Amazing Stories

All Episodes 1985 - 1987
TV-PG

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  • 1985-09-29T04:00:00Z
  • 53m
  • 19h (45 episodes)
  • Steven Spielberg + 2 more, Joshua Brand, John Falsey
  • United States
  • English
  • Universal Television + 1 more, Amblin Entertainment
  • Fantasy, Science Fiction, Comedy, Drama, Family, Mystery, Crime
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.

45 episodes

Series Premiere

1985-09-29T04:00:00Z

1x01 Ghost Train

Series Premiere

1x01 Ghost Train

  • 1985-09-29T04:00:00Z25m

Ohpa Globe is happy to see his son's new house, but when he sees that the home is built on ghost train tracks, he changes his focus. To his family's chagrin, he is convinced it is his destiny to die in those cornfields, to board a train he inadvertently caused to crash 75 years ago! He tells his nine-year old grandson he still has his ticket for the old "Highball Express", and that arriving train will careen through their house!

1985-10-06T04:00:00Z

1x02 The Main Attraction

1x02 The Main Attraction

  • 1985-10-06T04:00:00Z25m

Big Man on Campus Brad Bender has no problem attracting people to his charms. But when a meteorite crashes in his neighborhood, his magnetism gets even stronger, sometimes attracting the wrong people... and things.

1985-10-20T04:00:00Z

1x03 Alamo Jobe

1x03 Alamo Jobe

  • 1985-10-20T04:00:00Z25m

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.

1985-10-27T04:00:00Z

1x04 Mummy Daddy

1x04 Mummy Daddy

  • 1985-10-27T04:00:00Z25m

An actor who's playing a mummy in a horror film learns that his wife has gone into labor and rushes to be with her – without removing his costume.

1985-11-03T05:00:00Z

1x05 The Mission

1x05 The Mission

  • 1985-11-03T05:00:00Z47m

During World War II, men in an air force bomber are caught in a no win scenario when their belly gunner (an amateur artist) is trapped in his seat and the plane has no wheels for landing.

1985-11-05T05:00:00Z

1x06 The Amazing Falsworth

1x06 The Amazing Falsworth

  • 1985-11-05T05:00:00Z25m

A psychic showman realizes that during a performance that someone in the audience wants to commit murder. Frightened, he calls the police, and the detective shows up to investigate.

1985-11-10T05:00:00Z

1x07 Fine Tuning

1x07 Fine Tuning

  • 1985-11-10T05:00:00Z25m

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.

1985-11-17T05:00:00Z

1x08 Mr. Magic

1x08 Mr. Magic

  • 1985-11-17T05:00:00Z25m

A fading illusionist has a last shot at greatness thanks to a deck of magic playing cards.

1985-12-01T05:00:00Z

1x09 Guilt Trip

1x09 Guilt Trip

  • 1985-12-01T05:00:00Z25m

The emotion Guilt feels overworked. He takes a vacation cruise and falls for the emotion Love.

1985-12-08T05:00:00Z

1x10 Remote Control Man

1x10 Remote Control Man

  • 1985-12-08T05:00:00Z25m

A henpecked man finds comfort in a unique television set that bring lifelike images to him.

1985-12-15T05:00:00Z

1x11 Santa '85

1x11 Santa '85

  • 1985-12-15T05:00:00Z25m

A little boy helps Santa when the legendary man is thrown in jail while delivering presents.

1985-12-29T05:00:00Z

1x12 Vanessa in the Garden

1x12 Vanessa in the Garden

  • 1985-12-29T05:00:00Z25m

When an artist is devastated by the death of his wife, he finds a way for her to live on in his painting.

1986-01-05T05:00:00Z

1x13 The Sitter

1x13 The Sitter

  • 1986-01-05T05:00:00Z25m

Two young boys get the best of every sitter in town, until they meet one who uses voodoo to settle them down.

1986-01-12T05:00:00Z

1x14 No Day at the Beach

1x14 No Day at the Beach

  • 1986-01-12T05:00:00Z25m

A GI tries to be a hero during an amphibious assault in Italy during World War II.

1986-01-19T05:00:00Z

1x15 One For the Road

1x15 One For the Road

  • 1986-01-19T05:00:00Z25m

During the Depression, several bar patrons hope to get insurance money by tricking a man into signing a policy with the hope that he will drink himself to death.

1986-02-02T05:00:00Z

1x16 Gather Ye Acorns

1x16 Gather Ye Acorns

  • 1986-02-02T05:00:00Z25m

On the advice from a mysterious little man, an 18-year-old boy begins to collect rare comics and toys. When he sells them as an old man, he gains wealth and happiness.

1986-02-16T05:00:00Z

1x17 Boo!

1x17 Boo!

  • 1986-02-16T05:00:00Z25m

Ghosts in an attic try to get rid of a couple who move into their house.

1986-03-02T05:00:00Z

1x18 Dorothy and Ben

1x18 Dorothy and Ben

  • 1986-03-02T05:00:00Z25m

After 40 years in a coma, Ben Dumpfy awakens and discovers that he can communicate with a seven-year-old girl who is in a coma after a bike accident.

1986-03-09T05:00:00Z

1x19 Mirror, Mirror

1x19 Mirror, Mirror

  • 1986-03-09T05:00:00Z25m

A popular horror novelist is terrorized by a strange figure in his bathroom mirror.

1986-04-06T05:00:00Z

1x20 Secret Cinema

1x20 Secret Cinema

  • 1986-04-06T05:00:00Z25m

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.

1986-04-13T05:00:00Z

1x21 Hell Toupee

1x21 Hell Toupee

  • 1986-04-13T05:00:00Z25m

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.

1986-05-04T04:00:00Z

1x22 The Doll

1x22 The Doll

  • 1986-05-04T04:00:00Z25m

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.

1986-05-11T04:00:00Z

1x23 One For the Books

1x23 One For the Books

  • 1986-05-11T04:00:00Z25m

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.

Season Finale

1986-05-25T04:00:00Z

1x24 Grandpa's Ghost

Season Finale

1x24 Grandpa's Ghost

  • 1986-05-25T04:00:00Z25m

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 Premiere

1986-09-22T04:00:00Z

2x01 The Wedding Ring

Season Premiere

2x01 The Wedding Ring

  • 1986-09-22T04:00:00Z24m

A wax museum dresser takes a ring from a statue. The ring transforms his overworked wife into a femme fatale.

1986-09-29T04:00:00Z

2x02 Miscalculation

2x02 Miscalculation

  • 1986-09-29T04:00:00Z22m

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.

1986-10-06T04:00:00Z

2x03 Magic Saturday

2x03 Magic Saturday

  • 1986-10-06T04:00:00Z24m

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.

1986-10-13T04:00:00Z

2x04 Welcome to My Nightmare

2x04 Welcome to My Nightmare

  • 1986-10-13T04:00:00Z23m

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.

1986-10-20T04:00:00Z

2x05 You Gotta Believe Me

2x05 You Gotta Believe Me

  • 1986-10-20T04:00:00Z24m

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

1986-11-03T05:00:00Z

2x06 The Greibble

2x06 The Greibble

  • 1986-11-03T05:00:00Z24m

A housewife has a very real nightmare. She encounters a large creature that has a taste for inanimate objects.

1986-11-10T05:00:00Z

2x07 Life on Death Row

2x07 Life on Death Row

  • 1986-11-10T05:00:00Z24m

An inmate is struck by lightning. He is given miraculous healing powers that spark a last-minute attempt to save him from the electric chair.

A teacher's bizarre discipline causes two students to seek revenge with a spell culled from a rock song played backwards. Unfortunately something goes wrong when they cast the spell. When they attempt another spell to fix the problem they accidently remove the head of their teacher.

1986-11-24T05:00:00Z

2x09 Thanksgiving

2x09 Thanksgiving

  • 1986-11-24T05:00:00Z24m

When a dry well yields treasures, a man cashes in, while his stepdaughter repays the kindness of the “hole people.”

1986-12-01T05:00:00Z

2x10 The Pumpkin Competition

2x10 The Pumpkin Competition

  • 1986-12-01T05:00:00Z23m

An old spinster who is tired of losing a pumpkin competition recieves special advice from an agricultural professor.

1986-12-08T05:00:00Z

2x11 What If...?

2x11 What If...?

  • 1986-12-08T05:00:00Z22m

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.

1986-12-29T05:00:00Z

2x12 The Eternal Mind

2x12 The Eternal Mind

  • 1986-12-29T05:00:00Z25m

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.

1987-01-12T05:00:00Z

2x13 Lane Change

2x13 Lane Change

  • 1987-01-12T05:00:00Z24m

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.

1987-01-19T05:00:00Z

2x14 Blue Man Down

2x14 Blue Man Down

  • 1987-01-19T05:00:00Z24m

Two police officers try to break up a supermarket robbery, but the younger officer is killed. A new female partner helps the other officer avenge his friends death. He later discovers that his new partner is the ghost of an officer who died 12 years earlier.

1987-02-02T05:00:00Z

2x15 The 21-Inch Sun

2x15 The 21-Inch Sun

  • 1987-02-02T05:00:00Z23m

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.

1987-02-16T05:00:00Z

2x16 Family Dog

2x16 Family Dog

  • 1987-02-16T05:00:00Z24m

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.

1987-03-13T05:00:00Z

2x17 Gershwin's Trunk

2x17 Gershwin's Trunk

  • 1987-03-13T05:00:00Z24m

A broadway lyricist seeks inspiration by contacting the spirit of Gershwin through a psychic.

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.

1987-03-27T05:00:00Z

2x19 Without Diana

2x19 Without Diana

  • 1987-03-27T05:00:00Z23m

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.

1987-04-03T05:00:00Z

2x20 Moving Day

2x20 Moving Day

  • 1987-04-03T05:00:00Z24m

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.

Season Finale

1987-04-10T04:00:00Z

2x21 Miss Stardust

Season Finale

2x21 Miss Stardust

  • 1987-04-10T04:00:00Z24m

An extraterrestrial threatens to destroy the earth unless the "Miss Stardust" beauty-pageant promoter allows entrants from other planets.

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