The Twilight Zone: Dead Run (1985)

John de Lancie appears in a supporting role as Satan's V.P. of Human Resources.

Dead Run, the "B" episode 19 from the first season of the new hour long Twilight Zone, was a kind of perfect storm of good writing and good acting. Based on a short story of the same name by Greg Bear, the explosive writer of Moving Mars (Nebula Award winner 1990) and the stunning Queen of Angels, the episode is delivered by Steve Railsback (Life Force) and an ensemble cast of supporting actors including: Brent Spiner (Star Trek The Next Generation) in a cameo role as a Viet Nam era draft dodger, John de Lancie (Q from Star Trek The Next Generation) as Satan's V.P. and Barry Corbin (War Games, No Country For Old Men) as Hell's Trucker, Pete.

And the road to Hell needs drivers! Down-on-his-luck trucker Johnny Davis is just desperate enough to take this job. After some careful instruction from his pal Pete and a run-in with a gravel-throated minor demon with a mean case of pyromania - Johnny signs on with Hell's H.R. Dept. courtesy of John de Lancie.


The road to Hell itself is conducted by American truckers? It figures.

On his road trips from the world of the living to the "low road" to Hell (which looks a lot like Green Bay), Johnny interviews the ghostly souls of the damned. The doomed seem more than happy to recount their own personal tales of anguish and damnation to him.

On the final ride of the episode, Johnny frees four seemingly innocent souls while recollecting the Harrowing of Hell to them, the time between the Crucifixion and Resurrection of Christ Jesus when He descended into Hell (Acts 2:27 and Acts 2:31). Johnny points out the way to Heaven to his freed captives before getting back in his big rig to deliver the rest of his load of souls into the pit.

References:
Wikipedia, Dead Run
Wikipedia, John de Lancie
Wikipedia, Harrowing Of Hell

The Twilight Zone: The Invisible Man (1985)

To See The Invisible Man (from season one episode 40) was about as close as the 80's series got to the brilliance of Rod Serling or Richard Mathheson in the in the original 60's series.

Mitchell Chaplin (a faceted performance by Cotter Smith) is a man who has been found guilty of the crime of "coldness" - of not being friendly or open enough with those around him. According to the State, his punishment is to be rendered "invisible", a social outcast. For a period of one year, a scarring implant is to be placed on his forehead warns others to ignore him upon penalty of being sentenced to a similar fate.

What seems like a welcome chance to be left alone becomes a lesson in humility, compassion, and empathy, as Chaplin begins to feel the consequences of social isolation. Under the omnipresent eye of floating security drones that monitor all of society, people continually shun him. A blind man he meets, who can't see the mark, is refreshingly cordial, until a passing woman whispers the warning "invisible" to him. The blind man furiously curses Chaplin and turns away.

Misfortune after misfortune befalls Chaplin. His lowest point reached when he's denied medical care after being hit by a car due to his status. On the last day of his sentence, two guards enter his apartment and remove the implant, restoring him back to visible society.

Four months after completing his sentence, Chaplin is confronted in public by a young woman (whom he encountered during his invisibility) who now wears the scar of the implant. Knowing the law, initially he ignores her, but her crying moves him to turn around and hug her. As they are quickly surrounded by drones who announce a new sentence of invisibility for his crime as he declares that he can "see" the woman...

References:
Wikipedia, Twilight Zone: To See The Invisible Man
Postcards From The Zone, 1.40: To See The Invisible Man