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Eerie, Indiana: The Other Dimension
Eerie, Indiana: The Other Dimension is an American horror television series. It is a spin-off of Eerie, Indiana. This series aired on the Fox Kids Network in 1998.
| Eerie, Indiana: The Other Dimension | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Comedy Horror Science fiction Satire Adventure Children's television series Fantasy Mystery |
| Written by | Jim Henshaw Terry Saltsman |
| Directed by | John Bell René Bonnière |
| Country of origin | Canada United States |
| Original language | English |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 15 |
| Production | |
| Production locations | Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
| Running time | 30 minutes (with commercials) |
| Production companies | Power Pictures Hearst Entertainment |
| Original release | |
| Network | Fox Kids |
| Release | February 7 – May 30, 1998 |
| Related | |
Plot edit
The series revolves around best friends Mitchell Taylor and Stanley Hope. Like earlier Eerie, Indiana residents Marshall Teller and Simon Holmes, they are constantly encountering strange and out-of-this-world phenomena in their hometown. Bill Switzer played the lead character, Mitchell Taylor.[1]
Cast edit
- Bill Switzer as Mitchell Taylor
- Daniel Clark as Stanley Hope
- Deborah Odell as Mrs. Taylor
- Lindy Booth as Carrie Taylor
- Bruce Hunter as Edward Taylor
- Neil Crone as Mr. Crawford
Development edit
In 1997, the earlier show Eerie, Indiana, generated a new fan base when Fox's children's programming block Fox Kids aired the series, gaining something of a cult following despite its short run. The renewed popularity of the series encouraged Fox to produce this spin-off.[2]
Availability edit
The entire series is available on Tubi (though the episode "The Young and the Twitchy" is skipped over for unknown reasons) and YouTube (which has all the episodes, including "The Young and the Twitchy"). Freevee used to have this and the original Eerie, Indiana series until the end of 2023, when it was pulled, though, as of 2024, both this series and the original Eerie, Indiana have been reuploaded.
Episodes edit
| No. | Title | Original air date | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | "Switching Channels" | February 7, 1998 | |
| Mitchell and Stanley discover that a cable installer's new satellite system is a portal to other dimensions after they find two similar-looking boys (Marshall and Simon from the first series) trying to communicate with them and everyone in town becomes brainwashed by the programming. | |||
| 2 | "The Goody-Two Shoes People" | February 14, 1998 | |
| Mitchell and Stanley join Eerie's "Junior Executives Club" in order to fund their research on the weird, unexplained phenomena in their town...and learn that their teacher, Mr. Stepford, is abducting the members and turning them into robot clones so parents can finally have perfect kids. | |||
| 3 | "Standard Deviation" | February 21, 1998 | |
| A woman from the Mad Bureau of Statistics cites Mitchell's family for not being "normal" and fixes to make Eerie, Indiana the most normal town in America...unless Mitchell and Stanley can reunite her with her Latino lover/tango partner who was abducted by aliens years ago. | |||
| 4 | "Time Flies" | February 28, 1998 | |
| Mr. Tempis, a slick-talking salesman (Tony Rosato) and his scientist partner, Mr. Fugit, sell Mr. Crawford a coffee machine that causes time in Eerie to speed up. | |||
| 5 | "The Phantom" | March 7, 1998 | |
| Mitchell and Stanley go ghost-hunting for a school phantom, only to discover that the "phantom" is actually a boy whose lack of self-confidence is turning him invisible. | |||
| 6 | "The Young And The Twitchy" | March 14, 1998 | |
| When dashing soap opera star, Stag Carnalli, visits Eerie and stays with Mitchell's family, his presence turns all life in Eerie into a torrid soap opera, filled with love triangles, improbable plot twists, and bad organ music. Can Mitchell save his family before he gets caught up in the drama? | |||
| 7 | "Last Laugh" | March 21, 1998 | |
| Howie "The Lip" Lippman, a gag-writing genius, helps Stanley become a master insult comic to get back at Eerie's local bully group, The Bad Apples, but Mitchell discovers that Stanley's comic mentor has cursed anyone who studies with him into going insane from being addicted to laughs and adulation, and the only way to save Stanley's mind is to get Bob the Janitor (who used to be a comedian named Freddie "The Headcase" Foster) out of retirement. | |||
| 8 | "The Newsroom" | April 4, 1998 | |
| Mitchell and Stanley go down to Eerie's local newspaper office to complain about false advertisement when they receive a tin-can telephone in the mail, and discover that the editor created a typewriter that makes bad news come true...including news of an impending nuclear plant disaster. | |||
| 9 | "Little Buddy Beep Beep" | April 11, 1998 | |
| Eerie's kids become obsessed with a new Tamagotchi-style electronic toy where those who take the best care of it win a golden version of the toy...and Mitchell (after accidentally winning the prize while taking care of Stanley's toy) discovers why the winners are never seen again after they register their winning toy. | |||
| 10 | "Perfect" | April 18, 1998 | |
| Dolly Smith, a former beauty queen and current makeup saleswoman, recruits Mitchell's sister, Carrie, into being the new face of her cosmetics line and day spa, and Mitchell and Stanley must rescue Carrie from losing her emotions, her brains, and her freedom when the beauty regimen calls for more permanent solutions. | |||
| 11 | "Nightmare On Eerie Street" | April 25, 1998 | |
| The legendary Sandman (depicted as a late-night radio DJ) can't sleep, so he decides to keep all of Eerie awake with nightmares. | |||
| 12 | "Mr. Lucky" | May 2, 1998 | |
| Mitchell gains continuous good luck after breaking a wishbone with an Irish man at the World O'Stuff, but when the winning streak causes his family to hate him, Mitchell sues the stranger who cursed him. | |||
| 13 | "Send In The Clones" | May 9, 1998 | |
| Thanks to a science project mishap involving plant food and an appendix in a jar, Mitchell accidentally creates a hippie kid who turns out to be Mitchell's father, Eddie, when he was 13 years old. | |||
| 14 | "I'm Okay, You're Really Weird" | May 16, 1998 | |
| Eerie's resident psychotherapist, Ziggy Lloyd, is turning all of Eerie's adults into immature, impulsive goofballs with his latest book and aromatherapy sessions, and the only way to stop it is to find Ziggy's mother. | |||
| 15 | "The Jackalope" | May 30, 1998 | |
| Mitchell and Stanley fight to protect a mythical animal from being hunted to extinction by a ruthless poacher. | |||
References edit
- ^ "Viewers big winners in Nagano: CBS promises to tone down the nationalism and CBC will tone down personality profiles, making for better TV". The Vancouver Sun. February 7, 1998. ProQuest 242887954. Retrieved July 2, 2022.
- ^ Diuguid, Carol (January 12, 1998). "Fox computes kidvid midseason makeover". Variety.com. Retrieved September 29, 2013.
External links edit
- Eerie, Indiana: The Other Dimension at IMDb