Amazing Stories
Amazing Stories
TV Series
7.5
1985 2 Seasons

Amazing Stories

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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.

Episodes

Season 1

Season 1

24 Episodes Aired 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!

Ghost Train
25 min
E1

Ghost Train

Sep 29, 1985

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!

The Main Attraction
25 min
E2

The Main Attraction

Oct 06, 1985

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.

Alamo Jobe
25 min
E3

Alamo Jobe

Oct 20, 1985

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.

Mummy Daddy
25 min
E4

Mummy Daddy

Oct 27, 1985

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.

The Mission
47 min
E5

The Mission

Nov 03, 1985

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.

The Amazing Falsworth
25 min
E6

The Amazing Falsworth

Nov 05, 1985

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.

Fine Tuning
25 min
E7

Fine Tuning

Nov 10, 1985

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.

Mr. Magic
25 min
E8

Mr. Magic

Nov 17, 1985

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

Guilt Trip
25 min
E9

Guilt Trip

Dec 01, 1985

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

Remote Control Man
25 min
E10

Remote Control Man

Dec 08, 1985

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

Santa '85
25 min
E11

Santa '85

Dec 15, 1985

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

Vanessa in the Garden
25 min
E12

Vanessa in the Garden

Dec 29, 1985

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

The Sitter
25 min
E13

The Sitter

Jan 05, 1986

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

No Day at the Beach
25 min
E14

No Day at the Beach

Jan 12, 1986

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

One For the Road
25 min
E15

One For the Road

Jan 19, 1986

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.

Gather Ye Acorns
25 min
E16

Gather Ye Acorns

Feb 02, 1986

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.

Boo!
25 min
E17

Boo!

Feb 16, 1986

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

Dorothy and Ben
25 min
E18

Dorothy and Ben

Mar 02, 1986

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.

Mirror, Mirror
25 min
E19

Mirror, Mirror

Mar 09, 1986

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

Secret Cinema
25 min
E20

Secret Cinema

Apr 06, 1986

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.

Hell Toupee
25 min
E21

Hell Toupee

Apr 13, 1986

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.

The Doll
25 min
E22

The Doll

May 04, 1986

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.

One For the Books
25 min
E23

One For the Books

May 11, 1986

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.

Grandpa's Ghost
25 min
E24

Grandpa's Ghost

May 25, 1986

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

Season 2

21 Episodes Aired 1986

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

The Wedding Ring
24 min
E1

The Wedding Ring

Sep 22, 1986

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

Miscalculation
22 min
E2

Miscalculation

Sep 29, 1986

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.

Magic Saturday
24 min
E3

Magic Saturday

Oct 06, 1986

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.

Welcome to My Nightmare
23 min
E4

Welcome to My Nightmare

Oct 13, 1986

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.

You Gotta Believe Me
24 min
E5

You Gotta Believe Me

Oct 20, 1986

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

The Greibble
24 min
E6

The Greibble

Nov 03, 1986

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

Life on Death Row
24 min
E7

Life on Death Row

Nov 10, 1986

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.

Go to the Head of the Class
45 min
E8

Go to the Head of the Class

Nov 21, 1986

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.

Thanksgiving
24 min
E9

Thanksgiving

Nov 24, 1986

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

The Pumpkin Competition
23 min
E10

The Pumpkin Competition

Dec 01, 1986

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

What If...?
22 min
E11

What If...?

Dec 08, 1986

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.

The Eternal Mind
25 min
E12

The Eternal Mind

Dec 29, 1986

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.

Lane Change
24 min
E13

Lane Change

Jan 12, 1987

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.

Blue Man Down
24 min
E14

Blue Man Down

Jan 19, 1987

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.

The 21-Inch Sun
23 min
E15

The 21-Inch Sun

Feb 02, 1987

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.

Family Dog
24 min
E16

Family Dog

Feb 16, 1987

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.

Gershwin's Trunk
24 min
E17

Gershwin's Trunk

Mar 13, 1987

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

Such Interesting Neighbors
24 min
E18

Such Interesting Neighbors

Mar 20, 1987

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.

Without Diana
23 min
E19

Without Diana

Mar 27, 1987

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.

Moving Day
24 min
E20

Moving Day

Apr 03, 1987

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.

Miss Stardust
24 min
E21

Miss Stardust

Apr 10, 1987

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

Series Info

Status

Ended

Seasons

2

Episodes

45

Language

en

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