External Rating83%
200660 minEnded

Nightmares & Dreamscapes

Network:TNT

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S01E08 - "You Know They Got a Hell of a Band"

Aired on Aug 3, 2006, 1:00 AM

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This anthology series of eight one-hour episodes adapted from King's short stories will feature such notable performers as Emmy winner and Oscar® nominee William H. Macy(Fargo, TNT's Door to Door and The Wool Cap) and Jacqueline McKenzie (The 4400, Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood), who star in Umney's Last Case; Emmy winner Kim Delaney (NYPD Blue, CSI: Miami) and Steven Weber (The Shining, Wings), who star in You Know They Got a Hell of a Band; Samantha Mathis (TNT's The Mists of Avalon and Salem's Lot) and Jeremy Sisto (Six Feet Under, TNT's Julius Caesar), who headline The Fifth Quarter; Golden Globe nominee Ron Livingston (Band of Brothers, The Cooler) and Golden Globe nominee Henry Thomas (E. T. The Extra-Terrestrial, Legends of the Fall), who star in The End of the Whole Mess; Oscar® nominee Tom Berenger(Platoon, TNT's Into the West) and Oscar® nominee and Golden Globe winner Marsha Mason (The Goodbye Girl, Frasier), who star in The Road Virus Heads North; and Oscar® winner William Hurt (Kiss of the Spider Woman, The Village), who headlines Battleground.

Details

Status
Ended
Language
English
Runtime
60 min
Premiered
July 12, 2006
Ended
August 2, 2006
Schedule
Wednesday at 9:00 PM

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Episodes (1 Season · 8 Episodes)

Battleground

A coldhearted hit man (William Hurt) kills a toy-company bigwig, but his world turns topsy-turvy when he later receives a mysterious package (complete with "bonus surprises") from the company at his luxurious high-rise abode in San Francisco.

Jul 12, 2006

60 min

Crouch End

A honeymoon in England turns horrific for a newlywed American couple (Eion Bailey, Claire Forlani) when they visit---and get trapped inside---an ominous London neighborhood that is actually a portal to another dimension.

Jul 12, 2006

60 min

Umney's Last Case

William H. Macy plays dual roles in this imaginative tale about an author who copes with a family tragedy by writing himself into the noirish dramas of his own novel, where he interacts with his main character, a hard-boiled investigator in 1938 Los Angeles.

Jul 19, 2006

60 min

The End of the Whole Mess

A documentary filmmaker (Ron Livingston) recalls the life and work of his idealistic, genius brother (Henry Thomas), whose cure-all experiment to end global violence, war and mayhem turns horribly wrong.

Jul 19, 2006

60 min

The Road Virus Heads North

On his drive home from a conference, a noted novelist (Tom Berenger) spontaneously buys a creepy painting at a yard sale. When the artwork begins to transform and become more menacing, he realizes he must destroy it before it kills him.

Jul 26, 2006

60 min

The Fifth Quarter

A released convict (Jeremy Sisto) is told by his dying friend of a four-part map that details the location of $3.5 million from a robbery. With one quarter of the map in hand, he goes on a violent odyssey to find the three remaining sections.

Jul 26, 2006

60 min

Autopsy Room Four

After he's paralyzed from a snake bite, a vacationing businessman (Richard Thomas) is mistakenly declared dead and taken to the autopsy room. Completely conscious but unable to move or speak, he bears witness to his own autopsy, performed by a female doctor (Greta Scacchi) and her student.

Aug 2, 2006

60 min

You Know They Got a Hell of a Band

A couple (Steven Weber, Kim Delaney) on a "pristine wilderness" adventure take a wrong turn and end up in Rock and Roll Heaven, Ore., a Rockwellian hamlet that is not on any map and is populated by deceased rock icons. But something ominous lurks beneath the sunny surface, and the couple soon realize they may be trapped in the town forever.

Aug 2, 2006

60 min

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