In light of the film’s moderate success, its producer, Laurel Entertainment, decided to explore the potential for a television series based on the feature.

Laurel chose to move forward with a series that omitted aspects of the movie that were owned by Warner Bros.

The result was Tales from the Darkside, which explored the same themes as Creepshow, but discarded the framing device and other elements that were based directly on the comics.

Two episodes, "Word Processor of the Gods"[3] and "Sorry, Right Number",[4] were based on short stories by Stephen King.

In the vein of previous anthology series The Twilight Zone and The Outer Limits, each episode opens with a montage and an unseen narrator.

Several bucolic scenes are shown, followed by a slow pan through a forest filled with barren trees, which in turn yields to a fence-lined path through a meadow.

The opening and closing themes are performed by Donald Rubinstein, who co-wrote the music with Erica Lindsay.

An audio commentary by Executive Producer George A. Romero on the pilot episode, "Trick or Treat", as well as two unaired eplsodes, "Akhbar's Daughter" and "Attic Suite", are cited on the cover of the DVD.

[7] In November 2013, it was reported that Joe Hill, Alex Kurtzman, and Roberto Orci were developing a reboot of the series for The CW, with CBS Television Studios.

I love the original Tales From The Darkside, The Outer Limits, and The Twilight Zone, but I think in a post-X-Files world there's really no room for a straight anthology show.