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THE NEW TWILIGHT ZONE
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FIRST SEASON 1985-1986
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SHATTERDAY
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Writer: Harlan Ellison
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Teleplay: Alan Brennert
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Director: Wes Craven
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Cast: Bruce Willis, Dan Gilvezan, Murukh, John Carlyle, Seth Isler,
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Anthony Grumback
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A man named Peter Jay Novins accidentally dials his home phone number,
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and it's answered by -- Peter Jay Novins.
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A LITTLE PEACE AND QUIET
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Writer: James Crocker
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Director: Wes Craven
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Cast: Melinda Dillon, Greg Mullavey, Virginia Keehne, Brittany Wilson,
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Joshua Harris, Judith Barsi, Claire Nono, Elma Veronda Jackson,
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Pamela Gordon, Laura Waterbury, Todd Allen, Isabelle Walker
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Melinda Dillon plays a station-wagon housewife who gets her wish for "A
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Little Peace And Quiet."
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WORDPLAY
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Writer: Rockne S. O'Bannon
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Director: Wes Craven
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Cast: Robert Klein, Annie Potts, Adam Raber, Robert J. Downey, Brian
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Bradley, Bernard Behrens, Anne Betancourt, Willard Peugh, Helene Udy,
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Mimi Neyer Craven, Brynji Willis, Russ Marin, Alexandra Morgan, Lee
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Arnone, Raye Birk, Joseph Whipp, Dwier Brown
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Pressed to learn his company's new product line, an overworked man
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thinks everyone is speaking gibberish to him.
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DREAMS FOR SALE
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Writer: Joe Gannon
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Director: Tommy Lee Wallace
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Cast: Meg Foster, David Hayward, Vincent Guastaferro, Lee Anthony, Kristi
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Purdy, Deanna Purdy
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A woman is the only one who notices the events at the family picnic keep
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repeating.
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CHAMELEON
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Writer: James Crocker
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Director: Wes Craven
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Cast: Terrance O'Quinn, Ben Piazza, John Ashton, Steve Howell Bassett,
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Jona Morris, Alma Martinez, Chad Hayes, Lin Shaye
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Scientists are baffled by a technician who disappears while working on
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the space shuttle, and then reappears inside an isolation tank.
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HEALER
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Writer: Michael Bryant
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Director: Sigmund Neafeld
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Cast: Eric Bogosian, Vincent Gardenia, Robert Costanzo, Joaquin Martinez,
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Adam Ferris, Joy Pankin, Ed Levey, Vivian Donnell, Anthony Johnson,
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Lauren Levian
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A loser steals an Indian artifact with magical healing powers, and those
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he cures fill his coffer with "gratitude".
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CHILDREN'S ZOO
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Writer: Chris Hubbell and Gerrit Graham
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Director: Robert Downey
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Cast: Lorna Luft, Steven Keats, Jaclyn Berstein, Sydney Walsh, Al Alu,
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Pamela Brown, Jack Taloe, Wes Craven, Kerry Slattery, Don Paul, Sandy
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Brown Wyeth, Virginia Morris
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A girl gets a written invitation to a "Children's Zoo" that insists she
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bring her constantly bickering parents.
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KENTUCKY RYE
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Writer: Richard Krzenmien and Chip Duncan
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Director: John Hancock
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Cast: Jeffrey DeMunn, Michael Greene, Philip Bruns, Arliss Howard, Clarence
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Felder, Scott Jaeck, John DeMita, Brad Burlingame, Rosemarie Thomas,
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Gloria Rusch, Lisa Long, John Davey, Tim Russ
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A drunken man stumbles into a roadside inn that the owner offers to sell
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for an incredibly low price -- but the offer is only good for one night.
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LITTLE BOY LOST
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Writer: Lynn Barker
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Director: Tommy Lee Wallace
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Cast: Season Hubley, Nicolas Surovy, Scott Grimes, Nancy Kyes
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A photographer torn between taking a plum overseas assignment and
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getting married, meets a strangely familiar little boy.
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WISH BANK
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Writer: Michael Cassutt
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Director: Rick Friedburg
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Cast: Dee Wallace-Stone, Julie Carmen, Peter Land, Harvey Vernon, Julie
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Payne
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A woman tries to cash in three wishes at a "Wish Bank."
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NIGHTCRAWLERS
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Writer: Robert R. McGammon
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Teleplay: Philip DeGuere
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Director: William Friedkin
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Cast: Scott Paulin, James Whitmore, Jr., Robert Swan, Exene Cervenka,
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Sandy Martin, Bobhy Bass, Matt Levin
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A veteran shares his nightmares about Vietnam with patrons of an
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all-night diner.
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IF SHE DIES
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Writer: David Bennett Carren
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Director: John Hancock
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Cast: Tony Lo Bianco, Nan Martin, Andrea Barber, Jenny Lewis, John Cowans,
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Donna-Jean Lansing, Adele Miller
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With his daughter in a coma, a widower is induced by the specter of a
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little girl to buy an antique bed from an old orphanage.
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YE GODS
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Writer: Anne Collins
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Director: Peter Medak
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Cast: David Dukes, Robert Morse, Carolyn Seymour, John Myhers, Andrew
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Massett, Patti Karr, Ingrid Boulting
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A man tangles with the ancient gods after he's struck by an arrow of
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unrequited love from a vengeful Cupid, who's fed up with self-centered 20th
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century types.
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EXAMINATION DAY
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Writer: Henry Slesar
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Teleplay: Philip DeGuere
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Director: Paul Lynch
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Cast: Christopher Allport, David Mendenhall, Elizabeth Normant, Jeffrey
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Alan Chandler, Ed Krieger, Myrna White
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Little Dickie Jordan's parent are afraid he won't pass the government
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intelligence test.
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A MESSAGE FROM CHARITY
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Writer: William M. Lee
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Teleplay: Alan Brennert
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Director: Paul Lynch
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Cast: Kerry Noonan, Duncan McNeil, Gerald Hiken, James Cromwell, Vanessa
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Brown, Michael Fox, Jennifer Parsons, Jack Wells, Philip Proctor,
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Barbara Lindsay
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An 18th-century New England farm girl is accused of witchcraft after
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telling a friend of the wonders she saw through the eyes of a present-day
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boy.
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PALADIN OF THE LOST HOUR
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Writer: Harlan Ellison
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Director: Alan Smithee
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Cast: Danny Kaye, Glynn Turman, Corky Ford, John Bryant, Mike Reynolds
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A man saves the life of a mysterious old man who owns a unique timepiece
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that's permanently stopped at 11 o'clock.
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TEACHER'S AIDE
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Writer: Steven Barnes
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Director: B. W. L. Norton
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Cast: Adrienne Barbeau, Adam Postil, Miguel Nunez, Josh Richman, Fred
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Morsell
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At a school with a history of inexplicable violence, a mild mannered
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teacher suddenly starts manhandling the class troublemakers.
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PLAY TIME
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Writer: Haskell Barkin
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Director: Ted Flicker
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Cast: James Coco, Bob Dishy, Avery Schreiber
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A hack writer is granted a single wish and he selfishly asks for a new
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partner, the best playright ever, instead of wishine for his dying
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partner's recovery.
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THE BURNING MAN
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Writer: Ray Bradbury
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Teleplay: J. D. Feigelson
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Director: J. D. Feigelson
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Cast: Piper Laurie, Andre Gower, Danny Cooksey, Roberts Blossom
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On the hottest day of a bone-dry summer, a woman and her nephew pick up
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a hitchhiker who seems crazy from the heat.
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DEALER'S CHOICE
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Writer: Donald Todd
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Director: Wes Craven
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Cast: Dan Hedaya, M. Emmet Walsh, Garret Morris, Barney Martin,, Morgan
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Freeman
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The devil gives a man a sporting chance to save his soul in a poker
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game.
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WONG'S LOST AND FOUND EMPORIUM
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Writer: William F. Wu
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Teleplay: Alan Brennert
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Director: Paul Lynch
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Cast: Brian Touch, Anna Maria Poon, Carol Bruce, Stacy Keach, Sr., Jack
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Jozefson, Marty Levy
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After three years of searching, a man catches up with a transient shop
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where anything that's ever been lost can be found.
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DEAD WOMAN'S SHOES
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Writer: Charles Beaumont
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Teleplay: Lynn Barker
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Director: Peter Medak
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Cast: Helen Mirren, Jeffrey Tambor, Theresa Saldana, Robert Pastorelli,
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Sasha Von Scherler, Hardy Rawls, Tyra Ferrell, Julie Dolan, Leslie
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Bega, Nan Visitor, Lance Nichols, Pia Cronning
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A timid salesclerk seems to be an altogether different woman when she wears
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a dead woman's shoes.
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SHADOW MAN
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Writer: Rockne S. O'Bannon
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Director: Joe Dante
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Cast: Jonathan Ward, Jason Presson, Michael Rich, Heather Haase, Jeff
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Calhoun, Kathleen Coyne, Tricia Bartholome, Julie Hendler, Melissa
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Moultrie, Christopher Gosch, Marc Bently, david Goldsmith, Amy
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O'Neill
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No one believes a timid boy with a penchant for exaggeration who claims
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that the bogeyman lives under his bed.
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THE UNCLE DEVIL SHOW
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Writer: Donald Todd
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Director: David Steinberg
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Cast: Murphy Dunne, Joel Polis, Wendy Phillips, Gregory Meir
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Parents beware, and pray that your child doesn't tune in to "The Uncle
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Devil Show."
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OPENING DAY
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Writer: Chris Hubbell and Gerrit Graham
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Director: John Milius
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Cast: Martin Kove, Jeff Jones, Elan Oberon, Molly Morgan, Shawn Donahue,
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Andre Hall-Lovell, Michael Nissman, Shelby Billington, Frank McRae,
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Gary Hollis
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A woman and her lover plan to kill her husband on the opening day of
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duck hunting season.
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THE BEACON
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Writer: Martin Pasko and Rebecca Parr
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Director: Gerd Oswald
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Cast: Charles Martin Smith, Martin Landau, Vonnie Ribisi, Cheryl Anderson,
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Scott Lincoln, Hayley Taylor Block
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An outsider gets stranded in a secluded coastal community where the locals
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live in fear of a lighthouse beacon that sweeps over their town nightly.
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ONE LIFE, FURNISHED IN EARLY POVERTY
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Writer: Harlan Ellison
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Teleplay: Alan Brennert
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Director: Don Carlos Dunaway
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Cast: Peter Riegert, Chirs Hebert, Jack Kehoe, Barbara Tarbuck, Susan
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Wheeler Duff, Biff Yeager, Gary Karp
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A bitter man with an empty life travels back in time to his childhood to
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find out where it all went wrong.
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HER PILGRIM SOUL
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Writer: Alan Brennert
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Director: Wes Craven
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Cast: Kristoffer Tabori, Anne Twomey, Gary Cole, Wendy Girard, Betsy Jane
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Licon, Danica McKellar, Katherine Wallach, Richard McGonagle,
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Nelson Welch
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A troubled scientist befriends the lifelike holographic projection of a
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woman who seems to have been reborn and sent for a purpose she can't
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remember. At first, Kevin Drayton and his assistant believe they have a
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glitch in their experimental imaging system. But as Nola grows from fetus
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to womanhood at the rate of ten years a day, the scientists discover she
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has a very real past, and very real friends and family who remember her.
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With his own marriage about to break up, Kevin spends almost every waking
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minute with Nola. Not surprisingly, he falls in love with her.
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I OF NEWTON
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Writer: Joe Haldeman
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Teleplay: Alan Brennert
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Director: Kenneth Gilbert
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Cast: Sherman Hemsley, Ron Glass
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To save his soul, a mathematician engages in a battle of wits with a hip
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demon he inadvertently conjured up.
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NIGHT OF THE MEEK
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Writer: Rod Serling
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Teleplay: Rockne S. O'Bannon
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Director: Martha Coolidge
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Cast: Richard Mulligan, William Atherton, Bill Henderson, Teddy Wilson,
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Shelby Leverington, Joanne Barron, Thomas F. Duffy, Hugo Stanger,
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Elizabeth Ward, Charles Swiegart, Wayne Morton, Monty Ash, Jeff
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Kober, Patricia Wilson, Wilson Camp, Benjie Gregory, Paul Stout,
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Georgia Schmidt, Muriel Minot, Enid Rodgers, Brian Muehl, Toria
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Crosby, Larenz Tate, Harry Governick, Phyllis Erlich
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A remake of the 1960 tale about a department store Santa who gets fired
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on Christmas Eve. Art Carney starred in the original.
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THE STAR
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Writer: Arthur C. Clarke
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Teleplay: Alan Brennert
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Director: Gerd Oswald
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Cast: Fritz Weaver, Donald Moffat, Elizabeth Huddle
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A priest and an astrophysicist make a discovery that tests their faith in
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God.
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BUT CAN SHE TYPE
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Writer: Martin Pasko and Rebecca Parr
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Director: Shelley Levinson
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Cast: Pam Dawber, Charles Levin, Jeannie Elias, Jonathan Frakes, Deborah
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Harmon, Michael Prince, Amzie Strickland, Jolinda Collins, Douglas
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Blair, Ken Sagoes
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An overworked secretary gets transported to a paralell univers where
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secreataries are revered.
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STILL LIFE
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Writer: Gerrit Graham and Chris Hubbell
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Director: Peter Medak
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Cast: Robert Carradine, Marilyn Jones, John Carradine
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A photographer develops film he finds in a 70-year-old camera that belonged
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to an ill-fated Amazon adventurer.
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THE LITTLE PEOPLE OF KELLANY WOODS
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Writer: J. D. Feigelson
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Director: J. D. Feigelson
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Cast: Hamilton Camp, Michael Alldredge, James Scally, Tim Donahue, Anthony
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Palmer, Hal Landon, Pat Crawford Brown
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A drunk who bores the patrons of an Irish pub with his stories, suddenly
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starts paying his debts with real gold coins.
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THE MISFORTUNE COOKIE
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Writer: Charles E. Fritch
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Teleplay: Steven Rae
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Director: Allan Arkush
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Cast: Elliot Gould, Bennet Ohta, Caroline Lagerfelt, Frederick Coffin,
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Claire Carter, John G. Scanlon, Elven Harvard, Albert Leong
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A pompous restaurant critic gets a taste of what he's been dishing out for
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years after trashing a Chinese restaurant before trying the food.
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MONSTERS
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Writer: Robert Crais
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Director: B. W. L. Norton
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Cast: Ralph Bellamy, Oliver Robins, Kathleen Lloyd, Bruce Solomon, Lewis
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Dauber, Mary Margaret Lewis, Roger Hampton, Eve Brenner,
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Teryn Jenkins
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A boy obsesses with monsters, befriends a mysterious new neighbor, who
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claims to be a vampire.
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SMALL TALENT FOR WAR
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Writer: Carter Scholz and Alan Brennert
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Director: Claudia Weill
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Cast: John Glover, Peter Michael Goetz, Stefan Cierasch, Fran Bennett, Jose
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Santara, Gillian Eaton, Richard Brestoff
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An alien ambassador decrees that the Earth must be destroyed.
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A MATTER OF MINUTES
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Writer: Theodore Sturgeon (based on the short story "Yesterday was Monday")
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Teleplay: Rockne S. O'Bannon
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Directory: Sheldon Larry
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Cast: Adam Arkin, Karen Austin, Adolph Caesar, Marianne Muellereille,
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Joanna Johnson, Alan David Gelman,
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A couple awaken one morning to find their home overrun with faceless
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blue-clad worken and theri neighborhood deserted.
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THE ELEVATOR
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Writer: Ray Bradbury
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Director: R. L. Thomas
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Cast: Stephen Geoffreys, Robert Prescott, Douglas Emerson, Brandon Bluhm
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Two brothers sneak a look at their father's secret experiment to feed the
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world.
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TO SEE THE INVISIBLE MAN
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Writer: Robert Silverberg
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Teleplay: Steven Barnes
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Director: Noel Black
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Cast: Cotter Smith, Karlene Crockett, Mary Robin Redd, Peter Hobbs,
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Bonnie-Campbell Britton, Jack Gallagher, Kenneth Danzinger, Richard
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Jamison, Chris McCarty, Karla Richards, Rebecca Robertson, Dean
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Fortunato, Steve Peterson, Terri Lynn Wood, Whitby Hertfod
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For the crime of coldness, an uncaring man is sentenced to one year of
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public invisibility.
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TOOTH OR CONSEQUENCES
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Writer: Haskell Barkin
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Director: Robert Downey
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Cast: David Birney, Kenneth Mars, Oliver Clark, Teresa Ganzel, Peggy Pope,
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Mina Kolb, Jane Ralston, Ermal Williamson, Martin Azarow, Mitzi
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McCall, William Utay, Nat Bernstein, Jack Lindine, Ron Ross
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A dentist with a severe inferiority complex is visited by the tooth fairy.
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QUARANTINE
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Writer: Philip DeGuere and Steven Bochco
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Teleplay: Alan Brennert
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Director: Martha Coolidge
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Cast: Scott Wilson, Tess Harper, Larry Riley, D. W. Brown, Jeanne Mori
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A weapons builder is awakened from a 324-year long cryogenic sleep because
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his skill is desperately needed in a world that shuns technology.
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WELCOME TO WINFIELD
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Writer: Les Enloe
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Director: Bruce Bilson
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Cast: Elisha Cook, Alan Fudge, Henry Gibson, Jonathan Caliri, Joann
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Willette, Gerrit Graham, Dennis Fimple, Chip Heller, Sally Klein,
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Claudia Bryar, Dave Morick
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Fleeing the Grim Reaper, a terminally ill boy and his girlfriend find
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refuge in a forgotten little town that isn't on any map.
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PERSONAL DEMONS
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Writer: Rockne S. O'Bannon
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Director: Peter Medak
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Cast: Martin Balsam, Clive Revill, Joshua Shelley, Tommy Madden, Marlena
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Giovi, Penny Baker, Stephen Flanigan, Billy Curtis, Gary Friedkin,
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Kevin Thompson, Dan Frishman, Lou Carry, Jerry Maren
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A writer, hoping to have one original idea before he retires, is plagued by
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a gremlin that no one else can see.
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GRAMMA
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Writer: Stephen King
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Teleplay: Harlan Ellison
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Director: Bradford May
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Cast: Barret Oliver, Darlanne Fluegel, Fredrick Long
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Little Georgie is scared to death to be left alone in the house with his
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dying grandmother.
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COLD READING
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Writer: Martin Pasko and Rebecca Parr
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Director: Gus Trikonis
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Cast: Dick Shawn, Janet Carroll, Joel Brooks, Lawrence Poindexter, Annette
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McCarthy, Ralph Manza, Kevin Scannell, Mike Pniewski, Paul Keith,
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Thomas Bellin, Jon Melichar
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The creator of a popular live radio show gets his wish for realistic sound
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effects.
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THE LEPRECHAUN-ARTIST
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Writer: James Crocker
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Teleplay: Tommy Lee Wallace
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Director: Tommy Lee Wallace
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Cast: Cork Hubbert, Joey Green, Bradley Gregg, Danny Nucci, James Hess,
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Marguerite DeLain, Burr Middleton, Chuck Stransky, Melinda Peterson
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Three boys capture a Leprechaun who must grant them three wishes before he
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can be released.
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DEAD RUN
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Writer: Greg Bear
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Teleplay: Alan Brennert
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Director: Paul Tucker
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Cast: Steve Railsback, John Delancie, Barry Corbin, Ebbe Roe Smith, James
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Lashly, Paul Jenkins, John Lemay, Ritch Brinkley, Brent Spiner, Nancy
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Lenehan, Howard Mungo, Gertrude Flynn, David Wells, Pat Ast, Brian
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Libby, Brad Fisher, Jimmie F. Skaggs, Andy Landis, John Barlow
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Virginia Lantry, Donna Lynn Leavy, Gregory Wagrowski, Lisa Cloud
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An unemployed trucker, desperate for work, lands a job driving a most
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unusual route.
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PROFILE IN SILVER
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Writer: J. Neil Schulman
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Director: John Hancock
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Cast: Andrew Robinson, Lane Smith, Louis Giambalvo, Barbara Baxley, Jerry
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Hardin, Mark Taylor, Charles Lanyer, David Sage, Ken Hill, Huck
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Liggett, Gerard Bocaccio
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A historian from the future travels back to 1963 Dallas to prevent the
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assassination of a famous ancestor.
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BUTTON, BUTTON
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Writer: Richard Matheson
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Teleplay: Logan Swanson
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Director: Peter Medak
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Cast: Mare Winningham, Basil Hoffman, Brad Davis
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A financially strapped couple are given an odd little box with a button on
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top, and told that if they push it they'll immediately receive $200,000,
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and someone they don't know will die.
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NEED TO KNOW
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Writer: Sidney Sheldon
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Teleplay: Mary Sheldon
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Director: Paul Lynch
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Cast: William L. Peterson, Robin Gammell, Frances McDormand, Harold Ayer,
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Eldon, Quick, Ellen Albertini Dow, Shay Garner, Ray Ballard,
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Clarence Brown
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A KGB colonel is sent to Siberia to probe strikes the deaths of two loyal
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party officials.
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RED SNOW
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Writer: Michael Cassutt
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Director: Jeannot Szwarc
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Cast: George Dzunda, Barry Miller, Vladimir Skomarovsky, Victoria Tennant,
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Rod Colbin, Andrew Divoff, Lillian Adams, Jack Ross Obney, Kimberly
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Ann Morris, Mike Kulcsar, Tom Maier
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Insanity strikes the people of a farming community like a contagious
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disease.
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TAKE MY LIFE...PLEASE!
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Writer: Gordon Mitchell
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Director: Gus Trikonis
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Cast: Tim Thomerson, Ray Buktenica, Xander Berkeley, Jim Meckrell
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A comic who's played some hell-holes in his time has to audition at Club
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Limbo for a place to spend his afterlife.
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DEVIL'S ALPHABET
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Writer: Arthur Gray (based on the story "The Everlasting Club")
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Teleplay: Robert Hunter
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Director: Ben Bolt
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Cast: Ben Cross, Hywell Bennett, Robert Schenkkan, Wayne Alexander, Ethan
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Phillips, osmond Bullock, Jim Piddock, Stuart Dowling, Christopher
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Carroll, Christopher Grove
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Graduation threatens to break up a cynical group of poets until the members
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vow to meet annually, throughout eternity.
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THE LIBRARY
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Writer: Anne Collins
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Director: John Hancock
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Cast: Uta Hagen, Frances Conroy, Lori Petty, Joe Santos, Candy Azzara, Alan
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Blumenfeld, Jay Gerber, Mimi Monaco
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A New assistant in a private library alters a few of its volumes, the books
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of people's lives.
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SHADOW PLAY
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Writer: Charles Beaumont
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Teleplay: James Crocker
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Director: Paul Lynch
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Cast: Peter Coyote, Janet Eilber, Deborah May, Raymond Bieri, William
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Schallert, William Smith, Earl Billings, George O. Petrie, Guy Boyd,
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Hank Garrett, Ella Raino Edwards, Gilbert De La Pena
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In this remake of the 1961 story from the old series, a condemned man
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claims that everyone is part of his nightmare and will cease to exist if
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he's executed. Dennis Weaver starred in the original.
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GRACE NOTE
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Writer: Patricia Messina
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Director: Peter Medak
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Cast: Julia Migenes Johnson, Sydney Penny, Rhonda Gemignani, Kay E. Kuter,
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Catherine Paolone, Ross Evans, Ruth Zakarian, Gina Marie Vinaccia,
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Elliott Scott, Toni Sawyer, Tom Finnegan, Craig Schaefer, Sandy
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Lipton
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A woman who dreams of becoming an opera star is given a glimpse into her
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future by her dying sister.
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A DAY IN BEAUMONT
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Writer: David Gerrold
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Director: Philip DeGuere
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Cast: Victor Garber, Stacey Nelkin, Jeff Morrow, John Agar, Kenneth Tobey,
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Warren Stevens, Richard Partlow, Myles O'Brien.
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A young couple spends the day trying to convince the townspeople of
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Beaumont that hostile bug-eyed aliens have landed in the hills.
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THE LAST DEFENDER OF CAMELOT
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Writer: Roger Zelazny
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Teleplay: George R. R. Martin
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Director: Jeannot Szwarc
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Cast: Richard Kiley, Jenny Agutter, John Cameron Mitchell, Norman Lloyd,
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Anthony LaPaglia, Don Stark
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The wizard Merlin awakens from a 1000-year-old sleep intent on placing a
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new Arthur on the throne of England and re-establishing Camelot.
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SECOND SEASON 1986-1987
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THE ONCE AND FUTURE KING
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Writer:
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Director:
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Cast:
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An Elvis impersonator travels back in time to meet The King, an aspiring
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Memphis singer who thinkgs the time-traveler is the reincarnation of his
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dead twin.
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SAUCER OF LONELINESS
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Writer:
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Director:
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Cast:
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A lonely woman receives a message from a flying saucer and refuses to tell
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anyone else because it was private.
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WHAT ARE FRIENDS FOR?
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Writer:
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Director:
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Cast:
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A friendless boy finds the perfect playmate in the woods behind his house.
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THE STORY TELLER
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Writer:
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Director:
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Cast:
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A mountain boy claims he keeps his 141-year-old grandfather alive by
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telling the old man stories every night.
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NIGHTSONG
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Writer:
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Director:
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Cast:
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A singer of "Nightsong" appears at the radio station of a DJ who has
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painfully avoided playing the song for 10 years.
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?????
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Writer:
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Director:
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Cast:
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THE TOYS OF CALIBAN
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Writer:
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Director:
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Cast:
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A retarded 16-year-old boy is kept isolated by his parents, who fear that
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hisability to make things materialize out of thing air will be discovered.
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THE CONVICT'S PIANO
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Writer:
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Director:
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Cast:
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A musician serving time in prison finds an old piano capable of
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transporting him back in time.
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THE ROAD LESS TRAVELLED
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Writer:
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Director:
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Cast:
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A guilt-ridden teacher seems to be having flashbacks to the Vietnam war,
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|
which is impossible since he was a draft dodger and spent the time in
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|
Canada.
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THE CARD
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Writer:
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Director:
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Cast:
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A compulsive shopper discovers that her new credit card has very stiff
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|
penalties for late payments.
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THE JUNCTION
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Writer:
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Director:
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Cast:
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A miner sent to explore the oldest part of a coal mine is trapped by a
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|
cane-in and stunbles across a fellow miner who claims he was trapped there
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|
too, in 1912.
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JOY RIDE
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Writer:
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Director:
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Cast:
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Four teenagers out for a ride get a trip back in time when they steal a
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|
classic 1956 car from a dead neighbor's yard.
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SHELTER SKELTER
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Writer:
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Director:
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Cast:
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AN obsessed survivalist may get the opportunity to use his most prized
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|
possession - a bomb shelter.
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PRIVATE CHANNEL
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Writer:
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Director:
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Cast:
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Special headphones enable a boy to hear the thoughts of a fellow plane
|
|
passenger, which he regrets.
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TIME AND THERESA GOLOWITZ
|
|
Writer:
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Director:
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Cast:
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The Prince of Darkness gives a recently deceased songwriter a chance to do
|
|
something he's always wanted to do, but only if he'll do a favor in return.
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VOICES IN THE EARTH
|
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Writer:
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Director:
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Cast:
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In the future, a salvage expedition returns to a dead world and finds it
|
|
inhabited by apparitions.
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SONG OF A YOUNGER WORLD
|
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Writer:
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Director:
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Cast:
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In 1916, a reform-school inmate and the superintendant's daughter hope to
|
|
be together forever in another dimension.
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THE GIRL THAT I MARRIED
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Writer:
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Director:
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Cast:
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A middle-aged man pines for the good old days of the '60s and the
|
|
idealistic woman he married, and gets his wish.
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|
THIRD SEASON 1988-1989
|
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|
|
THE CURIOUS CASE OF EDGAR WITHERSPOON
|
|
Writer: J. Michael Straczynski and Haskell Barkin
|
|
Teleplay: Haskell Barkin
|
|
Director:
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|
Cast: Harry Morgan
|
|
|
|
A psychiatrist comes to believe an eccentric old man's claim that a
|
|
fantastic mechanical contraption is keeping the world from falling apart.
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EXTRA INNINGS
|
|
Writer: Tom Palmer
|
|
Director:
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Cast:
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A washed-up pro baseball player finds a baseball playing card with the
|
|
power to transport him back into the game.
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|
|
THE CROSSING
|
|
Writer: Ralph Phillips
|
|
Director:
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Cast:
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A tormented priest is haunted by a phantom car identical to one that
|
|
crashed many years ago.
|
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|
|
THE HUNTERS
|
|
Writer: Paul Chitlik and Jeremy Finch
|
|
Director:
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|
Cast:
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An archeologist examining prehistoric cave paintings made by ancient
|
|
hunters, is baffled when the designs seem to move and change shape
|
|
overnight.
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|
|
DREAM ME A LIFE
|
|
Writer: J. Michael Straczynski.
|
|
Director:
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|
Cast:
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|
After discovering that the woman in his nightmare is a real person, a
|
|
retired man enters his dream world and fights the forces that torture her.
|
|
Written by
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MEMORIES
|
|
Writer: Bob Underwood
|
|
Director:
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|
Cast:
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|
|
A hypo-therapist finds herself trapped in a bizarre world where people are
|
|
haunted by the memories of who they were in their past lives.
|
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|
|
THE HELLGRAMMITE METHOD
|
|
Writer: Bill Selby
|
|
Director:
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|
Cast:
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|
An alcoholic, attempting to kick his addiction with a "miracle pill,"
|
|
unwittingly swallows a "Hellgrammite" tapeworm that threatens to kill him
|
|
if he doesn't stop drinking.
|
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|
|
OUR SELENA IS DYING
|
|
Writer: Rod Serling
|
|
Teleplay: J. Michael Straczynski.
|
|
Director:
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|
Cast:
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|
A doctor becomes suspicious when a dying old woman mysteriously becomes
|
|
youthful, while her young niece simultaneously ages overnight.
|
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|
|
THE CALL
|
|
Writer: J. Michael Straczynski
|
|
Director:
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|
Cast:
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|
A lonely bachelor accidentally phones an art museum late one night and
|
|
speaks to a woman whom he later discovers is a statue that has come alive.
|
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|
|
THE TRANCE
|
|
Writer: Jeff Stuart and J. Michael Straczynski
|
|
Director:
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|
Cast:
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|
|
A trance channeler, who pretends to channel the spirit of an ancient
|
|
warrior, is terrified when he's possessed by a real entity.
|
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|
|
ACTS OF TERROR
|
|
Writer: J. Michael Straczynski
|
|
Director:
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|
Cast:
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|
|
After a battered housewife receives a porcelain figurine of a dog as a
|
|
gift, a phantom Doberman appears and stops her bullying husband from
|
|
hurting her.
|
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|
|
20/20 VISION
|
|
Writer: Robert Walden
|
|
Director:
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|
Cast:
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|
|
A bank loan officer, whose cracked eyeglasses give him visions of the
|
|
future, has the chance to alter the destinies of people he meets.
|
|
|
|
THERE WAS AN OLD WOMAN
|
|
Writer: Tom Astle
|
|
Director:
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|
Cast:
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|
|
A writer of children's books, feeling useless and no longer needed, finds
|
|
herself visited by fans from an unexpected place.
|
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|
|
THE TRUNK
|
|
Writer: Paul Chitlik and Jeremy Finch
|
|
Director:
|
|
Cast:
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|
|
|
A hotel manager, down on his luck, finds a streamer trunk that gives him
|
|
anything he wishes for, except the one thing he most wants.
|
|
|
|
APPOINTMENT OF ROUTE 17
|
|
Writer: Haskell Barkin
|
|
Director:
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|
Cast:
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|
|
A recipient of a heart transplant finds his lifestyle mysteriously
|
|
changing, and is drawn to places and people he's never met.
|
|
|
|
THE COLD EQUATIONS
|
|
Writer: Tom Godwin
|
|
Teleplay: Alan Brennert
|
|
Director:
|
|
Cast:
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|
|
|
A woman stowaway on a spacecraft discovers to her horror that she has made
|
|
a deadly mistake.
|
|
|
|
STRANGER IN POSSUM MEADOW
|
|
Writer: Paul Chitlik and Jeremy Finch
|
|
Director:
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|
Cast:
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|
|
|
A stranger collecting specimens of all sorts poses a threat to a mother and
|
|
her young son.
|
|
|
|
STREET OF SHADOWS
|
|
Writer: Michael Reaves
|
|
Director:
|
|
Cast:
|
|
|
|
The father of a homeless family suddenly has all the money he wants--but
|
|
only at the cost of everything he holds dear.
|
|
|
|
SOMETHING IN THE WALLS
|
|
Writer: J. Michael Straczynski
|
|
Director:
|
|
Cast:
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|
|
A terrified woman is hospitalized when she claims to see faces hiding in
|
|
patterns and cracks in the walls.
|
|
|
|
A GAME OF POOL (original version)
|
|
Writer: George Clayton Johnson
|
|
Director:
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|
Cast:
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|
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|
A young hustler dreams of challenging "The Best Pool Player of All Time."
|
|
|
|
THE WALL
|
|
Writer: J. Michael Straczynski
|
|
Director:
|
|
Cast:
|
|
|
|
After a test pilot explores a mysterious passageway and discovers paradise,
|
|
he must decide whether to stay or return to Earth.
|
|
|
|
ROOM 2426
|
|
Writer: Paul Chitlik and Jeremy Finch
|
|
Director:
|
|
Cast:
|
|
|
|
In a futurist state-controlled society, a theoretical physicist is
|
|
imprisioned for intellectual crimes.
|
|
|
|
THE MIND OF SIMON FOSTER
|
|
Writer: J. Michael Straczynski
|
|
Director:
|
|
Cast:
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|
|
|
In the near future, a jobless man visits a pawn shop where he's offered top
|
|
dollar for pieces of his memory.
|
|
|
|
CAT AND MOUSE
|
|
Writer: Christy Marx
|
|
Director:
|
|
Cast:
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|
|
A woman's life is changed by the appearance of a magical black cat.
|
|
|
|
RENDEZVOUS IN A DARK PLACE
|
|
Writer: J. Michael Straczynski
|
|
Director:
|
|
Cast:
|
|
|
|
An elderly widow, obsessed with dying, meets the messenger of Death.
|
|
|
|
MANY, MANY MONKEYS
|
|
Writer: William Froug
|
|
Director:
|
|
Cast:
|
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|
|
A hospital nurse uncovers a strange epidemic that blinds unsuspecting
|
|
people.
|
|
|
|
LOVE IS BLIND
|
|
Writer: Cal Willingham
|
|
Director:
|
|
Cast:
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|
|
A trucker, plotting revenge on his adulterous wife, meets a blind singer
|
|
with strange powers.
|
|
|
|
CRAZY AS A SOUP SANDWICH
|
|
Writer: Harlan Ellison
|
|
Director:
|
|
Cast:
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|
|
After trading his soul to a demon, a petty con man enlists a slick mobster
|
|
to help him retain his soul.
|
|
|
|
SPECIAL SERVICE
|
|
Writer: J. Michael Straczynski
|
|
Director:
|
|
Cast:
|
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|
|
A man's private life is upset when he discovers that people have been
|
|
secretly watching him.
|
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|
|
FATHER AND SON GAME
|
|
Writer: Paul Chitlik and Jeremy Finch
|
|
Director:
|
|
Cast:
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|
|
In the near future, a businessman fights for control of the family company
|
|
with his father, who has been transformed by radical operations into a
|
|
young man.
|