All Seasons

Season 1

  • S01E01 Marionettes, Inc.

    • May 21, 1985
    • HBO

    John Raleigh Braling is a computer salesman who receives a cryptic message on his computer screen. Later he receives the same message in a newspaper and on a lunch bill. He tracks down source of the messages and meets a man who offers to sell him a robot replica of himself.

  • S01E02 The Playground

    • June 4, 1985
    • HBO

    When Charles Underhill was a boy, he was tormented by neighborhood bullies. When his son begins playing in a local playground, he becomes deeply disturbed when he sees a bully from his youth.

  • S01E03 The Crowd

    • July 2, 1985
    • HBO

    A neon sign artist named Joe Spelliner is injured in a car crash and sees a crowd of onlookers quickly gather. Days later he sees another car crash and notices that again the same crowd quickly gathers. He begins to investigate a series of accidents and news footage reveals that the same crowd arrives at every scene. What's more, Joe notices that the faces in the crowd match photographs of people at the city morgue.

  • S01E04 The Town Where No One Got Off

    • February 22, 1986
    • USA Network

    A city writer learns a lesson when he takes an idealistic view of rural life, but discovers the truth is far different when he impulsively leaves a train to explore a small town.

  • S01E05 The Screaming Woman

    • February 22, 1986
    • USA Network

    A girl can't convince anyone that she hears a screaming woman buried in the forest near her house.

  • S01E06 Banshee

    • February 22, 1986
    • USA Network

    An eccentric film director plays pranks on his screenwriter, only to discover the story of a local Banshee is terrifyingly true.

Season 2

  • S02E01 The Fruit at the Bottom of the Bowl

    • January 23, 1988
    • USA Network

    A hasty murderer tries to wipe off the fingerprints that he left at the crime scene... and realizes the overwhelming nature of his task.

  • S02E02 Skeleton

    • February 6, 1988
    • USA Network

    A hypochondriac goes to a bone specialist for a cure to his latest ailment.

  • S02E03 The Emissary

    • February 13, 1988
    • USA Network

    A lonely, bedridden boy sends his dog on a quest to locate a companion for him.

  • S02E04 Gotcha!

    • February 20, 1988
    • USA Network

    A man discovers that his new girlfriend is obsessed with a game called Gotcha!... and will go to any lengths to win.

  • S02E05 The Man Upstairs

    • March 5, 1988
    • USA Network

    An American boy living with his grandmother in Paris for the summer takes an interest in a new boarder.

  • S02E06 The Small Assassin

    • April 9, 1988
    • USA Network

    A woman is terrorized by her newborn infant.

  • S02E07 Punishment Without Crime

    • April 16, 1988
    • USA Network

    A man contracts to have an android made to look exactly like the wife he hates... so he can murder it.

  • S02E08 On the Orient, North

    • April 30, 1988
    • USA Network

    A nurse gives aid to a ghost on a transcontinental train trip and escorts him to his final destination.

  • S02E09 The Coffin

    • May 7, 1988
    • USA Network

    An aging inventor builds a custom designed casket as his final creation... and to inflict revenge on a greedy brother.

  • S02E10 Tyrannosaurus Rex

    • May 14, 1988
    • USA Network

    A film animator sculpts a dinosaur for a tyrannical movie producer's latest film, but the man isn't satisfied unless it's the most terrifying beast of all.

  • S02E11 There Was an Old Woman

    • May 21, 1988
    • USA Network

    Elderly Matilda isn't ready to die when Death arrives to carry her off in a wicker basket.

  • S02E12 And So Died Riabouchinska

    • May 28, 1988
    • USA Network

    A police detective investigates a murder at a theater and questions ventriloquist John Fabian, his wife, and his agent. However, he discovers a fourth witness: Fabian's dummy. Riabouchinska, who has a mind of her own.

Season 3

  • S03E01 The Dwarf

    • July 7, 1989
    • USA Network

    A dwarf uses his writing and the distorted image of a funhouse mirror to escape the prison of his own body, but an evil showman decides to have some fun at the man's expense.

  • S03E02 A Miracle of Rare Device

    • July 14, 1989
    • USA Network

    Two drifters sell views to a desert mirage, a mirage that provides miraculous views, but a rival tries to buy the land and shut them down.

  • S03E03 The Lake

    • July 21, 1989
    • USA Network

    An artist returns to the lake where years before he had a childhood sweetheart who drowned. Now he must try and bring her back.

  • S03E04 The Wind

    • July 28, 1989
    • USA Network

    After he learns their secret, a man is followed by violent winds.

  • S03E05 The Pedestrian

    • August 4, 1989
    • USA Network

    A man's night-time walks are considered subversive in a world of the future.

  • S03E06 A Sound of Thunder

    • August 11, 1989
    • USA Network

    Time Safari, Inc., uses time travel to allow big game hunters the ultimate thrill: killing dinosaurs.

  • S03E07 The Wonderful Death of Dudley Stone

    • August 18, 1989
    • USA Network

    When an unsuccessful author comes to murder him, a famous and prolific writer decides to make things easy for him.

  • S03E08 The Haunting of the New

    • September 15, 1989
    • USA Network

    A man's old flame calls him up and asks him if he wants her manor. The only condition is that the manor has to decide if it wants him.

  • S03E09 To the Chicago Abyss

    • September 22, 1989
    • USA Network

    In the near future, an old man is sought after for his memories of the past, a past that the government forbids people from remembering.

  • S03E10 Hail and Farewell

    • September 29, 1989
    • USA Network

    Willie, a young boy who cannot grow up, has been spending his life going from family to family, staying for a few years, then leaving before anyone finds out. As he is ready to leave his latest home, he tells his "parents" the story of his life, and of all the people he met in the way.

  • S03E11 The Veldt

    • November 10, 1989
    • USA Network

    Two parents begin to worry when their children's high-tech holographic nursery fixates on a single landscape: an African veldt filled with savage lions.

  • S03E12 Boys! Raise Giant Mushrooms In Your Cellar!

    • November 17, 1989
    • USA Network

    A worried father starts to believe that his son's mushroom garden is taking over the neighborhood.

Season 4

  • S04E01 Mars is Heaven

    • July 20, 1990
    • USA Network

    As the first successful mission to Mars touches down, the men stare through the mists of the Martian dawn and finds something strange: a small town straight out of the American Midwest, filled with their long-lost loved ones.

  • S04E02 The Murderer

    • July 27, 1990
    • USA Network

    Albert Brock loathes noise and prefers perfect silence. He goes around destroying the instruments of sound: radios, wrist watches, faxes, etc. His destruction of sound-infected environments at work and home lands him in a psychiatric institution.

  • S04E03 Touched with Fire

    • August 3, 1990
    • USA Network

    Two men who theorize that murder only happen in hot weather, try to stop one.

  • S04E04 The Black Ferris

    • August 10, 1990
    • USA Network

    Hank Walterson sneaks into the carnival at night and watches the owner, Mr. Cooger, ride the Ferris wheel backward until he becomes a young boy... who sets out to rob the local widow of her jewels.

  • S04E05 Usher II

    • August 17, 1990
    • USA Network

    When the government bans works of fiction, a millionaire rebels and builds a robot haunted house based on the works of Edgar Allan Poe... and plots revenge.

  • S04E06 Touch of Petulance

    • October 12, 1990
    • USA Network

    A man encounters another claiming to be his future self.

  • S04E07 And The Moon Be Still as Bright

    • October 19, 1990
    • USA Network

    Space explorers on a Martian expedition are faced with problems when one of their members becomes obsessed with the planet's former residents.

  • S04E08 The Toynbee Convector

    • October 26, 1990
    • USA Network

    A man time travels to the future and returns to show the people what they have to look forward to.

  • S04E09 Exorcism

    • November 2, 1990
    • USA Network

    A woman takes a potion to rid herself of the influence of her next-door neighbor, who she believes has bewitched her.

  • S04E10 The Day It Rained Forever

    • November 9, 1990
    • USA Network

    The music of a free-spirited woman brings rain to a town suffering from drought.

  • S04E11 The Long Years

    • November 16, 1990
    • USA Network

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

  • S04E12 Here There Be Tygers

    • November 30, 1990
    • USA Network

    Unknown to an exploratory team, the Utopia-like world they have discovered has yet to unleash its deadly forces.

Season 5

  • S05E01 The Earthmen

    • January 3, 1992
    • USA Network

    Members of an expedition to Mars find their insanity questioned by the local inhabitants.

  • S05E02 Zero Hour

    • January 10, 1992
    • USA Network

    A group of 8-year-olds rally around an invisible person who promises them the world.

  • S05E03 The Jar

    • January 17, 1992
    • USA Network

    A backwoods man impresses the townsfolk with a mysterious jar.

  • S05E04 Colonel Stonesteel and the Desperate Empties

    • January 24, 1992
    • USA Network

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

  • S05E05 The Concrete Mixer

    • January 31, 1992
    • USA Network

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

  • S05E06 The Utterly Perfect Murder

    • February 7, 1992
    • USA Network

    A man seeks revenge on a bully from his childhood.

  • S05E07 Let's Play Poison

    • January 14, 1992
    • USA Network

    A teacher worries that his students are trying to kill him.

  • S05E08 The Martian

    • February 21, 1992
    • USA Network

    New life welcomes grieving parents who move to Mars.

Season 6

  • S06E01 The Lonely One

    • July 10, 1992
    • USA Network

    Three women try to decide whether to walk to a movie since there is a serial killer on the loose. Although her companions disagree, one of the women insists.

  • S06E02 The Happiness Machine

    • July 17, 1992
    • USA Network

    One day a man wakes up and decides to build a happiness machine. Much to his wife's dismay it becomes an obsession.

  • S06E03 Tomorrow's Child

    • August 14, 1992
    • USA Network

    A malfunctioning birth machine that teleports the baby out of the womb transforms a child into a fourth-dimensional being.

  • S06E04 The Anthem Sprinters

    • August 21, 1992
    • USA Network

    An American tourist becomes involved in an Irish sporting event.

  • S06E05 By the Numbers

    • September 11, 1992
    • USA Network

    On a train, a man learns the truth about about a boy and his drill sergeant father that he met years ago at a hotel pool.

  • S06E06 The Long Rain

    • September 19, 1992
    • USA Network

    When a spaceship crash lands on a world where it never stops raining, the survivors try to reach the Sundome that has been erected on the planet.

  • S06E07 The Dead Man

    • September 26, 1992
    • USA Network

    A lonely manicurist befriends a man who claims to be dead.

  • S06E08 Sun and Shadow

    • October 3, 1992
    • USA Network

    A local man protests when a rude director attempts to use his house for the backdrop of a liquor commercial.

  • S06E09 Silent Towns

    • October 10, 1992
    • USA Network

    The last man on Mars after an evacuation seeks the last woman on Mars.

  • S06E10 Downwind from Gettysburg

    • October 17, 1992
    • USA Network

    A robot Abraham Lincoln is assassinated.

  • S06E11 Some Live Like Lazarus

    • October 24, 1992
    • USA Network

    A boy and girl fall in love as children, and vow to marry when they're 21. However, the boy's dominating mother has other plans.

  • S06E12 The Handler

    • October 27, 1992
    • USA Network

    A mortician sends the townspeople who mocked and insulted him to their graves with a little something extra.

  • S06E13 Fee Fie Foe Fum

    • October 28, 1992
    • USA Network

    A grandmother becomes worried when her granddaughter's husband installs a new garbage disposal in the house.

  • S06E14 Great Wide World Over There

    • October 29, 1992
    • USA Network

    An illiterate woman asks her nephew to write letters for her so she can talk to all the people in the world that she's never seen.

  • S06E15 The Tombstone

    • October 30, 1992
    • USA Network

    A salesman and his wife are forced to take a room where the previous occupant left a tombstone.