TV Episode Summaries for
11th January 1999

Batman Beyond Season 1, Episode 1

Rebirth (Part 1)

Airs: 1:00am - 1:30am on The WB

Twenty years after the original series and with a brand new Batsuit, Bruce Wayne takes on a gang of kidnappers to rescue a hostage only to suffer a heart attack. Forced to take up a gun to save his life he decides to retire.

Warren McGinnis, an employee of Wayne-Powers Industries, is given a disc containing classified information about a highly lethal kind of contaminant being manufactured by the company. The informant, a friend and fellow employee, vanishes.

Terry McGinnis, Warren's son, breaks his curfew and has a run-in with a gang called 'The Jokerz'. He flees to the countryside where an elderly Bruce Wayne comes to his aid. Weakened after the fight Bruce allows Terry to help him back to the manor. While he is unconscious Terry stumbles upon the Batcave.

Terry returns home to find his father dead. Swearing vengeance, he discovers the disc among his father's personal effects and returns to Wayne Manor to tells Bruce about the suspected corruption within his company...

Batman Beyond Season 1, Episode 2

Rebirth (Part 2)

Airs: 1:00am - 1:30am on The WB

Bruce Wayne discovers the secret of the disc that was given to Terry's father, and instructs Terry to deliver the information directly to Commissioner Barbara Gordon.

On the way to the police station he is accosted by the CEO of Bruce's company, Derek Powers, but manages to escape. Unhappy with the situation, he returns to Wayne Manor to steal the Batsuit and take out his vengeance on the man who killed his father.

Although initially furious after discovering the theft, Wayne is impressed with Terry's performance and reluctantly agrees that the city of Gotham once again needs Batman, hiring Terry as his new assistant.

The Simpsons Season 10, Episode 10

Viva Ned Flanders

Airs: 1:00am - 1:30am on FOX

Homer and Ned enjoy a bender in Las Vegas, but when they awake the next morning, they are shocked to find they have two new wives.

The X-Files Season 6, Episode 8

The Rain King

Airs: 2:00am - 3:00am on FOX

Mulder and Scully journey to a small town that is plagued by drought. The town's mayor, who has invited them, tells the agents that the blight is caused by a local man who, he claims, does rain dances for money.

The Sopranos Season 1, Episode 1

The Sopranos

Airs: 2:00am - 3:00am on HBO

Tony Soprano leads two lives, one where he is a good family man to his wife, two children, and his widowed mother and the other as part of the New Jersey mafia. He soon begins suffering from panic attacks and he begins seeing a female psychiatrist, Dr. Jennifer Melfi, which he knows if members of the 'family' find out, he will be killed. Meanwhile, Tony's Uncle Junior wants to use Tony's childhood friend, Artie's, restaurant to whack a guy by the name of Pussy Malenga.
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