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Season 1

Pilot. Incident in a Small Jail  

Community Score

9.3 Superb
First aired: 5/5/1985    Production Code: 60778

When a man stops in a small town to get gas for his car, he runs into trouble when the people of the town think he is responsible for murder.

Pilot. The Man From the South  

Community Score

9.6 Superb 1
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First aired: 5/5/1985    Production Code: 60776

A man proposes a weird deal: To win a sports car, a down and out gambler must light his lighter 10 times in a row, or lose his finger.

Pilot. Bang! You're Dead  

Community Score

9.4 Superb
First aired: 5/5/1985    Production Code: M03

A little girl wants to play army with the boys, but they tell her she needs to have a gun before she can join them.

Pilot. An Unlocked Window  

Community Score

6.4 Fair
First aired: 5/5/1985

A nurse decides to stay in a house on a stormy night. The nurse thinks that she is safe in the house but it turns out that there is a killer in the vicinity.

5. Revenge  

Community Score

8.7 Great
First aired: 9/29/1985    Production Code: 60707

A professor spurns the legal system to seek revenge on the man who raped his wife

6. Night Fever  

Community Score

8.7 Great
First aired: 10/6/1985    Production Code: 60711

A gun man injured from a robbery in which he killed a cop, tries to charm a nurse into helping him escape from hospital custody.

7. Wake Me When I'm Dead  

Community Score

9.0 Superb
First aired: 10/20/1985

Trial of a woman who killed her husband while hypnotically transported to a past life.

8. Final Escape  

Community Score

10.0 Perfect 1
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First aired: 10/27/1985

A woman serving a life sentence for murder hits upon an airtight escape plan

9. The Night Caller  

Community Score

7.6 Good
First aired: 11/5/1985

A divorce is driven to drastic retaliatory measures after being the victim of a series of phone calls and constant survillance from a near by appartant.

10. Method Actor  

Community Score

8.6 Great
First aired: 11/10/1985    Production Code: 60705

Paul Dano is a film star and has been nominated many times, but never won the big one. When a role comes along that spells Oscar, he loses out to Lone Richards, a young hunk Dano calls "a face for a nine inch TV screen." Richards naively seeks Dano's advice on how to play the part. Bad move. Dano gives Richards bad advice on purpose and Richards loses the part and Dano gets it. Richards becomes enraged by this and wants revenge.

11. The Human Interest Story  

Community Score

9.1 Superb
First aired: 11/17/1985

A TV reporter looks for the human interest story behind the short-lived takeover of the station's airwaves by a former technician who claims to be an alien with an urgent warning to Earthlings.

12. Breakdown  

Community Score

10.0 Perfect
First aired: 12/1/1985    Production Code: 60701

After closing a major drug deal, a ruthless businessman is paralyzed in an auto accident, and presumed dead by all who see him- including the coroner.

13. Prisoners  

Community Score

10.0 Perfect
First aired: 12/8/1985    Production Code: 60718

Ironically, it's an escaped convict who brings a sense of liberation to a housewife: she insists on going with him as his "hostage".

14. Gigolo  

Community Score

9.7 Superb
First aired: 12/15/1985    Production Code: 60704

A gold digging groom makes short work of his middle-aged wife, but his attempts to round up her jewels are met with opposition from her "children" - an army of cats.

15. The Gloating Place  

Community Score

6.8 Fair
First aired: 1/5/1986    Production Code: 60708

A withdrawn teenager is fascinated with the instant celebrity of a murdered classmate and fakes an assault on herself.

16. The Right Kind of Medicine  

Community Score

10.0 Perfect
First aired: 1/12/1986

A bank robber is wounded in a shoot-out, then forced to endure an excruciating wait for a painkiller at the pharmacy.

17. Beast In View  

Community Score

10.0 Perfect
First aired: 1/19/1986

A psychiatrist is terrorized by menacing phone calls and the killing of her dog following her marriage to one of her patients.

18. A Very Happy Ending  

Community Score

10.0 Perfect
First aired: 2/16/1986

A poor little rich boy who's deaf witnesses a murder, then blackmails the hit man into doing a job for him.

19. The Canary Sedan  

Community Score

5.5 Mediocre
First aired: 3/1/1986

A woman goes to Hong Kong to be with her husband.

20. Enough Rope For Two  

Community Score

10.0 Perfect
First aired: 3/9/1986    Production Code: 60724

A camping trip for two becomes a flight from murder full of twists and double-crosses when a Harvard-bound law student goes against his better judgement and lets his girl friend bring her "cousin" along.

21. The Creeper  

Community Score

10.0 Perfect
First aired: 3/16/1986    Production Code: 60727

A fashion designer is terrified that she may be the next target of the creeper who may have the keys to her apartment.

22. Happy Birthday  

Community Score

9.9 Superb 1
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First aired: 3/23/1986

The arrest of a newspaper reporter on his birthday for a murder supposedly committed 22 years ago comes as a complete surprise to the accused.

23. The Jar  

Community Score

7.8 Good 1
review
First aired: 4/6/1986

An artist's years of failure are behind after he finds a jar which holds mysterious contents and entrances to those who view it.

24. Deadly Honeymoon  

Community Score

10.0 Perfect
First aired: 4/13/1986

Following a whirlwind courtship, a new bride fears her luck's run out when she learns that her doctor husband has heavy gambling debts and two deceased formor wives who were heavily insured.

25. Four O'Clock  

Community Score

10.0 Perfect
First aired: 5/4/1986

Time is running out for a judge who's surprised, bound and gagged by burglars in his house after rigging a bomb to eliminate his wife and her suspected lover.

26. Road Hog  

Community Score

8.8 Great
First aired: 5/11/1986    Production Code: 60702

What can't go around comes around for a road-hogging salesman who won't allow a truck bound for the hospital to pass.

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