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Episode 1
Revenge
Sun Sep 29 1985
Directed by, Don Medford | R.E. Young |
Written by, Tom Cannan | David Stenn | Charles Grant Craig | Randall Hood |
A professor spurns the legal system to seek revenge on the man who raped his wife.
Episode 2
Night Fever
Sun Nov 03 1985
Directed by, Jeff Kanew |
Written by, Jeff Kanew | Clark Howard | Stephen Kronish |
A gun man injured from a robbery in which he killed a cop, tries to charm a nurse into helping him escape from hospital custody.
Episode 3
Wake Me When I'm Dead
Sun Oct 20 1985
Directed by, Frank Pierson |
Written by, Buck Henry | Lawrence Treat | Irving Elman |
Trial of a woman who killed her husband while hypnotically transported to a past life.
Episode 4
Final Escape
Sun Oct 27 1985
Directed by, Thomas Carter |
Written by, Tom Cannan | Charles Grant Craig | Randall Hood |
A woman serving a life sentence for murder hits upon an airtight escape plan.
Episode 5
The Night Caller
Tue Nov 05 1985
Directed by, John Byrum | Gabrielle Upton |
Written by, John Byrum | Gabrielle Upton |
A divorce is driven to drastic retaliatory measures after being the victim of a series of phone calls and constant survillance from a near by appartant.
Episode 6
Method Actor
Sun Nov 10 1985
Directed by, Burt Reynolds | Max Franklin |
Written by, Bill Kerby | Max Franklin |
Paul Dano is a film star and has been nominated many times, but never won the big one. When a role comes along that spells Oscar, he loses out to Lone Richards, a young hunk Dano calls ""a face for a nine inch TV screen."" Richards naively seeks Dano's advice on how to play the part. Bad move. Dano gives Richards bad advice on purpose and Richards loses the part and Dano gets it. Richards becomes enraged by this and wants revenge.
Episode 7
The Human Interest Story
Sun Nov 17 1985
Directed by, Fredric Brown | Larry Gross |
Written by, Karen Harris |
A TV reporter looks for the human interest story behind the short-lived takeover of the station's airwaves by a former technician who claims to be an alien with an urgent warning to Earthlings.
Episode 8
Breakdown
Sun Dec 01 1985
Directed by, Richard Pearce |
Written by, Alfonse Ruggiero | Louis Pollock |
After closing a major drug deal, a ruthless businessman is paralyzed in an auto accident, and presumed dead by all who see him- including the coroner.
Episode 9
Prisoners
Sun Dec 08 1985
Directed by, Christopher Crowe |
Written by, John Byrum | S. R. Ross |
Ironically, it's an escaped convict who brings a sense of liberation to a housewife: she insists on going with him as his "hostage".
Episode 10
Gigolo
Sun Dec 15 1985
Directed by, Thomas Carter | Arthur Williams |
Written by, Steve De Jarnatt | Arthur Williams |
A gold digging groom makes short work of his middle-aged wife, but his attempts to round up her jewels are met with opposition from her "children" - an army of cats.
Episode 11
The Gloating Place
Sun Jan 05 1986
Directed by, Christopher Leitch | Robert Bloch |
Written by, Jim Beaver | David Stenn | Robert Bloch |
A withdrawn teenager is fascinated with the instant celebrity of a murdered classmate and fakes an assault on herself.
Episode 12
The Right Kind of Medicine
Sun Jan 12 1986
Directed by, Jerrold Freedman | Henry Slesar | Michael Braverman |
Written by, Michael Braverman | Jerrold Freedman |
A bank robber is wounded in a shoot-out, then forced to endure an excruciating wait for a painkiller at the pharmacy.
Episode 13
Beast In View
Sun Jan 19 1986
Directed by, Michael Toshiyuki Uno | Margaret Millar |
Written by, Robert Glass | Margaret Millar |
A psychiatrist is terrorized by menacing phone calls and the killing of her dog following her marriage to one of her patients.
Episode 14
A Very Happy Ending
Sun Feb 16 1986
Directed by, Thomas Rickman |
Written by, Thomas Rickman |
A poor little rich boy who's deaf witnesses a murder, then blackmails the hit man into doing a job for him.
Episode 15
The Canary Sedan
Sat Mar 01 1986
Directed by, Joan Tewkesbury | Ann Bridge |
Written by, Joan Tewkesbury | Ann Bridge |
A woman goes to Hong Kong to be with her husband.
Episode 16
Enough Rope For Two
Sun Mar 09 1986
Directed by, David Chase | Clark Howard |
Written by, David Chase | Clark Howard |
A camping trip for two becomes a flight from murder full of twists and double-crosses when a Harvard-bound law student goes against his better judgement and lets his girl friend bring her "cousin" along.
Episode 17
The Creeper
Sun Mar 16 1986
Directed by, Christopher Crowe | Joseph Ruscoll |
Written by, Steve Bello | James P. Cavanagh | Joseph Ruscoll | Stephen Kronish |
A fashion designer is terrified that she may be the next target of the creeper who may have the keys to her appartment.
Episode 18
Happy Birthday
Sun Mar 23 1986
Directed by, Randy Roberts |
Written by, Frisco Miller |
The arrest of a newspaper reporter on his birthday for a murder supposedly committed 22 years ago comes as a complete surprise to the accused.
Episode 19
The Jar
Sun Apr 06 1986
Directed by, Tim Burton |
Written by,
An artist's years of failure are behind after he finds a jar which holds mysterious contents and entrances to those who view it.
Episode 20
Deadly Honeymoon
Sun Apr 13 1986
Directed by, Don Medford | Henry Slesar |
Written by, Henry Slesar | Stephen Kronish |
Following a whirlwind courtship, a new bride fears her luck's run out when she learns that her doctor husband has heavy gambling debts and two deceased formor wives who were heavily insured.
Episode 21
Four O'Clock
Sun May 04 1986
Directed by, Cornell Woolrich | Andrew Mirisch |
Written by, Cornell Woolrich | Steve Bello |
Time is running out for a judge who's surprised, bound and gagged by burglars in his house after rigging a bomb to eliminate his wife and her suspected lover.
Episode 22
Road Hog
Sun May 11 1986
Directed by, Mario DiLeo |
Written by, Steve Bello | Harold R. Daniels | Charles Grant Craig | Stephen Kronish |
What can't go around comes around for a road-hogging salesman who won't allow a truck bound for the hospital to pass.