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Aug 17, 2022 · Katie is certain the caller was her sixteen-year-old daughter Polly, who has recently gone away to school. She rummages around to find Polly’s telephone number, blaming Bill for sending the girl away to school when she is too young. The number is in a book Bill carries with him, so Katie dials it.
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"Sorry, Right Number" is the ninth episode of the fourth season of Tales from the Darkside, airing on CBS on 22 November 1987. The episode was written by Stephen King, and the teleplay was later included in his collection Nightmares and Dreamscapes.
One night, while the children are arguing about whether or not to watch Ghost Kiss, the gory TV adaptation of her husband Bill's novel, Katie receives a strange phone call in which the person at the other end of the line sobs, "Take...please take..." before the line goes dead. She at first thinks it's her daughter Polly, away at boarding school, then believes it's her mother, then her sister Dawn; she discovers that none of them were the source of the mysterious call. The incident is quickly forgotten.
Later, she finds her husband slumped in his chair, dead from a heart attack. The story then jumps forward in time to Polly's wedding day, five years to the day of Bill's death. Katie is in Bill's old office when she finds a tape of Ghost Kiss and puts it into the television. She is hysterical with grief over the death of her husband and accidentally dials the old house number. She is startled when it rings and is answered by herself five years previously.
The audiobook version of this story, in the Nightmares and Dreamscapes collection, is read by an unspecified ensemble cast.
Sorry, Right Number: Directed by John Harrison. With Deborah Harmon, Arthur Taxier, Rhonda Dotson, Katherine Britton. A woman is troubled by a mysterious phone call and tries desperately to help the person on the other end of the line.
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- Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
- John Harrison
- 1987-11-22
Plot summary. Katie Weiderman is talking to her sister on the phone one night. Her husband, Bill, a famous horror novel writer, is in his study trying to find inspiration for a new novel. Her children are arguing about whether or not to watch Ghost Kiss, a gory TV adaptation of Bill's earlier novel. Katie receives a second phone call.
The title is a pun on the title of the radio play and film Sorry, Wrong Number. Plot summary. Katie Weiderman is talking to her sister on the phone one night. Her husband, Bill, a famous horror novel writer, is in his study trying to find inspiration for a new novel.
- Stephen King
- Science fiction, Drama
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"Sorry, Right Number" is a teleplay written by author Stephen King for an episode of the horror anthology series Tales from the Darkside. It was later included in King's short story collection Nightmares & Dreamscapes. Katie receives a distressing phone call from an unknown source that is abrupt...
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Nov 22, 1987 · Combining paranormal implications with a poignant twist, “Sorry, Right Number” is a powerful entry of Tales from the Darkside. Series enthusiasts will therefore appreciate this episode, which carries the unique style of a typical King novel.
