Bernard, um esnobe intelectual que já foi um grande romancista, acabou se acomodando com uma carreira universitária. Mas quando sua esposa Joan descobre que tem talento para escrever, a inveja divide a família e os filhos Walt e Frank escolhem lados – Walt com seu pai e Frank com sua mãe. Então Joan começa a sair com o professor de tênis do seu filho mais novo e Bernard inicia um romance com Lili, uma estudante de quem Walt também gosta.
Os três filhos do corretor de seguros Leonard foram aceitos na universidade. Sem dinheiro, ele topa participar de uma fraude fazendo um seguro milionário em nome do marido de Blanche, que segundo ela está à morte. Mas as coisas tomam outro rumo e ele fica numa enorme encrenca.
A rugged warrior is on a quest to avenge his father's brutal slaying and in search of a legendary sorcerer who can help him. Joining him on his mission is a beautiful enchantress who is also searching for the sorcerer; pursuing him is a malevolent wizard who wants him dead.
A series of freak accidents on the Los Angeles freeway traps a cast-load of familiar TV faces in an astounding traffic tie-up, with the entire system caught in a gridlock that John Beck, as a traffic expert, endeavors to unsnarl.
As the result of a head injury, brilliant computer scientist Harry Benson begins to experience violent seizures. In an attempt to control the seizures, Benson undergoes a new surgical procedure in which a microcomputer is inserted into his brain. The procedure is not entirely successful.
After a policeman is murdered in an ambush, rumors surface that he was on the take. His widow sets out to catch the killers and clear her husband's name.
A state senator is murdered outside his home, and the police arrest a strange man described as having "icy eyes" for the crime. An Italian reporter finds a stripper who claims to have been an eyewitness to the assassination and saw the man with the icy eyes commit it. At his trial she testifies against him, and he's sentenced to death. However, the reporter soon begins to find holes in the stripper's story, and other circumstances arise which makes him believe that the wrong man may have been convicted
