Program #497 – Broadcast 01-02-12
“The Chaser” starring Stephen Tobolowsky (Ground Hog Day / Wild Hogs) with Stacy Keach as narrator.
Plot: A lovesick suitor buys a guaranteed love potion from a mysterious soul, a love potion that works all too well.
“Four O’Clock” starring Stan Freberg (Stuart Little / Rosanne) with Stacy Keach as narrator.
Plot: To combat all that he considers evil, a cranky man decides to make every evil person two feet tall at exactly 4 p.m.
Program #498 – Broadcast 01-09-12
“The Hitch-Hiker” starring Kate Jackson (The Rookies / Charlie’s Angels) with Stacy Keach as narrator.
Plot: While driving alone on a cross-country trip, Nan Adams keeps seeing the same hitchhiker all along the way even though there is no way that he could have gotten ahead of her.
“The Mirror” starring Tony Plana (Ugly Betty / 24) with Stacy Keach as narrator.
Plot: A revolutionary uses a magic mirror, which reflects his “would-be” assassins, to kill them off – but is the mirror friend or foe?
Program #499 – Broadcast 01-16-12
“The Incredible World of Horace Ford” starring Mike Starr (Ice Harvest / Dumb & Dumber) with Stacy Keach as narrator.
Plot: A toy manufacturer literally becomes a child again when he visits his old neighborhood.
“I Dream of Genie” starring Hal Sparks (Queer As Folk / Spiderman 2) with Stacy Keach as narrator.
Plot: George P. Hanley never had much success in life. But when he rubs a magic Arabian lamp, a genie emerges and grants him one wish, which sets him to imagining all kinds of possibilities.
Program #500 – Broadcast 01-23-12
“Little Girl Lost” starring Stephen Tobolowsky (Ground Hog Day / Wild Hogs) with Stacy Keach as narrator.
Plot: A 6-year-old girl inexplicably disappears from her bedroom but her parents are able to hear her cries for help.
“The Fugitive” starring Stan Freberg (Stuart Little / Rosanne) with Stacy Keach as narrator.
Plot: A magical old man delights the local children with his power to change his appearance. When he’s discovered by two men in search of him, a little girl comes to his aid.
Program #501 – Broadcast 1-30-12
“Mirror Image” starring Morgan Brittany (Dallas) and Frank John Hughes (Catch Me If You Can / Band of Brothers) with Stacy Keach as narrator.
Plot: When Millicent Barnes discovers her double at a train station, she becomes convinced that her double is trying to take her place. A fellow traveler thinks she’s crazy … at first.
“Hocus-Pocus and Frisby” starring * Shelley Berman (Curb Your Enthusiasm / Twilight Zone) with Stacy Keach as narrator.
Plot: A celebrated teller of tall tales finds no one will believe his latest yarn - that aliens kidnapped him.
* Shelley Berman starred in The Twilight Zone TV episode “The Mind and the Matter” as originally broadcast 5/12/61.
Program #502 – Broadcast 02-06-12
“Once Upon a Time” starring John Rhys-Davies (Raiders of the Lost Ark / Lord of the Rings) with Stacy Keach as narrator.
Plot: Janitor Woodrow Mulligan escapes to the future thanks to his employer’s time helmet invention. Once there though he’s not so sure the future is all that it’s cracked up to be.
“The Last Rites of Jeff Myrtlebank” starring Robert Knepper (Heroes / Prison Break / Carnival) with Stacy Keach as narrator.
Plot: Ever since he came back to life at his own funeral, Jeff hasn’t been the same. The townspeople want to run him out of town because they fear him, but Jeff says they have no reason to. Or do they?
Program #503 – Broadcast 02-13-12
“The Long Morrow” starring Kathy Garver (Family Affair) with Stacy Keach as narrator.
Plot: A deep-space astronaut smashes the suspended-animation device that will keep him young, so that he can age at the same rate as the woman he loves.
“Miniature” starring Lou Diamond Phillips (LaBamba / Triangle) with Stacy Keach as narrator.
Plot: A shy bachelor discovers a miniature doll apparently alive inside a 19th century dollhouse. Fascinated, he whiles away the hours peering into this little world and wishing he were part of it.
Program #504 – Broadcast 02-20-12
“The Rip Van Winkle Caper” starring Tim Kazurinsky (Curb Your Enthusiasm / Police Academy) with Stacy Keach as narrator.
Plot: Thieves put themselves into suspended animation for 100 years after hiding millions of dollars in gold bars. But in the future, wealth is far from their reach.
“Mr. Denton on Doomsday” starring Adam Baldwin (Fire Fly / Serenity) with Stacy Keach as narrator.
Plot: A broken-down gunslinger is given a magic potion that will restore his fast-draw abilities just in time for a gunfight.
Program #505 – Broadcast 02-27-12
“Missing, Presumed Dead” starring Danny Goldring (Boss / Dark Night) with Stacy Keach as narrator.
Plot: Letters written by an Army Captain to parents of soldiers missing in action could have the power over whether the soldiers live or die.
“Mr. Denton on Doomsday” starring Adam Baldwin (Fire Fly / Serenity) with Stacy Keach as narrator.
Plot: A broken-down gunslinger is given a magic potion that will restore his fast-draw abilities just in time for a gunfight.
Program #506 – Broadcast 03-05-12
“Of Late I Think of Cliffordville” starring * H.M. Wynant (Twilight Zone / Batman / Days of Our Lives) with Stacy Keach as narrator. * H.M. Wynant starred in the Twilight Zone episode “The Howling Man” originally televised 11/4/60.
Plot: William Feathersmith, a bored, evil, wealthy businessman, gets a chance to go back in time and start over, armed with all the knowledge he’s acquired – an arsenal that’s not as powerful as he might think.
“Mr. Garrity and the Graves” starring Chris McDonald (Quiz Show / Happy Gilmore) with Stacy Keach as narrator.
Plot: Jared Garrity makes a living as a resurrecter of the dead in the Old West. He doesn’t make money from those who want people brought back to life – but from those who want the dead to stay just where they are … six feet under.
Program #507 – Broadcast 03-12-12
“The Lonely” starring Mike Starr (Ice Harvest / Dumb & Dumber) with Stacy Keach as narrator.
Plot: A man convicted of murder is sentenced to spend 40 years on a distant asteroid in complete solitude that is until a sympathetic ship captain brings him a female robot companion.
“Mrs. Pierce Is Praying For Me” starring Tim Kazurinsky (Curb Your Enthusiasm / Police Academy) with Stacy Keach as narrator.
Plot: A small time hustler who’s down on his luck and running from the mob seeks the help of an old woman, Mrs. Pierce, to help him save his older brother’s life.
Program #508 – Broadcast 03-19-12
“Showdown with Rance McGrew” starring Chris McDonald (Quiz Show / Happy Gilmore) with Stacy Keach as narrator.
Plot: TV cowboy star Rance McGrew finds himself in a real Old West story where Jesse James challenges him to a showdown over television’s negative depiction of outlaws.
“Mute” starring Wade Williams (Prison Break / Buffy the Vampire) with Stacy Keach as narrator.
Plot: Experimenting with the powers of telepathy, a mother and father try to raise their daughter in a world free of verbal communication.
Program #509 – Broadcast 03-26-12
“Mr. Bevis” starring Bruno Kirby (Godfather Pt. 2 / City Slickers) with Stacy Keach as narrator.
Plot: A kindly fellow’s life is turned upside down when he receives “help” from his guardian angel.
“No Time Like the Past” starring Jason Alexander (Seinfeld / Shallow Hal) with Stacy Keach as narrator.
Plot: Scientist Paul Driscoll travels back in time to try to prevent some of history’s catastrophes. Unsuccessful, he decides to stay in the past without interfering until disaster strikes close to home.
Program #510 – Broadcast 04-02-12
“Long Distance Call” starring Hal Sparks (Queer As Folk / Spiderman 2) with Stacy Keach as narrator.
Plot: Before Grandma died, she gave Billy a toy telephone. When he uses it to talk to her, his parents dismiss it as an overactive imagination – until Billy decides its time to join his Grandma!
“The Odyssey of Flight 33” starring Daniel J. Travanti (Hill Street Blues / Prison Break) with Stacy Keach as narrator.
Plot: A commercial airliner is somehow transported back in time to the Prehistoric days when dinosaurs ruled the Earth.
Program #511 – Broadcast 04-09-12
“The Masks” starring Stan Freberg (Stuart Little / Rosanne) with Stacy Keach as narrator.
Plot: Knowing he is about to die, a rich old man summons his greedy heirs to his mansion and gives them each the inheritance they so richly deserve.
“The Old Man in the Cave” starring Adam Baldwin (Full Metal Jacket / My Bodyguard) with Stacy Keach as narrator.
Plot: After an Atomic Holocaust, a tiny community has managed to survive for ten years by following the instructions of the mysterious “Old Man in the Cave” as relayed to them by Mr. Goldsmith, their leader.
Program #512 – Broadcast 04-16-12
“A Passage for Trumpet” starring Mike Starr (Dumb & Dumber / The Black Dahlia) with Stacy Keach as narrator.
Plot: A down-on-his-luck trumpet player is given a second crack at life after being struck down by a truck.
“Person Or Persons Unknown” starring John Schneider (Smallville / Dukes of Hazard) with Stacy Keach as narrator.
Plot: A man awakens one morning to find that no one recognizes him, not even his wife of many years.
Program #513 – Broadcast 04-23-12
“The Big Tall Wish” starring Blair Underwood (Something New / Sex and the City) with Stacy Keach as narrator.
Plot: A 10-year-old boy with special powers promises a washed-up prizefighter that he will make a wish for him to win his comeback fight.
“Probe 7-Over and Out” starring Lou Gossett, Jr. (An Officer and a Gentleman / Roots) with Stacy Keach as narrator.
Plot: A lone astronaut crash-lands on an unknown planet, leaving behind a destroyed world. As he is adjusting to the new planet, he discovers another crashed astronaut, a woman and together they form an important bond.
Program #514 – Broadcast 04-30-12
“The Dummy” starring Bruno Kirby (City Slickers / Good Morning Viet Nam) with Stacy Keach as narrator.
Plot: A ventriloquist is convinced that his dummy is alive and quite evil. Terror ensues when he decides to get rid of the dummy and start a new act.
“Time Enough At Last” starring Tim Kazurinsky (Police Academy / Saturday Night Live / Curb Your Enthusiasm) with Stacy Keach as narrator.
Plot: A bookworm’s sole want in life is more free time to read. When a nuclear holocaust leaves him alone in the world, his wish may have been answered – or has it?
Program #515 – Broadcast 05-07-12
“Five Characters In Search of an Exit” starring Jason Alexander (Seinfeld / Shallow Hal) with Stacy Keach as narrator.
Plot: A clown, a hobo, a ballet dancer, a bagpipe player and an army major are trapped in a cylinder room. They don’t know who they are or how they got there and their only hope is to escape to find the truth.
“The Time of Your Life” starring John Rhys-Davies (Raiders of the Lost Ark / Lord of the Rings) with Stacy Keach as narrator.
Plot: A young woman, still mourning the death of her husband is visited by a traveling salesman who can sell her a clock that can bring her husband back – for a price.
Program #516 – Broadcast 05-14-12
“The Grave” starring Michael Rooker (Henry, Portrait of a Serial Killer / Walking Dead) with Stacy Keach as narrator.
Plot: Old West lawman Conny Miller visits the grave of a man who he failed to track down to prove he was never afraid of him but gets more than he bargained for.
“Two” starring Don Johnson (Miami Vice) with Stacy Keach as narrator.
Plot: Two opposing survivors of a world war, learn to put aside their differences and start a new and better world together.
Program #517 – Broadcast 05-21-12
“It’s a Good Life” starring Mike Starr (Ice Harvest / The Black Dahlia / Mad Dog and Glory) with Stacy Keach as narrator.
Plot: Anthony is a 6-year old boy from a little town who knows your every thought. He can feel your every emotion. He can eliminate all you hold dear. Don’t be bad or he’ll wish you away into the cornfields.
“Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up?” starring Richard Kind (Spin City / Curb Your Enthusiasm) with Stacy Keach as narrator.
Plot: On the night of a UFO sighting, seven people at a diner claim to be of Earth, though one of them is not.
Program #518 – Broadcast 05-28-12
“The Last Flight” starring Charles Shaughnessy (The Nanny / Days of Our Lives / Mad Men) with Stacy Keach as narrator.
Plot: A World War I Flying Ace flies through a mysterious cloud and lands at a modern U.S. air base. How did he get there, and for what reason?
“You Drive” starring John Heard (Home Alone / The Sopranos) with Stacy Keach as narrator.
Plot: A motorist’s automobile won’t let him forget his guilt over killing a young cyclist and fleeing from the scene.
Program #519 – Broadcast 06-04-12
“The Mind and the Matter” starring Hal Sparks (Queer As Folk / Spiderman 2) with Stacy Keach as narrator.
Plot: A book on the power of thought enables an irritable worker to re-create the world exactly as he wants it. But what he wants and what he gets are entirely two different things.
“A Game of Pool” starring Wade Williams (Prison Break / The Bernie Mac Show) with Stacy Keach as narrator.
Plot: A young pool player finds himself pitted against Fats Brown, a long-dead Champion pool player who returns from the grave to play him with deadly stakes.
Program #520 – Broadcast 06-11-12
“Nightmare As a Child” starring Bonnie Somerville (The Ugly Truth / NYPD Blue) with Stacy Keach as narrator.
Plot: A precocious little girl frightens a teacher by revealing secrets from the woman’s past.
“The Amazing Dr. Kyle Powers” starring Sean Astin (Lord of the Rings / Rudy) with Stacy Keach as narrator.
Plot: A cold, unsympathetic physician is given the opportunity to change his ways when an extraordinary visitor gives him the ability to experience his patients’ symptoms. But will the good doctor change for the better?
Program #521 – Broadcast 06-18-12
“One More Pallbearer” starring Chelcie Ross (Madison / Mad Men) with Stacy Keach as narrator.
Plot: A wealthy man devises an elaborate hoax to force three people to apologize for humiliating him earlier in his life.
“Cavender Is Coming” starring Andrea Evans (Passions) with Stacy Keach as narrator.
Plot: A hapless apprentice angel is given one last chance to win his wings, by helping awkward, inept Agnes Grep.
Program #522 – Broadcast 06-25-12
“Queen of the Nile” starring Kate Jackson (The Rookies / Charlie’s Angels) with Stacy Keach as narrator.
Plot: A young, handsome columnist is startled to learn that famous movie star Pamela Morris is just as lovely and young looking today as when she starred in the film “Queen of the Nile” made decades ago. Intrigued, he investigates – and by doing so, learns a terrifying secret.
“A Hundred Yards Over the Rim” starring Jim Caviezel (The Passion of the Christ / Madison / The Count of Monte Cristo) with Stacy Keach as narrator.
Plot: A 19th-century western settler, desperately searching for water for his sick son, takes a walk that inexplicably leads him into the next century.
Program #523 – Broadcast 07-02-12
“The Shelter” starring Ernie Hudson (Ghostbusters / Oz) with Stacy Keach as narrator.
Plot: Radio warnings of attacking UFO's turn neighbors into a mob that jealously fight for the only bomb shelter on their block.
“Dead Man’s Shoes” starring Bill Smitrovich (The Practice / Independence Day) with Stacy Keach as narrator.
Plot: A vagrant steps into a murdered gangster’s expensive shoes and is taken over by the dead man’s spirit, who vows to seek revenge against his killer.
Program #524 – Broadcast 07-09-12
“Ten Days” starring Ned Bellamy (Seinfeld / Twilight) with Stacy Keach as narrator.
Plot: Michael Franklin is a driven, workaholic who focuses on business at the expense of genuine human contact. When Michael finds out he has only 10 days to live – he realizes that he’s been living his life all wrong – but is it too late to do anything about it?
“Elegy” starring Blair Underwood (Sex and the City / The Event) with Stacy Keach as narrator.
Plot: Three astronauts land on a remote asteroid where everyone is frozen in place in the midst of their activities. The only one that can move reveals himself as the caretaker who explains that they are in an exclusive cemetery where the dead’s greatest wish can come true.
Program #525 – Broadcast 07-16-12
“What’s In the Box” starring Mike Starr (Dumb & Dumber / Goodfellas / The Black Dahlia) with Stacy Keach as narrator.
Plot: A man can “watch” his future and its horrible consequences on his just-repaired TV set. He frantically tries to alter his fate.
“A Penny For Your Thoughts” starring David Eigenberg (Sex and the City / See You in September) with Stacy Keach as narrator.
Plot: Gaining telepathic abilities when his coin lands on its edge, bank clerk Hector B. Poole learns about the difference between other people’s plans and fantasies.
Program #526 – Broadcast 7-23-12
“Young Man’s Fancy” starring Tony Plana (Ugly Betty / 24) with Stacy Keach as narrator.
Plot: A recently married man misses his dead mother and his childhood so much that he can’t seem to live in the today and now, causing untold horror for his new bride.
“Execution” starring Don Johnson (Miami Vice / Nash Bridges) with Stacy Keach as narrator.
Plot: An murdering cowboy from the old west is transported to today by a scientist just as he’s about to be hung. He has a second chance in a new world but will his thirst for blood be quenched?
Program #527 – Broadcast 7-30-12
“W.I.L.D. A Voice in the Wilderness” starring JoBe Cerny (Somewhere In Time) with Stacy Keach as narrator.
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“I Am the Night, Color Me Black” starring John Ratzenberger (Cheers / Toy Story) with Stacy Keach as narrator.
Plot: On the day an unpopular idealist is to be executed for the killing of a racist bully, the townsfolk are shocked to see the skies have turned pitch black.
Program #528 – Broadcast 8-6-12
“A World of Difference” starring Luke Perry (Beverly Hills 90210 / Jeremiah / Windfall) with Stacy Keach as narrator.
Plot: A businessman inexplicably finds his office has become a set for a movie in which he is a character.
“The Hunt” starring Shelley Berman (Twilight Zone / Curb Your Enthusiasm) and Karen Black (Trilogy of Terror / Easy Rider) with Stacy Keach as narrator.
Plot: A man from the sticks can’t figure out why everyone is acting like he’s dead – including his wife. When she throws him a wake, he really is confused.
Program #529 – Broadcast 8-13-12
“The Bewitchin’ Pool” starring Karen Black (Trilogy of Terror / Easy Rider) with Stacy Keach as narrator.
Plot: Two children of divorcing parents, escape through a magical portal in their pool, into a peaceful world for children.
“The Jeopardy Room” starring Yasen Peyankov (The Practice / Alias) with Stacy Keach as narrator.
Plot: A KGB agent sent to kill a Russian defector plants a bomb in the man’s hotel room and gives him three hours to find and disarm it and so win his freedom, or else fail and die.
Program #530 – Broadcast 8-20-12
“Death Ship” starring John Schneider (Dukes of Hazard / Smallville) with Stacy Keach as narrator.
Plot: Three astronauts from Earth discover a wrecked duplicate of their spaceship on a distant planet with their own dead bodies inside.
“Long Live Walter Jameson” starring Lou Diamond Phillips (LaBamba / Triangle) with Stacy Keach as narrator.
Pot: Professor Walter Jameson is an excellent history teacher who talks about the past as if he had lived it … his soon to be father-in-law suspects the worst.
Program #531 – Broadcast 8-27-12
“From Agnes With Love” starring Ed Begley, Jr. (Six Feet Under / Best In Show) with Stacy Keach as narrator.
Plot: A computer programmer grows to realize that under the stainless-steel exterior of the world’s most advanced computer is the complex soul of a jealous woman who has fallen in love with him.
“The Mighty Casey” starring Paul Dooley (Desperate Housewives / Runaway Bride / Madison) with Stacy Keach as narrator.
Plot: A broken-down baseball team soars when a new player, a human-looking robot, pitches shut-out after shut-out. After it is discovered that he’s a robot, the only way he will be allowed to continue to play is if he is altered to become more human.
Program #532 – Broadcast 9-3-12
“He’s Alive” starring Marshall Allman (Prison Break / True Blood) * Peter Mark Richman (Beverly Hills 90210 / Twilight Zone) with Stacy Keach as narrator.
Plot: Peter Vollmer, a small-time neo-Nazi leader, yearns for more power. Advised by a shadowy benefactor, Vollmer’s followers grow, as does his ego. * Peter Mark Richman starred in the Twilight Zone TV episode “The Fear” originally televised 5/29/64.
“The Nanobots” starring David Pasquesi (Angels & Demons / Year One) with Stacy Keach as narrator.
Plot: A washed up reporter takes on nanotechnology as his new assignment. He happens across a new way to clean up oceanic oil spills only to find that the microscopic nanobots will eat just about anything --- and everything.
Program #533 – Broadcast 9-10-12
“The Last Night of a Jockey” starring Bruno Kirby (Good Morning Viet Nam / City Slickers) with Stacy Keach as narrator.
Plot: Grady is a former jockey, banned from horse racing and down on his luck. When he’s granted one wish, it is to be a giant among men – it’s a wish he soon has to live or die with.
“Ninety Years Without Slumbering” starring * Bill Erwin (Somewhere In Time / Twilight Zone) with Stacy Keach as narrator. * Bill Erwin appeared in three original Twilight Zone television series, “Mr. Denton on Doomsday,” “The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street,” and “Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up.”
Plot: An elderly man believes he will die if his grandfather clock stops ticking and when the clock is given away, he must stop at nothing to keep it wound.
Program #534 – Broadcast 9-17-12
“Midnight Sun” starring Kim Fields (Facts of Life) with Stacy Keach as narrator.
Plot: The Earth’s orbit has suddenly changed, drawing it ever closer to the Sun and promising eminent destruction from the massive heat. One woman struggles for survival.
“Passage on the Lady Anne” starring Martin Jarvis (Titanic) and Rosalind Ayres (Gods & Monsters) with Stacy Keach as narrator.
Plot: A young couple on the verge of divorce decide to cruise on a ghostly steamship to England in the hopes of saving their marriage.
Program #535 – Broadcast 9-24-12
“Nightmare at 20,000 Feet” starring John Schneider (Smallville / Dukes of Hazard) with Stacy Keach as narrator.
Plot: A newly released mental patient is the only one able to see a gremlin ripping up the wing of his airliner.
“People Are Alike All Over” starring Blair Underwood (Sex and the City / The Event) with Stacy Keach as narrator.
Plot: On Mars, an Astronaut from Earth is made to feel right at home.
Program #536 – Broadcast 10-1-12
“One For the Angels” starring Ed Begley, Jr. (Best in Show / Six Feet Under / A Mighty Wind) with Stacy Keach as narrator.
Plot: A salesman cleverly eludes Death. But if he lives, a little girl must die in his place. Only the salesman’s greatest pitch can save her.
“The Purple Testament” starring Michael Rooker (Henry Portrait of a Serial Killer / Walking Dead) with Stacy Keach as narrator.
Plot: Lt. Fitzgerald has found his own special wartime nightmare -- looking into the faces of his men prior to battle, he has the disquieting ability to see who is about to die.
Program #537 – Broadcast 10-8-12
“The Parallel” starring Lou Diamond Phillips (LaBamba / Triangle) with Stacy Keach as narrator.
Plot: Astronaut Robert Gaines finds himself back on Earth after a crash landing, in a world very similar to, but not quite his own.
“Ring-A-Ding Girl” starring Sarah Wayne Callies (Prison Break / Walking Dead) with Stacy Keach as narrator.
Plot: Movie star Bunny Blake makes an unexpected visit to her hometown after receiving a strange ring that predicts the future. Her visit becomes more important than anyone can predict.
Program #538 – Broadcast 10-15-12
“The Silence” starring Chris McDonald (Quiz Show / Happy Gilmore) with Stacy Keach as narrator.
Plot: Archie Taylor offers incessant talker Jamie Tennyson a fortune if he can keep quiet for a year. It’s a bet that Tennyson can’t resist and insists on winning – at any cost!
“Steel” starring Lou Gossett, Jr. (An Officer and a Gentleman / Roots) with Stacy Keach as narrator.
Plot: In the near future boxing has been outlawed and is performed by mechanical robots. The manager of a robot desperately in need of repair does the unthinkable to win a bout.
Program #539 – Broadcast 10-22-12
“Night Call” starring * Mariette Hartley (Dirt / The Twilight Zone) with Stacy Keach as narrator.
Plot: An elderly, invalid woman begins receiving strange, anonymous phone calls on a stormy night - phone calls, which she finds out, are routed directly through – the Twilight Zone. * Mariette Hartley starred in the Twilight Zone TV program “The Long Morrow” originally televised 1/10/64.
“The New Exhibit” starring JoBe Cerny (Somewhere In Time / Road To Perdition) with Stacy Keach as narrator.
Plot: An overachieving museum caretaker stores wax dummies of five notorious killers in his basement. Then the bodies start to pile up!
Program #540 – Broadcast 10-29-12
“A World of His Own” starring Charles Shaugnessy (Mad Men / The Nanny) with Stacy Keach as narrator.
Plot: A playwright has the power to conjure up any person or thing by simply dictating a vivid description into his tape recorder. He also has the power to make them disappear too.
“Sounds and Silences” starring Richard Kind (Curb Your Enthusiasm / Spin City) with Stacy Keach as narrator.
Plot: A man who has lived his life joyously surrounded by loud noise suddenly finds that trivial sounds, such as dripping water, begin to drive him insane.
Program #541 – Broadcast 11-5-12
“And When the Sky Is Opened” starring Barry Bostwick (Spin City / Evening) with Stacy Keach as narrator.
Plot: Three Astronauts return from the first successful space probe – but are unable to recall what happened on the flight.
“Stopover in a Quiet Town” starring Stephnie Weir (MadTV / Fun With Dick and Jane) with Stacy Keach as narrator.
Plot: The day after a drunken party, a married couple awakens in an unfamiliar house with no idea how they got there.
Program #542 – Broadcast 11-12-12
“Now You Hear It, Now You Don’t” starring Dee Wallace (E.T. / Halloween) with Stacy Keach as narrator.
Plot: A powerful businesswoman reluctantly agrees to wear an experimental hearing aid when she begins to lose her hearing. With the aid of the hearing device, she believes she can now hear other people’s thoughts and fears that her husband is plotting to kill her.
“Third From the Sun” starring Fred Willard (Everybody Loves Raymond / A Mighty Wind) with Stacy Keach as narrator.
Plot: Certain that a nuclear war is imminent; a scientist plots to escape with his family and closest friends in an experimental spaceship to a planet 11 million miles away.
Program #543 – Broadcast 11-19-12
“…And Cauldron Bubble” starring Virginia Williams (Monarch Cove / Facing Kate) with Stacy Keach as narrator.
Plot: During rehearsals for a college production of “Macbeth” a series of increasingly serious accidents involving the cast and crew has people worried about its reputation as a jinxed play. Only the strange school Janitor seems to have a clue as to the mysterious events.
“The Time Element” starring Bobby Slayton (Rat Pack / Mind of the Married Man) with Stacy Keach as narrator.
Plot: A wisecracking New Yorker finds himself in Honolulu on December 6th, 1941 – the day before the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. He knows of the invasion but can’t get anyone to believe him.
Program #544 – Broadcast 11-26-12
“On Thursday We Leave For Home” starring Barry Bostwick (Spin City / Law & Order: Special Victims Unit) with Stacy Keach as narrator.
Plot: A colony has barely survived on a sparse planet banked by two suns for 30 years only because their megalomaniac leader dictates their every move. When a rescue ship arrives and offers them a new life back on Earth – things do not go as planned.
“To Serve Man” starring Blair Underwood (Sex and the City / The Event) with Stacy Keach as narrator.
Plot: The Kanamits, 9 foot tall aliens, arrive on Earth with one goal: To Serve Man. They end war. They end famine. But they make the military wonder: What’s the catch?
Program #545 – Broadcast 12-3-12
“Pattern For Doomsday” starring Henry Rollins (The Henry Rollins Show / Heat) with Stacy Keach as narrator.
Plot: A tremendous asteroid is on a collision course with Earth and a computer selects 8 people from all walks of life to escape on the lone spaceship.
“Twenty-Twelve” starring Christian Stolte (Law Abiding Citizen / Halloween) with Stacy Keach as narrator.
Plot: Two brothers argue about yet another end of the world prediction only to discover that this time it’s for real – but not quite as expected.
Program #546 – Broadcast 12-10-12
“The Sixteen-Millimeter Shrine” starring Kathy Garver (Family Affair / The Princess Diaries) and Charles Shaughnessy (Days of Our Lives / The Nanny) with Stacy Keach as narrator.
Plot: Aging film star Barbara Jean Trenton secludes herself in her private screening room, where she reminisces on her past by watching her old films. Her friend and agent Danny Weiss tries to bring her out into the real world but Barbara wants to escape into her old films and eventually, gets her wish.
“The 25th Hour” starring Mike Nussbaum (Field of Dreams / Men in Black) with Stacy Keach as narrator.
Plot: A busy executive can’t find enough time in his week to keep his boss and his girlfriend satisfied. This problem is quickly solved when a strange old man with a mysterious invention gives him all the time he needs – but at what price?
Program #547 – Broadcast 12-17-12
“Night of the Meek” starring Chris McDonald (The Perfect Storm / Happy Gilmour) with Stacy Keach as narrator.
Plot: Henry Corwin, a down-at-the-heels department store Santa, dispenses Christmas cheer to a mission house with the help of a sack that will produce whatever one asks for.
“Snow Angel” starring Sean Astin (Lord of the Rings / Rudy) with Stacy Keach as narrator.
Plot: At Christmastime, a pregnant teenage runaway finds herself in the care of an elderly Grandma-type who is an independent, practical, tough-minded recluse living in a remote part of South Dakota.
Program #548 – Broadcast 12-24-12
“The Changing of the Guard” starring * Orson Bean (Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman / Two and a Half Men) with Stacy Keach as narrator.
Plot: A well-loved teacher feels his useful life is over when he is asked to retire. * Orson Bean starred in The Twilight Zone episode “Mr. Bevis” originally televised 6/3/60.
“Valley of the Shadow” starring Chelcie Ross (Madison / Mad Men) with Stacy Keach as narrator.
Plot: A reporter comes upon a peaceful village that guards the secret of creating and obliterating matter. Once he learns the secret, it takes another miracle to release him from the responsibility of the knowledge.
Program #549 – Broadcast 12-31-12
“Coffin Corner” starring ? w/ Stacy Keach as narrator.
Plot: Two brothers who are the proprietors of a failing funeral home enlist the aide of their niece in the hopes of breathing new life into their business.
“Nothing in the Dark” starring Marshall Allman (Prison Break / True Blood) with Stacy Keach as narrator.
Plot: An old woman consumed with the fact that she will die one day soon, barricades herself in her cold, dark tenement apartment so that “Mr. Death” cannot visit her.