Based on a Harlan Ellison story, directed by Shelley Levinson and written by Haskell Barkin, this episode has Danny Squires (Charles Levin) in a lunatic wing explaining how his wife Connie (Coleen Camp) had bought an old lamp that brought a djinn (Kareem Abdul-Jabbar) into their lives. Nothing good has happened since that day.
Sadly, this episode is one of the sillier episodes and not in the best of ways. It's wacky humor with a payoff that is an even bigger groaner. It's as if all the issues of Danny in a straihtjacket don't matter because of how easily everything comes together at the end.
Look, they can't all be winners on Tales from the Darkside.
Sadly, this episode is one of the sillier episodes and not in the best of ways. It's wacky humor with a payoff that is an even bigger groaner. It's as if all the issues of Danny in a straihtjacket don't matter because of how easily everything comes together at the end.
Look, they can't all be winners on Tales from the Darkside.