Amazing Stories

1985-09-29 · The first season of this anthology series sets the tone with tales of light humor and even heavy drama with a twist of magic!

S01 E01 · 1985-09-29 · 25 min

Ghost Train

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!

S01 E02 · 1985-10-06 · 25 min

The Main Attraction

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.

S01 E03 · 1985-10-20 · 25 min

Alamo Jobe

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.

S01 E04 · 1985-10-27 · 25 min

Mummy Daddy

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.

S01 E05 · 1985-11-03 · 47 min

The Mission

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.

S01 E06 · 1985-11-05 · 25 min

The Amazing Falsworth

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.

S01 E07 · 1985-11-10 · 25 min

Fine Tuning

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.

S01 E08 · 1985-11-17 · 25 min

Mr. Magic

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

S01 E09 · 1985-12-01 · 25 min

Guilt Trip

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

S01 E10 · 1985-12-08 · 25 min

Remote Control Man

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

S01 E11 · 1985-12-15 · 25 min

Santa '85

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

S01 E12 · 1985-12-29 · 25 min

Vanessa in the Garden

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

S01 E13 · 1986-01-05 · 25 min

The Sitter

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

S01 E14 · 1986-01-12 · 25 min

No Day at the Beach

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

S01 E15 · 1986-01-19 · 25 min

One For the Road

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.

S01 E16 · 1986-02-02 · 25 min

Gather Ye Acorns

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.

S01 E17 · 1986-02-16 · 25 min

Boo!

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

S01 E18 · 1986-03-02 · 25 min

Dorothy and Ben

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.

S01 E19 · 1986-03-09 · 25 min

Mirror, Mirror

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

S01 E20 · 1986-04-06 · 25 min

Secret Cinema

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.

S01 E21 · 1986-04-13 · 25 min

Hell Toupee

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.

S01 E22 · 1986-05-04 · 25 min

The Doll

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.

S01 E23 · 1986-05-11 · 25 min

One For the Books

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.

S01 E24 · 1986-05-25 · 25 min

Grandpa's Ghost

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?

1986-09-22 · The second season of this anthology series continues unique tales of fun, adventure and excitement!

S02 E01 · 1986-09-22 · 24 min

The Wedding Ring

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

S02 E02 · 1986-09-29 · 22 min

Miscalculation

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.

S02 E03 · 1986-10-06 · 24 min

Magic Saturday

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.

S02 E04 · 1986-10-13 · 23 min

Welcome to My Nightmare

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.

S02 E05 · 1986-10-20 · 24 min

You Gotta Believe Me

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

S02 E06 · 1986-11-03 · 24 min

The Greibble

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

S02 E07 · 1986-11-10 · 24 min

Life on Death Row

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.

S02 E08 · 1986-11-21 · 45 min

Go to the Head of the Class

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.

S02 E09 · 1986-11-24 · 24 min

Thanksgiving

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

S02 E10 · 1986-12-01 · 23 min

The Pumpkin Competition

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

S02 E11 · 1986-12-08 · 22 min

What If...?

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.

S02 E12 · 1986-12-29 · 25 min

The Eternal Mind

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.

S02 E13 · 1987-01-12 · 24 min

Lane Change

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.

S02 E14 · 1987-01-19 · 24 min

Blue Man Down

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.

S02 E15 · 1987-02-02 · 23 min

The 21-Inch Sun

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.

S02 E16 · 1987-02-16 · 24 min

Family Dog

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.

S02 E17 · 1987-03-13 · 24 min

Gershwin's Trunk

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

S02 E18 · 1987-03-20 · 24 min

Such Interesting Neighbors

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.

S02 E19 · 1987-03-27 · 23 min

Without Diana

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.

S02 E20 · 1987-04-03 · 24 min

Moving Day

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.

S02 E21 · 1987-04-10 · 24 min

Miss Stardust

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