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- The life and death of the "Playboy" centerfold model/actress Dorothy Stratten.
- An eccentric flamboyant critic, who's staying at a lodge in the Irish woods, makes a bet with a mild-mannered skeptical writer, that the legend about the sad banshee haunting the forest searching for her lover is real.
- 1985–199230mTV-146.3 (136)TV EpisodeTwo drifters, Robert and William, stumble across a desert mirage while evading their nemesis, Ned. The two men soon realize that the mirage shows each viewer the city where they'd like to be, and start selling views.
- A company provides big game hunters with expeditions to the past to kill dinosaurs. They only have one rule that's there to protect the time line: Never ever get off the beaten path. Violation of this rule is punishable by hefty fines.
- 1985–199224mTV-144.6 (133)TV EpisodeA ventriloquist is implicated in the murder of a man at a theater.
- 1985–199223mTV-145.9 (119)TV EpisodeAn archaeologist on Mars goes berserk and takes the side of the extinct Martian race.
- 1985–199223mTV-146.3 (130)TV EpisodeAn insecure man begins to suspect that the mushrooms his son ordered from a boy's magazine and is growing in the basement may be alien invaders.
- The manager of a hotel pool drills his young son with military precision, leading to tragedy.
- 1985–199223mTV-145.7 (102)TV EpisodeGreentown, Illnois is in the midst of the "desperate empties," the doldrums that come at the tail-end of summer. To bring some excitement to the town, twelve-year-old Charlie helps the rascally Colonel Stonesteel bury a fake mummy to be uncovered at the Labor Day parade in an elaborate hoax.
- 1985–199222mTV-145.6 (101)TV EpisodeWalter Bayes creates a likelike animatronic Abraham Lincoln, and a man named Booth "assassinates" the robot to gain notoriety.
- The charming Clara Goodwater has been the president of the town's Ladies Honeysuckle Harmony Lodge for as long as anyone can remember. Her nosy rival Elmira Brown is convinced Clara maintains her position through witchcraft and plans to exorcise her at the upcoming Lodge election.
- 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.
- At a masquerade party, a lonely man dressed as comedian Oliver Hardy is about to leave, when he meets a woman costumed as Hardy's comic partner Stan Laurel. Captivated with each other, they run off into the night. They stay in love and in their fantasy, until the man muses if this dream can last? The woman suggests they see, by playing a game she calls Gotcha.
- 1985–199222mTV-147.0 (119)TV EpisodeCora 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.
- A 12-year-old boy discovers that he can't grow up. He later turns this bizarre affliction into sort of a lonely profession.
- Astronauts from Earth land on a remote planet and find a pastoral paradise, where all their wishes come true.
- 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 first Earth visitors to Mars discover a replica of small town America, just as they remembered it from their childhoods.
- A nurse accompanies a "dying" ghost on a train ride across Europe to Great Britain in search of a place of refuge where people still believe in the supernatural.
- 1985–199225mTV-145.6 (150)TV EpisodeGeorge Hill is stunned when he is sentenced to death--for murdering a robot facsimile of his adulterous young wife.
- 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.
- A hypochondriac feels there is something wrong with his bones so he consults a creepy "bone specialist" who promises to help him; sometimes the cure really is worse than the disease.
- 1985–199222mTV-146.0 (91)TV EpisodeA 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Two young boys investigate the owner of a sinister carnival.
- Greedy Richard Braling tries to find his deceased brother Charles' money, but discovers that his brother has set a trap for him,.
- An invasion force from Mars heads to Earth, prepared to overcome a strong military resistance. Instead, when they arrive they are greeted by glad-handing community representatives, a marching band, and the key to the city. The aliens are soon introduced to the vulgar and consumer-oriented "American way of life" which turns out to be a bigger threat than an armed resistance would have been.
- A car crash survivor discovers that the same sinister, mysterious crowd of onlookers somehow always shows up minutes after any potentially fatal car accident at the site of the crash.
- 1985–199223mTV-145.9 (108)TV EpisodeIn a desert town, three old men wait for rain that never comes.
- 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.
- Every night, a tiny man visits the carnival's hall of mirrors to stare at a mirror that makes him look much taller. Carny worker Aimee finds herself drawn to this lonely sad man and befriends him. Her boss cruelly pranks him. Big mistake.
- Earth astronauts land on Mars and are puzzled by the reception they receive: most of the Martians are annoyed or angered by their arrival.
- A pet dog brings things and people to his young master, a boy suffering from a debilitating illness, whenever it feels that he needs them. At first this proves quite useful but it takes a rather bizarre turn at the end.
- 1985–199225mTV-146.5 (205)TV EpisodeA guest murders his host after an argument, then becomes increasingly worried about removing all his fingerprints from the crime scene.
- A small town mortician takes a perverse delight in exacting postmortem revenge against his enemies, until his day of reckoning arrives.
- 1985–199223mTV-145.7 (105)TV EpisodeA 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.
- 1985–199223mTV-145.5 (124)TV EpisodeWealthy socialite Nora is notorious for her decadent parties and wild escapades; when her stately mansion burns to the ground, she has it rebuilt--but it will not let her back in.
- Cuckolded farmer Charlie purchases a weird specimen in a jar from a carnival sideshow, hoping to gain some respect in the town. When his faithless wife threatens to reveal that the creature is a fake, Charlie is driven to an act of desperation.
- An artist, now an adult, visits the lake where his childhood sweetheart died when he was 10.
- 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.
- 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.
- A family of Earth colonists was stranded on Mars twenty years ago when they missed the order to evacuate. Now, after their long wait, a ship from Earth arrives to take them home, but the rescuers notice something odd.
- Young boy investigates whether his loving grandmother's new strange lodger is a vampire.
- A middle-aged Earth couple emigrates to Mars after the death of their son Tom. On a particularly bad night of grieving, a psychically sensitive native Martian is captured by their strong emotions and forced into the form of Tom and is accepted as such by the bereaved mother. The father, though, is torn by the conflict between his revulsion and concern for his wife.
- A psychiatrist is summoned to a prison to interview Albert Brock, a respectable businessman who went on a murderous rampage--against phones, computers, music players, and all the other electronic devices that fill the world with ceaseless noise and distraction.
- In a totalitarian city, a rebel persuades his nervous friend to commit a subversive act: taking a walk with him around the neighborhood at night.
- A caring father, deeply traumatized by the constant bullying he suffered as a child at the local playground, is forced by his sister to face his demons and take his little boy to the same playground. However, the demons return as well.
- While playing in a seemingly deserted part of the local forest, little girl hears a woman screaming. Is she imagining it? Is it a ghost? No one believes her so she takes the matter into her own hands. Features Ray Bradbury in a cameo.
- A terrified new mother is convinced that her infant son is somehow trying to kill her but naturally nobody believes her.