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Episodes: All (65)

Season: 1  |  2  |  3  |  4  |  5  |  6
Year: 1985  |  1986  |  1988  |  1989  |  1990  |  1992


Season 1


Season 1, Episode 1: Marionettes, Inc.

Original Air Date—21 May 1985
A suburban drone sees no escape from his dull job, nor from his upbeat wife's constant attention and advice. He's a computer salesman, and suddenly every computer he logs onto immediately blares his most detailed personal information, plus a cryptic ad for the mysterious Marionettes, Inc. Now he has to take action.

Season 1, Episode 2: The Playground

Original Air Date—4 June 1985
Charles Underhill lives in the suburb with his wife and their five year-old son Steve, but he does not allow Steve to go to play in the nearby playground with other children. Charles has a childhood trauma with the bully Ralph and his friends, and he frequently sees his ghost challenging him, until the day he decides to go to the playground with Steve and face the wounds of his past.

Season 1, Episode 3: The Crowd

Original Air Date—2 July 1985
After leaving a party late night, Joe Spelliner drives high speed through the empty streets and has a car accident. A couple of seconds later, he is surrounded by a crowd until an ambulance arrives with the paramedic at 2:00 AM. Twenty-four hours later he is discharged by the hospital and he is intrigued from where that crowd arrived. He meets his friend and colleague Morgan to celebrate and they witness another car accident. In twenty-one seconds, the victim is surrounded by a crowd and Joe recognizes many of the persons from his own accident. Joe asks Morgan to retrieve surveillance tapes of car accidents and he discloses that the same persons are present in the other accidents; further, all of them are victims of car accidents. Morgan asks Joe to forget the discovery, but the reluctant friend wishes to investigate further with tragic consequences.

Season 1, Episode 4: The Town Where No One Got Off

Original Air Date—22 February 1986
While traveling by train, the aspirant writer Cogswell is challenged by an old salesman to get off the train and settle in a small town to lead a boring life. Cogswell asks the conductor to stop the train and arrives in a quiet town. He wanders through the town and finds hostile dwellers; further, he notes that an old man is following him. The man tells Cogswell that he has been waiting for twenty years for a strange to commit the perfect crime. Cogswell replies that he has had the same feeling.

Season 1, Episode 5: The Screaming Woman

Original Air Date—22 February 1986
A young girl is playing in a seemingly deserted part of the local wood hears a woman screaming. Is she imagining it? Is it a ghost? Or could it be something worse?

Season 1, Episode 6: Banshee

Original Air Date—22 February 1986
An American visiting a remote Irish manor hears an eerie moan from the grounds. Braving the dark night, the man sees a beautiful woman flitting across the moor. When he returns to the house, his host, an inveterate practical joker, informs him the woman is really a banshee and dares him to confront her.

Season 2


Season 2, Episode 1: The Fruit at the Bottom of the Bowl

Original Air Date—23 January 1988

Season 2, Episode 2: Skeleton

Original Air Date—6 February 1988

Season 2, Episode 3: The Emissary

Original Air Date—13 February 1988
Martin is a lonely boy confined to bed because of his illness. His only contact with the outside world is through his loyal dog that brings flowers and objects from the streets to him. When his mother questions the actions of his dog, Martin decides to prove his efficiency to his mother and asks the animal to find a friend for him. The dog brings Miss Haight, Martin's teacher if the boy could go to the school, and she becomes his friend, visiting him every day. One day, Martin is informed by his parents that Miss Haight died in a car crash; after her funeral, his dog goes to the cemetery to bring her back.

Season 2, Episode 4: Gotcha!

Original Air Date—20 February 1988
At a masquerade party, a lonely man dressed as comedian Oliver Hardy is about to leave, when he meets a woman costumed as Hardy's comic partner Stan Laurel ! Captivated with each other, they run off into the night. They stay in love and in their fantasy, until the man muses if this dream can last ? The woman suggests they see, by playing a game she calls Gotcha !

Season 2, Episode 5: The Man Upstairs

Original Air Date—5 March 1988
In Paris, the weird traveler Mr. Koberman stays in a small pension nearby the Seine River owned by the grandmother of the boy Douglas. Mr. Koberman's strange habits and his aversion to silver cause Douglas to be suspicious that he is a vampire. One morning, when the student Miss Treadwell does not return to the inn, Douglas spies the guest and concludes that he is a vampire with tragic consequences.

Season 2, Episode 6: The Small Assassin

Original Air Date—9 April 1988
Alice delivers an unwanted child and Doctor Jeffers is apprehensive with the situation. He has a private conversation with her husband David, but he says that Alice will get used to the baby. When the family moves to their manor, Alice is scared, telling them that the baby wants to kill her. She swears that she is not being paranoid and asks David to protect her. Furthermore, she says that the baby never cries in his presence, and David says that babies do not do things like that. When Doctor Jeffers pays a visit to the family, he has a dreadful surprise.

Season 2, Episode 7: Punishment Without Crime

Original Air Date—16 April 1988

Season 2, Episode 8: On the Orient, North

Original Air Date—29 April 1988

Season 2, Episode 9: The Coffin

Original Air Date—7 May 1988
When the exotic millionaire Charles Braling (a.k.a. Robot Man) takes all his savings to his manor and builds a glassed coffin, his greedy brother Richard Braling mocks him. Charles dies and in the will, Richard may have the mansion and all his savings if he finds where it is hidden. Richard finds the money in the coffin but it's not as easy as it first seemed.

Season 2, Episode 10: Tyrannosaurus Rex

Original Air Date—14 May 1988

Season 2, Episode 11: There Was an Old Woman

Original Air Date—21 May 1988

Season 2, Episode 12: And So Died Riabouchinska

Original Air Date—28 May 1988
A ventriloquist is implicated in the murder of a man at a theater.

Season 3


Season 3, Episode 1: The Dwarf

Original Air Date—7 July 1989

Season 3, Episode 2: A Miracle of Rare Device

Original Air Date—14 July 1989
Two drifters, Robert and William, stumble across a desert mirage while evading their nemesis, Ned. The two men soon realize that the mirage shows each viewer the city where they'd like to be, and start selling views.

Season 3, Episode 3: The Lake

Original Air Date—21 July 1989
An artist, now an adult, visits the lake where his childhood sweetheart died when he was 10.

Season 3, Episode 4: The Wind

Original Air Date—28 July 1989
A weather expert is stalked by a sentient wind.

Season 3, Episode 5: The Pedestrian

Original Air Date—4 August 1989

Season 3, Episode 6: A Sound of Thunder

Original Air Date—11 August 1989
A company provides big game hunters with expeditions to the past to kill dinosaurs.

Season 3, Episode 7: The Wonderful Death of Dudley Stone

Original Air Date—18 August 1989

Season 3, Episode 8: The Haunting of the New

Original Air Date—15 September 1989

Season 3, Episode 9: To the Chicago Abyss

Original Air Date—22 September 1989

Season 3, Episode 10: Hail and Farewell

Original Air Date—30 September 1989
A 12-year-old boy discovers that he can't grow up.

Season 3, Episode 11: The Veldt

Original Air Date—10 November 1989

Season 3, Episode 12: Boys! Raise Giant Mushrooms in Your Cellar!

Original Air Date—17 November 1989

Season 4


Season 4, Episode 1: Mars Is Heaven

Original Air Date—20 July 1990
The first Earth visitors to Mars discover a replica of small town America, just as they remembered it from their childhoods.

Season 4, Episode 2: The Murderer

Original Air Date—27 July 1990

Season 4, Episode 3: Touched with Fire

Original Air Date—3 August 1990
Two retired insurance salesman seek out aggravating people and attempt to convince them to change their ways and avoid murder.

Season 4, Episode 4: The Black Ferris

Original Air Date—10 August 1990

Season 4, Episode 5: Usher II

Original Air Date—17 August 1990
In the future, a millionaire seeks revenge against the government that burned the works of famous literary fiction writers by building a haunted castle populated by androids.

Season 4, Episode 6: Touch of Petulance

Original Air Date—12 October 1990

Season 4, Episode 7: And the Moon Be Still as Bright

Original Air Date—19 October 1990

Season 4, Episode 8: The Toynbee Convector

Original Air Date—26 October 1990

Season 4, Episode 9: Exorcism

Original Air Date—2 November 1990

Season 4, Episode 10: The Day It Rained Forever

Original Air Date—9 November 1990

Season 4, Episode 11: The Long Years

Original Air Date—16 November 1990

Season 4, Episode 12: Here There Be Tygers

Original Air Date—30 November 1990

Season 5


Season 5, Episode 1: The Earthmen

Original Air Date—3 January 1992

Season 5, Episode 2: Zero Hour

Original Air Date—10 January 1992

Season 5, Episode 3: The Jar

Original Air Date—17 January 1992

Season 5, Episode 4: Colonel Stonesteel and the Desperate Empties

Original Air Date—24 January 1992

Season 5, Episode 5: The Concrete Mixer

Original Air Date—31 January 1992

Season 5, Episode 6: The Utterly Perfect Murder

Original Air Date—7 February 1992

Season 5, Episode 7: Let's Play Poison

Original Air Date—14 February 1992

Season 5, Episode 8: The Martian

Original Air Date—21 February 1992

Season 6


Season 6, Episode 1: The Lonely One

Original Air Date—10 July 1992

Season 6, Episode 2: The Happiness Machine

Original Air Date—17 July 1992

Season 6, Episode 3: Tomorrow's Child

Original Air Date—14 August 1992

Season 6, Episode 4: The Anthem Sprinters

Original Air Date—21 August 1992

Season 6, Episode 5: By the Numbers

Original Air Date—11 September 1992

Season 6, Episode 6: The Long Rain

Original Air Date—19 September 1992
When a spaceship crash lands on a world where it never stops raining, the survivors try to reach the Sundome that has been erected on the planet.

Season 6, Episode 7: The Dead Man

Original Air Date—26 September 1992

Season 6, Episode 8: Sun and Shadow

Original Air Date—3 October 1992

Season 6, Episode 9: Silent Towns

Original Air Date—10 October 1992

Season 6, Episode 10: Downwind from Gettysburg

Original Air Date—17 October 1992

Season 6, Episode 11: Some Live Like Lazarus

Original Air Date—24 October 1992

Season 6, Episode 12: The Handler

Original Air Date—27 October 1992

Season 6, Episode 13: Fee Fie Foe Fum

Original Air Date—28 October 1992

Season 6, Episode 14: Great Wide World Over There

Original Air Date—29 October 1992

Season 6, Episode 15: The Tombstone

Original Air Date—30 October 1992

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