List of Are You Afraid of the Dark? episodes
Are You Afraid of the Dark? is a Canadian television series that aired on YTV and Nickelodeon from 1991 to 1996. The pilot episode "The Tale of the Twisted Claw" aired on Nickelodeon on October 25, 1991 as a Halloween special. The following year, the series premiered on Nickelodeon's SNICK on August 15, 1992 and YTV on September 2, 1992, and aired until February 3, 1996.
A revival series consisting of two seasons ran from 1999 to 2000 on Nickelodeon and the Family Channel. In February 2019, it was announced that the series would be revived again for a limited series premiering on Nickelodeon on October 11, 2019.[1][2] In October 2020, the casting for a second season, titled Are You Afraid of the Dark?: Curse of the Shadows, was announced.[3]
As of October 25, 2019, 94 episodes of Are You Afraid of the Dark? have aired.
Series overview
| Series | Season | Episodes | Originally aired | |||||||||
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| 1991 series | 1 | 13 | October 25, 1991 | November 21, 1992 | YTV Nickelodeon | |||||||
| 2 | 13 | June 19, 1993 | October 2, 1993 | |||||||||
| 3 | 13 | January 8, 1994 | April 16, 1994 | |||||||||
| 4 | 13 | October 1, 1994 | January 21, 1995 | |||||||||
| 5 | 13 | October 7, 1995 | February 3, 1996 | |||||||||
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| 1999 series | 1 | 13 | February 6, 1999 | May 15, 1999 | Nickelodeon Family Channel | |||||||
| 2 | 13 | April 2, 2000 | June 11, 2000 | |||||||||
| Second revival | ||||||||||||
| 2019 series | 1 | 3 | October 11, 2019 | October 25, 2019 | Nickelodeon | |||||||
| 2 | 6 | February 12, 2021 | TBA | |||||||||
Original series episodes
Season 1 (1992)
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| 1 | 1 | "The Tale of the Phantom Cab" | Ron Oliver | Chloe Brown | August 15, 1992 (Nickelodeon) September 2, 1992 (YTV) | |
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Two brothers who often fight with each other get lost in the woods, and come across a mysterious cab driver named Flynn. He leads the two boys to an unusual man named Dr. Vink to help them find their way out. The catch is that Vink will not help any of his guests until they solve one of his riddles. Failure to do so results in undesired consequences.
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| 2 | 2 | "The Tale of Laughing in the Dark" | Ron Oliver | Chloe Brown | August 22, 1992 | |
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Josh decides to prove that an amusement park fun house isn't haunted by stealing the nose from a prop of Zeebo the clown. Zeebo was a corrupt circus clown who died in a funhouse fire while escaping from the police after stealing money. Josh soon learns that the story is indeed true when Zeebo's ghost visits him demanding his nose back.
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| 3 | 3 | "The Tale of the Lonely Ghost" | D.J. MacHale | Naomi Janzen | August 29, 1992 | |
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Amanda is stuck spending time at her aunt's house, and desperately wants to be friends with her snotty cousin Beth. She agrees to spend the night in the haunted house next door to become part of her group of friends. She soon finds out that the story regarding the "haunted" house may actually be true with a living connection close by.
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| 4 | 4 | "The Tale of the Twisted Claw" | D.J. MacHale | Chloe Brown | September 12, 1992 | |
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In a twist on the classic story "The Monkey's Paw", two boys play a mean trick on an old lady the night before Halloween. The next night the boys return for trick or treating "disguised" in costumes, but rather than candy she gives them a wooden vulture's claw. She tells the boys that this "gift" grants wishes warning them to "be careful what they wish for". The two boys start making wishes with unintended terrifying consequences.
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| 5 | 5 | "The Tale of the Hungry Hounds" | D.J. MacHale | Anne Appelton | September 12, 1992 | |
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Amy and Pam discover their late aunt's old horse-riding jacket in an old trunk. When Pam puts on the jacket, she becomes possessed by the aunt's spirit, who must feed her hungry dogs in order to rest in peace.
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| 6 | 6 | "The Tale of the Super Specs" | Ron Oliver | Chloe Brown | September 19, 1992 | |
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A prankster named Weeds buys a pair of novelty glasses from Sardo that allow the wearer to see into another dimension. This alternate universe is populated by figures in black, that are looking to merge with the known universe unless Sardo can close the door between the two dimensions.
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| 7 | 7 | "The Tale of the Captured Souls" | D.J. MacHale | Anne Appelton | September 26, 1992 | |
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Danielle and her parents rent a lakeside room for the summer where they befriend the young property owner Peter. Strangely the residence is full of mirrors which the owner cites as a "hobby", and even stranger the parents start feeling weaker by the day. Danielle soon discovers the owner’s trying to take away her parents' youth to keep himself young using a device connected to the mirror and has to stop him before it's too late.
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| 8 | 8 | "The Tale of the Nightly Neighbors" | Jacques Payette | Chloe Brown | October 3, 1992 | |
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A new family moves into Emma's neighborhood. They are originally from Rovno, Ukraine, wear black, collect blood and are only active at night.
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| 9 | 9 | "The Tale of the Sorcerer's Apprentice" | D.J. MacHale | Stephen Zoller | October 24, 1992 | |
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Dean is a high school outcast who gets a chance to have some power from awakening an ancient secret hidden in the school. In doing so, he briefly forgets the person who cares for him most without realizing it.
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| 10 | 10 | "The Tale of Jake and the Leprechaun" | D.J. MacHale | Nick Webb | October 17, 1992 | |
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Jake Joysen (Benjamin Plener) is an aspiring, young actor who is excited to be part of a play titled Will o' the Wisp, but Jake himself soon learns in due time that there is much more to the play than meets the eye.
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| 11 | 11 | "The Tale of the Dark Music" | Ron Oliver | Chloe Brown | October 10, 1992 | |
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Andy moves into a new neighborhood where things do not start out well until he figures out that there is something hidden inside his basement that only seems to appear whenever music is played.
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| 12 | 12 | "The Tale of the Prom Queen" | Jean-Marie Comeau | Chloe Brown | November 7, 1992 | |
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Three kids attempt to find the truth behind an urban legend of a young girl who died while waiting for her boyfriend to pick her up for the prom. This story is loosely based on Resurrection Mary.
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| 13 | 13 | "The Tale of the Pinball Wizard" | D.J. MacHale | Louise Lamarre | November 21, 1992 | |
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Despite being warned by his boss against playing the pinball machine and finish cleaning up before going home, Ross plays a pinball game that comes to life when he is left in the mall after closing time.
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Season 2 (1993)
| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | |
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| 14 | 1 | "The Tale of the Final Wish" | D.J. MacHale | Chloe Brown | June 19, 1993 | |
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Jill is a 13 year old who is reluctant to give up her childhood fairytales, which results in her school friends and family mocking her. She makes a wish one night saying she just wants everyone to leave her alone. The Sandman grants her wish by placing her inside her own nightmarish fairytale.
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| 15 | 2 | "The Tale of the Midnight Madness" | D.J. MacHale | Chloe Brown | June 26, 1993 | |
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Dr. Vink helps a struggling movie theater gain more patrons with a copy of the classic vampire film, Nosferatu, but when Dr. Vink gets cheated out of his money in saving the theater, he curses the famous movie monster to step out of the movie and haunt the theater, and it's up to two teenaged ushers to break the curse.
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| 16 | 3 | "The Tale of Locker 22" | David Winning | Chloe Brown | July 3, 1993 | |
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A new student from France is assigned a locker that once belonged to a hippie girl named Candy Warren who died in a chemistry lab explosion in 1968...and the new student soon discovers that Candy's spirit wants her to go back in time to prevent her death. The girl succeeds with the help of her friend who makes the teacher, Mr. Shaffner, realize the dangers of using a broken equipment that could've caused a tragedy. Returning to the present, they're shocked to see that Candy is their vice principal and Shaffner has since retired from teaching.
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| 17 | 4 | "The Tale of the Thirteenth Floor" | Michael Keusch | Anne Appelton | July 10, 1993 | |
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Siblings Billy and his adopted sister Karen like to spend their free time playing hockey on the 13th floor of their apartment building, but this stops when a strange toy company rents out the thirteenth floor to store their new products and has picked Karen to test them out.
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| 18 | 5 | "The Tale of the Dream Machine" | David Winning | Darren Kotania | July 17, 1993 | |
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An aspiring writer finds a typewriter that makes whatever is written come true. Things seem harmless enough until he writes a pair of stories that end up putting his best friend and the girl he likes in danger.
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| 19 | 6 | "The Tale of the Dark Dragon" | D.J. MacHale | Allison Lea Bingeman | July 24, 1993 | |
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A teenage boy with a debilitating leg injury from a car accident buys a potion from Sardo's Magic Shop in order to cure his injury and get his confidence back. However, the more the boy uses the potion, the more his inner demons turn him into a monster.
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| 20 | 7 | "The Tale of the Whispering Walls" | D.J. MacHale | Allison Lea Bingeman | July 31, 1993 | |
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After a day in the park, babysitter Louise and two pre-teenagers get lost in the highway and stop at a mansion where things are not what they seem.
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| 21 | 8 | "The Tale of the Frozen Ghost" | Ron Oliver | Naomi Janzen | August 14, 1993 | |
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A rich kid and his grumpy babysitter head off to his poor aunt's house in the country, where a little boy who can only utter, "I'm cold" haunts the woods.
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| 22 | 9 | "The Tale of the Full Moon" | Ron Oliver | Ron Oliver | August 21, 1993 | |
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An aspiring pet detective suspects his mother's new boyfriend might be a werewolf.
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| 23 | 10 | "The Tale of the Shiny Red Bicycle" | David Winning | Cassandra Schafhausen | August 28, 1993 | |
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Mike hasn't been the same since his friend Ricky died in an accident while riding his shiny, red bicycle. Things get worse when Mike begins seeing Ricky's ghost and the red bicycle and discovers that his younger brother will die just like Ricky did unless he does something to change his brother's fate.
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| 24 | 11 | "The Tale of the Magician's Assistant" | Ron Oliver | Cassandra Schafhausen | September 11, 1993 | |
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Todd becomes the new assistant to an elderly stage magician named Shandu, who teaches him everything he needs to know about magic with his three magical rules. But when Todd steals Shandu's magic wand, he unleashes an evil spirit and must rely on Shandu's rules to trap the spirit.
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| 25 | 12 | "The Tale of the Hatching" | D.J. MacHale | Chloe Brown | September 25, 1993 | |
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Siblings Jazz and Augie enroll at a boarding school run by a strange couple who need slaves to care for their alien eggs.
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| 26 | 13 | "The Tale of Old Man Corcoran" | Ron Oliver | Scott Peters | October 2, 1993 | |
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Two boys from a tough city move into a new neighborhood where a group of kids invite them to play hide and seek in a cemetery, rumored to be haunted by a ghost known as Old Man Corcoran.
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Season 3 (1994)
| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | |
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| 27 | 1 | "The Tale of the Midnight Ride" | D.J. MacHale | Darren Kotania | January 8, 1994 | |
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In a modern retelling of Sleepy Hollow, Ian Matthews moves to the legendary town. He soon meets a girl (Katie) who becomes his new girlfriend, but a local bully who also has eyes on her are jealous of the two. He challenges Ian to go-to the bridge of souls of which the headless horseman can never cross and stick a knife in a pumpkin proving he was there. The following night after being chased by the bully in disguise he meets the ghost of Ichabod Crane who has lost his way. After pointing him in the direction away from the bridge, Ian is soon chased by the real headless horseman. Ian manages to make it across the bridge of souls destroying the horseman, and then runs into Crane again who remarks that he meant to go "that way" referring to the bridge.
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| 28 | 2 | "The Tale of Apartment 214" | Scott Peters | Scott Peters | January 15, 1994 | |
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After Stacey moves into a new apartment with her mom, she befriends an elderly woman living next door by coming by for visits. The old woman tells Stacey to visit her on a special day of importance in particular to which Stacey promises to do so.
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| 29 | 3 | "The Tale of Watcher's Woods" | David Winning | Gregory Kennedy | January 22, 1994 | |
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After Sarah and Kelly get lost in the woods, they discover the terrifying truth behind the legend of "Watcher's Woods".
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| 30 | 4 | "The Tale of the Phone Police" | Jean-Marie Comeau | David Preston | January 29, 1994 | |
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Jake loves to make prank calls, but is caught one night by his sister who warns him to stop or the phone police will get involved. Scoffing at sister, Jake decides to look up Billy Baxter who was mentioned in his sister's story. When he calls the number provided Billy pleads for help and keeps calling Jake relentlessly afterwards.
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| 31 | 5 | "The Tale of the Dollmaker" | David Winning | David Preston | February 5, 1994 | |
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Melissa comes to the country to visit her aunt and uncle, and is excited to see her friend Susan. They tell Melissa though that she moved back to the city a few months ago. Melissa decides to explore her friend's now vacant home and discovers a dollhouse in the attic along with a mysterious door.
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| 32 | 6 | "The Tale of the Bookish Babysitter" | Iain Patterson | Story by : Cliff Bryant & Alice Elliot Teleplay by : David Preston | February 12, 1994 | |
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Twelve year old Ricky is obsessed with TV and video games and is not happy when his mom hired a babysitter named Belinda to look after him one night. Belinda makes a deal with him that if he reads a book for five minutes he can watch TV the rest of the night. Ricky is excited and starts to read but cannot do it as he finds the books too boring, opting for video games in his room. Things take an unexpected turn when the characters from one of the books come alive in the real world forcing Ricky to finish his own story about how it ends with Belinda's help.
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| 33 | 7 | "The Tale of the Carved Stone" | Ron Oliver | Susan Kim | February 26, 1994 | |
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Alison just moved into a new town and is struggling to make new friends. She stops by Sardo's shop where he sells her a "friendship stone" that unknown to the shop owner grants the wearer the ability to time travel. Alison is soon pursued by a powerful sorcerer named Brother Septimus who is after his stone, but is able to escape to the 1890s through her mirror. In this different time period she makes friends with the former occupant (Tom Bradshaw) of the house in which she now lives.
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| 34 | 8 | "The Tale of the Guardian's Curse" | D.J. MacHale | Chloe Brown | March 5, 1994 | |
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Josh and Cleo's family vacation is canceled yet again when Dr. Capel-Smith stops their father on his way out of the museum and finds a mummy buried there. There is a legend of a curse for anyone who digs it up, but only Josh believes it.
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| 35 | 9 | "The Tale of the Curious Camera" | Ron Oliver | Susan Kim | March 19, 1994 | |
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When a bullied kid named Matt visits a photographer about his school picture, he ends up with the photographer's mysterious camera, which predicts doom for anything -- and anyone -- it photographs.
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| 36 | 10 | "The Tale of the Dream Girl" | David Winning | David Preston | March 26, 1994 | |
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A teenage janitor named Johnny falls for a girl named Donna, but a string of bizarre events lead Johnny to believe that his dream girl may be a nightmare.
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| 37 | 11 | "The Tale of the Quicksilver" | Michael Keusch | Wendy Brotherlin | April 2, 1994 | |
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Two brothers move into the same house where a girl died trying to get rid of a demon spirit known as The Quicksilver and discover that history might be repeating itself.
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| 38 | 12 | "The Tale of the Crimson Clown" | Ron Oliver | Darren Kotania | April 9, 1994 | |
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Sam is described as a mean "rotten" kid who despises his brother Mike. Their mother's birthday is coming up and Mike finds the perfect gift, but Sam winds up stealing the money his brother had saved up buying a video game instead. Mike finds out what his brother did, and having no money to buy the gift points to a clown doll in the shop saying that if Sam does not stop being nasty the "Crimson Clown" would get him. Sam scoffs at his brother's story despite the clown disappearing from the shop when they leave, but he doesn't realize that the "Crimson Clown" may indeed be out to get him just like Mike says.
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| 39 | 13 | "The Tale of the Dangerous Soup" | D.J. MacHale | Chloe Brown | April 16, 1994 | |
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Reed Hanson is a young guy who appears to fear nothing. He applies for a job at The Wild Boar restaurant where he meets a waitress names Nonnie, and the head chef named Dr. Vink who makes a hugely popular dish at the restaurant called "The Dangerous Soup". One evening after hours the two hear screaming coming from a waitress trapped in the freezer. Vink is confronted by Reed and Nonnie where he is forced to reveal the secret ingredient of the soup after releasing the dazed waitress.
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Season 4 (1994–1995)
| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | |
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| 40 | 1 | "The Tale of the Renegade Virus" | Ron Oliver | Andrew Mitchell & Gerard Lewis | October 1, 1994 | |
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A boy who enjoys playing pranks goes too far one day and is punished by being trapped in a virtual reality game infected with a living computer virus bent on scrambling the most advanced computer system out there: the human brain.
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| 41 | 2 | "The Tale of the Long Ago Locket" | David Winning | Gerald Wexler | October 8, 1994 | |
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A boy is transported back to the Revolutionary War, where he must help a soldier return to his girlfriend before she marries another man.
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| 42 | 3 | "The Tale of the Water Demons" | Ron Oliver | Scott Peters | October 15, 1994 | |
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Two cousins deliver food to an old sea captain who lives in fear of underwater zombies who haunt him the minute he falls asleep.
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| 43 | 4 | "The Tale of Cutter's Treasure (Part 1)" | D.J. MacHale | Chloe Brown | October 29, 1994 | |
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Part one of two. When a teenager finds a spyglass locked in a treasure chest at Sardo's magic shop, the ghost of an evil pirate is released.
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| 44 | 5 | "The Tale of Cutter's Treasure (Part 2)" | D.J. MacHale | Chloe Brown | October 29, 1994 | |
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Conclusion. Rush must find a way to save Max with the help of Dr. Vink and Sardo.
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| 45 | 6 | "The Tale of the Quiet Librarian" | David Winning | Susan Kim | November 5, 1994 | |
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A forgotten book forces two bitter rivals to work together to avoid the clutches of a former librarian's spirit who insists that "silence is golden" -- and traps those who don't follow this rule.
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| 46 | 7 | "The Tale of the Silent Servant" | Jean-Marie Comeau | Wendy Brotherlin | November 12, 1994 | |
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Cousins Anne and Jared bring a scarecrow to life with a magic spell and use it to do their chores at their uncle's farm. At first it goes well, until one of them accidentally orders it to commit murder.
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| 47 | 8 | "The Tale of the Room for Rent" | Will Dixon | Lucy Falcone | November 19, 1994 | |
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A teenage girl stays with her grandfather, who takes in a ghost looking to possess the girl's grandfather so he can find his lost love.
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| 48 | 9 | "The Tale of the Ghastly Grinner" | Ron Oliver | Ron Oliver | December 3, 1994 | |
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A young comic book artist, beset by rejection and lazy parents who don't support his dreams, buys an unfinished copy of a rare comic book -- and accidentally unleashes its villain who turns his victims into drooling, giggling zombies.
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| 49 | 10 | "The Tale of the Fire Ghost" | Jean-Marie Comeau | Scott Peters | December 10, 1994 | |
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While celebrating their dad's birthday at the firehouse, Jimmy and Roxanne are left alone when the firemen go on call. They soon find that there is an incendiary ghost who's seeking revenge against firemen.
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| 50 | 11 | "The Tale of the Closet Keepers" | Iain Paterson | Story by : Michael Kevis Teleplay by : David Preston | January 7, 1995 | |
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A deaf girl and her bully get lost in a strange building, which turns out to be an alien planet's intergalactic zoo which houses kids from all over the world as the main exhibit.
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| 51 | 12 | "The Tale of the Unfinished Painting" | David Winning | Lucy Falcone | January 14, 1995 | |
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Cody, an aspiring young artist, apprentices under an art gallery owner who insists all of her students use her paintbrushes, which may be the reason why a lot of young artists are going missing.
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| 52 | 13 | "The Tale of Train Magic" | D.J. MacHale | Gerald Wexler | January 21, 1995 | |
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A young boy, obsessed with trains and railroads thanks to his deceased conductor father, starts playing with a toy train set that transports him inside -- and takes him on a deadly ride.
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Season 5 (1995–1996)
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| 53 | 1 | "The Tale of the Dead Man's Float" | D.J. MacHale | Will Dixon | October 7, 1995 | |
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A boy named Zeke and his friend Clorice reopen an abandoned swimming pool, only to discover what lies there might be best left buried and forgotten.
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| 54 | 2 | "The Tale of Station 109.1" | Ron Oliver | Scott Peters | November 4, 1995 | |
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Chris, who is fascinated with death and dying, discovers a radio station that guides the recently deceased into the afterlife -- and is mistaken for a dead man by a shrill-voiced DJ named Roy.
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| 55 | 3 | "The Tale of the Mystical Mirror" | Craig Pryce | David Wiechorek | November 11, 1995 | |
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Cindy gets a job at a boutique run by a former beauty queen who transforms her customers and employees into dogs so she can harvest their beauty for an occult ritual.
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| 56 | 4 | "The Tale of the Chameleons" | Iain Patterson | Mark D. Perry | November 18, 1995 | |
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Janice gets bitten by an unusual species of chameleon that has the power to take over someone's life after it bites its victim twice and sprays it with water.
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| 57 | 5 | "The Tale of Prisoner's Past" | Ron Oliver | Alan Kingsberg | December 2, 1995 | |
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Two stepbrothers help an old prisoner ghost reunite with his daughter after the two accidentally bring the spirit home from a field trip.
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| 58 | 6 | "The Tale of C7" | David Winning | David Preston | December 9, 1995 | |
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A family moves into a house by the lake where an ancient jukebox revives the memory of a fallen soldier.
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| 59 | 7 | "The Tale of the Manaha" | Will Dixon | Gerald Wexler | December 30, 1995 | |
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A blithe boy name Jonah enlists in a camping expedition with a group of misfits where an ancient legend has awoken in the woods and is out to feast.
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| 60 | 8 | "The Tale of the Unexpected Visitor" | Jacques Laberge | Alan Kingsberg | January 13, 1996 | |
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Two teenage boys accidentally contact aliens through the sound equipment on one of their father's computer.
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| 61 | 9 | "The Tale of the Vacant Lot" | Lorette LeBlanc | Gerald Wexler | January 20, 1996 | |
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Catherine stumbles upon an open-air market run by a woman in a burqa, who will give Catherine everything she wants for a price. As Catherine begins enjoying having the best of everything, she soon discovers that the burqa-clad shopkeep wants more than cash for her services -- and that Catherine's sister may be the next victim.
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| 62 | 10 | "The Tale of a Door Unlocked" | Ron Oliver | Scott Peters | January 27, 1996 | |
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Sardo sells a magic door to a teenage boy which, once he opens, reveals the future -- and the boy must use the magic to save his crush from a house fire.
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| 63 | 11 | "The Tale of the Night Shift" | D.J. MacHale | Chloe Brown | February 3, 1996 | |
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A night shift hospital volunteer named Amanda soon discovers that a vampire is lurking the halls and feeding off the patients.
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| 64 | 12 | "The Tale of the Jagged Sign" | Will Dixon | Susan Kim | March 9, 1996 | |
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Spending her summer break at her aunt's retirement home was not Claudia's first choice, but it turns out to be more interesting than she expected when a ghostly boy begins stalking her and a strange symbol appears on the side of a mountain.
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| 65 | 13 | "The Tale of Badge" | Iain Patterson | Wendy Brotherlin | April 20, 1996 | |
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An insecure girl named Gwen, convinced that she has no special talent in her family, discovers from her Irish grandmother that she has been chosen to carry on the magic her Irish side of the family has had for generations -- and puts her skills to the test when her brother is abducted by an evil leprechaun named Badge.
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First revival series episodes
Season 6 (1999)
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| 66 | 1 | "The Tale of the Forever Game" | Iain Patterson | Mark D. Perry | February 6, 1999 | |
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A teen boy finds himself trapped, along with his best friend and his sister, as pawns in a life or death board game.
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| 67 | 2 | "The Tale of the Gruesome Gourmets" | Lorette LeBlanc | Michael Koegel | February 13, 1999 | |
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Tommy and David suspect that their overly-cheery new neighbors who are into cooking are the reason why the people in town have gone missing.
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| 68 | 3 | "The Tale of the Zombie Dice" | Adam Weissman | Maggie Leigh | February 20, 1999 | |
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Alex and his friends go to a new arcade owned by a man named Mr. Click, who has a strange way of dealing with anyone who loses at his games.
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| 69 | 4 | "The Tale of the Misfortune Cookie" | Adam Weissman | Mark D. Perry | February 27, 1999 | |
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David, a struggling comic book artist slaving away at his parents' failing Chinese restaurant, takes his grandfather's golden fortune cookies and wishes that his life would be better, which sends him into an alternate reality where David is famous for his comic books and the restaurant is a success. But the wish goes awry when his parents in this alternate reality are too busy with the restaurant's success to care about being a family, his sister (now a punk who lives with her delinquent boyfriend) plots on selling the golden fortune cookies to start a new life away from her family, and a black-clad Chinese warrior is after David.
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| 70 | 5 | "The Tale of Jake the Snake" | Mark Soulard | Alan Kingsberg | March 13, 1999 | |
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A struggling ice hockey player named Wiley finds a former hockey great's stick and uses it to ace the try-outs, but discovers that the stick has cursed him into becoming a snake.
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| 71 | 6 | "The Tale of the Virtual Pets" | Iain Patterson | Alice Eve Cohen | March 20, 1999 | |
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The late 1990s fad of virtual pets get skewered in this tale of a computer-illiterate girl whose choice in not getting into the latest toy fad (Diggers) becomes the key in stopping them when it is found that the Diggers are aliens who feed on information and brainwash humans.
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| 72 | 7 | "The Tale of the Hunted" | Lorette LeBlanc | Gaylen James | March 27, 1999 | |
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After finding a strange necklace and having a nightmare, Diana, a hunter's daughter out to bag a legendary wolf known as "The Blaze", wakes up in the body of a wolf and must learn what life is like to be hunted like an animal.
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| 73 | 8 | "The Tale of the Wisdom Glass" | Jacques Laberge | Mark D. Perry | April 1, 1999 | |
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A rich kid named Allan befriends a kid named Jimmy after accidentally stealing a computer game called "The Wisdom Glass". When the two play the game at home, they discover an invitation to a party that turns out to be a trial from another dimension over stealing "wisdom".
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| 74 | 9 | "The Tale of the Walking Shadow" | Lorrete LeBlanc | Matthew Cope | April 3, 1999 | |
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Ross gets more than a bad case of stage fright when he lands a part in an adaptation of Macbeth (known as "The Scottish Play" due to the popular theater tradition of not saying the actual name of the play) and discovers that the original actors all died before they could finish it.
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| 75 | 10 | "The Tale of Oblivion" | Jim Donovan | James Morris | April 10, 1999 | |
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A boy named Max buys a pencil that can make whatever is drawn turn real and an eraser that banishes whatever is drawn to a dimension called "Oblivion", where all that is forgotten is forced to stay -- including a bloodthirsty Viking warrior who wants out of Oblivion and into the real world.
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| 76 | 11 | "The Tale of Vampire Town" | Mark Soulard | Allison Lea Bingeman | April 17, 1999 | |
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Adder, a self-proclaimed teenage vampire hunter, gets more than he bargained for when he travels to the town of Wisteria, where the locals think he is a vampire and start to hunt him.
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| 77 | 12 | "The Tale of the Secret Admirer" | Mark Soulard | Eric Weiner | May 8, 1999 | |
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Shy Meggie is thrilled when she discovers she has a secret admirer, but her excitement turns to fear when she realizes her admirer was her mother's jilted high school lover who died in a metal shop explosion and plans on repeating history if he does not get what he wants.
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| 78 | 13 | "The Tale of Bigfoot Ridge" | Lorette LeBlanc | Randy Holland | May 15, 1999 | |
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In search of their missing friend, Gina, Danielle and Kirk venture into a mountain area haunted by a ghost who captures its prey in the darkness.
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Season 7 (2000)
| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | |
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| 79 | 1 | "The Tale of the Silver Sight, Part 1" | Mark Soulard | D.J. MacHale | April 2, 2000 | |
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Gary, the President of The Midnight Society from the original episodes, is back and needs the help of his brother Tucker and his friends to help track down the members of the First Midnight Society from 1937. Together, they must solve an ancient mystery and prevent an evil force from being unleashed on the world. This episode focuses on Tucker and Gary's search for "The General" and his clue to the puzzle.
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| 80 | 2 | "The Tale of the Silver Sight, Part 2" | Mark Soulard | D.J. MacHale | April 2, 2000 | |
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The Midnight Society splits up and goes in search of the original members who each hold a clue to the mystery. This episode focuses on Quinn's search for "The Homecoming Queen" and Megan's search for "The Tycoon".
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| 81 | 3 | "The Tale of the Silver Sight, Part 3" | Mark Soulard | D.J. MacHale | April 2, 2000 | |
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The Midnight Society continues to go in search of the original members who each hold a clue to the mystery. The final episode focuses on Vange and Andy's search for "The Riddle Man".
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| 82 | 4 | "The Tale of the Lunar Locusts" | Jim Donovan | Michael Koegel | April 9, 2000 | |
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Jake gets a new girlfriend named Ellen who is literally out of this world when she gives him a ring that will make him the harbinger of an alien invasion.
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| 83 | 5 | "The Tale of the Stone Maiden" | Adam Weissman | Mark D. Perry | April 16, 2000 | |
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In this loose parody of the Greek story Pygmalion, a teenage girl named Julie breaks up with her boyfriend, Kevin, out of fear that her family will not like him -- and things get strange when a statue in the park suddenly has a mate around the same time that Kevin goes missing.
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| 84 | 6 | "The Tale of Highway 13" | Jim Donovan | Ted Elrick | April 23, 2000 | |
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Best friends Craig and Justin buy and renovate a 1969 muscle car (a Pontiac GTO) that belonged to two friends who died when they challenged a truck to a game of chicken on an abandoned highway.
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| 85 | 7 | "The Tale of the Reanimator" | Adam Weissman | Kenny Davis | April 30, 2000 | |
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In this loose homage to the 1985 comedy horror film, Re-Animator, a girl named Julie (not the same one from "The Tale of the Stone Maiden") works for a plant store owner who just created an elixir that can bring dead plants back to life -- and an accident soon proves that the elixir's powers of re-animation also applies to dead humans.
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| 86 | 8 | "The Tale of the Time Trap" | Jim Donovan | Jim Morris | May 7, 2000 | |
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A shy boy named Jason buys a Persian victory box to become a better person -- and ends up with more than he bargained for when a tastelessly-dressed genie named Belle grants his every wish with dire consequences and traps Sardo in the box when he foolishly wishes for more wishes.
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| 87 | 9 | "The Tale of the Photo Finish" | Mark Soulard | Alan Kingsberg | May 14, 2000 | |
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Prep school students Chandler and Alex try out for a position with The Lions Society, and the friendship is strained when Chandler is chosen over Alex, since Chandler is a legacy student while Alex has a scholarship. Things get worse when Chandler's initiation calls for him to steal the headmaster's portrait, which contains the photo of Jasper Davis, a former student who fell off the clubhouse roof to escape being bullied and is not going to let death get in the way of revenge.
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| 88 | 10 | "The Tale of the Last Dance" | Jim Donovan | Mark D. Perry | May 21, 2000 | |
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In this loose homage to Gaston Leroux's The Phantom of the Opera, Tara is a violinist who wishes someone would appreciate her talents, as her boyfriend does not, and gets her wish from a strange mutant figure who lives inside the school.
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| 89 | 11 | "The Tale of the Laser Maze" | Mark Soulard | Peggy Sarlin | May 28, 2000 | |
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Athletic, overly-competitive twins Ashley and Kara compete in a strange version of laser tag that turns out to be a plot to kidnap and clone Earth's most competitive kids to fight in a distant planet's war.
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| 90 | 12 | "The Tale of Many Faces" | Lorette LeBlanc | Alan Kingsberg | June 4, 2000 | |
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A struggling teenage model named Emma finds employment with a stage actress who uses a magic book to steal young women's faces and use them as her own.
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| 91 | 13 | "The Tale of the Night Nurse" | Mark Soulard | Michael Koegel | June 11, 2000 | |
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When Nicki and AJ move into their grandparents' house, they see images of a young girl celebrating her birthday and learn that she was a relative who died when her live-in nurse allegedly injected her with poison, and that the nurse has mistaken AJ for her murder victim.
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Second revival series episodes
Carnival of Doom (2019)
| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | U.S. viewers (millions) | |
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| 92 | 1 | "Part One: Submitted for Approval" | Dean Israelite | BenDavid Grabinski | October 11, 2019 | 0.75[4] | |
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As the new girl in school, Rachel feels out of place until The Midnight Society invites her to join the group. All she has to do is tell a terrifying story.
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| 93 | 2 | "Part Two: Opening Night" | Dean Israelite | BenDavid Grabinski | October 18, 2019 | 0.82[5] | |
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After a disappearance links to Rachel’s story, The Midnight Society decides to go to the Carnival of Doom.
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| 94 | 3 | "Part Three: Destroy All Tophats" | Dean Israelite | BenDavid Grabinski | October 25, 2019 | 0.69[6] | |
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Rachel decides to take charge and end Mr. Tophat's reign of horror.
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Curse of the Shadows (2021)
| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | U.S. viewers (millions) | |
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| 95 | 1 | "The Tale of the Haunted Woods" | Jeff Wadlow | JT Billings | February 12, 2021 | TBD | |
| Five kids investigate the disappearance of their friend, the leader of The Midnight Society whose fate may be tied to a mysterious curse that haunts their seaside town. | |||||||
| 96 | 2 | "The Tale of the Night Frights" | Jeff Wadlow | JT Billings | February 19, 2021 | TBD | |
| 97 | 3 | "The Tale of the Phantom Light" | Mathias Herndl | Alex Ebel | February 26, 2021 | TBD | |
| 98 | 4 | TBA | Mathias Herndl | JT Billings | TBA | TBD | |
| 99 | 5 | TBA | Jeff Wadlow | JT Billings & Alex Ebel | TBA | TBD | |
| 100 | 6 | TBA | Jeff Wadlow | JT Billings | TBA | TBD | |
References
- Petski, Denise (February 14, 2019). "'SpongeBob' Spinoffs, 'All That' & 'Are You Smarter Than 5th Grader?' Revivals & More On Nickelodeon's 2019 Content Slate". Deadline Hollywood.
- "Video: Nickelodeon Reveals Premiere Date and Trailer for Return of "Are You Afraid of the Dark?"". The Futon Critic. September 13, 2019.
- Petski, Denise (October 29, 2020). "'Are You Afraid Of The Dark?': Six Cast For Season 2 Of Nickelodeon's Horror Anthology Series Reboot". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved December 11, 2020.
- http://www.showbuzzdaily.com/articles/showbuzzdailys-top-150-friday-cable-originals-network-finals-10-11-2019.html
- http://www.showbuzzdaily.com/articles/showbuzzdailys-top-150-friday-cable-originals-network-finals-10-18-2019.html
- http://www.showbuzzdaily.com/articles/showbuzzdailys-top-150-friday-cable-originals-network-finals-10-25-2019.html
External links
- Are You Afraid of the Dark? at epguides.com
- Are You Afraid of the Dark? – list of episodes at IMDb (original series)
- Are You Afraid of the Dark? – list of episodes at IMDb (first revival series)
- Are You Afraid of the Dark? – list of episodes at IMDb (second revival series)
- List of Are You Afraid of the Dark? episodes at TV.com
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