Séance
The gang holds a séance, hoping to communicate with the dead. It never actually works.
ALF
Appearances
- Car 54, Where Are You?: Season 2, episode 7, "Remember St. Petersburg" (1962). A fake fortune teller holds séances in an attempt to find descendants of royalty and con them out of their family fortunes, and she unwittingly convinces Toody and Sylvia that they're descended from Russian royalty.
- The Addams Family: Season 1, episode 28, "My Son, the Chimp" (1965). When Pugsley goes missing, the family holds a séance to try to find him.
- The Addams Family: Season 2, episode 7, "Halloween - Addams Style" (1965). When a neighbor tells Wednesday there's no such thing as witches, the family holds a séance to summon their late Aunt Singe, who was a witch herself.
- Get Smart: Season 3, episode 4, "The Spirit is Willing" (1967). A medium leads Max and 99 in a séance to contact a key witness everyone believes is dead.
- The Odd Couple: Season 4, episode 12, "The Exorcists" (1973). Felix has been hearing strange noises at night, and he thinks the air conditioner in their apartment is haunted by the ghost of its former tenant. He holds a séance with Murray, Miriam, and Myrna to try to cast the ghost out.
- Too Close for Comfort: Season 1, episode 19, "The Return of Rafkin" (1981). Mildred Rafkin can't find her mother's cameo brooch in her late brother's apartment, so Sara organizes a séance with a medium so they can try to contact Mr. Rafkin and ask him where it is.
- ALF: Season 1, episode 15, "I've Got a New Attitude" (1987). Alf claims he can talk to Dorothy's late husband (Kate's father), Sparky, and he holds a séance to prove it.
- Night Court: Season 7, episode 4, "Come Back to the Five and Dime, Stephen King, Stephen King" (1989). The gang believes that the ghost of a man who died in the courthouse 50 years ago is now haunting it, so a so-called psychic helps them hold a séance.
- Cheers: Season 8, episode 23, "The Ghost and Mrs. LeBec" (1990). Carla keeps seeing her late husband, Eddie, everywhere, and she thinks he's trying to tell her something, so she calls her psychic to Cheers to hold a séance and ask Eddie what his message is.
- Dharma & Greg: Season 3 episode 6, "The Very Grateful Dead" (1999). When their elderly, Doris, neighbor passes away, Dharma sees her ghost and thinks she has some unfinished business. To find out what Doris wants, Abby holds a séance to contact her.