Strange Highways

Magic (1978)

This week Terry and Paul take a detour from Season 5 of the Twilight Zone and take a cab ride to 1978 and meet Corky, a recently struggling professional magician that has now found fame with his new gimmick, a foul mouthed ventriloquist dummy named Fats. When Corky runs away from success, he goes back to his hometown and starts talking to his high school crush, Peggy. As they start hitting it off, Fats starts to get jealous...

S5, Ep. 18 - Black Leather Jackets

This week Terry and Paul are trying to become licensed ham radio operators when three leather clad bikers show up in town to do what bikers do best... buy real estate? It just gets weirder from there, Daddy-O.

S5, Ep. 17 - Number 12 Looks Just Like You

This week Terry and Paul stop by the far off year of 2000 to get some cups of Instant Smile and meet Marilyn, a young lady that is being pressured to undergo a procedure so that she will look beautiful just like everyone else. When she starts raising doubts, things go from beautiful to ugly very quickly... 

S5, Ep. 16 - The Self-Improvement of Salvadore Ross

This week Terry and Paul make sure they are up to date on their calcium supplements when they meet Mr. Salvadore Ross, a man who believes the world is against him and that he is owed power and position. This is only amplified when he finds out that he has the ability to make any deal come to pass...

S5, Ep. 15 - The Long Morrow

This week Terry and Paul lie in glass boxes and listen to the thoughts of Commander Douglas Stansfield, an astronaut in suspend animation and on a 40 year round trip through outer space. Though his body is far away from Earth, his heart is firmly anchored there with thoughts of a budding romance that started at the exact wrong time...

S5, Ep. 14 - You Drive

This week Terry and Paul barely get out of the way of Mr. Oliver Pope, a distracted man who just struck a paperboy with his car. Oliver believes he got away with his hit and run however his car has other ideas...

S5, Ep. 13 - Ring-a-Ding Girl

This week Terry and Paul get ready to go to a picnic when they meet Ms. Barbara "Bunny" Blake, a film star that has come back to her hometown because a ring told her to do so... 

S5, Ep. 12 - Ninety Years Without Slumbering

This week Terry and Paul awkwardly sit unnoticed in the living room of the Kirk household, listening to Mr. Sam Forstmann tinker with his grandfather clock upstairs. Sam is obsessed with making sure that the clock never stops ticking because he believes when it winds down, so will he... 

S5, Ep. 11 - A Short Drink from a Certain Fountain

This week Terry and Paul end up at terrible dance party in a very cool looking apartment and meet Harmon and Flora Gordon, a May December romance that has turned sour because Harmon just doesn't have the energy anymore to keep up with Flora. Harmon will do anything for her and just wants to be young again...

S5, Ep. 10 - The 7th is Made Up of Phantoms

This week Terry and Paul end up between the Bighorn and Little Bighorn rivers and meet three US army soldiers operating a tank as part of a war game. A strange wind blows and suddenly the men find themselves following the same fateful trail General Custer did some 80 years earlier...