Cuentos de Borges (Season 1)

Episode 1 (Episode 1)

Air date: 1993-05-26

Episode 2 (Episode 2)

Writer: Gerardo Vera

Air date: 1993-06-02

Overview: Set in 1930s Spain amidst the politics of the right and the left, this is the tale of a man of humble origins who kills the town bully in a just fight.

Emma Zunz (Episode 3)

Writer: Benoît Jacquot

Air date: 1993-06-09

Episode 4 (Episode 4)

Air date: 1993-06-16

Episode 5 (Episode 5)

Air date: 1993-06-23

Overview: An Argentinian medical student, finding himself drawn to the countryside, houses with a Scottish/Native family where he reads the illiterate family the Gospel of Mark to then be found in a debacle of religious proportions (as he was not a pious man himself, but becomes more of a religious figure in their eyes).

Death and the Compass (Episode 6)

Air date: 1993-06-30

Overview: Detective Lonnrot declares war on the notorious outlaw Red Scharlach, after the outlaw has pulled of daring robbery. The mysterious murder of a Talmudic priest provides Lonnrot with a clue.