Kurt Vonnegut
Director
Kurt Vonnegut's Monkey House (1991)
Season 1
Kurt Vonnegut, the author of a collection of short stories called "Welcome to the Monkey House", hosts a series that displays dramatizations of several of his short stories. The anthology series aired on Showtime network from 1991 to 1993. The first three stories were produced as a television pilot in British Columbia, Canada, and broadcast together from 9:00–10:30pm on May 12, 1991. The later four were filmed and produced in New Zealand in 1992, as a co-production with South Pacific Pictures.
Released May 12, 1991
Episode 30 min
None+
Genres: Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi, Science Fiction
Keywords: imdb.based-on-book
Production Companies: Alliance Atlantis Communications
Network: Showtime
S1E1 - Next Door
A boy, home alone when his parents are out, sees trouble in a nearby apartment and seeks help from a radio DJ.
May 12, 1991, midnight
S1E2 - The Euphio Question
A scientist discovers a strange musical transmission from space, which elicits a drug-like euphoric response in all who hear it.
May 12, 1991, midnight
S1E3 - All The King's Horses
When a US government plane goes down over Cuba, a revolutionary decides to play a game of chess with real human lives on the line.
May 12, 1991, midnight
S1E4 - Fortitude
Dec. 21, 1992, midnight
S1E5 - More Stately Mansions
Jan. 3, 1993, midnight
S1E6 - Epicac
Feb. 21, 1993, midnight
S1E7 - The Foster Portfolio
Jon Cryer plays "Slippy" Carter, an arrogant investment advisor who is tired of "nickel and dime accounts" and dreams of being on Nelson Rockefeller's payroll. Instead, he has to content himself with the likes of Hebert J. Foster (Nick Blake), a mild-mannered produce clerk living in a modest neighbourhood with his strait-laced wife and a young daughter. Carter and his assistant (Katie Wolfe) are in for a surprise when they discover that, appearances to the contrary, Foster is really a millionaire. The upstanding citizen and model husband and father has been concealing his true circumstances from his wife in order to be able to justify his weekend job - playing jazz piano at the Bluebeat Cellar, a smoke-filled, slightly seedy dive.
April 4, 1993, midnight
Showtime
30 min/ep
30 min
May 12, 1991
April 4, 1993, midnight
Ended
NR
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