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- On 9th of November 1983 two Australians, Kevin Barlow and Geoff Chambers were arrested at Penang Airport in Malaysia carrying 179 grams of heroin, a crime which in Malaysia carries a mandatory sentence of death. Dadah Is Death (A Long Way From Home) is the true story of Barbara Barlow's desperate attempt to save her son from the hangman's rope - a courageous effort that involved impassioned pleas to President Reagan, The British Prime Minister, and even the Pope. By July 1986 this international struggle had seemed to reach a hopeless conclusion and all that was left was a mother's love for her son.
- A troubled Vietnam vet snaps during a training exercise at a survivalist-type military camp and thinks he's back in Vietnam. He kills several of the staff members who he thinks are Vietcong. The other participants set out to track him down and capture him before he hurts or kills anyone else. However, the camp's owner, who knows he'll be in trouble if word of this incident gets out, has no intention of capturing the man; he plans on killing him.
- An Announcer (JOE FOWLER) introduces each episodes. The Hosts were Mr. West (ALEX CORD), an old citizen of Broken Neck village whose "local people" were offering "up to five thousand union dollars" to whomever delivered them from the Outlaws, and Miss K.C. Clark (LISA COLES, aka Lisa Guerrero), the editor of the 'Broken Neck Gazette', who talked with the contestants and awarded the prize money to the winners, and each week rather neatly summed up each event with a simulated newspaper headline. The episodes were a Western-themed tournament in and around Broken Neck. Three visitors, two Cowboys and a Cowgirl, face a team of local Rough Riders or Outlaws, also two men and one woman, in a series of physical challenges: The Grand Stampede (cattle roping from horseback; stopping a runaway stagecoach by leaping from their horse onto it), Rider in the Sky (climbing the water tower and defusing a dynamite bomb before it blows), Shootout (a paintball gunfight), and Bull Run (obstacle course, like crossing a pond full of logs). Some episodes included a bar room tug-of-war over a purse with money, or a brawl, where the cowboy or the cowgirl have to try and force the outlaw out through the double saloon doors. The final game is a race across the rooftops, picking up a cash bag and hopefully getting on a horse and riding off into the sunset within a time limit - and all whilst not getting shot. The early games pay $100 to the winner of each individual event (top $300 for the three events), and the successful completion of the final wins $5,000. There were also stuntmen doing Western stunts between events.
