Ram dies partly due to her involvement, Laura finds that she has inherited an entire family of ghostly Hindus.

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Strange Love
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5.96
24 votes

#4 - Strange Love

Tales from the Darkside - Season 2 - Episode 21

Dr. Carrol visits the Alcotts and discovers that they are vampire and that wife Marie wants an escape.

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Going Native
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5.74
18 votes

#5 - Going Native

Tales from the Darkside - Season 4 - Episode 17

An alien is sent to Earth to study the nature and behavior of human beings. The alien, who resembles a normal Earth female, meticulously studies photographs of still life from large cities, simultaneously fascinated with and disgusted by the disarray and degeneration depicted in the pictures. The alien joins a therapeutic support group in an effort to better understand the seemingly contradictory humans. As she develops personal relationships with each group member, she begins to further understand the origin of and reasons for the behavior of humans, albeit from an outside observer's vantage point. The other members of the group see the alien as distant and detached, a condition that they assume is rooted in a self-denial complex. As the alien speaks at one of the group meetings, she suddenly realizes that she has been experiencing the exact same feelings as the humans that she has been studying. She has become human-like through assimilation, trapped within the emotional shell of ano

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Ring Around the Redhead
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5.68
56 votes

#6 - Ring Around the Redhead

Tales from the Darkside - Season 2 - Episode 3

As Billy is waiting to be executed in the electric chair, he relates the bizarre tale of how he came to be in his predicament at the hands of an attractive woman.

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