Crisis was broadcast from 1973 through 1977 out of Seattle, a mixed bag of sci-fi, horror, and suspense/ crime dramas from producer/director/writer (and host) Jim French. Well over a hundred shows were made, but just how many fit into the scope of this site is still being researched. Production values were generally high, and stories often strove for a twist ending. All shows were half-hour format.
Currently this archive contains plotlines for 34 shows
None of this series is available for the Listening Booth
A Blade of Grass
Genre: Space Exploration
Music from Hitchcock's Vertigo enhances this tale of a
blinded astronaut - the sole survivor of a crash upon his return from Mars - as
he relives the moments leading up to his shipmates' deaths.
A Message from the Other Side
Genre: Supernatural
A woman receives a phone call from a spirit medium insisting that her deceased first husband is trying to send her a message, prompting her to drag her second husband with her on an ill-begotten search for the past.
A Warm Night in Bunch County
Genre: Aliens
The tranquility of an isolated Georgia community is shattered by the sight of a strange object in the skies overhead. The townsfolk and authorities are mystified, save for two little old ladies who seem to have been expecting 'visitors'.
Along a Dark Road
Genre: Alternate Reality
A freak storm and a lonely country road lead a traveler into an alternate timeline where the world is still fighting WW II - a war which is turning out very differently from the one we fought.
Broadcast from Big Falls
Genre: Space Exploration
Two astronauts on a joint US-Russian space mission suffer a life-threatening accident and are unable to contact Mission Control. The only broadcast they are able to pick up is a newscast reporting the outbreak of World War Three.
Building B-2000
Genre: SF
A senator on an inspection tour of a top secret military installation is infuriated when the base commander refuses to allow him access to Building B-2000, apparently for his own good.
The Bus Trip to Buena Vista
Genre: Supernatural
A bus slowly fills with passengers to Buena Vista-a first time trip for all. What they don't realize is that they have only one way tickets, on what turns out to be a round trip ride.
The Candlewyck Particle
Genre: Super Science
An old man facing his imminent demise is approached by a young scientist who claims that the old man's DNA may contain the secret to immortality.
Chet Avery's Lot
Genre: Aliens
A backwoods junkyard dealer is willing to shoot government agents on his property, so one can only imagine how he feels about an alien scouring his yard for spaceship parts.
The Couple Next Door
Genre:
The Stovers are curious about their new neighbours, the Joneses; maybe too curious....
Departure
Genre: Aliens
Aliens who have infiltrated our society by taking on human form are due to be replaced by look-a-like androids, but the plan spins out of control when the relief ship carrying the replacements crashes and the military closes in.
The Door of Lotim
Genre: Occult
Two brothers, one an archaeologist, the other a treasure hunter, undertake a search for the legendary Door of Lotim, the glass tomb portal of an ancient Egyptian warrior-mystic. Of course, things go very, very wrong....
The Exiles
Genre: Future Earth
A hard-nosed journalist gets involved with a social malcontent seeking to do something about the repressive, militantly pacifistic World Tribunal.
First Hand Experience
Genre:
A writer is so obsessed with the idea of discovering life after death, he puts pressure on his doctor friend to help him gain an eyewitness account.
Grandpa and the Queen of Venus
Genre: Aliens
Grandpa is building something in secret out in the wood shop; is he on the threshold of a major discovery, or of insanity?
Gravtrak 449
Genre:
A mag-lev train of the future mysteriously vanishes into thin air.
Reviews:
What builds through an interesting mystery/disaster story hits a brick wall
in the Twilight Zone-ish, but ultimately unsatisfying - ending.
-Webmaster
The Guest in Room 13
Genre: Supernatural
A superstitious motorist is forced to stay in a motel room where a grisly murder had been committed years before, and the man executed for it vowed to return from the grave to complete his vengeance.
Habitat
Genre:
Like most people, Fred and Betty Folger dread Mondays, but they need not fear - every morning they wake up seems to be Sunday morning....
Home is the Hunter
Genre: Espionage
A Nazi agent assumes the identity of a captured pilot to return to America and assassinate President Roosevelt.
Incident at Moondown
Genre:
A reporter ventures deep into the desert to find a recluse whose sculptures are so lifelike as to defy belief.
The Man who Came too Close
Genre: Aliens
A crop duster (played by an actor who does a respectable Jimmy Stewart) encounters a UFO and then becomes obsessed with justifying his story to skeptical local authorities. Just how far will he go to prove he's right?
My Name is Noah Singlet and I'm Dead
Genre: Supernatural
An enigmatic man with deformed features appears to several women around town, introducing himself as a dead man. He later claims he is only a psychologist studying human reactions, but the women he visits soon begin to die, one by one...
Panzerlied
Genre: Supernatural
A German soldier suffering from delusions in an Afrika Korps hospital volunteers for a dangerous recon mission. When he is wounded behind enemy lines, he wakes to find himself in a very different sort of world than the one he knows. A unique 1 hr. episode.
The Perfect Man
Genre:
A story about a perfect candidate for political office - perhaps a little too perfect....
Pleasantville
Genre:
Following a violent mugging, a man is picked up by a stranger and taken to Pleasantville, a sleepy little town where no one would ever dream of doing wrong and life is just too good to be true.
Rule 7
Genre: Mars
A joint American/Soviet manned expedition to the Red Planet relies on six rigid rules to keep tensions to a minimum during the long two year journey. Six may be one short....
The Silver Egg
Genre: Aliens
England, the 12th century - King John (of Robin Hood fame) is astounded to hear of a strange 'egg' which drops out of the sky bearing an impossible-looking creature which claims to come from the stars.
Star Light, Star Bright
Genre: Aliens
A young farm girl gets more than she wished for from a falling star when she discovers a strange object crashed in a nearby lake.
The Thing in the Woods
Genre: Aliens
A family hiding out in the deep woods following an alien invasion are constantly on the run from patrols trying to drive them out into the open.
The Vilkman Theory
Genre: Horror/ Creatures
Dr. Julius Vilkman is convinced werewolves do exist, and have lived among us for centuries. He persuades a skeptical reporter to accompany him to a remote town in Montana where a series of grisly murders may provide him with the final truth.
Welcome to Utopia
Genre:
A couple fed up with the rat race escape to an idyllic island retreat which boasts the 'perfect' society. But Utopia does not come without a price....
What Makes Dogs Howl?
Genre: Horror
A couple quickly find cause to regret their purchase of a cabin in a remote mountain community, when their odd neighbor tells them the local legend of a dog whose howls presage death.