Kurt Vonnegut's Monkey House
★ 7.3·1991·1 seasons · 7 episodes·Series
ComedyDramaSci-Fi & Fantasy
Synopsis
Kurt Vonnegut, the author of a collection of short stories called "Welcome to the Monkey House", hosts a series that displays dramatizations of several of his short stories. The anthology series aired on Showtime network from 1991 to 1993. The first three stories were produced as a television pilot in British Columbia, Canada, and broadcast together from 9:00–10:30pm on May 12, 1991. The later four were filmed and produced in New Zealand in 1992, as a co-production with South Pacific Pictures.
Episodes
Season 11E1Next DoorA boy, home alone when his parents are out, sees trouble in a nearby apartment and seeks help from a radio DJ.30m2E2The Euphio QuestionA scientist discovers a strange musical transmission from space, which elicits a drug-like euphoric response in all who hear it.30m3E3All The King's HorsesWhen a US government plane goes down over Cuba, a revolutionary decides to play a game of chess with real human lives on the line.30m4E4Fortitude30m5E5More Stately Mansions30m6E6Epicac30m7E7The Foster PortfolioJon Cryer plays "Slippy" Carter, an arrogant investment advisor who is tired of "nickel and dime accounts" and dreams of being on Nelson Rockefeller's payroll. Instead, he has to content himself with the likes of Hebert J. Foster (Nick Blake), a mild-mannered produce clerk living in a modest neighbourhood with his strait-laced wife and a young daughter. Carter and his assistant (Katie Wolfe) are in for a surprise when they discover that, appearances to the contrary, Foster is really a millionaire. The upstanding citizen and model husband and father has been concealing his true circumstances from his wife in order to be able to justify his weekend job - playing jazz piano at the Bluebeat Cellar, a smoke-filled, slightly seedy dive.30m
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