Kurt Vonnegut's Monkey House

30min

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

Cast

Next Door

1. Next Door

30min

12th May 1991

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

The Euphio Question

2. The Euphio Question

30min

12th May 1991

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

All The King's Horses

3. All The King's Horses

30min

12th May 1991

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.

Fortitude

4. Fortitude

30min

21st Dec 1992

More Stately Mansions

5. More Stately Mansions

30min

3rd Jan 1993

Epicac

6. Epicac

30min

21st Feb 1993

The Foster Portfolio

7. The Foster Portfolio

30min

4th Apr 1993

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 Blake), a mild-mannered produce clerk living in a modest neighbourhood with his strait-laced wife and a young daughter. Carter and his assistant (Katie Wolfe) are in for a surprise when they discover that, appearances to the contrary, Foster is really a millionaire. The upstanding citizen and model husband and father has been concealing his true circumstances from his wife in order to be able to justify his weekend job - playing jazz piano at the Bluebeat Cellar, a smoke-filled, slightly seedy dive.

First air date

12th May 1991

Last air date

4th Apr 1993

Status

Ended

Type

Scripted

Original language

en

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