Night Visions
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| Night Visions | |
|---|---|
| Format | Anthology |
| Created by | Dan Angel Billy Brown |
| Starring | Henry Rollins |
| Country of origin | USA |
| No. of episodes | 26 total, 20 aired |
| Production | |
| Running time | 1 hour |
| Broadcast | |
| Original channel | Fox |
| Original run | July 12, 2001 – September 06, 2001 |
Night Visions was an American television anthology series created in the style of The Twilight Zone. Each hour-long episode was made up of two half-hour stories that dealt with themes of the supernatural or simply explored the dark side of human nature. Henry Rollins was the uncredited host of the show. Besides Rollins, the show featured many big names including Lou Diamond Phillips, Cary Elwes, Malcolm McDowell, Stephen Baldwin, Thora Birch, Natasha Lyonne, Bill Pullman, Brian Dennehy, Bridget Fonda, Sherilyn Fenn, Jason London, Jack Palance, Jay Mohr, Luke Perry, and Pam Grier, among others.
The episodes also featured various directors. Some were famous and well-established, such as Tobe Hooper. Some, like Brian Dennehy, JoBeth Williams, and Bill Pullman, were actors trying their hands at directing. Other directors include Joe Dante, Paul Shapiro, Ian Toynton, Jefery Levy, Ernest R. Dickerson, Keith Gordon, and Bryan Spicer.
The show only lasted for one season. All but six episodes aired during the series' original run on the FOX Network. All of the episodes were shown when broadcast in repeats on the Sci-Fi Channel. Four of the originally unaired episodes (Patterns, The Maze, Harmony, and Voices) were edited into the Sci-Fi Channel film Shadow Realm, minus the Rollins introductions and the Night Visions name.
As of 2008, the series is being broadcast on the satellite-only Chiller network while AOL Television has 14 episodes available online.
[edit] List of episodes
Season One 13 color episodes in 60 minute format
| Episode # | Original airdate | Episode title | Director | Starring |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | 7/12/2001 | The Passenger List | Yves Simoneau | Aidan Quinn, Kelly Rutherford, Paul Guilfoyle |
| A transportation safety official investigating the crash of an airplane begins to fear that his daughter was onboard the plane when it crashed; he begins to experience increasing events of déjà vu as the unexplained romantic attraction to a woman who lost her family in the crash also increases. | ||||
| Bokor | Keith Gordon | Jason London, Samantha Mathis | ||
| A medical student identifies a cadaver as a voodoo priest and hesitates to autopsy the body. | ||||
| 2. | 7/12/2001 | Dead Air | Jefery Levy | Lou Diamond Phillips, Malcolm Scott, Meghan Black, Ryan Taylor |
| A late-night radio show DJ begins to get strange calls, as events through the night convince him that the caller is up to more than a mere prank. | ||||
| Renovation | Brian Dennehy | Gil Bellows, Kirsten Robek, Jon Cuthbert, Merrilyn Gann, Katharine Tobin | ||
| A man experiences flashbacks to his new home's past as he starts a new life with his wife and baby. | ||||
| 3 | 7/19/2001 | A View Through the Window | Bill Pullman | Bill Pullman, Carl Lumbly, Don Wallace, Emily Holmes, Carin Moffat, Todd Talbot, Sean Campbell |
| A military scientist is compelled to investigate the strange appearance of a lush farm in the middle of a desert. | ||||
| Quiet Please | Joe Dante | Cary Elwes, Brian Dennehy, Gus Lynch | ||
| A man tries to escape the din of a city under the threat of a serial killer, only to be harassed in the woods by a strange old man and his dog. | ||||
| 4 | 7/26/2001 | Now He's Coming Up the Stairs | Nick Gomez | Luke Perry, Allison Hossack, Sam MacMillan, Donna Yamamoto, Hrothgar Mathews, Shauna Kain, Mark Schooley, Nancy Sivak, Bryce Hodgson |
| A psychiatrist with the ability to absorb the illnesses of his patients comes upon a situation that may be more than he can handle. | ||||
| Used Car | Michael W. Watkins | Sherilyn Fenn, Hart Bochner, Steve Makaj, Jenn Bird, Jacqueline Samuda | ||
| A woman receives a new car as a gift from her husband, only to find that the car and its previous owner have a history, and a vendetta. | ||||
| 5 | 8/2/2001 | Rest Stop | Yves Simoneau | Jerry O'Connell, Amy Jo Johnson, Catherine Barroll, David Kopp, Jo Ann Mac Donald, Katharine Isabelle, Mark Hildreth |
| A couple picks up a hitchhiker on a quiet country road, and discover that the local rest area is more than meets the eye. | ||||
| After Life | Jefery Levy | Randy Quaid, Susan Gibney, Terence Kelly, Eric Schneider, Andy Thompson, Meghan Black | ||
| A man returns to life in the middle of his funeral, and attempts to adjust to his newly-reincarnated existence. | ||||
| 6 | 8/09/2001 | If a Tree Falls | Po-Chih Leong | Natasha Lyonne, Art Kitching, Jonathan Jackson, Ed Evanko, Scott Nicholson |
| Three college students apparently die in a freak car accident, but in order to stay alive they must keep the accident a secret. | ||||
| The Occupant | Joe Dante | Bridget Fonda, Anthony Harrison, Dion Luther, Johannah Newmarch | ||
| A divorcee becomes increasingly distraught as she notices things in her house are being moved around while she is not home. | ||||
| 7 | 8/16/2001 | Reunion | Thomas J. Wright | M. Emmet Walsh, Jay Mohr, Ron Canada, Jane Sowerby, Chuma Hunter-Gault, Kavan Smith, Aaron Pearl, Zoran, Bryan Leslie |
| On the 10th anniversary of a battle in the first Gulf War, a veteran experiencing flashbacks and hallucinations reunites with the members of his company. | ||||
| Neighborhood Watch | Bryan Spicer | David Paymer, Valerie Mahaffey, Peter Kent, Lauren Diewold, Britt McKillip, Don Thompson, David Millbern, Malcolm Stewart, Ray Galletti | ||
| After a community is notified that a sexual predator has been released in their neighborhood, the residents' suburban eden is threatened. | ||||
| 8 | 8/23/2001 | Bitter Harvest | Philip Sgriccia | Jack Palance, Brendan Fletcher, Mark Houghton, Jane Perry, Chris Lovick, Ryan McDonald |
| A farm boy's mistake costs his neighbor both arms, and when he is forced to work for the man a game of cat and mouse ensues. | ||||
| My So-Called Life and Death | Ernest Dickerson | Marla Sokoloff, Wanda Cannon, Steve Bacic, William Pavey, Kurt Max Runte | ||
| A young girl develops a crush on a handyman working near her family's summer home...but when she finds that he can't see or hear her, she begins to suspect that he's a ghost. | ||||
| 9 | 8/30/2001 | The Doghouse | JoBeth Williams | Bill Croft, Stephen Baldwin, Jane Adams |
| A man seeking shelter from a loan shark out to get him finds that there are more dangerous things in this world. | ||||
| Still Life | Ernest Dickerson | Mare Winningham, Peter Wingfield, Kirsten Prout, Taras Kostyuk, Brian Jensen, Anaya Farrell, Deryl Hayes, Michelle Hart | ||
| A day in the life of a woman becomes the setting for a far more horrific reality. | ||||
| 10 | 9/6/2001 | Hate Puppet | Thomas J. Wright | Chad Lowe, William Atherton, Helene Joy, Torquil Campbell, Monica Hamburg, Michael Kopsa, Kim Kondrashoff, Kwesi Ameyaw |
| A man investigates the reason why everyone around him seems to instantly respond to him with hatred and anger. | ||||
| Darkness | Ian Toynton | Michael Rapaport, Ken Pogue, Marilyn Norry, Lindsay Clague, Arthur Corber, Anthony Ulc, David Mackay, Francis Boyle | ||
| A man inherits a house from his rich uncle, not realizing all that comes with it. | ||||
| 11 | 9/19/2002 (Sci-Fi) | The Maze | Tobe Hooper | Amanda Plummer, Luke Edwards, Thora Birch, Chiara Zanni |
| A young college student wanders into a hedge maze and comes out in an apparently deserted version of her campus. | ||||
| Harmony | Paul Shapiro | Timothy Olyphant, Tracy Middendorf, Shirley Knight, Chilton Crane, Michael Hogan, James Kirk, Mitchell Kosterman, Justin Chatwin | ||
| In a town where music is outlawed, a stranger appears and attempts to convince the townsfolk they have nothing to fear. | ||||
| 12 | 9/23/2002 (Sci-Fi) | Cargo | Jamie Kennedy, Philip Baker Hall, John Cuthbert, Micah Gardener, Asja Pavlovic, Vladimir Moskovshenko, Joanna Pacula | |
| A cargo officer on a freighter discovers that the cargo onboard contains more than mere crates and packages. | ||||
| Switch | Jefery Levy | Pam Grier, James Hutson, Cameron Gilley, Allie Mickelson, Shylo Sharity, Brent Glenen, Kyle Labine, Justin Stillwell, Natasha Gregson Wagner | ||
| A psychiatrist attempts to help a young woman synergize the multiple personalities she suffers from. | ||||
| 13 | 9/24/2002 (Sci-Fi) | Patterns | Keith Gordon | Malcolm McDowell, Miguel Ferrer, John B. Lowe, Anna Hagan, John Dadey, Matthew Munn, Giacomo Baessato, Terry Howson |
| An obsessive-compulsive man confronts a therapist with a stunning claim - his behaviors keep the fabric of reality together. | ||||
| Voices | Ian Toynton | Lombardo Boyar, Terrylene, John Finn Gillian Barber, Lorena Gale, Cory Dagg, Jerry Walliser, Sam Boniface, Don House, John Moore, Cameron Bright | ||
| A deaf woman undergoes experimental surgery to restore her hearing, only to find that she can hear more than merely what people are saying. | ||||
