Fly Swatter
Fred Gwynne, Evie Juster, Bernard Grant

A married couple who work as pick-pockets decide to go straight and take a job as butler and maid for an eccentric couple who love flies and who won't tolerate killing flies.

10/13/1982
1381
The Flash Point
Paul Hecht, Joyce Gordon, Carol Teitel, Court Benson

An engineering executive is put out on the streets when his company is taken over. He is so traumatized by the incident that he loses his memory and finds a new life. But old memories haunt him and he can't avoid his destiny.

10/15/1982
1382
Desert Maiden
Mason Adams, Patricia Elliott, Robert Dryden, Joan Shay

An aging advertising executive travels to the desert for inspiration in finding a name for a new perfume. While there, he meets an old flame who takes him on a voyage of self-discovery.

10/18/1982
1383
Last Days of a Dictator
Bernard Grant, Earl Hammond, William Griffis, Louis Turenne, Marian Seldes

Recounts the fall from grace of Benito Mussolini during World War II and his final ditch appeal to Hitler for support before his ultimate demise.

10/20/1982
1384
Three Fireflies in a Bottle
Russell Horton, Evie Juster, Cynthia Adler, Lloyd Battista

A man claims to have reacquainted himself with an extraterrestrial being he first befriended as a child. The extraterrestrial portends doom for the human race because of pollution and war. This sensitively written, emotionally moving sci-fi tale tells of a boy whose extra-terrestrial childhood friend transforms his life. It also boasts some on-the-mark social commentary on the results of child abuse.

10/22/1982
1385
Resident Killer
Mason Adams, Russell Horton, Carol Teitel

Five hundred years in the future, man has eliminated violence and violent thoughts in society. A violent man is reprogrammed to have placid thoughts. But when they need violence to protect society, he is asked to return to violence in order to save the world from invasion. This man with a violent nature finds an outlet as Earth's sole defender against attacking aliens.

10/25/1982
1386
The Voice That Wouldn't Die
Norman Rose, Bernard Grant, Mia Dillon, Earl Hammond

A young woman and her father move into a Scottish manor house on the moors. The woman hears a mournful voice calling from a the ruins of a burned out house on the grounds. Her father, her doctor, and a priest investigate.

10/27/1982
1387
I Hate Harold
Paul Hecht, Diana Kirkwood, Robert Dryden, Larry Haines

An executive assistant to a diamond broker strongly dislikes the sycophantic, arrogant sales manager his boss just hired. When he finds out the guy is actually a professional jewel thief, he is eager to help the police catch him.

10/29/1982
1388
The Sensible Thing
Lee Richardson, Teri Keane, Louis Turenne

A widower decides to marry his secretary and finds that she harbors a secret from her past that makes it impossible for her to love — and that she has a strong attraction to her dog.

11/02/1982
1389
The School Mistress
Patricia Elliott, Earl Hammond, Lloyd Battista

A Russian school mistress has a scandulous love affair in pre-revolutionary Moscow.

Adaptation

11/04/1982
1390