Amazing Stories

Truly amazing, fantastical, funny, and odd, and sometimes scary, sad, and endearing stories are portrayed. Many famous actors, actresses, and directors made guest appearances.

1985 HD 24min TV-PG United States English

Steven Spielberg

Adventure Comedy

magic anthology supernatural time travel ghost psychic power healing power magician

S1E1 - Ghost Train 1985-09-29

Ohpa Globe is happy to see his sons new house, but when he sees that the home is built on ghost train tracks, he changes his focus. To his familys 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!

S1E2 - The Main Attraction 1985-10-06

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.

S1E3 - Alamo Jobe 1985-10-20

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.

S1E4 - Mummy Daddy 1985-10-27

An actor whos 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.

S1E5 - The Mission 1985-11-03

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.

S1E6 - The Amazing Falsworth 1985-11-05

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.

S1E7 - Fine Tuning 1985-11-10

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.

S1E8 - Mr. Magic 1985-11-17

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

S1E9 - Guilt Trip 1985-12-01

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

S1E10 - Remote Control Man 1985-12-08

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

S1E11 - Santa '85 1985-12-15

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

S1E12 - Vanessa in the Garden 1985-12-29

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

S1E13 - The Sitter 1986-01-05

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

S1E14 - No Day at the Beach 1986-01-12

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

S1E15 - One For the Road 1986-01-19

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.

S1E16 - Gather Ye Acorns 1986-02-02

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.

S1E17 - Boo! 1986-02-16

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

S1E18 - Dorothy and Ben 1986-03-02

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.

S1E19 - Mirror, Mirror 1986-03-09

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

S1E20 - Secret Cinema 1986-04-06

Young everyday woman Jane becomes convinced that someone is recording and influencing her everyday life and that shes become the unwilling star of a secret cinema.

S1E21 - Hell Toupee 1986-04-13

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.

S1E22 - The Doll 1986-05-04

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.

S1E23 - One For the Books 1986-05-11

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.

S1E24 - Grandpa's Ghost 1986-05-25

Edwins 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 Edwins grandma?

S2E1 - The Wedding Ring 1986-09-22

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

S2E2 - Miscalculation 1986-09-29

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 cant guess the right ratio to use, so his experiments backfire in a freaky way.

S2E3 - Magic Saturday 1986-10-06

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.

S2E4 - Welcome to My Nightmare 1986-10-13

Horror films are Harrys 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.

S2E5 - You Gotta Believe Me 1986-10-20

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

S2E6 - The Greibble 1986-11-03

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

S2E7 - Life on Death Row 1986-11-10

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.

S2E8 - Go to the Head of the Class 1986-11-21

A teachers 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.

S2E9 - Thanksgiving 1986-11-24

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

S2E10 - The Pumpkin Competition 1986-12-01

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

S2E11 - What If...? 1986-12-08

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.

S2E12 - The Eternal Mind 1986-12-29

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.

S2E13 - Lane Change 1987-01-12

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.

S2E14 - Blue Man Down 1987-01-19

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.

S2E15 - The 21-Inch Sun 1987-02-02

A sitcom scriptwriter, whos suffering from writers 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.

S2E16 - Family Dog 1987-02-16

The only animated episode of the show thats 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.

S2E17 - Gershwin's Trunk 1987-03-13

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

S2E18 - Such Interesting Neighbors 1987-03-20

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.

S2E19 - Without Diana 1987-03-27

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.

S2E20 - Moving Day 1987-04-03

When Alan Websters 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.

S2E21 - Miss Stardust 1987-04-10

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

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