A great series produced by Steven Spielberg.
I remember a few good episodes.
There was the one called "Life on Death Row" with Patrick Swayze in jail and he discovers he has the ability to heal people.
It sounds like a rip off of "The Green Mile" but that particular episode was written years before King wrote his serial novel.
The best one I can remember was called "The Well" or something like that.
It's about a well that yields priceless objects like golden coins and other assorted trinkets.
The old farmer who owns the well is cruel to his daughter and she tricks him into going down into the well via a rope and it turns out that there are living things down there who have been sending up all the gold.
He goes down that well and he is the daughter's gift to the beings in the well.
He's never heard from again.
Or at least that's how I remember it.
I'll have to look that up.
(UPDATE)
I found that episode and it's called "Thanksgiving".
Here's the synopsis:
Thanksgiving
When their dry well yields a gold coin and a note written in
hieroglyphics, a man and his teen-age stepdaughter have contrast-
ing reactions: he rushes off to cash in on the wealth, and she
reciprocates the beneficence of the "hole people".
Another great one was called "The Mission"
It was about a World War II gunner who's trapped in the ball turret of a B-17 bomber.
The landing gear was blown off and the mechanism to enable him to get out of the ball turret was also damaged.
He faces certain death because when the plane lands with no landing gear, he'll be crushed to death when it glides in on its belly.
One of the other crew members starts drawing a picture of the plane and draws it with big yellow cartoon wheels.
These wheels actually take form underneath the plane and allows them all to safely land.
That one had Kevin Costner & Kiefer Sutherland in it and was also directed by Spielberg.
Post Edited (09-14-04 03:52)
