Amazing Stories

1985
Amazing Stories

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EP1 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.

EP2 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.

EP3 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.

EP4 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.

EP5 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.

EP6 The Greibble Nov 03, 1986

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

EP7 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.

EP8 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.

EP9 Thanksgiving Nov 24, 1986

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

EP10 The Pumpkin Competition Dec 01, 1986

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

EP11 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.

EP12 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.

EP13 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.

EP14 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.

EP15 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.

EP16 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.

EP17 Gershwin's Trunk Mar 13, 1987

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

EP18 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.

EP19 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.

EP20 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.

EP21 Miss Stardust Apr 10, 1987

An extraterrestrial threatens to destroy the earth unless the "Miss Stardust" beauty-pageant promoter allows entrants from other planets.
7.4| 0h30m| TV-PG| en| More Info
Released: 29 September 1985 Ended
Producted By: Amblin Entertainment
Country: United States of America
Budget: 0
Revenue: 0
Official Website: https://tv.apple.com/us/show/amazing-stories/umc.cmc.15p55n2osur6c56uam2gxhye3
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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.

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queengrace777 This series was just like what you would expect from Mr.Spielberg. It is truly one of those frighting, funny, childish shows that you won't forget. Just like Outer Limits (another great show) this little series does what not a lot can. It was great, and deserved to run longer. It was a great show, that even kids could watch, though some of the shows were a little scary when they wanted to be, but all of them always had a moral at the end (like the Twilight Zone) that made you realize what situation you didn't want to end up in, or ones that you did. I remember watching some of these on Sci-fi when I was 10, and even now, I still enjoy seeing them when I can. Truly a fun, imaginative show. I loved it, and still do.
Hockeyman77 Most of the episodes on Season 1 are awful..There is no comparison to Twilight Zone or Outer Limits, as they programs actually had decent story lines. Most of Amazing Stories are well dull..not amazing in the least..go rent or buy the Twilight Zone series...I have heard Season 2 of this series is much better..also for some reason on the DVD's they cut out the Ray Walston parts which further diminishes this compilation. The one cool thing is to see actors and actresses when they were younger in 1985...Most of the story lines are very predictable though and the series could of been better with twists and turns that left you wondering...
dtucker86 Spielburg is truly one of our cinematic giants and were so lucky to have him. I remember that he said that he based Raiders Of The Lost Ark on all those cliffhanger movie serials that he saw as a kid. He is like a person with the mind of a genius and the heart of a child. Amazing Stories was his contribution to television and this series has been unfairly forgotten. It should have run longer and I am glad some of the episodes are out on video. It was imaginative and daring just like the movies Speilburg directed. It told different stories every week and used some of our finest actors in the roles. The one that touched my heart the most was one about a man who was a soldier in World War II and came home resented by his little girl. She wandered off in the woods during a picnic and was lost forever. Years later, when the old man's wife is on her deathbed, he hears a knock at the door and he opens it to see his little girl. She has come for her mother and takes her away. This was one of the most moving stories that I have ever seen and it almost brings tears to my eyes thinking of it even now. Some episodes were dramatic and some were funny but the point is that all were masterful and original. Fred Allen once said "No wonder they call tv a medium, nothing on it is ever well done". I think even Fred would have loved Amazing Stories.
jack-298 I don't know how many times I've searched for this movie [I didn't realize, until now, that it was an episode of "Amazing Stories" and not a movie-of-the-week]only to draw a blank. It's almost been as frustrating as trying to find, "The Ghost of Flight 401" with Ernest Borgnine, which I'm convinced, the airline managed to pull from distribution because the story was too disturbing. Ahh, yes...another conspiracy therorist! Since both were made-for-TV movies, what are the chances of picking either of them up on VHS? I remember thinking that "Go to the Head of the Class" was truly exceptional. The following info was copied from IMDB's Christopher Lloyd, TV appearances: "Amazing Stories" (1985) playing "Professor B.O. Beanes" in episode: "Go To The Head Of The Class" (episode # 2.8) 11/21/1986 So...anyone know where to find either of these? jack