8.0/101 votes#1 - What Will the Neighbors Think?
Season 5 Episode 9 - Aired 4/23/1999
Mona Bailey (Jane Adams) lives with her husband Ned (Peter Outerbridge) in the Clackson Arms, an old apartment building that is being taken over, apartment by apartment, by a mysterious developer called KM Inc. Mona is a hypochondriac, an able-bodied woman who rides a wheelchair, who treats the Physician's Desk Reference like a personal bible and who has not left the building in six months for fear of catching a disease. One day she backs her wheelchair into an electrical box and gets a shock, leaving her hearing strange voices and seeing bodies dropping out of windows...
Director: Helen Shaver
Writer: A L Katz
7.0/101 votes#2 - Mother of Invention
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 5/24/2002
Jeremiah and Kurdy are sent to contact an elusive group led by a mysterious "Steve" but get captured. One of his captors is Michelle, a woman he met (in flashback) back at his empty home five years ago after his brother died. They were intimately involved back then, and we find out she's the one who gave Jeremiah the idea for writing notes to his dead father. In the present it turns out "Steve" is Michelle. Her operation is working heavily to get knowledge out, and she also has a 5-year old son. One guy accuses Michelle of skimming and the guys follow her and find out she's collecting art, and agrees to work with Thunder Mountain. Then Michelle comes back to lay down the law on the guy who accused her of skimming and the guys head out with as Jeremiah and Michelle think about getting together in the future.
Director: Neill Fearnley
Writer: A L Katz
6.0/101 votes#3 - Déjà Vu
Season 5 Episode 16 - Aired 7/9/1999
Dr. Mark Crest (Kevin Nealon) has built a teleportation device that uses tactical nuclear weapons to open a wormhole in the space-time continuum. The device is intended to transport some animals eight miles across the desert, but during a test, the wormhole grows out of control and Mark finds himself hurled back in time, to the day before the test took place.
Director: N/A
Writer: A L Katz
- 6.0/101 votes
#4 - Abaddon
Season 6 Episode 14 - Aired 7/7/2000
It's late in the 23rd century and the aging interplanetary hauling vehicle Pequod is on a ten-year reclamation project on behalf of The Company, the corporation that has run North America since 2102. The crew is tucked away in hyper-sleep when the ship comes across a mysterious object floating in space. Awakened from their artificial slumber, they retrieve the pod and are shocked to discover the body of Virgil Nygard, executed 150 years earlier for leading his militia in the slaughter of more than a million people. They are even more shocked to discover that Nygard is alive.
Director: Steve Anker
Writer: A L Katz
- 6.0/101 votes
#5 - Welcome to Springwood
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 10/22/1989
A Couple move to Springwood. Right away the wife of the couple begins to suspect that a serial killer has targeted the house that they have moved into. This has a surprising ending. The second half of the episode is about a woman who finds an old stack of love letters from the nineteeth century. She begins to obsess over their relationship, and begins to see their ghosts.
Director: Ken Wiederhorn
Writer: A L Katz
- 5.0/101 votes
#6 - Fathers & Sons
Season 5 Episode 20 - Aired 8/6/1999
From the outside, the Golden Sunset looks like any other rest home, but Dr. Benton Adler's facility is different in a few unsettling ways. The residents seem to develop Alzheimer's almost overnight and after they do, they live - or are stored - in tiny chambers in a human warehouse.
Director: Brad Turner
Writer: A L Katz
- 4.3/103 votes
#7 - Down To Earth
Season 6 Episode 10 - Aired 4/21/2000
The true believers have gathered once again for the North American UFO Convention where there are typically squabbles, petty betrayals and egotistical grandstanding. Max Buford has in his possession what appears to be afragment from an alien spaceship. Max's arrival causes a flurry of activity, as the fragment's true origins are thrown into question.
Director: Mike Rohl
Writer: A L Katz
3.5/102 votes#8 - Alien Radio
Season 5 Episode 1 - Aired 1/22/1999
Stan Harbinger (Joe Pantoliano) is a top-rated talk show host with a flair for the outrageous and a reputation as a skeptic's skeptic. Assisted by his producer Trudy (Cynthia Nixon), Stan takes special delight in shooting down callers who claim to have alien encounters, especially people like Eldon DeVries (Alan Zinyk), who believes his body has been taken over by aliens. However, when Eldon commits suicide by setting himself on fire in front of Stan, things begin to go wrong for Stan. A plan to syndicate the show is threatened by protests from UFO believers, angry at Stan's role in Eldon's death.
Director: Neill Fearnley
Writer: A L Katz
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"What Will the Neighbors Think?" is the best rated episode written by A L Katz. It scored 8/10 based on 1 votes. It was directed by Helen Shaver. It aired on 4/23/1999 and is rated 1.0 points higher than their second-best episode, "Mother of Invention".