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Downwind from Gettysburg

Sci-Fi & Fantasy

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Oct 15, 1992

In a theater for tourists, a robot made to look like Abraham Lincoln is programmed to recite the Gettysburg Address.

Full Episodes

Season 6, 15 episodes

The Lonely One,

Three women try to decide whether to walk to a movie, knowing there’s a serial killer on the loose. Although her companions disagree, one of the women insists.

23m Jul 8, 1992

The Happiness Machine,

One day, a man (Elliott Gould) wakes up and decides to build a machine that creates happiness. Much to his wife’s dismay, it becomes an obsession.

23m Jul 10, 1992

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 strain on the new parents, so much so that the wife is on the brink of a mental breakdown.

23m Aug 12, 1992

The Anthem Sprinters,

An American tourist becomes involved in an Irish sporting event. Guest starring Len Cariou.

24m Aug 19, 1992

By the Numbers,

On a train, a man learns the truth about a boy and his drill sergeant father that he met years ago at a hotel pool.

23m Sep 9, 1992

The Long Rain,

When an army spaceship crash lands on a world where it never stops raining, the survivors try to reach the Sun Dome that has been erected on the planet, providing the only shelter. But exhaustion hits and predatory plants await.

23m Sep 17, 1992

The Dead Man,

A lonely manicurist befriends a man who claims to be dead. Guest starring Louise Fletcher.

24m Sep 24, 1992

Sun and Shadow,

A local man protests when a rude director attempts to use his house for the backdrop of a liquor commercial.

22m Oct 1, 1992

Silent Towns,

After an evacuation, the last man on Mars seeks the last woman on Mars. Guest starring John Glover and Monica Parker.

23m Oct 8, 1992

Downwind from Gettysburg,

In a theater for tourists, a robot made to look like Abraham Lincoln is programmed to recite the Gettysburg Address.

23m Oct 15, 1992

Some Live Like Lazarus,

A boy and a girl fall in love as children and vow to marry when they’re 21. However, the boy’s domineering mother has other plans.

23m Oct 22, 1992

The Handler,

A small-town mortician takes a perverse delight in exacting postmortem revenge against his enemies — until his day of reckoning arrives. Guest-starring Michael J. Pollard.

21m Oct 25, 1992

Fee Fie Foe Fum,

A grandmother worries when her granddaughter’s husband installs a new garbage disposal in the house.

23m Oct 26, 1992

Great Wide World Over There,

An illiterate woman asks her nephew to write letters for her so she can talk to all the people in the world that she’s never seen.

23m Oct 27, 1992

The Tombstone,

A salesman and his wife (Shelley Duvall) take the last available room in a hotel where the previous occupant left a tombstone.

23m Oct 28, 1992