Episode Guide 1996
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1996 Imagination Theatre Episodes (Order by number)
| 1 | The Thing In The Woods: | A family hiding in a forest from invading forces following World War III flees from a lethal-looking object dropped in the woods. |
3/17/96 |
| Seattle Blues: | Private eye Harry Nile tries to win back $5000 stolen from a naive bar hostess, and winds up left for dead in a boxcar. | ||
| 2 | Blind Flight: | A business jet pilot tries to talk down a blind girl, the only passenger in a plane whose pilot, her father, has died at the controls. |
3/24/96 |
| Coots: | A grasping nephew in debt to a crook helps the criminal steal from his aged uncle, but the old gentleman has a trick up his sleeve. | ||
| 3 | Dreamstate: | Three psychiatrists compare notes on their most bizarre cases, including a schizophrenic priest who believes he is a killer in another personality. |
3/31/96
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| Dead Ringer: | Harry Nile saves a woman from suicide, then learns a terrible secret about her twin sister. | ||
| 4 | But The Flesh Is Weak: | A drug-crazed killer is spirited away to a weird monastery where time doesn't exist. |
4/7/96
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| Bellamy Bridge: | Suffering shell-shock, a young veteran of World War I meets his doom on the covered bridge between his home and his sweetheart's. | ||
| 5 | Baumann And The Box: | Harry Anderson stars as a treacherous magician who will do anything to obtain a baffling illusion from a retired European artist. |
4/14/96 |
| The Man Who Died Twice: | A reporter finds out why a terminally ill nursing home patient was murdered as he lay dying. | ||
| 6 | The Loophole: | Hans Conreid stars as a desperate man whose job was "downsized" just before he became eligible for his retirement benefits. |
4/21/96 |
| The Island: | A bombastic talk-show host and a female reporter are marooned on an unknown island when his private plane is forced down. | ||
| 7 | The Eddie Mayhew Matter: | When a famous old jazz musician dies without a will, his son hires Harry Nile to help him collect a fortune. |
4/28/96
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| Woman's Work Is Never Done: | A miserly farmer forbids his wife to take a break from her drudgery in order to take violin lessons. | ||
| 8 | The Bouganville Giant: | Natives on a South Pacific island are terrorized by a swarm of seven-foot moths which nest on an innactive volcano. |
5/5/96 |
| Nightmare: | A sky-diver repeatedly dreams his 'chute doesn't open, but his wife awakens him each time before he dreams that he hits the ground. | ||
| 9 | The Trophy: | A big-game hunter bags a rare black tiger, but the tiger takes its revenge in an unexpected way. |
5/12/96
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| The Lieutenant: | In the Vietnam war, an American soldier believes his life is saved by a German officer from another time, another war. | ||
| 10 | Home Is The Hunter: | A strange tale of a desperate attempt by Hitler to have Franklin D. Roosevelt assassinated in Washington DC. | 5/19/96 |
| Chet Avery's Lot: | John Collum stars as the owner of a space rocket salvage yard who sells an interplanetary booster to an alien who wants to go back home. | ||
| 11 | The Shrine: | A 55-minute drama concerning a computer genius who is dying, and who devises a way to control the lives of his family from beyond the grave. |
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| 12 | The Gatekeeper: | What is the secret beneath the rubble of an old San Francisco movie house demolished in an earthquake? (Old-time radio stars here.) |
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| The Perfect Man: | The party's search for a perfect political candidate is over. There's only one trouble with this squeaky-clean candidate...... | ||
| 13 | A Semi-Private Room: | Ruta Lee plays a self-centered woman in a hospital, and her confusion of real memories and imagination. |
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| The Diogenes Syndrome: | An advertising executive bumps his head and finds that he cannot do anything but tell the absolute truth. | ||
| 14 | Desperate: | John Brandon plays a vagrant who accepts the job of killing the wealthy wife of a playboy, but falls in life with her. (Patricia Barry co-stars.) |
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| The Transplaning of Terry Mcdade: | A history professor (Harry Anderson) discovers a way to travel backward in time to elude the sheriff. | ||
| 15 | Bum Steer: | Does a panhandler know something about a secret merger plan? The CEO of a huge corporation is desperate to know how a bum found out. |
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| The 23-Pound Clue: | Harry Nile chases down missing secret plans lost in a plane crash in the high desert of California in this 1940's-era thriller. | ||
| 16 | Justice Delayed: | When he realizes his client is certain to be convicted of murdering his wife, his lawyer formulates a desperate plan to help him escape. |
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| Perfect Likeness: | In a rural forest clearing, two girls mysteriously appear to an artist and beg her to paint their picture to help identify their murderer. | ||
| 17 | The Beasts: | The ghosts of slaughtered cattle stampede the English dairy farm where a new owner has taken over. |
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| The Tweed Cap: | Roddy MacDowell stars as an Irish lad whose best friend refuses to remove his cap under any circumstances. | ||
| 18 | Desperation Island: | A domineering man paralyzed in a surgical operation takes his wife, stepson and the surgeon on a frightening boat trip ending in horror. |
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| The Unmasking: | In a story set in the 1970s, a World War II vet identifies his new boss as a former Nazi death-camp guard. | ||
| 19 | Siren In The Night: | A hypochondriac, alone on a business trip, tries to calm himself in a hotel room far from home, as he fears he is about to die of fright. |
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| The Rubber Clock: | What is the secret that enables a Japanese computer-chip company to beat all its competition to each new development? | ||
| 20 | The Robin Hood Heist: | Keenan Wynn stars as a reformed (almost) thief who is recruited for one last job that will net him a fortune. |
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| Reunion: | Tom Smothers, in his first serious acting role, plays a disoriented war veteran who can't hang onto the reality of his high school reunion. | ||
| 21 | Dead Men: | A psychoatrist's patient is convinced he died twenty years before in a motorcycle accident, and wants to know why he's still walking around. |
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| Old Acquaintance: | A pretty girl seeking an acting job is recruited by a secret intelligence agency to impersonate a foreign spy. | ||
| 22 | The Garden Of Dr. Shakaji: | What is the secret of a holy man from India and statues in his American garden? |
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| The Lonely Ghost Matter | Harry Nile is hired to find who - or what - is haunting a UCLA professor whose wife had recently died. | ||
| 23 | Encore: | Gilligan's Island co-star Dawn Wells plays a girl who helps an old man and his broken-down Cadillac in the Nevada desert. Is he Elvis grown old?? |
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| Lady Down The Line: | Just before a killing takes place in a tiny New England village, a mysterious lady appears, and a bus driver knows who she is. | ||
| 24 | Glory Hole: | A volatile international oil-drilling crew in Siberia sinks the deepest hole in history, and discovers a bone-chilling horror. |
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| Trades: | Dave's World star Harry Anderson teams with WKRP star Richard Sanders in this tale of two men who decide to change places in life. | ||
| 25 | A Person Of Interest: | A cast of stars from the 1940's Golden Age of Radio return in a police-procedural whodunnit, a full 55-minute production. |
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| 26 | The Guest In Room 13: | A superstitious traveler spends his last night in a motel room where an unsolved murder took place ten years before. |
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| Night Tapes: | Someone is leaving cryptic messages on a photographer's voicemail - someone who knows everything about him. | ||
| 27 | The Cubicle: | A timid office worker (Richard Sanders) is spooked by what happens to him whenever he sits down in his tiny new office space. |
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| Stand-In For Murder: | P-I Harry Nile takes a cruise to Hawaii, pretending to be a movie star who may be killed aboard the ship. | ||
| 28 | Time Stowaway: | A visitor from the future appears aboard an early-day ocean liner, in hopes of obtaining help on a vital experiment. |
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| The Candlewyck Particle: | A dying man is made young again, but he pays a heavy price. | ||
| 29 | Quirk: | Why has a colony of strange people isolated themselves on a remote New Jersey peninsula?? |
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| The Haircut: | Harry Anderson plays a screenwriter with a heavy drug habit who tries to con a crippled relative into investing in his next movie. | ||
| 30 | The Procedure: | A plastic surgeon is forced to turn an alien from another world into a human-looking entity. |
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| The Door Of Lotim: | A collector unearths mankind's first glass artifact, not realizing its unearthly power. | ||
| 31 | Boomerang: | A parolee tries to put his life back together in the town where he was tried. |
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| The Squeeze: | Eddie Bracken plays a desperate businessman who owes a fortune to the gangsters who financed him. | ||
| 32 | What Makes Dogs Howl: | The howl of a dog in a small village preceeds a death, but how does the dog know?? |
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| ---And Presumed Dead: | A traveler gets the chance to begin a new life when he's mistakenly listed as being killed in a plane crash. | ||
| 33 | I Saw What You Did: | What does a tormenting phone caller know that would end a mayoral candidate's run for office, and what can be done about it?? |
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| Time Zone: | Harry Anderson stars as the editor of a weekly newspaper in the 1930s, accidentally visited by a time traveler with a faulty laptop computer. | ||
| 34 | Champ: | A lonely wife enlists a handsome laborer to kill her husband for her, in this twist on the plot of "Double Idemnity." |
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| Hard Evidence: | A blackmailer threatens to reveal a scandal in the life of a presidential candidate, until his wife enters the picture with a solution. | ||
| 35 | Sic Transit Gloria Walden: | When a supermarket tabloid trashes their reputations, two movie stars plot the murder of the publisher who printed the lies. |
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| Surgery At Gunpoint: | A prominent surgeon must operate on an injured Mafia boss or his wife and children will be killed. | ||
| 36 | Three Wise Men: | A retired B-52 pilot is recruited by his former commander to fly a secret nuclear strike mission against an ally in this full 55-minute play. |
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| 37 | Gravtrak 449: | In the mid-21st century, a magically levitated supersonic train meets with disaster deep below ground. |
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| For This, I Bought A New Suit: | Private Eye Harry Nile is hired to guard priceless gems, but someone heists them anyway. | ||
| 38 | Before The Devil Knows You're Dead: | The only survivor of a plane crash vows never to fly again, but to keep his job, he must take one last flight. |
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| Welcome To Utopia: | A couple flees the dangers of city life to settle on an island that seems the perfect retreat, until they learn its one big flaw. | ||
| 39 | A Gift From Stacy: | Grieving parents rejoice in giving a home to a young woman who reminds them of their long-dead daughter, but they don't know her secret. |
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| Death By Delivery: | When a young pizza deliveryman discovers who murdered his favorite customer, the killer returns to kill him too. | ||
| 40 | Favor For A Friend: | Private Eye Harry Nile helps unload a coffin from a train, then finds it's occupied by a traveling card shark escaping his last con. Hans Conried guest stars. |
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| A Betting Man: | A compulsive gambler loses a bet and his lovely daughter is betrothed to the winner, but Dad has a trick up his sleeve. | ||
| 41 | Maybe There Is A Santa Claus: | Harry Nile searches for a lost war veteran during the Christmas season. |
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| Macumber's Miracle Tonic: | A legend told by an old department store Santa about a pioneer Christmas. | ||
| 42 | Moving Day : | Discovery of an old pair of spectacles brings back to life cherished times in an old house, in this New Year's Eve comedy. |
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| The New Leaf: | New Year's Eve partiers urge a doctor to tell their straight-laced friend he has only 6 months to live, to see what he'll do.....it was a bad idea. |
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