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Amazing Stories

Sun, Sep 29, 1985
  • Sci-Fi & Fantasy
  • Drama
  • Comedy
  • Family
  • Mystery
Series · Synopsis

Synopsis

A truly amazing, fantastical, science fiction, funny and odd, and sometimes scary, sad and endearing anthology series presented by Steven Spielberg with guest appearances by many famous actors, actresses, and directors.

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Episodes

2 seasons · 45 episodes

Ended · 45 aired
Season 1
24 episodes · 24 aired
▾
  • E1
    Ghost Train
    Aired · Sun, Sep 29, 1985 · 30m

    Opa Globe is convinced it is his destiny to board a train he inadvertently caused to crash 75 years ago, and tells his nine-year old grandson the old Highball Express will careen through their house.

  • E2
    The Main Attraction
    Aired · Sun, Oct 6, 1985 · 30m

    Athletic teenage hunk Brad Bender thinks he is too cool for nerdy classmate Shirley, who is crazy over him, until, to his horror, a meteor shower's power suddenly turns him into a human magnet.

  • E3
    Alamo Jobe
    Aired · Sun, Oct 20, 1985 · 30m

    During the Battle of the Alamo on March 6, 1836, 15-year-old messenger Jobe H. Farnum is about to be killed. He is transported forward in time to San Antonio in 1985. The 1980s prove to be too much for Jobe to handle.

  • E4
    Mummy, Daddy
    Aired · Sun, Oct 27, 1985 · 30m

    A dedicated actor in a realistic mummy costume that he can't take off is shooting a movie in a swamp. When he hears his wife is in labor, he runs towards the town but the local rednecks think he's the real deal and form a posse.

  • E5
    The Mission
    Aired · Sun, Nov 3, 1985 · 60m

    A courageous young World War II gunner and aspiring cartoonist, trapped in the belly gun of a B-17 aircraft with the landing gear destroyed, has only his imagination as a force that might be able to save him.

  • E6
    The Amazing Falsworth
    Aired · Tue, Nov 5, 1985 · 30m

    A nightclub audience gasps at The Amazing Falsworth's psychic powers, but the shock is his alone when the blindfolded performer picks up the vibes of a serial killer in the room.

  • E7
    Fine Tuning
    Aired · Sun, Nov 10, 1985 · 30m

    Three high-school kids build an antenna that can catch signals from outer space. They learn that the aliens are big fans of 1950s American television and are coming to Hollywood to meet some of their favorite Earth stars.

  • E8
    Mr. Magic
    Aired · Sun, Nov 17, 1985 · 30m

    Old-timer Lou Bundles, once a world-famous magician, is now fumbling every trick, and desperately purchases an amazing old deck of cards at a small magic shop in hopes of going out in a spectacular display of legerdemain.

  • E9
    Guilt Trip
    Aired · Sun, Dec 1, 1985 · 30m

    Overworked and exhausted, the emotion Guilt in human personification takes a fateful cruise and falls in love with Love.

  • E10
    Remote Control Man
    Aired · Sun, Dec 8, 1985 · 30m

    A meek, unhappy and frustrated husband with a nagging wife and incorrigible sons finally finds solace in his new TV set that "comes alive" with the use of a magic remote control and gives him the chance to replace his family with various TV characters. But then reality hits.

  • E11
    Santa '85
    Aired · Sun, Dec 15, 1985 · 30m

    Kris Kringle's Christmas is rudely interrupted when he lands in the clink with a bunch of bogus Santas after tripping a home burglar alarm. The cynical sheriff doesn't believe his story, so his only hope of deliverance becomes a smart eight-year-old boy (Damon), who is the only one who believes him and who won't let Christmas pass without Santa.

  • E12
    Vanessa in the Garden
    Aired · Sun, Dec 29, 1985 · 30m

    When a brilliant young artist's beloved wife dies in a carriage wreck, the grief-stricken husband is possessed with an incredible plan to bring her back through his art.

  • E13
    The Sitter
    Aired · Sun, Jan 5, 1986 · 30m

    A Jamaican babysitter uses voodoo to tame a pair of mischievous, stir-crazy boys.

  • E14
    No Day at the Beach
    Aired · Sun, Jan 12, 1986 · 30m

    Scorned by his troop of poker-playing teen-aged soldiers, Arnold Skamp becomes a war hero by miraculously saving their lives when they charge the battle-torn beaches of Port Nuovo, Italy. What his fellow marines learn afterwards, shocks them even more.

  • E15
    One for the Road
    Aired · Sun, Jan 19, 1986 · 30m

    In 1934, a couple of South Bronx barflies try to kill drunk Mike Malloy for his insurance money and find they're tangling with much more than they bargained for.

  • E16
    Gather Ye Acorns
    Aired · Sun, Feb 2, 1986 · 30m

    Jonathan Quick, the bane of his practical parents' existence, takes an ancient tree troll's advice to pack up his treasured comic-book collection and follow his heart.

  • E17
    Boo!
    Aired · Sun, Feb 16, 1986 · 30m

    Sweet, old-fashioned ghosts Nelson and Evelyn Chumsky are aghast when a porn queen and her sleazy husband move into their home, and try to scare the raunchy new residents away.

  • E18
    Dorothy and Ben
    Aired · Sun, Mar 2, 1986 · 30m

    It is shocking enough when old Ben Dumfy emerges like Rip Van Winkle from a 40-year coma, but his special mental communication with Dorothy, a comatose 7-year-old, leads to an even greater miracle. But there's a price.

  • E19
    Mirror, Mirror
    Aired · Sun, Mar 9, 1986 · 30m

    An egotistical horror novelist dismisses the supernatural in real life, but he is forced to reconsider his disbelief when he finds himself pursued by a bizarre figure with a misshapen face. The strange thing? He can only see the man when he looks in the mirror. Each time he looks into a reflective surface, he finds the weird figure gaining on him with malicious intent, which has him terrified of what will happen if the ghastly figure should ever reach him.

  • E20
    Secret Cinema
    Aired · Sun, Apr 6, 1986 · 30m

    Young everyday woman Jane becomes convinced that someone is recording and influencing her everyday life and that she's become the unwilling star of a secret cinema.

  • E21
    Hell Toupee
    Aired · Sun, Apr 13, 1986 · 30m

    Defense attorney Harry Ballentine is understandably nervous when his client is mild-mannered accountant Murray Bernstein - who after investing in a strange toupee had felt compelled to murder the first lawyer he saw. Harry goes after it.

  • E22
    The Doll
    Aired · Sun, May 4, 1986 · 30m

    The lonely, loveless life of a shy bachelor takes an astounding turn when he buys a special doll, exquisitely hand-crafted by a mysterious German toymaker. He tries to track down the woman who modeled for it.

  • E23
    One for the Books
    Aired · Sun, May 11, 1986 · 30m

    An elderly college janitor amazes himself, his wife and the scientific community when his brain turns into a sponge that soaks up more and more incredible knowledge of every subject taught at the school - until a shocking event changes everything.

  • E24
    Grandpa's Ghost
    Aired · Sun, May 25, 1986 · 30m

    Edwin's grandpa died in his sleep last night. So why is the old man still hanging around the apartment, playing the piano and swapping stories with Edwin's grandma?

Season 2
21 episodes · 21 aired
▾
  • E1
    The Wedding Ring
    Aired · Mon, Sep 22, 1986 · 30m

    When Herbert slips a mysterious ring onto the finger of his beloved wife as an anniversary gift, the weary waitress turns into a seductress. But delight turns to fright when Herbert spots deadly side effects.

  • E2
    Miscalculation
    Aired · Mon, Sep 29, 1986 · 30m

    Nerdy collegiate Phil unsuccessfully tries every trick in the book to meet girls. Then he discovers a potion that makes gorgeous magazine pin-ups spring to life. Unfortunately, he can't guess the right ratio to use, so his experiments backfire in a freaky way.

  • E3
    Magic Saturday
    Aired · Mon, Oct 6, 1986 · 30m

    Marky adores hearing his grandfather tell wondrous tales of hitchhiking through the universe and playing baseball with him on Saturdays. So when old "Stormin' Norman" takes ill, the boy invokes a magic spell to let his grandpa play one last magical ball game.

  • E4
    Welcome to My Nightmare
    Aired · Mon, Oct 13, 1986 · 30m

    Horror films are Harry's life, but when the movie-obsessed teenager suddenly steps into a blood-curdling scene from Psycho (1960), he desperately seeks escape to the real world.

  • E5
    You Gotta Believe Me
    Aired · Mon, Oct 20, 1986 · 30m

    Convinced that his vivid nightmare of a Boeing 747 crashing into his house is a horrific premonition, Earl Sweet desperately tries to alter fate.

  • E6
    The Greibble
    Aired · Mon, Nov 3, 1986 · 30m

    Joan Simmons is a harried mom who is alone in the house and thrown for a loop when a giant floppy, furry creature with a huge appetite for inanimate objects appears during a storm and wreaks havoc.

  • E7
    Life on Death Row
    Aired · Mon, Nov 10, 1986 · 30m

    A murderer on death row finds himself infused with the incredible power to heal by touch. A desperate race to halt his execution builds to a miraculous climax.

  • E8
    Go to the Head of the Class
    Aired · Fri, Nov 21, 1986 · 30m

    A teenage horror buff is so smitten with a sexy classmate that he helps her use black magic on their loathsome English teacher, with shocking and bewildering results.

  • E9
    Thanksgiving
    Aired · Mon, Nov 24, 1986 · 30m

    Greedy mean man finds a bottomless hole on his desert property. He concludes that some kind of beings who trade gold for things live down there. His stepdaughter realizes that "hole people" want food, not objects, but the man won't listen.

  • E10
    The Pumpkin Competition
    Aired · Mon, Dec 1, 1986 · 30m

    Rich, stingy and miserly Elma Dinnock is livid at losing the Yarborough Country pumpkin-growing contest 22 years in a row, and so gets help from a mysterious botanist for the next competition. Will she finally triumph?

  • E11
    What If...?
    Aired · Mon, Dec 8, 1986 · 30m

    Ignored by his self-absorbed, social-climbing parents, 5-year-old Jonah Kelley wanders his lonely, sterile house and then the outside world, searching for someone who will see him, while things and people disappear in his wake.

  • E12
    The Eternal Mind
    Aired · Mon, Dec 29, 1986 · 30m

    Applying experiments with chimps to himself, a dying scientist transfers his mind into a computer. But his unique survival after physical death brings unexpected heartaches.

  • E13
    Lane Change
    Aired · Mon, Jan 12, 1987 · 30m

    One stormy night on a deserted highway, a distraught wife driving toward an impending divorce glimpses her past through the windshield after picking up a mysterious woman who ran out of gas.

  • E14
    Blue Man Down
    Aired · Mon, Jan 19, 1987 · 30m

    A guilt-ridden police officer, who blames himself for his partner's violent death, is teamed with a young partner who seems invisible to everyone else.

  • E15
    The 21 Inch Sun
    Aired · Mon, Feb 2, 1987 · 30m

    A sitcom scriptwriter, who's suffering from writer's block, discovers that his house plant has miraculously gained sentience and a funny bone after being left in front of a TV while old sitcoms were playing. The plant ghostwrites for him.

  • E16
    The Family Dog
    Aired · Mon, Feb 16, 1987 · 30m

    The only animated episode of the show that's also a backdoor pilot. It has three segments: A family takes out their frustrations on their poor dog, watches their Christmas home movie, and sends the dog to guard dog school after a burglary.

  • E17
    Gershwin's Trunk
    Aired · Fri, Mar 13, 1987 · 30m

    Frantic to deliver a hit musical, conniving Broadway composer Jo-Jo Gillespie contacts the spirit of George Gershwin through psychic Sister Teresa, and makes marvelous music from beyond the grave. When some begin to suspect that his new music isn't actually his, Jo-Jo stops at nothing, even murder, to protect his secret and his downfall begins.

  • E18
    Such Interesting Neighbors
    Aired · Fri, Mar 20, 1987 · 30m

    Rattlesnakes, howling coyotes, sudden earthquakes and time warps jar the Lewis family in their new home, and all the bizarre incidents seem linked to the Hellenbecks, their weird next-door neighbors.

  • E19
    Without Diana
    Aired · Fri, Mar 27, 1987 · 30m

    An elderly couple have never stopped believing that their daughter, who went missing in the woods 40 years ago, will somehow appear to them one last time before they die.

  • E20
    Moving Day
    Aired · Fri, Apr 3, 1987 · 30m

    When Alan Webster's parents tell him that they have to move, the 17-year-old student is understandably upset - but not nearly as much as when he learns their destination is the planet Alturus, 85 billion miles away.

  • E21
    Miss Stardust
    Aired · Fri, Apr 10, 1987 · 30m

    Public-relations man Joe Willoughby thinks that promoting the Miss Stardust beauty pageant will be a snap, until "Cabbage Man," a representative from outer space, arrives and contends he owns the rights to the title and threatens to eliminate Earth unless he gets some satisfaction.