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Amazing Stories
1985 - 1987 7.4 (203 votes) 2 Seasons
Official Website
Genres
Sci-Fi & Fantasy Drama Comedy Family Mystery Crime
Networks
NBC
Created By
Steven Spielberg
John Falsey
Joshua Brand

Amazing Stories

Overview

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.

Key Crew

Seasons

Season 1 poster
Season 1 (1985)

The first season of this anthology series sets the tone with tales of light humor and even heavy drama with a twist of magic!

24 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: Ghost Train
1985-09-29

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!

Runtime: 25 min
Episode 2: The Main Attraction
1985-10-06

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.

Runtime: 25 min
Episode 3: Alamo Jobe
1985-10-20

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.

Runtime: 25 min
Episode 4: Mummy Daddy
1985-10-27

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.

Runtime: 25 min
Episode 5: The Mission
1985-11-03

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.

Runtime: 47 min
Episode 6: The Amazing Falsworth
1985-11-05

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.

Runtime: 25 min
Episode 7: Fine Tuning
1985-11-10

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.

Runtime: 25 min
Episode 8: Mr. Magic
1985-11-17

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

Runtime: 25 min
Episode 9: Guilt Trip
1985-12-01

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

Runtime: 25 min
Episode 10: Remote Control Man
1985-12-08

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

Runtime: 25 min
Episode 11: Santa '85
1985-12-15

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

Runtime: 25 min
Episode 12: Vanessa in the Garden
1985-12-29

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

Runtime: 25 min
Episode 13: The Sitter
1986-01-05

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

Runtime: 25 min
Episode 14: No Day at the Beach
1986-01-12

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

Runtime: 25 min
Episode 15: One For the Road
1986-01-19

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.

Runtime: 25 min
Episode 16: Gather Ye Acorns
1986-02-02

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.

Runtime: 25 min
Episode 17: Boo!
1986-02-16

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

Runtime: 25 min
Episode 18: Dorothy and Ben
1986-03-02

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.

Runtime: 25 min
Episode 19: Mirror, Mirror
1986-03-09

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

Runtime: 25 min
Episode 20: Secret Cinema
1986-04-06

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.

Runtime: 25 min
Episode 21: Hell Toupee
1986-04-13

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.

Runtime: 25 min
Episode 22: The Doll
1986-05-04

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.

Runtime: 25 min
Episode 23: One For the Books
1986-05-11

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.

Runtime: 25 min
Episode 24: Grandpa's Ghost
1986-05-25

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?

Runtime: 25 min
Season 2 poster
Season 2 (1986)

The second season of this anthology series continues unique tales of fun, adventure and excitement!

21 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: The Wedding Ring
1986-09-22

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

Runtime: 24 min
Episode 2: Miscalculation
1986-09-29

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.

Runtime: 22 min
Episode 3: Magic Saturday
1986-10-06

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.

Runtime: 24 min
Episode 4: Welcome to My Nightmare
1986-10-13

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.

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 5: You Gotta Believe Me
1986-10-20

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

Runtime: 24 min
Episode 6: The Greibble
1986-11-03

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

Runtime: 24 min
Episode 7: Life on Death Row
1986-11-10

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.

Runtime: 24 min
Episode 8: Go to the Head of the Class
1986-11-21

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.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 9: Thanksgiving
1986-11-24

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

Runtime: 24 min
Episode 10: The Pumpkin Competition
1986-12-01

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

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 11: What If...?
1986-12-08

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.

Runtime: 22 min
Episode 12: The Eternal Mind
1986-12-29

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.

Runtime: 25 min
Episode 13: Lane Change
1987-01-12

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.

Runtime: 24 min
Episode 14: Blue Man Down
1987-01-19

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.

Runtime: 24 min
Episode 15: The 21-Inch Sun
1987-02-02

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.

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 16: Family Dog
1987-02-16

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.

Runtime: 24 min
Episode 17: Gershwin's Trunk
1987-03-13

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

Runtime: 24 min
Episode 18: Such Interesting Neighbors
1987-03-20

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.

Runtime: 24 min
Episode 19: Without Diana
1987-03-27

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.

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 20: Moving Day
1987-04-03

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.

Runtime: 24 min
Episode 21: Miss Stardust
1987-04-10

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

Runtime: 24 min

Videos

Steven Spielberg's Unglaubliche Geschichten / Amazing Stories - Trailer (1985, German)

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