Episodes
| # | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | Production code |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | "Deep Freeze" | James D. Parriott | James D. Parriott | October 4, 1985 (1985-10-04) | 83516 |
| 90 minutes series pilot: Billy and El, scientists for the Human Investigation Team, put together a team of super-powered individuals to deal with a secret government project to create a neutron beam cannon. Larry Linville and Edward Winter guest star. | |||||
| 2 | "Your Place or Mayan?" | Alan J. Levi | Donald Todd | October 18, 1985 (1985-10-18) | 60803 |
| On behalf of a dead friend of Billy's, an archaeologist, the Misfits set out to prove the existence of buried Mayan treasure beneath Beverly Hills. | |||||
| 3 | "Guess What's Coming to Dinner?" | Burt Brinckerhoff | Morrie Ruvinsky | October 25, 1985 (1985-10-25) | 60802 |
| A friend of the Misfits claims to have made contact with aliens from Mars. Problems arise when the authorities try to prevent him from continuing his contact. | |||||
| 4 | "Lost Link" | Christopher Leitch | Mark Jones | November 1, 1985 (1985-11-01) | 60806 |
| A primitive in a loin cloth comes ashore at Venice Beach and no one knows who he is — in fact it's believed he may be a caveman. It turns out that the man, "Link," is in fact an Aborigine from a lost tribe in New Guinea and the Misfits help him to set free the soul of his deceased child by placing a small totem aboard the space shuttle. | |||||
| 5 | "Sort of Looking for Gina" | Jeffrey Hayden | Michael Cassutt | November 8, 1985 (1985-11-08) | 60804 |
| Johnny's efforts to get a date with an attractive woman, Gina, go amiss when it turns out she's involved with crooks and the Misfits have to mastermind a bank robbery to help her out. | |||||
| 6 | "Sonar… and Yet So Far" | Burt Brinckerhoff | Donald Todd | November 15, 1985 (1985-11-15) | 60807 |
| A marine biologist and friend of Billy's who works with dolphins believes they can talk, making him the target of drug smugglers who need the help of his dolphin friends to recover a sunken cache of cocaine. | |||||
| 7 | "Steer Crazy" | John Tracy | James D. Parriott | November 29, 1985 (1985-11-29) | 60801 |
| Three senior citizens end up with super-powers from irradiated hamburgers, and the Misfits have to both help them out and restrain them from injuring themselves. | |||||
| 8 | "Fumble on the One" | Bob Sweeney | Blaze Forrester | December 6, 1985 (1985-12-06) | 60811 |
| The Misfits assist Brick Tyler, a part-bionic CIA agent (and Billy's college friend) who has managed to lose the "football" — the briefcase that the President carries that can activate nuclear war. | |||||
| 9 | "Twin Engines" | Burt Brinckerhoff | Story by: R. Timothy Kring Teleplay by: Donald Todd |
December 13, 1985 (1985-12-13) | 60808 |
| Johnny's friend Lonnie begins having premonitions of danger, but it turns out in fact he's linked to his previously-unknown twin Dwayne, a motorcycle racer, and the Misfits have to help them both out. | |||||
| 10 | "Grand Theft Bunny" | Michael Switzer | Pamela Norris | December 27, 1985 (1985-12-27) | 60810 |
| Bad guys manipulate the Misfits into helping them unleash a plague on Los Angeles with the aid of a contaminated bunny rabbit. | |||||
| 11 | "Grand Elusion" | Bernard McEveety | Morrie Ruvinsky | January 10, 1986 (1986-01-10) | 60812 |
| Billy recruits the gang to help a fellow scientist's daughter defect when she and her father tour America as part of a Russian girl's gymnast team. The gang takes the place of the magician hired to perform for the tour thanks to a judicious use of super powers, but the daughter refuses to leave without her father. Complicating matters, the KGB minder Galenkov has sworn to make sure the scientist Nikolai never gets away. The Misfits have to pull off an elaborate bait-and-switch to make sure that both Nikolai and Tatyana manage to escape. | |||||
| 12 | "Once Upon a Night" | Barbara Peeters | Linda Campanelli & M.M. Shelly Moore | January 17, 1986 (1986-01-17) | 60813 |
| Gloria's pen pal Jaye is the object of a hunt by unknown assailants. Glo is kidnapped, | |||||
| 13 | "Center of Attention" | Burt Brinckerhoff | Sara Parriott | January 31, 1986 (1986-01-31) | 60817 |
| El goes undercover as an incredibly talented basketball player (with some help from Gloria) to expose a crooked owner who is having his players throw their games. | |||||
| 14 | "Against All Oz" | Michael Switzer | Morrie Ruvinsky | February 7, 1986 (1986-02-07) | 60819 |
| Suffering exhaustion, Billy takes a nap and wakes up in an alternate reality, believing his adventures with the Misfits were a dream. Clips from prior episodes are shown as he tells his co-workers at a nuclear project of their counterparts in the dream. | |||||
| 15 | "The Avenging Angel" | Bernard McEveety | Dan Distefano | February 21, 1986 (1986-02-21) | 60816 |
| Gloria helps out an aspiring pro wrestler with the use of her telekinetic powers without telling him; the wrestler, Milt, soon decides he does have super powers and Gloria needs to keep helping him out when he decides to go after crooks trying to sell him protection. | |||||
| 16 | "Three Days of the Blender" | Michael Switzer | Donald Todd | N/A | 60814 |
| When a blender is accidentally delivered to Billy, he ends up getting arrested as a spy and Stetmeyer gets targeted by the FBI. |
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