The Earthmen

Aired on Jan 03, 1992 23 min

A crew of a spaceship return to Mars after a 20-year absence to discover a scientist and his family unaffected by their stay.

Zero Hour

Aired on Jan 10, 1992 23 min

In the near future, young children are persuaded to help an imaginary friend named "Drill" to play a game called "Invasion".

The Jar

Aired on Jan 17, 1992 23 min

A farmer impresses the townsfolk with a mysterious jar bought from a traveling carnival sideshow.

Colonel Stonesteel and the Desperate Empties

Aired on Jan 24, 1992 23 min

A boy and a neighbor invent a fake mummy to stir up the townspeople and relieve the boredom of the last days of summer.

The Concrete Mixer

Aired on Jan 31, 1992 23 min

A Martian's reluctance to attack Earth stems from what he read in his alien comic books.

The Utterly Perfect Murder

Aired on Feb 07, 1992 23 min

As a boy, piano prodigy, Douglas, was tormented by a gang of bullies, led by Ralph. Now, fifty years later, Doug looks for closure in his life, by traveling back to his hometown and getting his revenge.

Let's Play Poison

Aired on Feb 14, 1992 23 min

After witnessing a student's accidental death because of bullying, a teacher vows to put children in their place but they plan to do the same to him.

The Martian

Aired on Feb 21, 1992 23 min

A Martian welcomes grieving parents who move to Mars.

The Lonely One

Aired on Jul 10, 1992 23 min

After discovering the body of the latest victim of the serial killer known as The Lonely One, Lavinia persuades her friends to go to the movies to take their minds off the tragedy. The result is a long, scary midnight walk home for the increasingly terrified Lavinia.

The Happiness Machine

Aired on Jul 17, 1992 24 min

A family man, incorrigible dreamer and small-town inventor is inspired to build a machine that can create happiness. However, his wife makes him realize the irony of such concept.

Tomorrow's Child

Aired on Aug 14, 1992 23 min

An experimental childbirth procedure results in a couple's baby being born into another dimension. The child's non-human appearance puts a lot of strain on the new parents and threatens to send the wife into madness.

The Anthem Sprinters

Aired on Aug 21, 1992 24 min

An American author on a visit to Dublin stops by a pub where he is caught up in the excitement over a local sporting event known as "anthem sprinting." In this challenge runners compete to see who can get out of the theater fastest during the pause between the end of the film and the start of the Irish national anthem and this time the stakes are the American's first edition of Joyce versus the pub's Sean O'Casey autographed playbill.

By the Numbers

Aired on Sep 11, 1992 23 min

The manager of a hotel pool drills his young son with military precision, leading to tragedy.

The Long Rain

Aired on Sep 19, 1992 24 min

When an army spaceship crash lands on a world where it never stops raining, the four survivors try to reach the Sundome that has been erected on the planet and provides the only shelter. But exhaustion hits and predatory plants await.

The Dead Man

Aired on Sep 26, 1992 24 min

A lonely middle-aged woman moves to a small town to take a job as a manicurist and finds she is strangely drawn to local eccentric Odd Martin--who claims to be dead.

Sun and Shadow

Aired on Oct 03, 1992 23 min

An American film crew arrives in a Mexican village to shoot a TV commercial; Ricardo, a townsman, interferes with the filming because he resents his life being treated as a colorful prop by these arrogant interlopers.

Silent Towns

Aired on Oct 10, 1992 23 min

A technician accidentally stranded on Mars by a sudden evacuation searches desperately for another human being on the desolate world. When he finds an equally lonely woman, she is not what he was expecting.

Downwind from Gettysburg

Aired on Oct 17, 1992 23 min

Walter Bayes has devoted his life to creating a robot duplicate of Abraham Lincoln to inspire the American people to recommit themselves to the nation's ideals. On the night of its unveiling, however, a maniac named Booth plots to assassinate the Presidential automaton.

Some Live Like Lazarus

Aired on Oct 24, 1992 23 min

A young couple falls in love but his domineering mother comes between them; when the old woman finally dies--forty years later--the next step is not very clear.

The Handler

Aired on Oct 27, 1992 22 min

A small town mortician takes a perverse delight in exacting postmortem revenge against his enemies, until his day of reckoning arrives.

Fee Fie Foe Fum

Aired on Oct 28, 1992 23 min

A vicious prankster convinces his wife's mean old grandmother that he is planning to kill her and her pets and grind them up in the new garbage disposal that he bought for her.

Great Wide World Over There

Aired on Oct 29, 1992 23 min

Cora Gibbs is an illiterate woman living on an isolated farm with her much older husband. When her educated nephew Benjy visits for the summer, she sees her opportunity to connect with the "great wide world over there" by sending and receiving mail.

The Tombstone

Aired on Oct 30, 1992 23 min

A bickering couple checks into the last available room in a small hotel only to discover that the previous occupant left a tombstone in the room. No one gets any sleep as the wife is now convinced the room is haunted.