Perversions of Science
"Perversions of Science" was a science fiction anthology series with all the twists and turns of "The Twilight Zone", but with all the sex and violence that cable television allows. Hosted by the sexy, but metallic Chrome, each episode presents a tour to the edges of the unknown, where the realities we have come to know and love turn sinister and unpredictable.
- 1997-1997
- 1 season
- HBO
- Action & Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Suspense, Science Fiction
- TV-MA
"Perversions of Science" was a science fiction anthology series with all the twists and turns of "The Twilight Zone", but with all the sex and violence that cable television allows. Hosted by the sexy, but metallic Chrome, each episode presents a tour to the edges of the unknown, where the realities we have come to know and love turn sinister and unpredictable.
Season 1 Episode Guide
10 Episodes 1997
Episode 1
Dream of Doom
Sat, Jun 7, 1997 25 mins
Arthur Bristol is a college professor who is stuck in a series of dreams that he can't wake up from. Or is he?
Episode 2
Anatomy Lesson
Sat, Jun 7, 1997 25 mins
On his eighteenth birthday, a psychotic young man decides to finally take down a mysterious bearded stranger who's been appearing to him ever since childhood warning him each time not to give in to his urge to kill.
Episode 3
Boxed In
Sat, Jun 7, 1997 26 mins
A pilot has been in space fighting a war for the longest time with nobody except the attractive sexual relief android for both company and help with ship repairs that he won in card game. However, he is betrothed to the Admiral's daughter, Dulcine, and must remain faithful to her.
Episode 4
The Exile
Wed, Jun 11, 1997 26 mins
In a future where murders are extremely rare, a sadistic serial killer is caught by the police. Brilliant psychiatrist Dr. Nordhoff is convinced he can rehabilitate this psychotic inmate dubbed 50557. But that might make things worse.
Episode 5
Given the Heir
Wed, Jun 18, 1997 24 mins
A woman reshapes her body to perfection. In 2006, she goes back ten years into the past to meet the man of her dreams, who's also obsessed with perfection. Unfortunately, he fails to understand the situation and things go very wrong.
Episode 6
Planely Possible
Wed, Jun 25, 1997 27 mins
Brilliant ex NASA scientist conducts a dangerous experiments to send grieving widower Walter to alternate realities where his murdered loving wife is still alive. However, these realities turn out to be the stuff of nightmares.
Episode 7
Panic
Wed, Jul 2, 1997 26 mins
It's the 1930s and Bob and John are attending a Halloween party with their friends. When the infamous radio broadcast of War of the Worlds begins, all hell breaks loose and people end up dead. Is it real, a fiction or somewhere in-between?
Episode 8
Snap Ending
Wed, Jul 9, 1997 24 mins
Captain of a small spaceship must try to keep her two increasingly paranoid and hostile crewmen calm, when the ship's computer registers an unknown viral infection, activates the ship's lockdown mode and starts a self destruct sequence.
Episode 9
Ultimate Weapon
Wed, Jul 16, 1997 25 mins
During one chaotic farcical evening, young housewife Lou Ann Solomon must deal with her loving moody husband, her two drunk girlfriends, her visiting parents and two clueless shape-shifting aliens sent to seduce and impregnate her.
Episode 10
People's Choice
Wed, Jul 23, 1997 26 mins
In a near future where domestic nanny robots are common, suburban neighbors compete to own the best android on the block. But there's something they don't know about their favorite bots.