Amazing Stories

September. 29,1985      TV-PG
Rating:
7.4
Trailer Synopsis

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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Episode 1 - The Wedding Ring
September. 22,1986

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

Episode 2 - Miscalculation
September. 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.

Episode 3 - Magic Saturday
October. 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.

Episode 4 - Welcome to My Nightmare
October. 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.

Episode 5 - You Gotta Believe Me
October. 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.

Episode 6 - The Greibble
November. 03,1986

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

Episode 7 - Life on Death Row
November. 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.

Episode 8 - Go to the Head of the Class
November. 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.

Episode 9 - Thanksgiving
November. 24,1986

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

Episode 10 - The Pumpkin Competition
December. 01,1986

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

Episode 11 - What If...?
December. 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.

Episode 12 - The Eternal Mind
December. 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.

Episode 13 - Lane Change
January. 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.

Episode 14 - Blue Man Down
January. 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.

Episode 15 - The 21-Inch Sun
February. 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.

Episode 16 - Family Dog
February. 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.

Episode 17 - Gershwin's Trunk
March. 13,1987

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

Episode 18 - Such Interesting Neighbors
March. 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.

Episode 19 - Without Diana
March. 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.

Episode 20 - Moving Day
April. 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.

Episode 21 - Miss Stardust
April. 10,1987

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

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