Strange Highways

This week Terry and Paul wander into Happiness, Arizona, a quiet town with a very violent past, and meet Mr. Jared Garrity, a traveling salesmen of sorts. Garrity tells the townsfolk that he can resurrect the dead and will do so at midnight tonight...

This week Terry and Paul get stuck in a hot and sweaty attic with Fenton, a WWII veteran that blames the world for his problems, and Arthur, a Japanese American that has his own history with the war as well. Tensions escalate, secrets come to light, and a samurai sword keeps turning up... 

This week Terry and Paul wake up with hangovers and fully clothed in bed together and meet Mr. and Mrs. Frazier, a couple that had too much to drink the night before and find themselves in a small town that is not their own. A town with no people and most everything, including the squirrels, appear to be fake...

This week Terry and Paul don't drink the obviously suspicious wine as they meet Major Ivan Kuchenko, an escaped political prisoner trying to get overseas to freedom. What stands in his way though is his former torturer, 3 hours, and bomb planted somewhere in his hotel room...

This week Terry and Paul are looking for Jake's Special Cheese when they meet Mr. Jonathan West, a down on his luck ventriloquist, and his dummy, Caesar. Jonathan is looking for his big break while Caesar has plans of his own... 

This week Terry and Paul are forced to meet Mr. Roswell G. Flemington, a brash, rude man that insists on living in a world full of sound and fury. He wants it all loud, and he will get it...

This week Terry and Paul take a detour and discuss the recent release of George Romero's 'lost' film, 1973's The Amusement Park. They talk about Romero as a director and influence and how this work for hire PSA about elder abuse/neglect still is steeped in social commentary and his visual style. It's a dark ride, but we all enter the Amusement Park eventually...

This week Terry and Paul get real sweaty as they head to an unnamed town that has scheduled a questionable execution for the morning. The people gathered there to witness the hanging wonder why the sun hasn't risen as the sky stays as black as midnight... 

This week Terry and Paul head down to New Orleans for Mardi Gras and meet Mr. Jason Foster, a man at death's door who isn't quite ready to walk through it. Jason has assembled his ungrateful family for one last meal and for a party involving oddly specific masks...  

This week Terry and Paul just want to drink beer and watch wrestling and not meet Mr. and Mrs. Britt. Joe is a crabby cab driver and Phyllis is the thankless wife who thinks Joe is having an affair. When Joe sits down to watch his repaired television and the recently discovered Channel 10, he starts to see his past cheating and possible future sins... 

This week Terry and Paul try to get some Cognac for their mid day coffee and meet Mr. Jordan Herrick, a reporter that has questions for the enigmatic actress Pamela Morris about her lengthy film career. Jordan has suspicions that Ms. Morris is older than she lets on and Pamela has her eyes set on Mr. Herrick and what he can provide... 

This week Terry and Paul are joined again by friend of the show and  a living man, Richard, as they all travel back to Civil War to meet Mr. Peyton Farquhar, a man sentenced to death for tampering with a Union bridge. All he wants to do is go home to his wife and family. When his noose breaks, he gets that chance... 

This week Terry and Paul head out on horseback and meet Mrs. Anne Henderson, a recently engaged 18 year old who has a life of leisure ahead of her. Without warning, she is suddenly chased by a dark figure on a black horse that seems intent on killing her... 

This week Terry and Paul try to sneak past the large room housing Agnes, the world's smartest computer, and the man inside, Mr. James Elwood, the programmer assigned to it. James slowly begins to realize that Agnes doesn't want to talk rocket engines and safe landings, but about his love life... 

This week Terry and Paul correctly carry grocery bags full of eggs to the home of Mrs. Elva Keene, an elderly lady that keeps getting phone calls at night that start just as static but soon become some much more creepy... 

This week Terry and Paul are joined again with Richard as they take another look at a very iconic episode of the Twilight Zone with the season 2's The Invaders. Grab your favorite stabbing knife and soup shovel and dig into one of the best entries of the series!

This week Terry and Paul pay four cents for cups of coffee and watch the original pilot of Tales from the Darkside. It is the story of one rich man forcing the townsfolk's children to enter his house on Halloween and having them try to find their parents' IOUs. He believes he controls all the scares but then he gets an unexpected visitor... 

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...

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.

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...