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Nightmare Cafe: Season 1

6 episodes Premiered Jan 29, 1992

Season 1 Episodes

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S1·E1 Mytharc

Jan 29, 1992

Frank Nolan and Fay Peronivic find themselves mysteriously drawn to an all-night café following a surreal brush with death.

S1·E2 Core

Mar 6, 1992

When Frank gets involved with a married woman whose husband is very possessive, Fay worries for his safety.

S1·E3 Core

Mar 13, 1992

Fay's younger sister Ivy comes to the city to visit her, but trouble comes along in the form of her scummy boyfriend Jesse.

S1·E4 Core

Mar 20, 1992

The café slows down time in order to enable a detective to find the answer to an unsolved murder before his death by gunshot.

S1·E5 Mytharc

Mar 27, 1992

The café brings Frank back to his hometown, where he befriends a boy whose comatose body lies in the town hospital.

S1·E6 Mytharc

Apr 3, 1992

When a desperate tabloid writer concocts a story about a small-town alien invasion, his simple lie snowballs out of his control.