The Showtime 30-Minute Movie [s:1e1]

12:01 PM

by Stephen Tolkin and Jonathan Heap, directed by Jonathan Heap

Kurtwood Smith portrays Myron Castleman’s noon hour over and over in this first movie adaptation of Richard Lupoff’s short story.

— Michael Main

You see, it’s like . . . it’s like we’re stuck. You know, like a . . . like a needle on a scratched record. It all starts at 12:01, and everything goes along fine until one o’clock and then Bam! the whole world snaps back to 12:01 again.

12:01 P.M. by Stephen Tolkin and Jonathan Heap, directed by Jonathan Heap (Showtime, USA, 19 August 1990).

Somewhere Between

by Stephen Tolkin et al., directed by Duane Clark et al.

After San Francisco suffers a week of terror at the hands of a serial killer ending with the death of Laura Price’s eight-year-old daughter Serena, Laura falls into a dark depression and attempts suicide. Next thing she knows, she’s waking up before that week, whereupon she teams up with ex-police detective Nico Jackson (who also got thrown back in time), hoping to change the week, catch the killer, save Nico’s brother’s life, and save Serena—all in a mere nine additional episodes.

— Michael Main

I’m not going to let anybody hurt you this time. I swear to you on my life.

Somewhere Between by Stephen Tolkin et al., directed by Duane Clark et al., 10 pts. (ABC-TV, USA, 24 July – 19 September 2017).

Stephen Tolkin

writer, creator