While planet Earth poises on the brink of nuclear self-destruction, a team of Russian and American scientists aboard the Leonov hurtles to a rendezvous with the still-orbiting Discovery spacecraft and its sole known survivor, the homicidal computer HAL.

Joe Gideon is at the top of the heap, one of the most successful directors and choreographers in musical theater. But he can feel his world slowly collapsing around him - his obsession with work has almost destroyed his personal life, and only his bottles of pills keep him going.

While recording sound effects for a slasher flick, Jack Terry stumbles upon a real-life horror: a car careening off a bridge and into a river. Jack jumps into the water and fishes out Sally from the car, but the other passenger is already dead — a governor intending to run for president. As Jack does some investigating of his tapes, and starts a perilous romance with Sally, he enters a tangled web of conspiracy that might leave him dead.

In jeder Folge stellt Moderator James Cameron eine der „großen Fragen“ vor, über die die Menschheit im Laufe der Jahrhunderte nachgedacht hat, und greift in die Vergangenheit der Science-Fiction zurück, um besser zu verstehen, wie unsere Lieblingsfilme, Fernsehsendungen, Bücher und Videospiele entstanden sind. Cameron und seine Zeitgenossen – Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, Ridley Scott (neben anderen Regisseuren sowie vielen Künstlern), die dazu beigetragen haben, das spektakuläre Wachstum von Sci-Fi in den letzten Jahrzehnten voranzutreiben – diskutieren die Vorzüge, Bedeutungen und Auswirkungen der Filme und Romane, die sie beeinflusst haben, und diskutieren, wohin das Genre – und unsere Spezies – in Zukunft gehen könnten.

Two rival politicians compete to win an election to represent their small North Carolina congressional district in the United States House of Representatives.

Adventurer/surgeon/rock musician Buckaroo Banzai and his band of men, the Hong Kong Cavaliers, take on evil alien invaders from the 8th dimension.

An ambitious lobbyist faces off against the powerful gun lobby in an attempt to pass gun control legislation.

A highly intelligent chimpanzee named Caesar has been living a peaceful suburban life ever since he was born. But when he gets taken to a cruel primate facility, Caesar decides to revolt against those who have harmed him.

When oil is discovered in 1920s Oklahoma under Osage Nation land, the Osage people are murdered one by one—until the FBI steps in to unravel the mystery.

Italian immigrant Francesca Cabrini arrives in 1889 New York City and is greeted by disease, crime, and impoverished children. Cabrini sets off on a daring mission to convince the hostile mayor to secure housing and healthcare for society's most vulnerable. With broken English and poor health, Cabrini uses her entrepreneurial mind to build an empire of hope unlike anything the world had ever seen.

The adventures of a group of explorers who make use of a newly discovered wormhole to surpass the limitations on human space travel and conquer the vast distances involved in an interstellar voyage.