Amazing Stories

Name: Amazing Stories
Genre: Fantasy, Science Fiction
Cast: Ray Walston

TV Series1985 – 198731m2 seasons · 45 episodes

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Fantasy Science Fiction

As one experience ends, another adventure begins… in the extraordinary worlds of Amazing Stories! From acclaimed director-producer Steven Spielberg and Amblin Entertainment comes the Emmy Award-winning TV series. Join a roster of cinema's most illustrious stars, including Kiefer Sutherland, Charlie Sheen, Tim Robbins, John Lithgow, Kevin Costner and more, as well as some of Hollywood's greatest directorial talents. Relive all the mesmerizing magic, mystery and suspense in these unique episodes from some of filmmaking's finest storytellers!

Creators: Steven Spielberg Joshua Brand John Falsey
Stars: Ray Walston

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E1The Wedding RingSep 22, 1986 · 30m · 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.TVmaze 6.0

E2MiscalculationSep 29, 1986 · 30m · 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.TVmaze 7.5

E3Magic SaturdayOct 6, 1986 · 30m · 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.TVmaze 4.5

E4Welcome to My NightmareOct 13, 1986 · 30m · 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.TVmaze 7.0

E5You Gotta Believe MeOct 20, 1986 · 30m · Convinced that his vivid nightmare of a Boeing 747 crashing into his house is a horrific premonition, Earl Sweet desperately tries to alter fate.TVmaze 5.5

E6The GreibbleNov 3, 1986 · 30m · Joan Simmons is 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.TVmaze 5.5

E7Life on Death RowNov 10, 1986 · 30m · 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.TVmaze 5.5

E8Go to the Head of the ClassNov 21, 1986 · 30m · A teenage horror buff is so smitten with a sexy classmate that he helps her use black magic on their loathsome English teacher, with shocking and bewildering results.TVmaze 8.0

E9ThanksgivingNov 24, 1986 · 30m · Greedy mean man finds a bottomless hole on his desert property. He concludes that some kind of beings who trade gold for things live down there. His stepdaughter realizes that "hole people" want food, not objects, but the man won't listen.TVmaze 6.0

E10The Pumpkin CompetitionDec 1, 1986 · 30m · Rich, stingy and 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. Will she finally triumph?TVmaze 6.5

E11What If...?Dec 8, 1986 · 30m · 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.TVmaze 5.5

E12The Eternal MindDec 29, 1986 · 30m · 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.TVmaze 5.0

E13Lane ChangeJan 12, 1987 · 30m · 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.TVmaze 6.0

E14Blue Man DownJan 19, 1987 · 30m · A guilt-ridden police officer, who blames himself for his partner's violent death, is teamed with a young partner who seems invisible to everyone else.TVmaze 5.0

E15The 21 Inch SunFeb 2, 1987 · 30m · 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.TVmaze 6.0

E16The Family DogFeb 16, 1987 · 30m · 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.TVmaze 5.5

E17Gershwin's TrunkMar 13, 1987 · 30m · 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. When some begin to suspect that his new music isn't actually his, Jo-Jo stops at nothing, even murder, to protect his secret and his downfall begins.TVmaze 5.0

E18Such Interesting NeighborsMar 20, 1987 · 30m · 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.TVmaze 7.0

E19Without DianaMar 27, 1987 · 30m · 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.TVmaze 6.5

E20Moving DayApr 3, 1987 · 30m · 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.TVmaze 7.0

E21Miss StardustApr 10, 1987 · 30m · 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.TVmaze 4.7

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Premiered: September 29, 1985
Ended: April 10, 1987
Status: Ended
Network: NBC
Country of origin: United States
Language: English
Episode runtime: 31m
TVmaze ID: 1122