Amazing Stories 1.10

Remote Control Man

starring Sydney Lassick

written by Douglas Lloyd McIntosh, Steven Spielberg

directed by Bob Clark

Walter (Sydney Lassick) has a miserable life. He hates his job. His wife and children hate him. His only solace in life is his television, until his wife sells it so that she can buy some clothes. He goes out and buys a new television that changes everything. The remote control transforms his wife into a participant in a beauty pageant. His sons get transformed into Face (from the A-Team) and Arnold (from Different Strokes). 

The Asphalt Jungle (1950)

The Asphalt Jungle (1950)

starring Sterling Hayden, Louis Calhern, Jean Hagen, Sam Jaffe 

written by W. R. Burnett, John Huston, Ben Maddow

directed by John Huston

113 minutes

A ragtag bunch of men hired by Alonzo Emmerich (Louis Calhern) and led by Doc Reidenschneider (Sam Jaffe), break into a bank and steal millions of dollars in jewels. One of them gets mortally wounded during the robbery. Redenschneider and the others, which includes Dix Handley (Sterling Hayden), find themselves in trouble when they discover that Emmerich doesn't have the money he promised them. Things fall apart fairly quickly as the police begin to pick up the pieces of the puzzle. Handley goes on the run with his gal, Doll Conovan (Jean Hagen), and manages to stay ahead of the long arm of the law but eventually succumbs to a wound received after the heist.

Shōgun 1.04

The Eightfold Fence

The ship carrying Blackthorne, Toranaga, and the others arrives in Anjiro, the same town where Blackthrone was brought when his ship arrived in Japan. Yabushige's forces give Toranaga a great welcome but Toranaga doesn't stay for very long. He orders that Hatamoto (Blackthorne) be given a house in the town.

Fuji, whose husband was ordered to kill himself in the first episode, is given to Hatamoto. Mariko also stays in his house. Blackthorne does not sleep with either woman. He asks and learns that the other men on the Erasmus, ship which brought him to Japan, which is still off the coast of Anjiro, were taken to Edo.

To Be or Not to Be (1942)

To Be or Not to Be (1942)

starring Carole Lombard, Jack Benny, Robert Stack

written by Edwin Justus Mayer

produced and directed by Ernst Lubitsch

99 minutes

A troupe of Polish actors in Warsaw at the beginning of the Second World War help Lieutenant Sobinski (Robert Stack), a bomber pilot, intercept Professor Siletsky, a Polish spy who is working for the Germans, from handing over the details he has about the Polish Resistance.  The troupe of actors are led by Joseph Tura (Jack Benny) whose wife Maria (Carole Lombard) began an affair with Sobinski just before the war began. The actors lure the professor into a trap but once he realizes that it is a trap, he tries to shoot his way out and winds up dead. Joseph impersonates Siletsky but things get a bit tricky after the Germans discover Siletsky's body.

Ballard 1.04

Landmines

Ballard's team gets a new lead that helps them to narrow down the number of vehicles that they need to check. Parker gets her reserve badge. Colleen searches for the parents of Yulia, the dead cleaning women who worked at the motel. Ballard and Rawls drive out into the hills in search of a suspect. They find him but Ballard doubts that the suspect has anything to do with the Pearlman or Wilson murders. It was his car and what little profile they had of him that led her to believe that he might.

Chastain, Ballard's ex-partner dies in a car accident. Ballard goes to the funeral but only after Laffont urges her to do so. Laffont and Parker also attend the funeral. 

Teen Titans 5.05

Snow Blind

The Teen Tians, responding to a distress call they received, arrive in a snowy town that has been destroyed. The survivors of the attack are wary of the strangers. One of the men explains that the one who caused the destruction was from the town. The Teen Titans go looking for him in the T-Ship but it gets damaged in a fight with the man who devastated the town.

Kraft Suspense Theatre 1.05

A Hero for Our Times

starring Lloyd Bridges, John Ireland, Geraldine Brooks, Sandra Church

written by David E. Lewis, Andy Lewis

directed by Ralph Senensky

Mason Etheridge (Lloyd Bridges) is getting ready to leave the apartment of Ruth Evans (Sandra Church), with whom he is having an affair, when he looks out the eindow and sees a woman get murdered. He calls the police, tells them what he saw, but hangs up before giving his name. He is spotted by the killer, whom he saw but not clearly.

Mason returns to his wife Doris (Geraldine Brooks) and their three children. He tries to go on with his life but starts to have second thoughts about not stepping forward to provide testimony after a janitor gets arrested and put on trial for the murder. Mason is certain that the janitor wasn't the man he saw. The height, hair color, and age are all wrong.