User:Girfan200/Beyond Belief: Fact Or Fiction Season 1

The following is a list of episodes for the American television series, Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction.

Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction is an anthology television series produced by Dick Clark Productions for the Fox network. Each episode featured five stories, all of which defied logic, but some of which were based on actual events. The viewer was offered the challenge of determining which were true and which were false. At the end of the show, it was revealed to the viewer which tales were true (the stories with a * on this list) and which ones were works of fiction. All the info for the stories are from TV.com. Beyond Belief originally aired on Fox from 1997 to 2002. The majority of stories on the show were adapted from published, and previously unpublished, original material that had been researched and written by author Robert Tralins. It was hosted by James Brolin and later by Jonathan Frakes. The show was narrated by Don LaFontaine from 1997 to 2000 and by Campbell Lane in 2002.

Series overview

Season		Episodes	Season Premiere	Season Finale
	1	6	May 25, 1997	August 3, 1997

Season 1 (1997)

Ep#	Title	Original airdate
1	"Episode 1"	May 25, 1997
The Apparition* - A lady who has a history of mental problems sees images in her upstairs mirror. The Electric Chair - A Man on his way to the electric chair only to have the chair malfunction. After checking the chair the man was rescheduled 24 hours later. During those 24 hours another man was caught and confessed to the crime. On the Road - A night club singer (Vicky) invites her husband to their old night club hangout which now appears to be closed. Their daughter arrives by getting the same strange phone call to meet her there but Vicky is no where to be found. While waiting the daughter finds her earring and the father got a call saying Vicky was in a plane crash and died. Both realized that the calls came in after she passed away. Number One With a Bullet* - A wife is treating her husband with a trip to Paris only to come home to find him in bed with another woman. She grabs the husband's gun and they struggle only to be shot and killed. The wife's friend returned and shot at him while mowing the grass. Missing her target, the bullet lodged in a tree and the husband never even knew he was shot at. Years later when the husband was cutting down the tree the chain saw hit the bullet and it shot out and killed the husband. Dream House* - A woman dreaming of the perfect house ends up finding the one she saw in her dreams. After submitting a bid they find out the house is haunted and when the home owner arrives in the room she believes the woman was the one haunting the house.
2	"Episode 2"	June 1, 1997
The Viewing* - A boy allows an old man to visit the body of the deceased after viewing hours. The simple visit turns into a shock when the boy realizes that the man was the dead body, and he had signed in as the deceased. The Subway* - A couple boards a subway train with no passengers. A mysterious man appears, who tells them that the train "Goes nowhere". When the train starts speeding up and goes out of control, the couple decide to get off. They end up at the same place they started. Then they smell gas, and realize that the subway train was acting that way because someone they knew was about to die. After saving the woman, the couple find out that the man they saw on the train was her husband, who's been dead for 29 years. Kid in the Closet* - Danny is 10 years old and insists there's a monster in the closet. The other kids and Brian, older brother, make fun of him for it...until the day Brian enters the closet, and disappears forever, leaving only behind his clothes. Justice is Served - A man tries to cover up the fact that he killed his partner in business, until her ghost appears in the courtroom, and he starts acting nuts. The Tractor - An old man with paralyzed legs suddenly walks again to save his granddaughter, about to be run over by a tractor.
3	"Episode 3"	June 8, 1997
The Prophecy - Three girls learn a harsh lesson not to mess with black magic when a spirit forever takes one of them with him, never to be seen again. Couch Potato - A very obese man goes under a heart attack, and dies, only be be revived by an electric shock by his television set. Love Over The Counter* - A woman invests in stocks based on signs she thinks her dead husband is leaving for her. Imaginary Friend* - A girl's imaginary friend proves to be more than just imaginary when he tells her that a couple was divorcing, and within that same family, the girl's best friend falls seriously ill. Last Man On Earth* - A divorce couple are reunited by songs on a radio station. Only after they fall back in love, they discover the station that they heard never existed.
4	"Episode 4"	June 15, 1997
E-Mail* - An e-mail exposes estate fraud which the person sending the e-mails appears to be from the dead relative. Cup of Joe* - Girls heading to a party are scared along the way and see a billboard that delays them enough to miss a deadly mud slide on the highway. Secret of the Family Tomb* - After one family member dies soon after another the caretaker of the cemetery discovers vandalism in the crypt. The theory is that the dead daughter's spirit wanted away from her abusive dead mother. Wheezer - 8-year-old's bond with his dog and the dog is killed by a car. The dog is buired only to appear back home at a later date. The Unknown Patient* - Doctor tries to save an unknown patient.
5	"Episode 5"	June 22, 1997
Needle Point - A woman works for a terrible boss who can barely remember her name. In her spare time, she makes dolls and sells them to people to make extra money. One day, her boss get really frustrated with her, she makes a voodoo doll of the boss and at that same time, the boss is feeling pain in his arm. Toy To The Rescue* - A little boy loved his teddy bear, so much that he had a special bond with the bear. However, the boy has health problems and collapses very often. The older sister discovers that after she gets home from school, the babysitter of the house rushes her to go to the hospital where the boy is sitting in a bed, a few hours later, the boy dies. Later that night, the sister suddenly finds "Super bear" (the teddy that the boys played with) and is desperate to go back to the hospital. Just in time, the sister finds her brothers body about to be put into a morgue. She unzips the bag that the boy is in and puts Super Bear on his shoulder for him to rest in peace, but what the sister got was even better, her brother came back alive thanks to the spirit of the bear! Mystery Lock* - Aunt Connie loves to have her grandson come over to her apartment. She has lived in there for 40 years and was a peaceful town until gangs took over. The boy, for some reason, sticks a small bag containing something under Aunt Connie's sofa. The same day, Aunt Connie gets a lock installed and the installer tells her that no body can break into these locks, its basically impossible. One day, Aunt Connie gets a visitor, only to try and rob her, for some strange reason, she can't open the lock. The robber leaves and later the police show up to her door, another strange thing is that the lock finally opened. Another person is trying to rob Connie and again the lock wont open. One day, the grandson calls Aunt Connie that he's coming to visit when he;s being threatened by a suspected killer. The grandson wants to go in but Connie can't open the door, she later realizes that the lock was keeping her safe, but she thinks that her son is coming after her. The House on Baker Street - A teenage girl is hanging out with a boy that her father doesn't trust, then one day, the girl just woke up and she sees that someone was trying to sleep with her and starts to freak out. The marks of the person were there, but no one was in sight. The father thinks that her boyfriend was here. The next day, the father finally blows his mind and forbids the boy from ever seeing the girl ever. Then one day, the mother heard her neighbor that a man lived here and forbid his daughter from seeing another boy as well and the boy tried to burn the house down. Then one night, someone in a black jacket is pouring gasoline all over the home, the same neighbor that told the mother about the spirit calls the police, the police show up and the arsonist reveals his face...or should i say her. The arsonist was the girl, only this time, she was possessed by the spirit of the house. The Train* - The year is somewhere in the mid-1800's. An actor is riding a train when a man nearly gets run over, the actor save the man's life. The actor became friends with the man. It turns out, the man the actor saved is the son of President Lincoln. And the actor is the brother of John Wilkes Booth (the man who assassinated Lincoln)!
6	"Episode 6"	August 3, 1997
The Candlestick - Unfaithful man kills his wife and the parrot talks and gives him away. The Diner' - An elderly couple poisons drifters only to poison their long lost son. From The Agency* - Young girl is trapped in a safe only to be rescued by an unknown woman from the temp agency. The Magic Rose Garden* - Rose garden gives woman psychic powers. The Jeep* - Bomb's explosion does not harm soldiers after learning that the metal used once was owned by his father.