A collection of tales which range from comic to tragic, but often have a wicked sense of humor and an unexpected twist.
An updated version of the famous 1959 television series created by Rod Serling. Each week presents one to three tales about some unusual situation that turns out to be even more unusual than initially suspected. Whether the tone of the story is horror, suspense, or humor, there is always a surprise twist at the end.
1. The Once and Future King/A Saucer of Loneliness
Aired: Sep 27, 1986"The Once and Future King": Elvis impersonator Gary Pitkin finds himself tran...
2. What Are Friends For?/Aqua Vita
Aired: Sep 27, 1986Alex Mattingly wonders whether his son Jeff's new friend Mike is real or imag...
Aired: Oct 4, 1986 The Storyteller: Adolescent Micah Frost keeps his great-great-great-grandfath...
4. The After Hours/Lost and Found/The World Next Door
Aired: Oct 4, 1986The After Hours: Marsha Cole detects shadowy figures and mysterious voices ar...
Aired: Oct 11, 1986 Elderly Ernie Ross and his wife Mary live in fear of their son Toby, who has ...
Aired: Oct 11, 1986 Ricky Frost has been wrongly convicted of murder and sent to prison, but his ...
Aired: Oct 18, 1986 Vietnam-era draft dodger Jeff McDowell sees something familiar about a wheelc...
Aired: Oct 18, 1986 "The Card": Severe penalties await shopper Linda Wolfe when she fails to pay ...
9. Joy Ride/Shelter Skelter/Private Channel
Aired: Oct 18, 1986A joy ride is disrupted by the car's dead owner. At the onset of a nuclear wa...
10. Time and Teresa Golowitz/Voices in the Earth
Aired: Dec 3, 1986Offered any wish by the Devil, musician Bluestone travels back in time as he ...
11. Song of the Younger World/The Girl I Married
Aired: Dec 10, 1986Song of the Younger World: In the early 20th century, reform school inmate Ta...
Aired: Dec 17, 1986 A man who dodges the Vietnam draft is haunted by visions of his other life as...
Aired: Feb 20, 1987 A compulsive spender accepts "The Card" to keep up her habit. Unfortunately s...
Aired: Feb 20, 1987 A modern-day miner has an argument with his wife and then goes off to work in...
Aired: May 21, 1987 Two teenage boys and their girlfriends steal a recently deceased man's classi...
Aired: May 21, 1987 A survivalist traps himself in his bomb shelter when a nuclear blast finally ...
Aired: May 21, 1987 On board an airplane, a lightning storm transforms a boy's walkman into a tel...
Aired: Jul 10, 1987 A Broadway composer, Bluestone, who has just died of a heart attack is visite...
Aired: Jul 10, 1987 In the far future an expedition returns to a desolate barren Earth where a sc...
Aired: Jul 17, 1987 In 1916 a girl and a young man from a reformatory for wayward boys fall in lo...
Aired: Jul 17, 1987 An attorney and his wife have successful careers. They feel something is lack...
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