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Ten-year old Toby moves with his family from New York to a small town in Connecticut. There he vainly attempts to makes friends but experiences difficulty adjusting to his new environment. With his remarkable intellect but ineptitude on the softball field, he quickly becomes the target of local bullies. Ultimately, he turns the tables on his aggressors by daring them to spend the night in an allegedly haunted house.

Seminal documentary featuring interviews conducted with early AIDS patients at San Francisco General Hospital's wards 67 and 5B in 1983. Friends, family, health care workers, and caregivers contribute to the narrative as a generation of brave, young men face a terrifying disease with grace, humor, and dignity.

Tom interviews Orson Welles and the discussion includes the theater, Hollywood, personality myths, famous radio shows, magic, religion, death, and childhood memories.

Young Bostonian Jeremy Warren vacations with his family in an idyllic Maine seaport village. There, he meets Eachan, a crusty old fisherman who initially rejects the child's persistent attempts at friendship. In time, Eachan warms to Jeremy, sharing with him a secret dream to build a sloop and sail it to England. Through their unlikely friendship, Jeremy learns a valuable lesson about the power of dreams unrealized.

Police lieutenant Danny Ianello and insurance investigator Susan Browning become involved in the mystery surrounding the apparent suicide of wealthy Allen Harper. Their investigation uncovers a flamboyant blackmailer, drug addiction, and possibly murder.

Set during the Napoleonic Wars, British Royal Navy Captain Horatio Hornblower leads an expedition in the English Channel to find the empire's missing ship HMS Flame. Hornblower locates the ship, but finds a mutinous crew has seized control from their barbaric captain.

Dr. Jonathan Bent happens upon a car accident on the highway and acting as a Good Samaritan stops to help injured motorist Bob Page. Shortly thereafter Page sues him for malpractice. Although Page agrees to an out of court settlement, Dr. Bent doesn't want to concede since he's done nothing wrong.

Patricia becomes convinced that she is adopted.

Steven's best friend is found to have an incurable illness.

The family spends a grim Thanksgiving waiting for news of Paul and Cathy, who were en route to Los Angeles in a plane that is reported missing.

Danielle Taylor experiences a series of what appears to be frightening and debilitating seizures. Her husband, surgeon Joseph Taylor, offers a preliminary diagnosis of a slight glandular issue. Ben offers to help his colleague's wife, but diagnostic tests fail to present an organic cause for the problem. Ben wonders if Mrs. Taylor is concealing the true nature of her problem.

Young Jenny Cordova, a formerly aspiring trapeze artist in a circus family, faces a lifetime in a wheelchair without psychiatric treatment. Her paralysis is psychological in nature, an unusually strong reaction to her father's accidental death during a trapeze performance that went awry and for which Jenny blames herself.

Dr. Thompson reluctantly agrees to counsel Joseph Baylor, a seventy year old man who learns that he's in perfect health and could live into his nineties, a terrifying prospect for a man whose life thus far has been boring and unremarkable. His attitude slowly begins to change however when he makes the acquaintance of Gertrude Komack, an attractive widow.

Dr. Thompson is aided by child psychologist Judy Cole to treat Virginia, a withdrawn nine year old girl whose has been a ward of the court and turned away from foster homes due to her sometimes chilling, erratic behavior. Thompson's only clue to the child's psyche is her love of poetry and curious reaction to the name Gypsy.

Dr. Thompson conducts an unusual experiment in which unwanted children, many with disabilities or emotional problems, are paired with inmates at a women's prison. There Susan Beaumont, convicted of killing her own crying child, attempts to connect with Laura, a withdrawn thirteen year old..

Smart, elegant Roberta Duncan prides herself on appearing to have the perfect marriage and perfect life, except for a history of migraine headaches. When Roberta suddenly tries to kill herself without noticeable warning signs, Dr. Thompson attempts to uncover the crux of her fears.

Stunning but deeply troubled model Shelley Osborne Peters arrives following a drunken binge in which she insists she's pregnant. Raymer and Thompson suspect Shelley's manipulative father Walter is the source of her problems rather than her unhappy marriage.

Chest pains and bouts of sudden childlike hysteria send Dory Costain in search of psychiatric help. An accomplished prima ballerina, Dory is married to Gregory, the owner of a dance school, whose pathological devotion to the cult of dance has created serious conflicts in their marriage.

A mental ward attendant poses as a psychiatrist and is caught by an unforgiving nurse.

Controversy surrounds boxer Rosie Palmer after he loses a match. Palmer swears his opponent knocked him out but film shot at the match shows that he was never touched. When the boxing commission charges him with deliberately throwing a game, Rosie fears he's acquiring his father's bad reputation.

Carlo Scotti, a meek chef , seeks help from Dr. Thompson for a series of debilitating headaches that seem to not have an organic cause. During therapy Thompson uncovers a guilt complex related to Scotti's criminal past, which has prevented him from marrying Lee, the woman he women he deeply loves.

Dynamic publishing executive Evan Ross meets with Dr. Richards about the company's latest self help book, but Richards quickly surmises that Ross himself is in need of help. Although happily married, he cannot subsist without constant attention from other women which places his marriage and his career in jeopardy.

Former stage actress Stella Manville enjoys the retired life she and beloved husband Leon have built for themselves, only Stella fails to recognize that Leon died many years ago. Her concerned sister Clara and Dr. Thompson feel that Stella needs help to destroy the fantasy she has so carefully created and to accept reality. However, Dr. Raymer fears such a shock would effectively end Stella's life as she would no longer have a reason to continue living.

Single, widowed father Roger Conning rejects psychiatric help but is in serious need after his fourteen year old daughter Julie is the victim of a statutory rape and slips into a state of complete withdrawal. Dr. Richards attempts to heal the desperate father and daughter.

Mimi Casell, fan club president of Hollywood star Alicia Howard, reacts with uncontrollable crying jags after Howard's waning career is publicly disparaged. Doctors Raymer and Thompson trace the source of Casell'a mental illness to her mother's bullying which has caused the young woman to retreat into a life of fantasy and living vicariously through movies.