Sleepwalkers
Short-lived series about a group of dream researchers who use special sleep-beds to electronically send operatives into people's dreams, where they can witness first-hand their subjects' visions and nightmares, and interact with them in an effort to sort them out. They're available for hire by individuals, as well as wider-ranging problems, such as a medical outbreak in a small town. The show was promptly canceled and pulled from TV even before the first season finished airing, so the show's emerging main story arc was left unresolved.
- 1997-1998
- 1 season
- NBC
- Drama, Suspense, Science Fiction
- TV-14
Short-lived series about a group of dream researchers who use special sleep-beds to electronically send operatives into people's dreams, where they can witness first-hand their subjects' visions and nightmares, and interact with them in an effort to sort them out. They're available for hire by individuals, as well as wider-ranging problems, such as a medical outbreak in a small town. The show was promptly canceled and pulled from TV even before the first season finished airing, so the show's emerging main story arc was left unresolved.
Season 1 Episode Guide
9 Episodes 1997 - 1998
Episode 1
Pilot
Sat, Nov 1, 1997
The decorated military pilot Ben Costigan seeks out Dr. Nathan Bradford. Ben is dying as a result of dreadful nightmares with a shadow man. The researchers Kate Russell and Vincent Konefke are sent into Ben's dream and discover that it is related to his childhood. They travel to Ben's hometown in Bethlehem County, disclosing the mystery of the shadow man.
Episode 2
Night Terrors
Sat, Nov 8, 1997
Kate and Nathan, who's being haunted by the memories of their dead partner McCaig, investigate the night terrors of a young boy who's being influenced during sleep by a smiling trickster. The boy's missing sister turns out to be the key.
Episode 3
Eye of the Beholder
Sun, Feb 8, 1998
A woman keeps dreaming that her husband is trying to operate on her abdomen. The team discovers the presence of another person in her dreams, a confused man psychically linked to her. But why? Later, the team is hit by tragedy.
Episode 4
Forlorn
Sun, Feb 15, 1998
One by one, the men of small dying mining town of Forlorn are inexplicably falling victims to sleep paralyses after dreaming about a redheaded succubus that seduces them before turning into a wolf and attacking them.
Episode 5
Counting Sheep
Sun, Mar 8, 1998
While chasing the serial killer Conrad Phibes in a flower shop, Detective Burke shoots him in the head under the protest of his partner Detective Fusco. Conrad enters into a deep coma and is near death, and Fusco seeks out Dr. Nathan Bradford. She explains that Conrad has killed many red-haired women with blue eyes and his last victim, Rochelle Davis, has not been found yet and might be alive. Kate Russell decides to lure Conrad, colouring her hair and wearing contact lens, and enters in his mind with Ben Costigan trying to find the destiny of Rochelle. However, the evil killer has his own agenda and the plan does not succeed, jeopardizing Kate's safety and sanity.
Episode 6
Passed Imperfect
Sat, Apr 4, 1998
Nathan's estranged father-in-law asks him if he could visit his comatose daughter in the dreamworld. However, there's something important he neglects to mention.
Episode 7
A Matter of Fax
Sun, May 31, 1998
Still grieving over her colleague's death, Kate tries to help a slightly autistic, desperate man who suffers from recurring nightmares in which he strangles a stripper whom he likes in real life and who's now missing.
Episode 8
Cassandra
Mon, Jun 1, 1998
A hospitalized schizophrenic woman predicts that Ben's son is going to die. The team enters her cryptic dreams to find out more about her prophecy.
Episode 9
Sub-Conscious
Mon, Jun 1, 1998
A horror novelist has recurring nightmares of being killed by a monster from the book he's trying to finish writing. The team learns that another author already tried to finish it only to end up killing himself.