Driving me crazy that I can't find out about this episode. I'm sure it's AHP, but it might have been Amazing Stories from the same season. Can anyone help?
Everyone else may be an a**hole, but I'm not! - Harlan Ellison
Well, there's something similar to that:
"Amazing Stories" The Sitter (1986)
A Jamaican babysitter uses voodoo to tame a pair of mischievous, stir-crazy boys.
I know, but that isn't it.
It's a white teenage female sitter that takes the opportunity to terrorize the little girl she's in charge of, stalking her around the house. And when she corners her at knifepoint, she pulls back, warning her not to tell her parents or she'll kill them. But unbeknownst to the sitter, this family has some criminal connections, and the little girl gets ahold of a phone number of someone who could be brought in to 'fix' things.
Next time the sitter comes, she starts the terror game again, searching for the girl through the house. But the girl is ready this time, and out of a darkened closet or someplace a hitman emerges who strangles the sitter to death, I think.
Everyone else may be an a**hole, but I'm not! - Harlan Ellison
Maybe it's the episode Babysitter from a forgotten 80s horror/thriller/mystery anthology show called "The Scene of the Crime" and hosted by Orson Welles?
share1985 was the year the anthology series returned to TV. Amazing Stories, the new Twilight Zone, and the revival of AHP. I'm all but certain this episode was from AHP.
Everyone else may be an a**hole, but I'm not! - Harlan Ellison
I've seen almost every AHP 80s episode and except for the episode "A Very Happy Ending" with baby Joaquin Phoenix and not so young Robert Loggia, there's nothing like that in the show. In that episode kid Phoenix hires hitman Loggia to kill his always absent dad. I plan to finishing watching the show one of these days and if a babysitter episode pops up, I'll return to this thread, but I did read the plot synopses for every episode and, again, there's nothing like that on this show...
There is a 1950s AHP episode called the Baby Sitter (as two words) but it's not about a terrorizing babysitter.
"Alfred Hitchcock Presents" The Baby Sitter (TV Episode 1956)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0508258/reference
You might be right. I think this episode is from Scene Of The Crime.
Everyone else may be an a**hole, but I'm not! - Harlan Ellison