MonsterVision (Season 4)

Maximum Overdrive (1986) (Episode 1)

Air date: 1999-01-02

Runtime: 121 min

Overview: A group of people tries to survive when machines start to come alive and become homicidal.

The Seventh Sign (1988) (Episode 2)

Air date: 1999-01-09

Overview: Abby Quinn is eagerly awaiting childbirth but is haunted by dreams in which she miscarries. When she decides to rent a room to a mysterious stranger, she releases a chain of events that will unleash the end of humanity.

The Silencers (1996) (Episode 3)

Air date: 1999-01-16

Runtime: 117 min

Overview: Special Agent Rafferty is thrown into a maelstrom of action and intrigue when he identifies a mysterious alien race who are on a mission to invade Earth.

Dolores Claiborne (1995) (Episode 4)

Air date: 1999-01-23

Runtime: 152 min

Overview: A big city reporter travels to a small town where her mother has been arrested for the murder of an elderly woman for whom she worked as a housekeeper.

The Kiss (1988) (Episode 5)

Air date: 1999-01-23

Runtime: 123 min

Overview: After the death of her mother, a teenage girl is faced with bizarre supernatural occurrences when her mother's estranged sister arrives and begins to infiltrate her and her father's lives.

Phantasm II (1988) (Episode 6)

Air date: 1999-02-06

Runtime: 112 min

Overview: Mike, after his release from a psychiatric hospital, teams up with his old pal Reggie to hunt down the Tall Man, who is at it again. A mysterious, beautiful girl has also become part of Mike's dreams, and they must find her before the Tall Man does.

The Guyver (1991) (Episode 7)

Air date: 1999-03-13

Runtime: 109 min

Overview: A young man discovers a mechanical device that merges with his own body, turning him into a cyborg superhero. When strange creatures start appearing, trying to take the device back, he begins to uncover a secret plot to genetically engineer terrifying monsters.

Poltergeist (1982) (Episode 8)

Air date: 1999-04-03

Runtime: 132 min

Overview: A family's home is haunted by a host of demonic ghosts.

The Return of the Living Dead (1985) (Episode 9)

Air date: 1999-05-01

Runtime: 112 min

Overview: When two bumbling employees at a medical supply warehouse accidentally release a deadly gas into the air, the vapors cause the dead to rise again as zombies.

Love Potion No. 9 (1992) (Episode 10)

Air date: 1999-05-22

Runtime: 152 min

Overview: Two scientists who are hopeless with the opposite sex experiment with a substance that makes them irresistible to anyone who hears them speak.

The Serpent and the Rainbow (1988) (Episode 11)

Air date: 1999-05-22

Runtime: 115 min

Overview: An anthropologist goes to Haiti to research a drug that makes someone appear dead by suspending all vital signs.

Maximum Overdrive (1986) (Episode 12)

Air date: 1999-06-19

Runtime: 119 min

Overview: A group of people try to survive when machines start to come alive and become homicidal.

Look Who's Talking Too (1990) (Episode 13)

Air date: 1999-06-26

Runtime: 95 min

Overview: This time, a new baby is on the way, and it's a girl. Wrapped together with the standard conflict between mother and father, Mikey engages in a bit of sibling rivalry with his new sister.

The Blues Brothers (1980) (Episode 14)

Air date: 1999-07-17

Runtime: 176 min

Overview: Jake Blues, just released from prison, puts together his old band to save the Catholic home where he and his brother Elwood were raised. Joe Bob's Summer School: Pop Culture 201

Pee Wee's Big Adventure (1985) (Episode 15)

Air date: 1999-07-17

Runtime: 111 min

Overview: When eccentric man-child Pee-wee Herman gets his beloved bike stolen in broad daylight, he sets out across the U.S. on the adventure of his life. Part of Joe Bob's Summer School: Pop Culture 201

Conan the Barbarian (1982) (Episode 16)

Air date: 1999-07-24

Runtime: 179 min

Overview: A powerful warrior seeks to avenge the genocide of his people and the murder of his parents at the hands of a snake cult.

Conan the Destroyer (1984) (Episode 17)

Air date: 1999-07-24

Runtime: 120 min

Overview: Conan leads a ragtag group of adventurers on a quest for a princess.

Hot Shots! (1991) (Episode 18)

Air date: 1999-07-31

Runtime: 105 min

Overview: A parody of Top Gun (1986) in which a talented but unstable fighter pilot must overcome the ghosts of his father and save a mission sabotaged by greedy weapons manufacturers.

Mars Attacks! (1996) (Episode 19)

Air date: 1999-08-21

Runtime: 133 min

Overview: Earth is invaded by Martians with unbeatable weapons and a cruel sense of humor.

The Great Outdoors (1988) (Episode 20)

Air date: 1999-09-04

Runtime: 121 min

Overview: A Chicago man's hope for a peaceful family vacation in the woods is shattered when the annoying in-laws drop in.

National Lampoon's European Vacation (1985) (Episode 21)

Air date: 1999-09-04

Runtime: 126 min

Overview: The Griswold's win a vacation tour across Europe where the usual havoc ensues. (Part of Joe Bob's Summer School: Geography 207)

Dragnet (1987) (Episode 22)

Air date: 1999-09-11

Overview: The equally strait-laced and "by-the-book" nephew of Joe Friday must work with his more laid-back partner to solve a mystery.

The Devil's Rain (1975) (Episode 23)

Overview: A satanist cult leader is burnt alive by the local church. He vows to come back to hunt down and enslave every descendant of his congregation, by the power of the book of blood contracts, in which they sold their souls to the devil.

Somewhere in Time (1980) (Episode 24)

Air date: 1999-09-25

Overview: A Chicago playwright uses self-hypnosis to travel back in time and meet the actress whose vintage portrait hangs in a grand hotel.

The Fear (1995) (Episode 25)

Air date: 1999-09-25

Overview: A group of college seniors spending a weekend at a cottage for a psychological experiment called "fear therapy" find a human-sized wooden figure called Morty, which triggers everyone's deepest and darkest secrets and emotions.

Child's Play 2 (1990) (Episode 26)

Air date: 1999-10-30

Runtime: 95 min

Overview: While Andy's mother is admitted to a psychiatric hospital, the young boy is placed in foster care, and Chucky, determined to claim Andy's soul, is not far behind.

In the Mouth of Madness (1994) (Episode 27)

Air date: 1999-10-31

Runtime: 112 min

Overview: An insurance investigator begins discovering that the impact a horror writer's books have on his fans is more than inspirational.

The American President (1995) (Episode 28)

Air date: 1999-12-04

Runtime: 123 min

Overview: A widowed U.S. President running for reelection and an environmental lobbyist fall in love. It's all above-board, but "politics is perception," and sparks fly anyway.

Look Who's Talking Now (1993) (Episode 29)

Air date: 1999-12-04

Runtime: 109 min

Overview: The dogs can talk at a family of 4, where mom loses her job the same day dad gets a job as pilot for a cute, single boss.

Twins (1988) (Episode 30)

Air date: 1999-12-25

Runtime: 202 min

Overview: A physically perfect but innocent man goes in search of his long-lost twin brother, who is short, a womanizer, and small-time crook.

Rocky IV (1985) (Episode 31)

Air date: 1999-12-25

Runtime: 108 min

Overview: Rocky Balboa proudly holds the world heavyweight boxing championship, but a new challenger has stepped forward: Drago, a six-foot-four, 261-pound fighter who has the backing of the Soviet Union.