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Nightmares & Dreamscapes

TV·2006–2006·1 season, 8 episodes·TNT·Drama, Horror·1h·7.8·Created by Stephen King

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This anthology series of eight one-hour episodes adapted from King's short stories will feature such notable performers as Emmy winner and Oscar® nominee William H. Macy(Fargo, TNT's Door to Door and The Wool Cap) and Jacqueline McKenzie (The 4400, Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood), who star in Umney's Last Case; Emmy winner Kim Delaney (NYPD Blue, CSI: Miami) and Steven Weber (The Shining, Wings), who star in You Know They Got a Hell of a Band; Samantha Mathis (TNT's The Mists of Avalon and Salem's Lot) and Jeremy Sisto (Six Feet Under, TNT's Julius Caesar), who headline The Fifth Quarter; Golden Globe nominee Ron Livingston (Band of Brothers, The Cooler) and Golden Globe nominee Henry Thomas (E. T. The Extra-Terrestrial, Legends of the Fall), who star in The End of the Whole Mess; Oscar® nominee Tom Berenger(Platoon, TNT's Into the West) and Oscar® nominee and Golden Globe winner Marsha Mason (The Goodbye Girl, Frasier), who star in The Road Virus Heads North; and Oscar® winner William Hurt (Kiss of the Spider Woman, The Village), who headlines Battleground.

Episodes by season

Season018Episodes2006Aired—Season avg
  1. S01E01Nightmares & Dreamscapes S01E01BattlegroundJuly 12, 2006—A coldhearted hit man (William Hurt) kills a toy-company bigwig, but his world turns topsy-turvy when he later receives a mysterious package
  2. S01E02Nightmares & Dreamscapes S01E02Crouch EndJuly 12, 2006—A honeymoon in England turns horrific for a newlywed American couple (Eion Bailey, Claire Forlani) when they visit---and get trapped inside-
  3. S01E03Nightmares & Dreamscapes S01E03Umney's Last CaseJuly 19, 2006—William H. Macy plays dual roles in this imaginative tale about an author who copes with a family tragedy by writing himself into the noiris
  4. S01E04Nightmares & Dreamscapes S01E04The End of the Whole MessJuly 19, 2006—A documentary filmmaker (Ron Livingston) recalls the life and work of his idealistic, genius brother (Henry Thomas), whose cure-all experime
  5. S01E05Nightmares & Dreamscapes S01E05The Road Virus Heads NorthJuly 26, 2006—On his drive home from a conference, a noted novelist (Tom Berenger) spontaneously buys a creepy painting at a yard sale. When the artwork b
  6. S01E06Nightmares & Dreamscapes S01E06The Fifth QuarterJuly 26, 2006—A released convict (Jeremy Sisto) is told by his dying friend of a four-part map that details the location of $3.5 million from a robbery. W
  7. S01E07Nightmares & Dreamscapes S01E07Autopsy Room FourAugust 2, 2006—After he's paralyzed from a snake bite, a vacationing businessman (Richard Thomas) is mistakenly declared dead and taken to the autopsy room
  8. S01E08Nightmares & Dreamscapes S01E08You Know They Got a Hell of a BandAugust 2, 2006—A couple (Steven Weber, Kim Delaney) on a "pristine wilderness" adventure take a wrong turn and end up in Rock and Roll Heaven, Ore., a Rock

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