CBS Summer Playhouse: Season 3
Season 3 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of CBS Summer Playhouse Season 2.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
Season 3 Progress Shield
Microcops
Jun 20, 1989
Two intergalactic 'Microcops' chase a cosmic crook named Cloyd to Earth, where their size becomes cellular.
B Men
Jun 27, 1989
The "B Men" are high-schoolers who take up bounty hunting after "relying on their wits" to nab a serial killer.
Coming to America
Jul 4, 1989
Based on the film of the same name, this pilot places Prince Tariq of Zamunda and his assistant Oha in the house of a family in Queens, N.Y.
Shivers
Jul 4, 1989
A divorced father and his children move into a house haunted by a Revolutionary War-era troublemaker and his girlfriend.
American Nuclear
Jul 25, 1989
A New York columnist and a mayoral aide marry and create a blended family with his rebellious daughter and her uptight children.
Curse of the Corn People
Aug 1, 1989
A group of Kansas friends in their 20s undertakes the making of a horror movie.