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Series · 1991

Kurt Vonnegut's Monkey House

Created by Kurt VonnegutKurt VonnegutMadeline Kahn
Kurt Vonnegut's Monkey House poster
12 May 1991First aired
1Season

The series

Kurt Vonnegut, the author of a collection of short stories called "Welcome to the Monkey House", hosts a series that displays dramatizations of several of his short stories. The anthology series aired on Showtime network from 1991 to 1993. The first three stories were produced as a television pilot in British Columbia, Canada, and broadcast together from 9:00–10:30pm on May 12, 1991. The later four were filmed and produced in New Zealand in 1992, as a co-production with South Pacific Pictures.

Episodes

Season 1 · 7 episodes · 1991

  1. Episode 112 May 199130m

    Next Door

    A boy, home alone when his parents are out, sees trouble in a nearby apartment and seeks help from a radio DJ.

  2. Episode 212 May 199130m

    The Euphio Question

    A scientist discovers a strange musical transmission from space, which elicits a drug-like euphoric response in all who hear it.

  3. Episode 312 May 199130m

    All The King's Horses

    When a US government plane goes down over Cuba, a revolutionary decides to play a game of chess with real human lives on the line.

  4. Episode 421 Dec 199230m

    Fortitude

  5. Episode 53 Jan 199330m

    More Stately Mansions

  6. Episode 621 Feb 199330m

    Epicac

  7. Episode 74 Apr 199330m

    The Foster Portfolio

    Jon Cryer plays "Slippy" Carter, an arrogant investment advisor who is tired of "nickel and dime accounts" and dreams of being on Nelson Rockefeller's payroll. Instead, he has to content himself with the likes of Hebert J. Foster (Nick Bla…

Cast

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