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The Tale of the Thirteenth Floor

Season 2, Episode 4, Aired Jul 10, 1993

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Two siblings generally spend all their free time playing hockey on the 13th floor of their apartment building. However, one day the regular elevator operator disappears and they find that the floor is now being used by a company to manufacture toys and games. However, the toys that they're creating aren't exactly from this world.moreless

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Susan Glover

Olga
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Christopher Heyerdahl

Leonid
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Johnni Keyworth

Gus

Jason Alisharan

Frank (Seasons 1-4)
Rachel Blanchard

Kristen (Seasons 1-2)
Ross Hull

Gary (Seasons 1-5)
Nathaniel Moreau

David (Seasons 1-2)
Jodie Resther

Kiki (Seasons 1-5)
Raine Pare-Coull

Betty Ann (Seasons 1-5)

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Again a really silly episode and I'm not scared at all.

5.9

"Mediocre"

By SurvivorFan64, Jul 15, 2008

Still please, I've watched a lot of Scary movies as a young child and I am scared to watch them still. But The Thirteenth floor? No way. This episode was unoriginal unappealing and nothing scary about it. Usually you would see something scary, then you would scream to death and want to run away. These aliens look nothing scary. The set for the Thirteenth floor wasn't appealing for the color coordination was so wrong and wasn't jumping out of the page. The aliens and the childrens' clothes looked like 1940's. Come on. The ending wasn't freaky but I liked the plot.moreless
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A brother and adopted sister go up to play street hockey on the previously vacant 13th floor. They find "The Toy Factory" has moved in and has invited the sister to test their toys. However, it isn't the toys that are going to be tested...moreless

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By rocketman768, Nov 24, 2007

This episode is one of my favorites. As an 8 or 9 year old, I remember the scary images of the faceless aliens being very frightening. The storyline is fairly good, and so is the acting. You may remember Billy (Aaron Ashmore) as Jimmy Olson from Smallville. There are a couple of strange things in the show however. The props in the episode were a little bit hokey and simple. One of the actors runs into the control panel at one point and almost knocks it over. Also, for being a toy factory, there were very few toys and none of them should have been appealing to kids. Last nitpick: why did the aliens want the girl to come up through the ceiling in the chair? I didn't understand if the whole floor was a ship or not. However, still one of my favorites.moreless
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A boy and his adopted sister like to play hockey on the 13th floor. But when they aren't alou up there and the girl gets an invitation to a toy factory, things start to change. She finds out she is an alien and the people on that floor want her.moreless

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By bhattipimpin88, Jul 12, 2006

This episode was really good. not only was it scary, it had a wonderful plot.I really liked how they portrayed the aliens in this episode. The first thing that creeped me out when I watched this episode was the elavator guy. He was tall but had a very soft voice. he also has really weird long hair. I thought the toy factory looked pretty cool inside. The lady looked creepy with that haristyle. I always got scared off this episode when they hide in the vent and that man opens it. I also got really scared when the television would turn on at night. This episode had a great ending. He turns and looks at his sister and she has no face.moreless
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An adopted girl and her brother are playing floor hockey and she feels like she has no talent. Her parents (??) come back for her but she is scared of them because they are aliens and at the end you find out she is one too.moreless

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By Miss_Sheena19, Apr 27, 2006

This episode is the reason I watched the show. 10 years later I still think about how amazing this episode was. It has stayed with me. Back when I was maybe 10 I'm sure this gave me nightmares, but I loved these kind of shows.

Re-watching the episode made it really not seem as creepy as the shows I tend to watch now, however it did bring back some of the old feelings, of goosebumps I use to get from watching this show.

It's too bad that this show came off the air. It really was quality programming for younger children.moreless
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You have to watch really hard to keep up with what's going on here...it's a little hard to follow.

8.0

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By poetchick028, Sep 25, 2005

This is a really cool episode. It's not really meant to freak you out. I was creeped out by it, but not scared. The pacing is slower than most episodes, which indicates that it's not going to be someone chasing someone else through dark streets/alleyways. It was also very original. Rather than being set at a house in a suburban neighborhood, it's set in an apartment building, on an empty floor of the building. That's very cool and unusual. Kudos to the writers on this one, and to the set designers.moreless
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- When alien Raymond was turning the color wheel on the wall you can clearly see on the far shots that there were always two more lit up than in the previous scene. Then when they zoom back up on him they aren't lit !
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- (Karin swings and misses horribly) Billy: I think the net's over there. Karin: I know that. If I had your genes I could make it. Billy : What do my jeans have to do with it? Karin: Not your blue jeans you zipper head, your biological genes.
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- Betty Ann: (Story Opening) No one lived on the top floor, the thirteenth floor, of the old renovated building. The last tenants had disappeared years ago... Vanished into thin air.
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- Betty Ann: (Story Intro) My story is about strangers among us. You see them every day, but never take the time to look. But if you did, you might find that the scariest strangers... Are the ones inside ourselves. Submitted for the approval of the Midnight Society, I call this story... The Tale Of The Thirteenth Floor.
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- Betty Ann: You see us every week... But do you really know us?
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- Raymond: Both children? Olga: Unfortunately, yes.
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- Olga: Oh, Raymond, not again!
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- Susan Glover, who played Olga, later appears in The Tale of the Quicksilver.
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- Anne Appleton also wrote The Tale of the Hungry Hounds and The Tale of the Captured Souls.
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- Johnni Keyworth, who played Gus, also appeared in The Tale of the Nightly Neighbors.
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- Aaron Ashmore, who played Billy, also played Jake in The Tale Of The Lunar Locusts.
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- The character named Raymond, is played by an actor named Raymond.
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- Christopher Heyerdahl who played Leonid, also played Nosferatu in the episode called The Tale Of The Midnight Madness.
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- The letters throughout the story are TF which stands for "Toy Factory" but also stands for the name of the episode the tale of the "Thirteenth Floor"
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- This story was told by Betty Ann.
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