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Misfits of Science

7.11985Ended1 season

Action & AdventureComedyDramaSci-Fi & Fantasy

A superhero fantasy television series featuring super-powered humans and their madcap adventures.

About the series

A superhero fantasy television series featuring super-powered humans and their madcap adventures.

Created by: James D. Parriott, Tim Kring
Network: NBC
Episodes: 16

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Episodes

Season

Episode 1

Pilot

1985-10-04 90 min

Billy and El, scientists for the Human Investigation Team, put together a team of super-powered individuals to deal with a secret government project to create a neutron bomb.

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Episode 2

Your Place or Mayan?

1985-10-18 45 min

On behalf of a dead friend of Billy's, an archaeologist, the Misfits set out to prove the existence of buried Mayan treasure beneath Beverly Hills.

Episode 3

Guess What's Coming to Dinner?

1985-10-25 45 min

A friend of the Misfits claims to have made contact with aliens from Mars. Problems arise when the authorities try to prevent him from continuing his contact.

Episode 4

Lost Link

1985-11-01 45 min

A primitive in a loin cloth comes ashore at Venice Beach and no one knows who he is - in fact it's believed he may be a caveman. It turns out that the man, "Link," is in fact an Aborigine from a lost tribe in New Guinea and the Misfits help him to set free the soul of his deceased child by placing a small totem on a rocket.

Episode 5

Sort of Looking For Gina

1985-11-08 45 min

Johnny's efforts to get a date with an attractive woman, Gina, go amiss when it turns out she's involved with crooks and the Misfits have to mastermind a bank robbery to help her out.

Episode 6

Sonar...And Yet So Far

1985-11-15 45 min

A marine biologist and friend of Billy's who works with dolphins believes they can talk, making him the target of drug smugglers who need the help of his dolphin friends to recover a sunken cache of cocaine.

Episode 7

Steer Crazy

1985-11-29 45 min

Three senior citizens end up with super-powers from irradiated hamburgers, and the Misfits have to both help them out and restrain them from injuring themselves.

Episode 8

Fumble on the One

1985-12-06 45 min

The Misfits have to help Brick Tyler, a part-bionic CIA agent who has managed to lose the ""football"" - the briefcase that the President carries that can activate nuclear war.

Episode 9

Twin Engines

1985-12-13 45 min

Johnny's friend Lonnie begins having premonitions of danger, but it turns out in fact he's linked to his previously-unknown twin Dwayne, a motorcycle racer, and the Misfits have to help them both out.

Episode 10

Grand Theft Bunny

1985-12-27 45 min

The bad guys manipulate the Misfits into helping them unleash a plague on L.A. with the aid of a contaminated bunny rabbit.

Episode 11

Grand Elusion

1986-01-10 45 min

Billy recruits the gang to help a fellow scientist's daughter defect when she and her father tour America as part of a Russian girl's gymnast team. The gang takes the place of the magician hired to perform for the tour thanks to a judicious use of super powers, but the daughter refuses to leave without her father. Complicating matter, the KGB minder Galenkov has sworn to make sure the scientist Nikolai never gets away. The Misfits have to pull off an elaborate bait-and-switch to make sure that both Nikolai and Tatyana manage to escape.

Episode 12

Once Upon a Night

1986-01-17 45 min

Gloria's pen pal Jae is the object of a hunt by unknown assailants.

Episode 13

Center of Attention

1986-01-31 45 min

El goes undercover as an incredibly talented basketball player (with some help from Gloria) to expose a crooked owner who is having his players throw their games.

Episode 14

Against All Oz

1986-02-07 45 min

In this somewhat bizarre episode, Billy tries to break a record for staying awake and finds himself in an alternate reality where everyone he knows is there but in different jobs and with different personalities.

Episode 15

The Avenging Angel

1986-02-21 45 min

Gloria helps out an aspiring pro wrestler with the use of her telekintic powers without telling him - the wrestler, Milt, soon decides he does have super powers and Gloria needs to keep helping him out when he decides to go after crooks trying to sell him protection.

Episode 16

Three Days of the Blender

1986-05-16 45 min

When a blender is accidentally delivered to Billy, he ends up getting arrested as a spy and Stetmeyer gets targeted by the FBI.

Cast

Dean Paul Martin

Dean Paul Martin

Dr. Billy Hayes

Kevin Peter Hall

Kevin Peter Hall

Dr. Elvin 'El' Lincoln

Mark Thomas Miller

Mark Thomas Miller

John 'Johnny B' Bukowski

Courteney Cox

Courteney Cox

Gloria Dinallo

Max Wright

Max Wright

Dick Stetmeyer

Jennifer Holmes

Jennifer Holmes

Jane Miller

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