Amazing Stories

Year

1985

Genre

Adventure, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller

Country

USA

Director

Actors

Charles Durning, Douglas Seale, Louis Giambalvo, Sharon Spelman, J.J. Cohen, Paul Bartel, Jeff Cohen, Dana Gladstone, Taliesin Jaffe, Tracey Walter, Joshua Rudoy, Royal Dano, Rick Andosca, Gregory Wagrowski, Fredric Cook, Brad Bird, Arnold Johnson, JoAnn Willette, Gary Riley, Billy Beck, John McCook, Michael Horse, Larry Spinak, Jed Mills, Jonathan Luria, Ben Kronen, Pamela Guest, Lynn Kuratomi, Conrad Dunn, Wade Mayer, Eve Smith

Description

Truly amazing, and sometimes odd, stories are narrated. Many famous actors and actresses made guest appearances.

Episodes

• Season 1: 1. Wedding Ring, The (1986). 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.
• Season 1: 2. Miscalculation (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.
• Season 1: 3. Magic Saturday (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 play one last magical ball game.
• Season 1: 4. Welcome To My Nightmare (1986). Horror flicks are Harry's life, but when the movie-obsessed teenager suddenly steps into a blood-curdling scene from Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho, he desperately seeks escape to the real world.
• Season 1: 5. You Gotta Believe Me (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.
• Season 1: 6. Greibble, The (1986). Hayley Mills stars as 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.
• Season 1: 7. Life On Death Row (1986). Years before The Green Mile, 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.
• Season 1: 8. Go To The Head Of The Class (1986). In this hour-long episode, a teenage horror buff (Coffey) is so smitten with a sexy classmate (Masterson) that he helps her use black magic on their loathsome English teacher, with shocking and bewildering results.
• Season 1: 9. Thanksgiving (1986). Eighteen-year-old Dora is miserable living in an isolated desert town with her dour stepfather, but their discovery of mysterious "hole people" in a dried-up well changes each of their fates by Thanksgiving Day.
• Season 1: 10. Pumpkin Competition, The (1986). Rich, 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.
• Season 1: 11. What If...? (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.
• Season 1: 12. Eternal Mind, The (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.
• Season 1: 13. Lane Change (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.
• Season 1: 14. Blue Man Down (1987). A guilt-ridden police officer (Gail), who blames himself for his partner's violent death, is teamed with a young partner (McNeil) who seems invisible to everyone else.
• Season 1: 15. 21-Inch Sun, The (1987). Struggling sitcom writer Billy Burliss is suddenly the toast of television, thanks to the typing tendrils of his script-writing spider plant, Lucy - which is fed only by the rays of a black-and-white TV set.
• Season 1: 16. Family Dog (1987). In this animated episode of three interrelated stories, a middle-class, suburban family is seen through the eyes of their put-upon dog.
• Season 1: 17. Gershwin's Trunk (1987). 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.
• Season 1: 18. Such Interesting Neighbors (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.
• Season 1: 19. Without Diana (1987). 1946 Father-Daughter Easter Picnic. Eight-year-old Diana bears a grudge against her father who has just returned from World War II, because she doesn't understand why he had to leave her several years ago. During the game, she vanishes in the woods...
• Season 1: 20. Moving Day (1987). When Al 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 1: 21. Miss Stardust (1987). 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.
• Season 2: 1. Wedding Ring, The (1986). 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.
• Season 2: 2. Miscalculation (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.
• Season 2: 3. Magic Saturday (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 play one last magical ball game.
• Season 2: 4. Welcome To My Nightmare (1986). Horror flicks are Harry's life, but when the movie-obsessed teenager suddenly steps into a blood-curdling scene from Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho, he desperately seeks escape to the real world.
• Season 2: 5. You Gotta Believe Me (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.
• Season 2: 6. Greibble, The (1986). Hayley Mills stars as 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.
• Season 2: 7. Life On Death Row (1986). Years before The Green Mile, 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.
• Season 2: 8. Go To The Head Of The Class (1986). In this hour-long episode, a teenage horror buff (Coffey) is so smitten with a sexy classmate (Masterson) that he helps her use black magic on their loathsome English teacher, with shocking and bewildering results.
• Season 2: 9. Thanksgiving (1986). Eighteen-year-old Dora is miserable living in an isolated desert town with her dour stepfather, but their discovery of mysterious "hole people" in a dried-up well changes each of their fates by Thanksgiving Day.
• Season 2: 10. Pumpkin Competition, The (1986). Rich, 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.
• Season 2: 11. What If...? (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.
• Season 2: 12. Eternal Mind, The (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.
• Season 2: 13. Lane Change (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.
• Season 2: 14. Blue Man Down (1987). A guilt-ridden police officer (Gail), who blames himself for his partner's violent death, is teamed with a young partner (McNeil) who seems invisible to everyone else.
• Season 2: 15. 21-Inch Sun, The (1987). Struggling sitcom writer Billy Burliss is suddenly the toast of television, thanks to the typing tendrils of his script-writing spider plant, Lucy - which is fed only by the rays of a black-and-white TV set.
• Season 2: 16. Family Dog (1987). In this animated episode of three interrelated stories, a middle-class, suburban family is seen through the eyes of their put-upon dog.
• Season 2: 17. Gershwin's Trunk (1987). 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.
• Season 2: 18. Such Interesting Neighbors (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.
• Season 2: 19. Without Diana (1987). 1946 Father-Daughter Easter Picnic. Eight-year-old Diana bears a grudge against her father who has just returned from World War II, because she doesn't understand why he had to leave her several years ago. During the game, she vanishes in the woods...
• Season 2: 20. Moving Day (1987). When Al 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 2: 21. Miss Stardust (1987). 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.

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30 minutes

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