Chris is young idealistic cop who falls in love and gets married to Pam, a beautiful but emotionally unstable woman who suffers from alcoholism and drug addiction. While Chris is trying hard to have a normal life and some money, Pam is big spender and their marriage is constantly troublesome with the financial situation getting worse and worse. The biggest blow comes after Chris loses his job. In the desperate situation Chris decides to use his police skills to rob banks.

A local Pennsylvania band scores a one-hit wonder in 1964 and rides the star-making machinery as long as they can, with lots of help from their manager.

A hostage taking goes slowly, horribly wrong. A sour note for the Thieves Quartet.

A Martian lands on Earth and makes friends with a reporter.

A man who never has enough time for the things he wants to do is offered the opportunity to have himself duplicated.