Misfits of Science

45min

Action & Adventure

Comedy

Drama

Sci-Fi & Fantasy

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

Production Companies

Universal Television

James D. Parriott Productions

Episodes

Cast

Pilot

1. Pilot

1h 30min

4th Oct 1985

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.

Your Place or Mayan?

2. Your Place or Mayan?

45min

18th Oct 1985

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.

Guess What's Coming to Dinner?

3. Guess What's Coming to Dinner?

45min

25th Oct 1985

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.

Lost Link

4. Lost Link

45min

1st Nov 1985

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.

Sort of Looking For Gina

5. Sort of Looking For Gina

45min

8th Nov 1985

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.

Sonar...And Yet So Far

6. Sonar...And Yet So Far

45min

15th Nov 1985

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.

Steer Crazy

7. Steer Crazy

45min

29th Nov 1985

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.

Fumble on the One

8. Fumble on the One

45min

6th Dec 1985

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.

Twin Engines

9. Twin Engines

45min

13th Dec 1985

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.

Grand Theft Bunny

10. Grand Theft Bunny

45min

27th Dec 1985

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

Grand Elusion

11. Grand Elusion

45min

10th Jan 1986

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.

Once Upon a Night

12. Once Upon a Night

45min

17th Jan 1986

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

Center of Attention

13. Center of Attention

45min

31st Jan 1986

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.

Against All Oz

14. Against All Oz

45min

7th Feb 1986

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.

The Avenging Angel

15. The Avenging Angel

45min

21st Feb 1986

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.

Three Days of the Blender

16. Three Days of the Blender

45min

16th May 1986

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

First air date

4th Oct 1985

Last air date

16th May 1986

Status

Ended

Type

Scripted

Original language

en

Networks