S06 Episode 1

The Earthmen

An exploration team lands on Mars in search of two previous expeditions that have vanished and they encounter telepathic creatures.

23 mins · Fri, 3 Jan 1992

S06 Episode 2

Zero Hour

An invisible leader enlists children, who feel they're not being taken seriously by adults, to take over the planet.

23 mins · Fri, 10 Jan 1992

S06 Episode 3

The Jar

A farmer purchases a weird specimen in a jar from a carnival sideshow, hoping to gain some respect in the town; when his wife threatens to reveal that the creature is a fake, Charlie takes action.

23 mins · Fri, 17 Jan 1992

S06 Episode 4

Colonel Stonesteel and the Desperate Empties

To bring some excitement to a midwestern town, 12-year-old Charlie helps a man bury a fake mummy to be uncovered at the Labor Day parade in an elaborate hoax.

23 mins · Fri, 24 Jan 1992

S06 Episode 5

The Concrete Mixer

An invasion force from Mars heads to Earth, prepared to overcome a strong military resistance; instead, the Martians find themselves appalled by the vulgar "American way of life."

23 mins · Fri, 31 Jan 1992

S06 Episode 6

The Utterly Perfect Murder

As a boy, piano prodigy Douglas was tormented by a gang of bullies, led by Ralph; 50 years later, Douglas returns to his hometown to exact revenge.

23 mins · Fri, 7 Feb 1992

S06 Episode 7

Let's Play Poison

When a student dies as a result of bullying, the teacher plans to teach the students a lesson, little knowing that they are planning to do the same to him.

23 mins · Fri, 14 Feb 1992

S06 Episode 8

The Martian

After the tragic death of their son Tom, a middle aged couple move to Mars, only to discover their son on the new planet, but all may not be as it seems.

22 mins · Fri, 21 Feb 1992

S06 Episode 9

The Lonely One

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.

30 mins · Fri, 10 Jul 1992

S06 Episode 10

The Happiness Machine

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.

30 mins · Fri, 17 Jul 1992

S06 Episode 11

Tomorrow's Child

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.

30 mins · Fri, 14 Aug 1992

S06 Episode 12

The Anthem Sprinters

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.

30 mins · Fri, 21 Aug 1992

S06 Episode 13

By the Numbers

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

30 mins · Fri, 11 Sep 1992

S06 Episode 14

The Long Rain

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.

30 mins · Sat, 19 Sep 1992

S06 Episode 15

The Dead Man

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.

30 mins · Sat, 26 Sep 1992

S06 Episode 16

Sun and Shadow

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.

30 mins · Sat, 3 Oct 1992

S06 Episode 17

Silent Towns

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.

30 mins · Sat, 10 Oct 1992

S06 Episode 18

Downwind from Gettysburg

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.

30 mins · Sat, 17 Oct 1992

S06 Episode 19

Some Live Like Lazarus

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.

30 mins · Sat, 24 Oct 1992

S06 Episode 20

The Handler

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

30 mins · Tue, 27 Oct 1992

S06 Episode 21

Fee Fie Foe Fum

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.

30 mins · Wed, 28 Oct 1992

S06 Episode 22

Great Wide World Over There

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.

30 mins · Thu, 29 Oct 1992

S06 Episode 23

The Tombstone

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.

30 mins · Fri, 30 Oct 1992

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