Wearied bookie Max Phillips, learning of his grown soldier son Pip getting killed during combat in South Vietnam, gets to spend one last delightful hour with a ten-year-old version of Pip at an amusement park after dark.
In 1974, boxing has been outlawed and is performed by robots. With his possibly last fight approaching and his outmoded robot Maxo in need of major repair, manager Steel Kelly resorts to a desperate gamble in Maynard, Kansas.
Long-winded bachelor Patrick Thomas McNulty loses his job in Mr. Cooper's garment factory, visits his favorite local tavern, converses with a stranger, and is inexplicably given a stopwatch that halts time.
While waiting in his shabby hotel room to hear the results of his race-fixing hearing, washed-up jockey Michael Grady is granted a wish whose fruition means the world to him.
Frustrated Erich Streator does battle with his stepdaughter Christie's talking doll Talky Tina, whose vocabulary includes such unconventional phrases as "I hate you" and "I'm going to kill you".
In a post-apocalyptic settlement in 1974, the inhabitants' survival depends on the advice of an unseen man living in a nearby cave. This dependence is tested when soldiers descends on their town, led by the violent Major French.
Barbara Polk, the long-suffering caretaker to her cranky inventor Uncle Simon, receives a most unpleasant surprise from his lawyer after her uncle's death.
On June 25, 1964, three Army National Guard soldiers on maneuvers near the Little Big Horn battle site find themselves unwittingly involved in Custer's Last Stand.
Aging Harmon Gordon convinces his brother Dr. Raymond Gordon to inject him with an experimental youth serum so that Harmon will have sufficient energy to keep up with his much younger gold-digging wife Flora.
Lovable seventy-six-year-old clock maker Sam Forstman believes that his life will end at the very moment that his cherished family heirloom grandfather clock stops ticking.
While flying across the country en route to a film shoot in Rome, movie star Barbara "Bunny" Blake receives a gift from her hometown fans in Howardville: a ring which is giving her warnings to come home.
After causing a hit-and-run motor vehicle accident that killed a bike-riding child, then letting his co-worker Pete Radcliffe take the blame, office manager Oliver Pope is relentlessly haunted by his suddenly aggressive car.
Before leaving on a decades-long solo mission into deep space, astronaut Douglas Stansfield meets attractive Space Agency employee Sandra Horn, and they both fall deeply in love. But what kind of a future can there be for them?
Salvatore Ross can trade physical characteristics with other people and will use this talent to do anything to gain both the love of his former social worker Leah Maitland as well as the approval of her crippled father.
In a future society, everyone must undergo an operation at age 19 to become beautiful and conform to society. Since her father killed himself after his surgery, 18-year-old Marilyn Cubberle desperately wants to hold on to her identity.
Leather-jacket-wearing, motorcycle-riding male aliens Scott, Steve, and Fred invade a peaceful neighborhood, where Scott develops a romance with teenage neighbor Ellen Tillman and upsets both his two comrades and Ellen's father Stu.
Computer technician James Elwood unwisely takes advice for his love life from Agnes, the computer in his office. He then uses this advice to begin a romance with his attractive young co-worker Millie Randall.
Heiress Ann Henderson is terrorized by a middle-aged woman as her wedding day approaches with young stockbroker Robert Blake. Should she instead marry her former fiance David Mitchell, whom her parents despise?
Syndicated columnist Jordan Herrick visits Hollywood movie queen Pamela Morris at her home in order to interview her. He wonders about the secret to her seemingly eternal beauty.
Dieing millionaire Jason Foster invites his greedy Boston heirs to a Mardi Gras party where they must wear the masks he had custom-made for them - or else be cut off from their considerably large inheritance.
Retired Navy man and current model ship manufacturing company owner Roswell Flemington enjoys loud noises, is an annoyance to others, drives his wife to leave him, and is suitably punished with a full dose of irony.
Russian defector Ivan Kuchenko is trapped in a hotel room and given three hours to locate a hidden bomb, hidden there by Commissar Vassiloff, who aspires to turn Ivan's proposed execution into an art form.
After drinking too much at a party, hungover married couple Bob and Millie Frazier awaken to find themselves not only in a strange house, but in a deserted town, where nothing is as it should be.
Post-WWII Hawaii. Two men of once-opposing races are stuck in an attic full of war trophies, including a samurai sword waiting to dutifully avenge its slain master.
In 1890, traveling salesman Jared Garrity visits the town of Happiness, Arizona offering to resurrect the dead and reunite the townsfolk with their departed loved ones out of the goodness of his heart for hefty prices.
Heartless CEO Wallace V. Whipple automates his family-owned factory and lays off most of his workers over the objections of his foreman Dickerson and chief engineer Hanley.
Two children escape their bickering parents through a portal in the bottom of their swimming pool to a magical land watched over by a kind old woman the children call Aunt T.