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Nov 22, 1987
- Sorry, Right Number Episode aired Nov 22, 1987
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
- Overview
- Summary
- Audiobook
"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" is a teleplay written by author Stephen King for an episode of the horror anthology series Tales from the Darkside. It is the ninth episode of the fourth season. It was later included in King's 1993 short story collection Nightmares & Dreamscapes, and is the only such work that King has included in any of his anthologies. [2]
"Sorry, Right Number" is a teleplay written by author Stephen King for an episode of the horror anthology series Tales from the Darkside. It is the ninth episode of the fourth season. It was later included in King's 1993 short story collection Nightmares & Dreamscapes, and is the only such work that King has included in any of his anthologies.
- Stephen King
- Science fiction, Drama
- United States
- English
Nov 22, 1987 · Overview. Late one evening, a woman named Katie (Deborah Harmon)—wife of horror novelist Bill Weiderman (Arthur Taxier)—receives a disturbing phone call from an unknown number. Recognizing the voice on the other end of the line, Katie assumes that one of her female family members might be in trouble—with an unexpected outcome.
"Tales from the Darkside" Sorry, Right Number (TV Episode 1987) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
Sorry, Right Number is the ninth episode of the fourth season of Tales from the Darkside, and the seventy-ninth episode overall. Starring : Deborah Harmon (Katie Weiderman), Arthur Taxier (Bill Weiderman), Rhonda Dotson (Dawn)
