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Season 1[]

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The Man Who Was Death (Originally aired on 6/10/89)

Starring: Bill Sadler, Gerrit Graham and Dani Mannick


Directed by Walter Hill Niles


Talbot is an executioner who finds himself out of work when the death penalty is repealed. When he sees criminals literally getting away with murder and offs them in various "shocking" ways. When the law finally catches up with him, the death penalty is reinstated, and it's Niles' turn to be in the "hot seat".

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And All Through the House (Originally aired on 6/10/89)

Starring: Mary Ellen Trainor, Larry Drake, Marshall Bell and Lindsey Whitney Barry

Directed by Robert Zemeckis



A woman murders her husband on Christmas Eve and is stalked by an axe wielding escaped mental patient dressed in a Santa Claus suit. Unable to call for help due to her husband's corpse lying in the front yard, she learns there is a penalty for being naughty instead of nice.

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Dig That Cat...He's Real Gone (Originally aired on 6/10/89)

Starring: Joe Pantoliano, Robert Wuhl, Kathleen York and Gustav Vintas

Directed by Richard Donner



Ulric is given the chance of a lifetime when a mad scientist implants a cat's gland inside his brain, allowing him to gain the cat's nine lives. He joins the circus and becomes Ulric the Undying, being killed onstage and coming back to life right before their very eyes. Unfortunately for Ulric, sometimes nine lives isn't enough.

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Only Sin Deep (Originall aired on 6/14/1989)

Starring: Lea Thompson, Britt Leach, Brett Cullen

Directed by Howard Deutch


A call girl goes to a pawnshop to rob him of his jewelry. Instead the owner offers her 10,000 dollars for her beauty. She sells her beauty and lands a new job but discovers she is aging very fast.

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Lover Come Hack to Me (Originally aired on 6/21/1989)

Starring: Amanda Plummer, Stephen Shellen

Directed by Tom Holland


Charles marries Peggy but only for her money planning to kill her and make it look like an accident. One night things change when her dead mother pays a visit and Peggy shows Charles her own family tradition.

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Collection Completed (Oringinally aired on 6/28/1989)

Starring: M. Emmet Walsh, Audra Lindley

Directed by Mary Lambert


After 47 year of tool sales, Jonas has finally found some time to relax and take a break. Or so he thinks. After he returns from his work, he finds out that his wife has been taking in stray animals. He decides to take up a new hobby ... taxidermy.

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