Episode
Tales from the Darkside: The False Prophet
Overview
Cassie Pines is a woman travelling on her own who believes in astrology, tea leaves...everything. She comes into a diner with a most unusual mechanical fortune teller named Horace X. "Horace" is uncanny with his predictions but Cassie soon finds that Horace is demanding and possessive - despite her misgivings she enters the booth one more time...and disappears.
Details
- Series
- Tales from the Darkside
- Season
- Season 1
- Episode
- Episode 23
- Air date
- 1985-08-04
- Runtime
- 23 min
Episode context
The False Prophet is Episode 23 in Season 1 of Tales from the Darkside. It aired on 1985-08-04. The runtime is 23 min.
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