Episodes I Recall
Wow, a couple of quick checks under actors I thought were on this show has no listings for them, so here goes.
The first one I remember was the woman with the drinking problem. She had to call AA at the end, but it began where she was passed out and her kids had gotten up and gotten themselves to school, and she was upset they saw her in that condition.
There is an episode called "Alcoholics Anonymous" with a woman, as well as Patty Duke and Rue MacLanahan. Seems right up there alley. I know Patty wasn't the drunken mother tho. She must have been the best friend.
Now I thought I recalled two with Gary Collins. In one he was a counselor to a troubled young girl who worked as a waitress. She had a bad temper and an attitude.
Bernie Kopell (Doc from Love Boat) came in one day (a cameo for Kopell) and harassed her until she threw coffe all over him. Wish this had happened on Love Boat just once. She was fired, went to Collins, asked him to marry her, then she fled. He searched for her, goes to the diner and she was working there again. She came back and talked to the boss.
Now the Sunday morning we saw this one, another program came on right after it with Collins. Not INsight tho.
However, IMDB lists no Insight appearances for Collins, only two appearances on some show called Thriller, and no appearances for Kopell on Insight or Thriller.
I do recall when Dick Van Patten was a father who went after his drug using son and beat up the other kids in the apartment so he could get his son to the hospital. There was no fight scene. Just the kid came to in the hospital to his beat up dad. It was actually pretty good.
And I remember Martin Sheen was God and who was the old man he appeared to but Jack Albertson, his co-star from The Subject Was Roses.
Oh, I remember so many others. A mentally retarded man accidentally locks himself in a broken down fridge and dies.
Ronny Cox is a blind artist who paints God, and it was a blank canvas. We see the canvas at the end.
I think this was the cloning episode. A man and a woman want to use the DNA of a famous person for their child, then the man running the business or trying to talk them out of it, I can't recall, shows them his twin brother, who is mentally retarded. They realize that tampering with nature is not necessarily the right way to go. There may have been more to the brother than just being his twin, I can't recall.
Robert Foxworth and Ron Glass! A story about old buddies meeting and they are held up. Foxworth had all the lines and drama, Glass was merely the bartender, but when the gunman (who was there to kill a friend who had yet to arrive) was ready to shoot the friend about the enter the door, it was Glass who leapt in front of him and stopped him, resulting in Glass being killed.
The Game Show Episode! The game of life or something. Four contestants had to compete. An elderly black woman, a middle aged man, a young woman and a one-armed vet.
First they had to slap a loved one. The one-armed vet couldn't slap his own mother, so he was out. Everyone else did the slap.
Then they had to berate themselves. I remember the Black woman. "I was a whore."
The young woman wouldn't do it. She seemed alot like Jan Smithers.
Then they had to talk their loved one into putting a gun to their own head and pulling the trigger. The black woman refused (she had slapped her own son. Was it Eric Laneuville?) and the man talked his wife into doing it, and she kept pulling the trigger until they got the gun away from her.
So many programs I recall. Twilight Zone, Tales of the Unexpected, Night Gallery. It gets hard to distinguish them, I guess.