List of Are You Afraid of the Dark? episodes
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The following is an episode list of the television series Are You Afraid of the Dark? which aired on YTV from 1990 until 2000, and on Nickelodeon from 1992 until 2000.
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[edit] Series overview
| Season | Episodes | Originally aired | DVD release date | ||||
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| Season premiere | Season finale | ||||||
| YTV (Canada) | Nickelodeon (US) | YTV (Canada) | Nickelodeon (US) | ||||
| 1 | 13 | October 31, 1990 | August 15, 1992 | June 19, 1991 | November 14, 1992 | May 18, 2006 | |
| 2 | 13 | September 25, 1991 | June 19, 1993 | January 22, 1992 | October 2, 1993 | November 28, 2006 | |
| 3 | 13 | October 28, 1992 | January 8, 1994 | January 20, 1993 | April 16, 1994 | April 24, 2007 | |
| 4 | 13 | November 17, 1993 | October 1, 1994 | January 19, 1994 | January 21, 1995 | November 13, 2007[1] | |
| 5 | 13 | October 7, 1995 | April 20, 1996 | February 26, 2008[2] | |||
| 6 | 13 | February 27, 1999 | May 15, 1999 | April 19, 2008[3] | |||
| 7 | 13 | May 2, 2000 | June 11, 2000 | August 19, 2008[4] | |||
[edit] Episode list
[edit] Season 1 (1990-1991)
| No. | # | Title | Director | Writer | Storyteller | Villains and Their Reasons |
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| 1 | 1 | "The Tale of the Phantom Cab" | Ron Oliver | Chloe Brown | Frank | Flynn and Dr.Vink |
| Two brothers get lost in the woods and come across a mysterious cab driver and a scientist. | ||||||
| 2 | 2 | "The Tale of Laughing in the Dark" | Ron Oliver | Chloe Brown | Betty Ann | Zeebo |
| A boy decides to prove to his friend and sister that a fun house isn't haunted by stealing the nose of the clown dummy who is supposed to haunt the place. | ||||||
| 3 | 3 | "The Tale of the Lonely Ghost" | D. J. MacHale | Naomi Janzen | David | Beth |
| A girl agrees to spend the night in the haunted house next door. | ||||||
| 4 | 4 | "The Tale of the Twisted Claw" | D. J. MacHale | Chloe Brown | David | Miss Clove |
| Two boys scare an old lady who lives in a creepy house to death the night before Halloween. The next night they trick or treat at her house and she gives them a special treat, a hand granting them three wishes apiece, but they soon find out that the wishes come true, but at a terrifying price, including a wish that might hurt parents and a school rival. | ||||||
| 5 | 5 | "The Tale of the Hungry Hounds" | D. J. MacHale | Anne Appelton | Kristen | Giles and the Hounds |
| A girl finds a horse-riding jacket belonging to her dead aunt and becomes possessed by her spirit and forced to feed the dogs that her aunt never did due to her sudden death. | ||||||
| 6 | 6 | "The Tale of the Super Specs" | Ron Oliver | Chloe Brown | Gary | The Black Figures and Witch |
| A prankster buys his girlfriend a pair of gag glasses, but when he puts them on, he sees strange beings in black who live among humans. | ||||||
| 7 | 7 | "The Tale of the Captured Souls" | D. J. MacHale | Anne Appelton | Kiki | Peter Kirlan the 3rd |
| A family moves to a lakeside resort headed by a young man who uses the house mirrors to capture the family members' souls and stay young forever. | ||||||
| 8 | 8 | "The Tale of the Nightly Neighbors" | Jacques Payette | Chloe Brown | Betty Ann | Mr., Mrs. and Lex Braun |
| Two kids suspect that their new neighbors may be vampires. | ||||||
| 9 | 9 | "The Tale of the Sorcerer's Apprentice" | D. J. MacHale | Stephen Zoller | Betty Ann | Dean Berkham (forced into doing it by Goth) Dr. Oliver and Goth |
| A high school outcast awakens an ancient secret hidden in the school about an evil wizard. His friend discovers what's going on and is the only one that knows, and it's up to her alone to not only save Dean, but to stop him from releasing the evil sorcerer. | ||||||
| 10 | 10 | "The Tale of Jake and the Leprechaun" | D. J. MacHale | Nick Webb | Eric | Erin |
| Jake notices some unusual changes and Sean O’Shaney informs him that Erin may be a banshee who is transforming Jake into a changeling. | ||||||
| 11 | 11 | "The Tale of the Dark Music" | Ron Oliver | Chloe Brown | Eric | The Evil Thing in the Basement |
| A boy, his mom and his bratty little sister move to his uncle’s old house in a new neighborhood where things don't start out well with a neighborhood boy until he figures out that there's something evil hidden inside his basement that comes out to feed everytime he plays music on the radio. | ||||||
| 12 | 12 | "The Tale of the Prom Queen" | Jean-Marie Comeau | Chloe Brown | Kristen | None |
| Two boys befriend a young woman who they encourage to join them in trying to solve the mystery behind a prom queen's death. | ||||||
| 13 | 13 | "The Tale of the Pinball Wizard" | D. J. MacHale | Louise Lamare & Tom Rack | Gary | Mr. Olson |
| A mischievous kid who is obsessed with pinball, finds himself trapped in a mall at closing time -- and the protagonist of a real life pinball game. | ||||||
[edit] Season 2 (1991-1992)
| No. | # | Title | Director | Writer | Storyteller | Villains |
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| 14 | 1 | "The Tale of the Final Wish" | D. J. MacHale | Chloe Brown | Kristen | The Sandman |
| A teenager who still believes in fairy tales and "Happily Ever After" gets sent to a world under her bed where her family and friends are trapped in eternal sleep by the Sandman (played by Bobcat Goldthwait) and her beloved fairy-tale characters are out for her blood. | ||||||
| 15 | 2 | "The Tale of the Midnight Madness" | D. J. MacHale | Chloe Brown | Frank | Nosferatu and Dr. Vink |
| A movie theater about to shut down due to lack of sales and public interest gets a revival, courtesy of Dr. Vink selling a rare copy of the 1922 film Nosferatu for distribution, but when the manager refuses to pay Dr. Vink, he uses his magic to bring the famous movie monster into the real world. | ||||||
| 16 | 3 | "The Tale of Locker 22" | David Winning | Chloe Brown | Kristen | None |
| A young girl is assigned a locker that takes her back to 1968, where she and her friend must save a hippie girl named Candy from dying in a chemistry lab explosion from an assignment that went horribly wrong. | ||||||
| 17 | 4 | "The Tale of the Thirteenth Floor" | Michael Keusch | Anne Appelton | Betty Ann | Leonid, Olga, and Raymond |
| Two siblings discover a strange toy factory on the 13th floor of an abandoned building and two aliens bent on finding their missing daughter. | ||||||
| 18 | 5 | "The Tale of the Dream Machine" | David Winning | Darren Kotania | Written by Kiki; told by Gary due to Kiki's laryngitis | The Typewriter |
| An aspiring writer finds a typewriter that makes everything written come true -- including the impending death of his best friend. | ||||||
| 19 | 6 | "The Tale of the Dark Dragon" | D. J. MacHale | Allison Lea Bingeman | David | The Dark Dragon Potion |
| A disabled teenage boy buys a potion from Sardo's Magic Shop that cures him and makes him popular -- but also creates an evil split personality born from the anger and self-loathing brewing inside the boy. | ||||||
| 20 | 7 | "The Tale of the Frozen Ghost" | Ron Oliver | Naomi Janzen | Kristen | None |
| A spoiled boy and his babysitter are haunted by the ghost of a boy who froze to death after robbers stole his coat and abandoned him in the woods. | ||||||
| 21 | 8 | "The Tale of the Whispering Walls" | D. J. MacHale | Allison Lea Bingeman | Betty Ann | Master Raymond |
| A babysitter and her two charges have a car breakdown in front of a house that traps its visitors. | ||||||
| 22 | 9 | "The Tale of the Full Moon" | Ron Oliver | Ron Oliver | Frank | Gordon the Werewolf |
| Two young pet detectives suspect a neighbor of being a werewolf. | ||||||
| 23 | 10 | "The Tale of the Shiny Red Bicycle" | David Winning | Cassandra Schaufhausen | David | None |
| A teen, still traumatized by his best friend's death, begins seeing the boy's ghost and his beloved bicycle. | ||||||
| 24 | 11 | "The Tale of the Magician's Assistant" | Ron Oliver | Cassandra Schaufhausen | Gary | Nazrak |
| A young boy becomes a magician's apprentice and learns why it's never a good idea to steal a professional magician's wand. | ||||||
| 25 | 12 | "The Tale of the Hatching" | D. J. MacHale | Chloe Brown | David | Mrs. and Mr. Taylor |
| Two siblings are sent to a boarding school that's really a nursery that brainwashes human kids into caring for reptilian aliens bent on world domination. | ||||||
| 26 | 13 | "The Tale of Old Man Corcoran" | Ron Oliver | Scott Peters | Kiki | Marshall McClain |
| Two brothers join a group that plays hide and seek in a graveyard that is rumored to be haunted by the ghost of the old caretaker. | ||||||
[edit] Season 3 (1992-1993)
| No. | # | Title | Director | Writer | Storyteller | Villains |
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| 27 | 1 | "The Tale of the Midnight Ride" | D.J. MacHale | Darren Kotania | Tucker | The Headless Horseman |
| A boy named Ian moves to Sleepy Hollow, where he learns the truth about Ichabod Crane and comes face-to-faceless with The Headless Horseman himself. | ||||||
| 28 | 2 | "The Tale of Apartment 214" | Scott Peters | Scott Peters | Kiki | Madeline |
| A girl moves next door to an old lady, but when the girl breaks her promise to spend time with the old lady, the old lady reveals that she is dead and scares away anyone who would move into her home. | ||||||
| 29 | 3 | "The Tale of Watcher's Woods" | David Winning | Gregory Kennedy | Sam | The Old Hags and The Watcher |
| Two campers, Sarah and Kelly, get paired up as part of a summer camp hike and stumble upon a coven of old hags with a secret past. | ||||||
| 30 | 4 | "The Tale of the Phone Police" | Jean-Marie Comeau | David Preston | Tucker on a phone | The Phone Police |
| Two prank phone callers get hunted down by a covert vigilante group bent on erasing the identities of people who don't respect the telephone. | ||||||
| 31 | 5 | "The Tale of the Dollmaker" | David Winning | David Preston | Betty Ann | The Dollhouse |
| A girl named Melissa is still upset over her friend Susan's mysterious disappearance -- until she discovers a strange dollhouse in Susan's attic and finds that Susan has been turned into a doll. | ||||||
| 32 | 6 | "The Tale of the Bookish Babysitter" | Iain Patterson | Teleplay By David Preston Story By Cliff Bryant & Alice Elliot | Betty Ann | The Witch, The Knight and The Ghost |
| A TV-obsessed boy is left with a babysitter who teaches the child the wonders of reading — by using magic to take him inside the stories. | ||||||
| 33 | 7 | "The Tale of the Carved Stone" | Ron Oliver | Susan Kim | Gary | Septimus |
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A new girl in town, desperately trying to find friends, buys a stone from Sardo's magic shop that takes her back in time to the 1890s, where she meets another lonely youth who lived in her family's new home. Frank Gorshin guest stars as Brother Septimus in this episode. |
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| 34 | 8 | "The Tale of the Guardian's Curse" | D. J. MacHale | Chloe Brown | Tucker | Dr. Capel-Smith |
| Danny Cooksey (from the Nickelodeon sitcom Salute Your Shorts and the cartoon series Tiny Toon Adventures) guest stars in this story of two siblings who accidentally resurrect a mummified Egyptian queen while staying at their father's museum. | ||||||
| 35 | 9 | "The Tale of the Curious Camera" | Ron Oliver | Susan Kim | Betty Ann | The Camera and The Gremlin |
| Eddie Kaye Thomas (who would later be seen in the American Pie series) has an early appearance in this episode as a boy who finds a camera that can predict doom for anything -- and anyone -- it photographs. | ||||||
| 36 | 10 | "The Tale of the Dream Girl" | David Winning | David Preston | Sam | None |
| A teen named Johnny falls in love with a mysterious girl named Donna -- but strange things happen when Johnny finds Donna's ring and Johnny sister discovers that Donna is the ghost of a girl who died in a car accident with her boyfriend. | ||||||
| 37 | 11 | "The Tale of the Quicksilver" | Michael Keusch | Wendy Brotherlin | Kiki | The Poltergeist |
| The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air star Tatyana Ali guest stars (in a dual role) in a story about two boys who move into a house that was once lived in by a girl who died while trying to rid her room of an evil spirit. | ||||||
| 38 | 12 | "The Tale of the Crimson Clown" | Ron Oliver | Darren Kotania | Gary | The Crimson Clown |
| A young bratty boy blows money meant for a birthday gift for his mom on a clown doll said to terrorize bad children. | ||||||
| 39 | 13 | "The Tale of the Dangerous Soup" | D. J. MacHale | Chloe Brown | Frank | The Gargoyle and Dr. Vink |
| Dr. Vink is back and running The Wild Boar, a restaurant in which all the workers are running scared from a demon who harvests their fear in order to create a popular dish. | ||||||
[edit] Season 4 (1993-1994)
| No. | # | Title | Director | Writer | Storyteller | Villains |
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| 40 | 1 | "The Tale of Cutter's Treasure (1)" | D. J. MacHale | Chloe Brown | Gary and Frank | Jonas Cutter |
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Part one of two. Two brothers unleash the spirit of a ruthless pirate named Jonas Cutter after unlocking an antique treasure chest in Sardo's Magic Mansion. Charles S. Dutton from the series Roc guest stars as Jonas Cutter. |
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| 41 | 2 | "The Tale of Cutter's Treasure (2)" | D. J. MacHale | Chloe Brown | Gary and Frank | Jonas Cutter |
| Part two of two. When Cutter kidnaps one of the brothers, it's up to the other to save him and avenge the death of their great-grandfather killed by Cutter himself. This leads the boy to end up being assisted by Dr. Vink and Sardo the Magician. | ||||||
| 42 | 3 | "The Tale of the Renegade Virus" | Ron Oliver | Andrew Mitchell & Gerard Lewis | Gary | The Virus |
| A boy places a virus in his friend's computer game as a prank, and faces a real virus who tries to escape into the real world by taking over the boy's brain. | ||||||
| 43 | 4 | "The Tale of the Quiet Librarian" | David Winning | Susan Kim | Kiki | Ms. Gregor |
| Two children find themselves locked in the local library after hours -- and haunted by the Ghost of Ms. Gregor, a strict librarian who kills her victims by removing all sound. | ||||||
| 44 | 5 | "The Tale of the Water Demons" | Ron Oliver | Scott Peters | Tucker | The Victims' Ghosts |
| Two cousins work as delivery boys to an old man who is haunted by the ghosts of drowned ship passengers who were robbed of their jewelry and valuables by the old man. | ||||||
| 45 | 6 | "The Tale of the Long Ago Locket" | David Winning | Gerald Wexler | Sam | The British |
| Boy Meets World's Will Friedle guest stars as a lovelorn boy who finds himself lost in the woods -- and lost in time, back to the days of the American Revolution, to help a soldier reunite with his love who is about to be bethrothed to another man. | ||||||
| 46 | 7 | "The Tale of the Silent Servant" | Jean-Marie Comeau | Wendy Brotherlin | Betty Ann | The Scarecrow |
| Two cousins, Anne and Jared, use a magic stick to turn a scarecrow into their slave who does everything perfectly, including carrying out an inadvertent murder plan. | ||||||
| 47 | 8 | "The Tale of the Room for Rent" | Will Dixon | Lucy Falcone | Sam | The Pilot Ghost |
| A ghost haunts an old man as revenge for supposedly killing him during a WWII plane crash and stealing his girlfriend. | ||||||
| 48 | 9 | "The Tale of the Ghastly Grinner" | Ron Oliver | Ron Oliver | Betty Ann | The Ghastly Grinner |
| A would-be comic book artist and fan buys the first issue of The Ghastly Grinner, a comic book featuring a Joker-esque clown villain who turns his victims into drooling, giggling idiots and the writer of the comic has suddenly disappeared. The comic fan inadvertently brings the Grinner to the real world after microwaving the comic book to dry it out after it got soaked. | ||||||
| 49 | 10 | "The Tale of the Fire Ghost" | Jean-Marie Comeau | Scott Peters | Tucker | The Fire Ghost |
| Two siblings, with the help of the ghost of a dead firefighter who was killed in the line of duty, battle against the Fire Ghost itself. | ||||||
| 50 | 11 | "The Tale of the Unfinished Painting" | David Winning | Lucy Falcone | Gary | Mrs. Briar |
| A would-be artist (played by Jewel Staite) spends time at an art studio run by a witch named Mrs. Briar who owns a set of cursed paintbrushes that trap anyone who signs their name on a completed piece. | ||||||
| 51 | 12 | "The Tale of the Closet Keepers" | Iain Paterson | Teleplay By David Preston Story By Michael Kevis | Kiki | The Zookeepers |
| A deaf girl and her bully find themselves in a strange building that's really an intergalatic zoo -- with human children from around the globe as the main attraction. | ||||||
| 52 | 13 | "The Tale of Train Magic" | D. J. MacHale | Gerald Wexler | Frank | Ray Lawson |
| A boy (played by Gregory Smith) who loves trains finds himself aboard a toy train modeled after a real train that crashed 80 years ago and killed everyone on board. | ||||||
[edit] Season 5 (1995-1996)
| No. | # | Title | Director | Writer | Storyteller | Villains |
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| 53 | 1 | "The Tale of the Dead Man's Float" | D. J. MacHale | Will Dixon | Stig | The Pool Zombie |
| A teenage science nerd named Zeke and his love interest Clorice discover an abandoned swimming pool in their high school that was built on top of a graveyard, leaving an angry spirit to take its vengeance on anyone who swims in it. After an attack by the Pool Zombie, Zeke and Clorice are saved by the janitor that used be a lifeguard when the pool first opened. | ||||||
| 54 | 2 | "The Tale of the Jagged Sign" | Will Dixon | Susan Kim | Kiki | None |
| A girl sent to stay with her aunt tries to solve the mystery of a strange symbol and a ghost waiting in the mountains for the woman he loved. | ||||||
| 55 | 3 | "The Tale of Station 109.1" | Ron Oliver | Scott Peters | Stig | None |
| Comedian/former Saturday Night Live cast member Gilbert Gottfried guest stars as a DJ named Roy in this tale of a death-obsessed boy who discovers a radio station that takes its listeners to the afterlife—whether they want to go or not. The episode also features a 15-year-old Ryan Gosling in a supporting performance. | ||||||
| 56 | 4 | "The Tale of the Mystical Mirror" | Craig Pryce | David Wiechorek | Betty Ann | Ms. Valenti |
| A self-conscious girl (played by Lexi Randall) gets hired to work at a boutique where Ms. Valenti (played by Jayne Heitmeyer) uses a magic mirror to turn her employees into dogs for use in her occult rituals to stay beautiful and immortal. | ||||||
| 57 | 5 | "The Tale of the Chameleons" | Iain Patterson | Mark D. Perry | Betty Ann | The Chameleon |
| Sister, Sister stars Tia and Tamera Mowry appear in this tale of a reckless girl who gets bitten by a chameleon, who's actually a shapeshifter out to switch bodies with the girl. | ||||||
| 58 | 6 | "The Tale of Prisoner's Past" | Ron Oliver | Alan Kingsberg | Tucker | None |
| Two stepbrothers accidentally release a convict's ghost while visiting an old prison on a school field trip. | ||||||
| 59 | 7 | "The Tale of C7" | David Winning | David Preston | Sam | None |
| In the last episode directed by David Winning, a family buys an abandoned hotel with an old jukebox that summons spirits from the past if anyone plays the song on C7. | ||||||
| 60 | 8 | "The Tale of the Manaha" | Will Dixon | Gerald Wexler | Tucker | The Shaman |
| A young boy -- often used as the butt of practical jokes -- inadvertently gets revenge by stealing a statue that releases flesh-eating monsters called Manaha. | ||||||
| 61 | 9 | "The Tale of the Unexpected Visitor" | Jacques Laberge | Alan Kingsberg | Kiki | The Alien Kid |
| Two boys use top-secret audio equipment to broadcast their music into space -- which gets a response from an alien boy who wants to come to Earth to play. | ||||||
| 62 | 10 | "The Tale of the Vacant Lot" | Lorette Leblanc | Gerald Wexler | Kiki | Marie the Store Owner |
| An insecure young girl shops at a bizarre store that supplies her with everything she needs to be popular — in exchange for her soul. | ||||||
| 63 | 11 | "The Tale of a Door Unlocked" | Ron Oliver | Scott Peters | Gary | The Toy Door |
| A boy buys a toy door from Sardo's Magic Shop that predicts death for a girl he likes. | ||||||
| 64 | 12 | "The Tale of the Night Shift" | D. J. MacHale | Chloe Brown | Sam | The Walking Dead and The Vampire |
| A hospital worker fears for her life when her co-workers are killed off and turned into the walking dead by a vampire living in the basement. | ||||||
| 65 | 13 | "The Tale of Badge" | Iain Patterson | Wendy Brotherlin | Gary | Badge |
| On her sixteenth birthday, a girl learns from her Irish grandmother that she is a witch and must use her newfound magic to stop a demon named Badge. | ||||||
[edit] Season 6 (1999)
| No. | # | Title | Director | Writer | Storyteller | Villains |
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| 66 | 1 | "The Tale of The Forever Game" | Iain Patterson | Mark D. Perry | Tucker | The Burden Beast |
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After a boy who mistreats his friends and family steps into an ancient creaking tree, he learns that he must play a game against a strange beast that will put his sister and friend in serious jeopardy if he loses. Actor Kyle Downes, whose credits include Higher Ground and Lizzie McGuire, guests stars as Nathaniel. He would later appear in "The Tale of the Vampire Town", as a different character. |
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| 67 | 2 | "The Tale of The Zombie Dice" | Adam Weissman | Maggie Leigh | Vange | Mr. Click |
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A strange arcade owner challenges kids to a dice game in which the losers are shrunk down and made into exotic pets for kids in other countries. Jay Baruchel (who would later appear in the movie Knocked Up) guest starred in this episode, he also appeared in the episode "Tale of the Dead Man's Float". |
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| 68 | 3 | "The Tale of Jake the Snake" | Mark Soulard | Alan Kingsberg | Tucker | Jake "the Snake" Desmond |
| A struggling hockey player named Wiley is given a hockey stick owned by a player named "Jake the Snake" that not only makes Wiley a better player, but slowly turns him into a snake. | ||||||
| 69 | 4 | "The Tale of The Virtual Pets" | Iain Patterson | Alice Eve Cohen | Vange | The Diggers |
| A computer-illiterate girl named Kate must rescue her friends from being brainwashed by cyberspace aliens called Diggers, who are disguised as Tamagotchi-style virtual pet toys that need information to live. | ||||||
| 70 | 5 | "The Tale of The Misfortune Cookie" | Adam Weissman | Mark D. Perry | Andy | The Bad Side |
| Tired of his boring life and slaving away at his parents' failing Chinese restaurant, a teenager is given his grandfather's box of magic fortune cookies that send the boy into an alternate reality where he's a rich and famous comic book artist, but is also a stranger to his parents (whose restaurant is now a town hit) and his sister (who is now an abusive punk girl living with her petty thug boyfriend) -- and on the run from a Chinese warrior dressed in black. | ||||||
| 71 | 6 | "The Tale of The Gruesome Gourmets" | Lorette Leblanc | Michael Koegel | Megan | Chuck |
| In this horror comedy, two brothers suspect their fat, jolly, overly-polite neighbors to be cannibals after several neighbors end up missing and they find strange kitchen utensils in the house. | ||||||
| 72 | 7 | "The Tale of The Hunted" | Lorette Leblanc | Gaylen James | Andy | The Hunters |
| On a camping trip to capture a wolf known as "The Blaze," a girl named Diana finds a strange necklace in the woods that curses her to live the life of a hunted animal. | ||||||
| 73 | 8 | "The Tale of Vampire Town" | Mark Soulard | Allison Lea Bingeman | Quinn | Dreyfus the Vampire and Stanley |
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A self-proclaimed vampire slayer named Adder is on the hunt for the legendary vampire, Dreyfus. However, the hunter soon becomes the hunted during his stay at a strange town, where people believe he is the vampire. Actor Kyle Downes, whose credits include Higher Ground and Lizzie McGuire, guests stars as Adder. He also appears in "The Tale of the Forever Game", as a different character. |
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| 74 | 9 | "The Tale of The Wisdom Glass" | Jacques Laberge | Mark D. Perry | Quinn | The People in the Cyberworld |
| A rich kid and a poor kid find themselves in a bizarre cyberworld after the two are suspected of shoplifting a computer game called "The Wisdom Glass." | ||||||
| 75 | 10 | "The Tale of The Walking Shadow" | Lorrete Leblanc | Matthew Cope | Megan | None |
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A boy is cast in the stage presentation of Macbeth and finds that the theater is haunted by the actors and actresses who died before they could finish the play. Jay Baruchel (who would later appear in the movie Knocked Up) guest starred in this episode, his third appearance on the show, albeit as a different character. |
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| 76 | 11 | "The Tale of Oblivion" | Jim Donovan | James Morris | Tucker | Kronos the conqueror |
| A boy goes to Sardo's Magic Shop and buys a magic art kit, complete with an eraser that makes anything -- and anyone -- disappear. | ||||||
| 77 | 12 | "The Tale of The Secret Admirer" | Mark Soulard | Eric Weiner | Megan | Teddy |
| A shy girl gets secret admirer messages from the ghost of a boy who was jilted by the shy girl's mother and died in a woodshop explosion when the girl's father confronted the secret admirer. | ||||||
| 78 | 13 | "The Tale of Bigfoot Ridge" | Lorette Leblanc | Randy Holland | Tucker | The Umbra |
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A girl travels to a town where her missing friend has been captured by a ghost who only hunts in the darkness. Features a young Hayden Christensen. |
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[edit] Season 7 (2000)
| No. | # | Title | Director | Writer | Storyteller | Villains |
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| 79 | 1 | "The Tale of The Silver Sight Part 1" | Mark Soulard | D. J. MacHale | N/A | The Evil Spirit |
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Part one of three. Gary (the original president of the Midnight Society), his brother Tucker, and the current Midnight Society must band together and find the original members from 1937 in order to stop an evil spirit from taking over the world. 2 Pieces have been obtained. Guest star Degrassi's Ryan Cooley. |
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| 80 | 2 | "The Tale of The Silver Sight Part 2" | Mark Soulard | D. J. MacHale | N/A | The Evil Spirit |
| Part two of three. Gary and the current members of the Midnight Society continue searching for the original members of the Midnight Society. Another 2 have been obtained. | ||||||
| 81 | 3 | "The Tale of The Silver Sight Part 3" | Mark Soulard | D. J. MacHale | Gary and Tucker's grandfather, Gene | The Evil Spirit |
| Conclusion. Gary and the current members of the Midnight Society put together all pieces of the broken record. They then use the clues to find the Silver Sight, and face their true enemy. | ||||||
| 82 | 4 | "The Tale of The Lunar Locusts" | Jim Donovan | Michael Koegel | Megan | The Unborn Alien Babies |
| Figure skater Tara Lipinski guest stars in this tale of an alien girl named Ellen who needs the other half of her medallion (which an Earth boy happens to carry in the form of a ring) to release unborn alien babies buried underneath the football field of their school. | ||||||
| 83 | 5 | "The Tale of The Stone Maiden" | Adam Weissman | Mark D. Perry | Megan | The Maiden Statue |
| A girl who recently broke up with her boyfriend finds him turned to stone in the park -- thanks to a maiden statue that was carved by a lonely woman and was originally meant to have a mate. | ||||||
| 84 | 6 | "The Tale of Highway 13" | Jim Donovan | Ted Elrick | Quinn | None |
| Two friends fix up a 1969 Pontiac GTO that takes them down a mysterious highway, and the only way to return home is to challenge a ghostly truck in a deadly drag race. | ||||||
| 85 | 7 | "The Tale of The Reanimator" | Quinn | Reanimated zombie | ||
| A plant store worker steals an experimental potion that has the power to bring dead plants to life -- and accidentally resurrects a dead man when she tries to use the potion to bring back her dead mother. | ||||||
| 86 | 8 | "The Tale of the Time Trap" | Tucker | The Genie | ||
| A boy buys a magic box from Sardo's Magic Shop, which releases a white-haired genie in tacky clothes bent on warping her master's wishes so she can quit being a genie. | ||||||
| 87 | 9 | "The Tale of The Photo Finish" | Mark Soulard | Andy | The Dead Boy | |
| As part of a club initiation, a prep school boy steals the photo of a dead boy who committed suicide because he was an outcast and now traps his tormentors in his "Wall of Shame." | ||||||
| 88 | 10 | "The Tale of The Last Dance" | Andy | None | ||
| A Phantom of the Opera/Hunchback of Notre Dame-esque story of a mutant who haunts a high school and stalks a talented teenaged violinist with an unappreciative boyfriend. | ||||||
| 89 | 11 | "The Tale of The Laser Maze" | Mark Soulard | Tucker | The Game Creator | |
| Competitive twin sisters get trapped in an alien game of laser tag, where the game's creator plans to make robotic clones of them if they win. | ||||||
| 90 | 12 | "The Tale of The Many Faces" | Vange | Madame Visage | ||
| A struggling teenage model finds employment with a stage actress who uses a magic book to steal the faces of her young workers and forces them to be faceless slaves. | ||||||
| 91 | 13 | "The Tale of The Night Nurse" | Mark Soulard | Vange | None | |
| In the series finale, two girls visiting their grandfather are haunted by a girl said to have died at the hands of her live-in nurse -- and the nurse who claims that she's innocent. | ||||||
[edit] References
- ^ Lacey, Gord. "Are You Afraid of the Dark? - Are You Afraid of Season 4?" TVShowsOnDVD.com. 11 September 2007. 23 October 2007.
- ^ Lacey, Gord. "Are You Afraid of the Dark? - Dont be afraid: We've got the date, pricing & box art for the 5th season!" TVShowsOnDVD.com. 16 January 2007.
- ^ Lambert, David "Are You Afraid of The Dark? - Date, Box Art, Contents & Extras for USA and Canada DVDs for Season 6" TVShowsOnDVD.com. 05 March 2008.
- ^ Lambert, David "Are You Afraid of The Dark? 7th (and Final) Season Announced: Date (REAL Soon Now), Cost, Extras & Box Art" TVShowsOnDVD.com. 07 August 2008.
