Eerie, Indiana: The Other Dimension
Eerie, Indiana: The Other Dimension is an American horror television series. It is a spin-off of Eerie, Indiana. This series aired on the Fox Kids Network in 1998.
| Eerie, Indiana: The Other Dimension | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Comedy Horror Science fiction Satire Adventure Children's television series Fantasy Mystery |
| Written by | Jim Henshaw Terry Saltsman |
| Directed by | John Bell René Bonnière |
| Country of origin | Canada United States |
| Original language | English |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 15 |
| Production | |
| Production locations | Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
| Running time | 30 minutes (with commercials) |
| Production companies | Power Pictures Hearst Entertainment |
| Release | |
| Original network | Fox Kids |
| Original release | February 7 – May 30, 1998 |
| Related | |
Plot
The series revolves around best friends Mitchell Taylor and Stanley Hope. Like earlier Eerie, Indiana residents Marshall Teller and Simon Holmes, they are constantly encountering strange and out-of-this-world phenomena in their hometown. Bill Switzer played the lead character, Mitchell Taylor.[1]
Cast
- Bill Switzer as Mitchell Taylor
- Daniel Clark as Stanley Hope
- Deborah Odell as Mrs. Taylor
- Lindy Booth as Carrie Taylor
- Bruce Hunter as Edward Taylor
- Neil Crone as Mr. Crawford
Development
In 1997, the earlier show Eerie, Indiana, generated a new fan base when Fox's children's programming block Fox Kids aired the series, gaining something of a cult following despite its short run. The renewed popularity of the series encouraged Fox to produce this spin-off.[2]
Availability
The entire series is available on Freevee, Tubi (though the episode "The Young and the Twitchy" is skipped over), and YouTube.
Episodes
| No. | Title | Original air date | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | "Switching Channels" | February 7, 1998 | |
| Mitchell and Stanley discover that a cable installer turns televisions into portals to other dimensions after they find two similar-looking boys (Marshall and Simon from the first series) trying to communicate with them. | |||
| 2 | "The Goody-Two Shoes People" | February 14, 1998 | |
| Mitchell and Stanley join Eerie's "Junior Executives Club" in order to fund their research on the weird, unexplained phenomena in their town...and learn that their teacher, Mr. Stepford, is abducting the members and turning them into robot clones so parents can finally have perfect kids. | |||
| 3 | "Standard Deviation" | February 21, 1998 | |
| A woman from the Mad Bureau of Statistics cites Mitchell's family for not being "normal", but the woman turns out to be searching for the extraterrestrials who stole her husband. | |||
| 4 | "Time Flies" | February 28, 1998 | |
| A slick-talking salesman (Tony Rosato) and his scientist partner sell Mr. Crawford a coffee machine that causes time in Eerie to speed up. | |||
| 5 | "The Phantom" | March 7, 1998 | |
| Mitchell and Stanley go ghost-hunting for a school phantom, only to discover that the "phantom" is a boy whose lack of self-confidence (and being ignored by his family) is literally turning him invisible. | |||
| 6 | "The Young And The Twitchy" | March 14, 1998 | |
| When soap opera star, Stag Carnalli, visits Eerie and stays with Mitchell's family, life slowly degenerates into a torrid soap opera, filled with love triangles, improbable plot twists, and bad organ music. Can Mitchell save his family before he gets caught up in the drama? | |||
| 7 | "Last Laugh" | March 21, 1998 | |
| A gag-writing genius helps Stanley become a master insult comic to get back at Eerie's local bully group, The Bad Apples. But, Mitchell discovers that Stanley's comic mentor has cursed anyone who studies with him into going insane from being addicted to adulation. | |||
| 8 | "The Newsroom" | April 4, 1998 | |
| A local newspaper office has a machine that can predict bad news, including a nuclear disaster at the plant in which Mitchell's mother works. | |||
| 9 | "Little Buddy Beep Beep" | April 11, 1998 | |
| A new Tamagotchi-style toy is taking over Eerie, Indiana, and Mitchell discovers that those who take the best care of Little Buddy Beep Beep become brainwashed slaves to churn out new versions of the toy. | |||
| 10 | "Perfect" | April 18, 1998 | |
| Mitchell's sister, Carrie, is talked into buying a skin care treatment from a former beauty queen, but the treatment slowly turns her skin plastic. | |||
| 11 | "Nightmare On Eerie Street" | April 25, 1998 | |
| The legendary Sandman (depicted as a late-night radio DJ) can't sleep, so he decides to keep all of Eerie awake with nightmares. | |||
| 12 | "Mr. Lucky" | May 2, 1998 | |
| Mitchell gains continuous good luck, but when the winning streak causes his family to hate him, Mitchell sues the man who cursed him. | |||
| 13 | "Send In The Clones" | May 9, 1998 | |
| Mitchell accidentally creates a clone of his Dad as a thirteen-year-old from a plant, and has to stop him from blowing up the school with a giant potato and the power of electricity. | |||
| 14 | "I'm Okay, You're Really Weird" | May 16, 1998 | |
| A motivational speaker's latest book and therapy session turns all of Eerie's adults into immature, impulsive goofballs. | |||
| 15 | "The Jackalope" | May 30, 1998 | |
| Mitchell and Stanley fight to protect a mythical animal from being hunted to extinction. | |||
References
- "Viewers big winners in Nagano: CBS promises to tone down the nationalism and CBC will tone down personality profiles, making for better TV". The Vancouver Sun. February 7, 1998. ProQuest 242887954. Retrieved July 2, 2022.
- Diuguid, Carol (January 12, 1998). "Fox computes kidvid midseason makeover". Variety.com. Retrieved September 29, 2013.
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