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Season 6
January 3, 1992

Season 6

01. The Earthmen

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

23min
January 3, 1992

02. Zero Hour

In the near future, young children are persuaded to help an imaginary friend named "Drill" to play a game called "Invasion".

23min
January 10, 1992

03. The Jar

A farmer impresses the townsfolk with a mysterious jar bought from a traveling carnival sideshow.

23min
January 17, 1992

04. Colonel Stonesteel and the Desperate Empties

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

23min
January 24, 1992

05. The Concrete Mixer

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

23min
January 31, 1992

06. The Utterly Perfect Murder

As a boy, piano prodigy, Douglas, was tormented by a gang of bullies, led by Ralph. Now, fifty years later, Doug looks for closure in his life, by traveling back to his hometown and getting his revenge.

23min
February 7, 1992

07. Let's Play Poison

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.

23min
February 14, 1992

08. The Martian

A Martian welcomes grieving parents who move to Mars.

23min
February 21, 1992

09. 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.

23min
July 10, 1992

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.

24min
July 17, 1992

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.

23min
August 14, 1992

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.

24min
August 21, 1992

13. By the Numbers

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

23min
September 11, 1992

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.

24min
September 19, 1992

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.

24min
September 26, 1992

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.

23min
October 3, 1992

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.

23min
October 10, 1992

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.

23min
October 17, 1992

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.

23min
October 24, 1992

20. The Handler

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

22min
October 27, 1992

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.

23min
October 28, 1992

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.

23min
October 29, 1992

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.

23min
October 30, 1992