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Ogyx

It worked! By giving Dawes the temporary power to see himself as others see him, he's changed!

Unnamed Alien

And for the better! This may be the way to improve all the dwellers of this planet, by letting them read the true thoughts that others hold about them!

Ogyx

Why shouldn't it work here? It worked on our planet!

Unnamed Alien

You thought it, Ogyx!

Appearing in "A Stroke of the Pen"

Featured Characters:

  • Everett Corliss (First appearance)

Supporting Characters:

  • Unnamed Patriot (Ghost, soul or spirit)

Other Characters:

Races and Species:

Locations:

Items:

Events:

Synopsis for "A Stroke of the Pen"

A miser who owns many pieces of Americana is surprised to learn that a pen which belonged to one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence has written a check by itself for a million dollars of his money to a charity benefiting refugees from tyranny around the world.

Appearing in "The Richest Man in the World!"

Featured Characters:

  • Jim Holden (First appearance)

Other Characters:

  • Numerous unnamed people of a parallel world
  • NYPD
    • Two unnamed police officers
  • NYPD
    • Two unnamed police officers

Races and Species:

Locations:

Synopsis for "The Richest Man in the World!"

Jim Holden falls into an alternate dimension via plane where the people of that dimension act strangely from his own. The biggest difference being that they few being wealthy with money as being poor and being broke to be rich. So Jim devised a plan to accept their money and return to his own dimension as a rich man. After purchasing a plane and filling it with given money he was able to return to his own dimension. The money however was useless as it was printed "backwards".

Appearing in "Too Many Robots"

Featured Characters:

  • Charley Brown (Only on screen as a static image or video record)

Supporting Characters:

  • Unnamed Woman (George's Date)
  • George (First appearance)

Other Characters:

  • Steve (First appearance)
  • Henry Stone (First appearance)

Races and Species:

  • Robots (Only on screen as a static image or video record)
  • Humans

Locations:

Synopsis for "Too Many Robots"

A robot that is mistaken for human quells a potential riot against his kind.

Appearing in "The Hero"

Featured Characters:

  • Johnny (First appearance)

Supporting Characters:

  • Bob (Johnny's Brother) (First appearance)

Antagonists:

  • Masters (First appearance)
    • Two unnamed "brothers"

Other Characters:

  • Unnamed Landlady
  • Mrs. Peters (Mentioned)
  • FBI (Mentioned)
  • Unidentified Police Department
    • Two unnamed police officers

Races and Species:

  • Humans
  • Mechanians (First appearance)

Locations:

Items:

  • Mechania Transtelevision Set (First appearance)

Synopsis for "The Hero"

Johnny, Bob's brother, took initiative and tried to go do a job on his own as a television repairman. He received the television from a landlady who assumed the loud television was the broken one that he was called for. This was incorrect and the tv Johnny brought back to the shop was a Mechania Transtelevision Set that was to be used by the "Masters" to invade Earth from Mechania.

The "Masters" who looked similar enough to be brothers entered the shop looking for the television. Johnny who was instilled on the safety measures by his brother intentionally blew a tube after the Masters asked to use his skill to clear the picture on their screen, a test for future forced servitude of his skill that they could utilize. Johnny and Bob fled the shop after smoke from the tube's explosion filled the air. Where they ran into two police officers. When they returned to the shop all that was left were two flat metal pieces that they dubbed themselves as metals for the heroes that saved Earth.

Appearing in "Out of the Storm!"

Featured Characters:

  • John Oogluma (First appearance)
  • Chester Martin (First appearance)

Supporting Characters:

  • John's Sled Dogs
    • Three-Toes (First appearance; dies) (Ghost, soul or spirit)
    • Six unnamed dogs (First appearance; dies) (Ghost, soul or spirit)
  • "Tommy" Martin (First appearance)

Other Characters:

  • Unnamed Mail Pilot
  • Two unnamed sled dog breeders

Races and Species:

Locations:

Vehicles:

  • Bells of Life (First appearance; destruction) (John's Sled)

Synopsis for "Out of the Storm!"

After sled dogs perish in a fire, their ghosts lead a stranded man in a blizzard to safety.

Appearing in "Don't Think So Loud"

Featured Characters:

  • Mark Dawes (First appearance)

Supporting Characters:

  • Mark Dawes Inc. (First appearance)
    • Unnamed Elevator Operator
    • Unnamed Secretary
    • Unnamed Doorman
    • Numerous unnamed employees
  • Unidentified Aliens
    • Ogyx (First appearance)
    • Unnamed Alien (First appearance)

Other Characters:

  • Unnamed Cabbie
  • Secretary's Sister (Mentioned)
  • Unnamed Radio Host
  • Unnamed Psychiatrist

Races and Species:

Locations:

Vehicles:

  • Alien Spacecraft (First appearance)

Synopsis for "Don't Think So Loud"

When a business tycoon gains the power to read the minds of others, he realizes that he is thought of poorly and changes his stingy ways.

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