Johnny Carson makes a nostalgic visit back to his hometown of Norfolk, Nebraska in the fall of 1981, revisiting the places of his youth and talking with some of the people he grew up with.
No distrito de Soho em Nova York, o mestre de cerimônias Sardu comanda o Teatro Macabro com seu assistente anão. Quando o crítico Creasy Silo despreza o trabalho deles, Sardu manda sequestrá-lo e, ao mesmo tempo, convence a bailarina Natasha Di Natalie a fazer parte do seu novo espetáculo.
The story of a New York pro baseball team and two of its players. Henry Wiggen is the star pitcher and Bruce Pearson is the normal, everyday catcher who is far from the star player on the team and friend to all of his teammates. During the off-season, Bruce learns that he is terminally ill, and Henry, his only true friend, is determined to be the one person there for him during his last season with the club. Throughout the course of the season, Henry and his teammates attempt to deal with Bruce's impending illness, all the while attempting to make his last year a memorable one.
Jovem professor Paul Reis (Beau Bridges) ingressa em escola tradicional e se surpreende com a violência entre alunos. Desconfiando que algum docente os está incitando, ele inicia uma investigação cujos principais suspeitos são dois antigos rivais: os respeitados mestres da instituição Jeromy Malley (James Mason) e Joseph Dobbs (Robert Preston).
A young woman finds herself engulfed in Cold War intrigue when her father, a Nobel Prize-winning author, vanishes while travelling near the Russian border. Entrusted by her father with an unfinished book he was working on before his trip, the young woman becomes engaged in a power struggle over the material with her estranged stepmother. Suspiciously befriended by a journalist in the midst of the crisis, the young woman ultimately learns that no one is to be trusted - as her father's work is of interest to the intelligence departments of several countries.
Joe Boyd, an aging Washington Senators fan, would sell his soul for the Senators to beat the New York Yankees and win the pennant. Enter Mr. Applegate, who offers to turn Boyd into Joe Hardy, a powerful young baseball player, in exchange for his soul. When Boyd agrees, he becomes Hardy and leads the Senators on a winning streak. When he starts to miss his wife, though, and questions the deal, Applegate sends temptress Lola into the mix.
