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The
Bitterest Pill |
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| Season:
3
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| Episode #:
51 |
| Airdate:
10/12/86 |
Overall Rating:   |
| Director:
Bryan Michael
Stoller |
| Written by:
Michael McDowell &
Jule Selbo |
| Story by:
Frederik Pohl |
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A friend of a lottery winner arrives to
ask for aide in financing his latest invention: a pill that
gives you total recall and increases brain power.
Comments:
Great Story! One of the
best from season three.
Notes:
- This story was first
published in Galaxy in April of 1959
and is based on the short story
"The Richest Man in Levittown" by Frederik Pohl. |
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Florence
Bravo |
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| Season:
3
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| Episode #:
52 |
| Airdate:
10/19/86 |
| Overall Rating: |
| Director:
John Lewis |
| Written by:
Edithe Swensen |
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A couple with marriage problems, move
into a haunted house whose previous occupant was a feminist
who shot her husband.
Comments:
An average episode.
Notes:
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The
Geezenstacks |
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| Season:
3
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| Episode #:
53 |
| Airdate:
10/26/86 |
| Overall Rating: |
| Director:
Bill Travis |
| Written by:
Nancy Doyne |
| Story by:
Fredric Brown |
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A little girl manipulates her family by
controlling them through her dolls, The Geezenstacks.
Comments:
My memories of watching this
creepy gem spawned a whole website! hands down my favorite
episode of the series.
Notes:
- This episode is based on
the short story "The Geezenstacks", which was first
published in Weird Tales, September of 1943.
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Black
Widows |
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| Season:
3
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| Episode #:
54 |
| Airdate:
11/2/86 |
| Overall Rating: |
| Director:
Karl Epstein |
| Written by:
Michael McDowell |
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On her wedding night, a young woman
learns of a strange hereditary disorder which has been
passed down in her family.
Comments:
Notes:
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Heretic |
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| Season:
3
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| Episode #:
55 |
| Airdate:
11/9/86 |
| Overall Rating: |
| Director:
Jerry Smith |
| Written by:
Edithe Swensen |
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After an art collector receives a stolen
painting, he finds himself in the 16th century being
prosecuted by the church for theft.
Comments:
Notes:
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A Serpent's Tooth |
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| Season:
3
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| Episode #:
56 |
| Airdate:
11/16/86 |
| Overall Rating: |
| Director:
Frank De Palma |
| Written by:
Edithe Swensen |
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A nagging mother discovers her warnings
are coming true, after aquiring a magical "Serpent's Tooth".
Comments:
Good episode!
Notes:
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Pictures |
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Baker's Dozen |
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| Season:
3
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| Episode #:
57 |
| Airdate:
11/23/86 |
| Overall Rating:
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| Director:
John Sutherland |
| Written by:
George Romero |
| Story by:
Scott Edelman |
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A New Orleans baker, whose cookies
possess strange powers, becomes business partners with a
struggling advertising agent.
Comments:
Notes:
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Deliver Us from Goodness |
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| Season:
3
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| Episode #:
58 |
| Airdate:
11/30/86 |
| Overall Rating:
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| Director:
Warner Shook |
| Written by:
Jule Selbo |
| Story by:
Suzette Haden Elgin |
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A modern day saint has her life changed
when she obtains heavenly powers.
Comments:
Notes:
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Seasons
of Belief |
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| Season:
3
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| Episode #:
59 |
| Airdate:
12/29/86 |
| Overall Rating: |
| Director:
Michael McDowell |
| Written by:
Michael McDowell |
| Story by:
Michael Bishop |
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A couple tells their children a frightful
Christmas tale about the Grither, a creature from the North
Pole who is summoned by saying his name aloud.
Comments:
The Christmas episode does not disappoint. Great story!
Notes:
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Pictures
- A young Jenny Von Oy (Blossom) plays the role of "Stefa". |
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Miss
May Dusa |
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| Season:
3
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| Episode #:
60 |
| Airdate:
1/18/87 |
| Overall Rating:
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| Director:
Richard Blackburn |
| Written by:
Richard Blackburn |
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Hidden away in a dusty storage room, a
mannequin comes to life during a robbery and falls in love
with a blind musician.
Comments:
This was an average episode, maybe a little above par. If
your wondering who Miss May Dusa is... sound it out!
Notes:
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