In this pilot film, Mallory is a prominent lawyer with a tarnished reputation who defends a young man charged with committing homicide against a sexual predator in prison.
미국을 휩쓴 대공황이 절정을 이루던 1933년 뜻하지 않게 실직을 하게 되고 집과 머물 곳을 찾아 다니는 부랑자들이 도처에 생겨나게 되었다. 이들은 달리는 기차에 무임승차를 하며 미국 전역을 돌아다녔다. 호보라고 불리우는 이 부랑자들 중에는 에이 넘버원이라는 인물이 있는데 그는 부랑자들 사이에서 북극의 황제라고 불리우며 기차 무임승차에 관한 한 귀신같은 솜씨를 갖고 있다. 한편,19번 열차에는 샤크라는 악명높은 차장이 상주하며 무임승차를 하는 사람들을 발견하여 잔인하게 죽이기 까지 한다. 어느날, 에이 넘버원은 무임승차를 하려 기차에 뛰어드는데 이를 본 시가렛이라는 젊은청년이 뒤에 따라 기차에 오른다. 그때문에 샤크에게 발각된 에이 넘버원은 동물 후송용 기차칸에 시가렛과 함께 갇히는 신세가 된다. 쓴 웃음을 짖으며 아래를 내려다 보는 샤크, 그러나 에이 넘버원은 여유있게 자신이 갖힌 칸에 불을 지르고 탈출하게 되는데.
When the Great Northeast Blackout of 1965 hit, millions of people were left in the dark, including Waldo Zane, a New York executive in the process of stealing a fortune from his company, and two people whose paths he's destined to cross, Broadway actress Margaret Garrison and her husband, Peter.
While on a business trip, Tom Phillips is in a car accident caused by a reckless driver. Tom survives the accident with a severe chronic back injury which results in him not being able to continue with his current business. The Phillips' buy a motel in the California desert and Tom with his wife Peg and their two children, Tina and Jamie make the long road trip to their new home. As they approach their destination they are terrorized by reckless teenage hot-rodders looking for kicks.
This is the story of the clocklike movements of a giant, big city New Orleans hotel. The ambitious yet loyal manager wrestles with the round-the-clock drama of its guests. A brazen sneak thief, who nightly relieves the guests of their property, is chased through the underground passages of the hotel. The big business power play for control of the hotel and the VIP diplomat guest with a secret add to the excitement.
Luther Heggs, a typesetter for the town newspaper, pitches an idea for a story about a local haunted house where a famous murder/suicide occurred 20 years earlier. After the editor assigns Luther to spend one night alone in the mansion, Heggs has a number of supernatural encounters and writes a front page story that makes him a hometown hero...until the nephew of the deceased sues him for libel.
