Season 4: Episode 14

Season 4: Episode 16

Tales from the Darkside (1984)

Season 4: Episode 15

Do Not Open This Box

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Air Date:

2025-12-07

Genre

Drama Sci-Fi & Fantasy

Release Date

1984

End Date

1988

Episode Description

An aged inventor and his wife come into possession of a box marked "Do not open this box." The wife opens it and finds it empty. The next day a man comes to claim the box and the lady makes up a story about losing the box. The man begins giving them nice things in exchange for eventually getting the box back. The couple begin living the sweet life thanks to the stranger but when they finally give the box back, the man tells them that it contained a human soul - since the box was opened the soul has escaped and now the man needs a replacement.

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Cast

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Mookie and Pookie

Inside the Closet

The Word Processor of the Gods

A Case of the Stubborns

Djinn, No Chaser

All a Clone by the Telephone

Anniversary Dinner

The Tear Collector

If the Shoes Fit...

It All Comes Out in the Wash

Bigalow's Last Smoke

Grandma's Last Wish

The False Prophet

The Impressionist

Ring Around the Redhead

Parlour Floor Front

Halloween Candy

The Satanic Piano

The Devil's Advocate

Distant Signals

The Trouble with Mary Jane

Effect and Cause

Monsters in My Room

A New Lease On Life

Printer's Devil

The Old Soft Shoe

A Choice of Dreams

The Unhappy Medium

Fear of Floating

The Casavin Curse

I Can't Help Saying Goodbye

The Bitterest Pill

The Geezenstacks

A Serpent's Tooth

Deliver Us from Goodness

Seasons of Belief

The Milkman Cometh

My Ghostwriter: The Vampire

Everybody Needs a Little Love

Auld Acquaintances

The Social Climber

Let the Games Begin

The Enormous Radio

The Spirit Photographer

The Grave Robber

The Yattering and Jack

Sorry, Right Number

Payment Overdue

The Cutty Black Sow

Do Not Open This Box

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