When Walter (George Newbern) can’t handle the grief of losing his wife because of an intruder — despite having Dr. Joyce Brothers as a therapist — an ex-NASA scientist, Dr. Kurt Rotwang (Vincent Schiavelli), sends him to other realities where Ruth (Elizabeth Berkley!) could still be alive with his Probability Engine. None of those are what he wants, and if there’s a lesson in this, it’s that sometimes you have to take the hand that the world has dealt you.

Directed by Russel Mulcahy (Highlander, Razorback) and written by Peter Atkins (Hellraiser II, Hellraiser III, Fist of the North Star, Wishmaster, Prisoners of the Sun), this is one of the better episodes of this show. Oddly enough, Meadow Soprano is watching this one in The Sopranos episode “I Dream of Jeannie Cusamano.”

This episode is based on “Planely Possible” from Weird Fantasy #21, written by Al Feldstein and William Gaines and drawn by Jack Kamen. Unlike many episodes of this show, this one is actually close to the original story, including the moment when Walter’s alternate reality self is put into an incinerator and tries to assume his place, which sets off a series of events that only worsen from there. You’ll see where this time loop is going, but that’s part of why this works so well.

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