S1E8
The Word Processor of the Gods
Tales from the Darkside · 1984-11-25 · 23 min
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what happens
Richard Hagstrom is dismayed with the way life has treated him (a rude son, a shrewish wife). His nephew Jonathan gives him a birthday present: a homemade word processor. Hagstrom soon discovers that anything he types into the processor becomes real, and no one but him knows the difference. He begins with simple experiments, but then wipes out his son from existence. Even his wife is unaware of the changes. As the machine overheats into self-destruction, Hagstrom types in one last story: he makes sure that he and Jonathan's mother married and that Jonathan was his son. As the word processor destroys itself, Hagstrom's final wish becomes reality.
nobody has mapped this one
We draw an episode's shape from public discussion of it, and there isn't enough about this one to draw anything honest. Forty-five seconds with the dial and it has a curve.
rate S1E8 →who made it
- directed
- Michael Gornick
- written
- Michael McDowell, Stephen King
guest cast
Billed for this episode only — the turn people remember an episode for.
Bruce Davison as Richard Hagstrom- KKaren Shallo as Lina Hagstrom
Patrick Piccininni as Seth Robert Hagstrom- BBill Cain as Tom Nordhoff
- JJon Matthews as Jonathan
- MMiranda Beeson as Belinda