CBS Summer Playhouse
Anthology television series that aired unsold television pilots during the summer.
- 1987-1989
- 3 seasons
- CBS
- Action & Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Science Fiction
Anthology television series that aired unsold television pilots during the summer.
Season 3 Episode Guide
10 Episodes 1989
Episode 1
Microcops
Tue, Jun 20, 1989 60 mins
Two intergalactic 'Microcops' chase a cosmic crook named Cloyd to Earth, where their size becomes cellular.
Episode 2
B-Men
Tue, Jun 27, 1989 60 mins
The "B Men" are high-schoolers who take up bounty hunting after "relying on their wits" to nab a serial killer.
Episode 3
Coming to America
Tue, Jul 4, 1989
Based on the film of the same name, this pilot places Prince Tariq of Zamunda and his assistant Oha in the house of a family in Queens, N.Y.
Episode 4
Shivers
Tue, Jul 4, 1989 24 mins
A divorced father and his children move into a house haunted by a Revolutionary War-era troublemaker and his girlfriend.
Episode 5
Elysian Fields
Tue, Jul 11, 1989 90 mins
New Yorker Nate Goodman arrives in New Orleans to take over the local crisis center. He takes a room in Elysian Fields, a boarding house run by Violet Coffin. Violet and her extended family - mostly young women of libidinous nature - make life in New Orleans much more interesting and odd than Nate ever imagined.
Episode 6
American Nuclear
Tue, Jul 25, 1989 47 mins
A New York columnist and a mayoral aide marry and create a blended family with his rebellious daughter and her uptight children.
Episode 7
Curse of the Corn People
Tue, Aug 1, 1989 44 mins
In Kansas, a group of friends in their 20s undertakes the making of a horror movie called Curse of the Corn People about a feminist zombie who stalks farmers, but things don't go as planned.
Episode 8
The Heat
Tue, Aug 8, 1989 120 mins
Five Federal marshals are out to burn a maniacal bandit and his cohorts who have stolen three truckloads of Stinger missiles.
Episode 9
Road Show
Tue, Aug 15, 1989
A Philadelphia restaurant critic becomes intrigued by the big-city antics and small-town charms of an enigmatic traveler, and joins him on his journeys
Episode 10
Outpost
Tue, Aug 22, 1989 60 mins
Rachel Morgan is the marshal of a sleepy human "Outpost" on the planet Icarus, where a vicious alien leads a group of native Icari on the warpath.