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Amazing Stories Season 1 Episodes
Season 1 Episode Guide
24 Episodes 1985 - 1986
Episode 1
Ghost Train
Sun, Sep 29, 198525 mins
Opa Globe is convinced it is his destiny to board a train he inadvertently caused to crash 75 years ago, and tells his nine-year old grandson the old Highball Express will careen through their house.
Episode 2
The Main Attraction
Sun, Oct 6, 198525 mins
Athletic teenage hunk Brad Bender thinks he is too cool for nerdy classmate Shirley, who is crazy over him, until, to his horror, a meteor shower's power suddenly turns him into a human magnet.
Episode 3
Alamo Jobe
Sun, Oct 20, 198525 mins
During the Battle of the Alamo, just before he's killed, historical Colonel Travis orders a dedicated fifteen-year-old volunteer, Alamo Jobe, to take an urgent message to general John Lefferts. However, there's no way out and Jobe is about to be killed. That's when he notices a pair of late 20th century tourists walking around like nothing's happening. Dumbfounded, he follows them end ends up in modern day Alamo museum. No one realizes that he's from the past and he doesn't understand what just happened to him. Not knowing what else to do, he tries to deliver the message anyway. After many misunderstandings and dangerous situations, he begins to somewhat realize that he's in the future, but all he wants is to complete his mission somehow and go back to his dying friends to accept his tragic destiny.
Episode 4
Mummy Daddy
Sun, Oct 27, 198525 mins
An actor (Tom Harrison) dressed as a mummy races from location-filming of a horror movie through a primeval Southern swamp to reach his wife, who is about to give birth. But the locals believe in the eerie legend of Ra Amin Ka, and when they encounter the panicked, bandaged performer, they are positive he is the real deal.
Episode 5
The Mission
Sun, Nov 3, 198546 mins
A courageous young World War II gunner and aspiring cartoonist, trapped in the belly gun of a B-17 aircraft with the landing gear destroyed, has only his imagination as a force that might be able to save him.
Episode 6
The Amazing Falsworth
Tue, Nov 5, 198525 mins
A nightclub audience gasps at The Amazing Falsworth's psychic powers, but the shock is his alone when the blindfolded performer picks up the vibes of a serial killer in the room.
Episode 7
Fine Tuning
Sun, Nov 10, 198525 mins
Three junior-high pals build a TV super antenna that can even pull in outer-space channels. The aliens seem to be huge fans of 1950s American television, especially comedy, since they've made their own versions of classic TV shows and sitcoms from the era. The kids also catch an alien newscast about the aliens' plans to sand a team of their astronauts to land in Hollywood in 1985 and meet their favorite stars and maybe even take them back to their home planet. The kids decide to find the aliens and help them achieve this dream.
Episode 8
Mr. Magic
Sun, Nov 17, 198525 mins
Old-timer Lou Bundles, once a world-famous magician, is now fumbling every trick, and desperately purchases an amazing old deck of cards at a small magic shop in hopes of going out in a spectacular display of legerdemain.
Episode 9
Guilt Trip
Sun, Dec 1, 198525 mins
Overworked and exhausted, the emotion Guilt in human personification takes a fateful cruise and falls in love with Love.
Episode 10
Remote Control Man
Sun, Dec 8, 198525 mins
A meek, unhappy and frustrated husband with a nagging wife and incorrigible sons finally finds solace in his new TV set that "comes alive" with the use of a magic remote control and gives him the chance to replace his family with various TV characters. But then reality hits.
Episode 11
Santa '85
Sun, Dec 15, 198525 mins
Kris Kringle's Christmas is rudely interrupted when he lands in the clink with a bunch of bogus Santas after tripping a home burglar alarm. The cynical sheriff doesn't believe his story, so his only hope of deliverance becomes a smart eight-year-old boy (Damon), who is the only one who believes him and who won't let Christmas pass without Santa.
Episode 12
Vanessa in the Garden
Sun, Dec 29, 198525 mins
When a brilliant young artist's beloved wife dies in a carriage wreck, the grief-stricken husband is possessed with an incredible plan to bring her back through his art.
Episode 13
The Sitter
Sun, Jan 5, 198625 mins
A Jamaican babysitter uses voodoo to tame a pair of mischievous, stir-crazy boys.
Episode 14
No Day at the Beach
Sun, Jan 12, 198624 mins
Scorned by his troop of poker-playing teen-aged soldiers, Arnold Skamp becomes a war hero by miraculously saving their lives when they charge the battle-torn beaches of Port Nuovo, Italy. What his fellow marines learn afterwards, shocks them even more.
Episode 15
One for the Road
Sun, Jan 19, 198625 mins
In 1934, a couple of South Bronx barflies try to kill drunk Mike Malloy for his insurance money and find they're tangling with much more than they bargained for.
Episode 16
Gather Ye Acorns
Sun, Feb 2, 198625 mins
In 1930s, a young boy named Jonathan Quick decides not to fulfill his practical parents' dream of becoming a doctor. Instead, he takes the advice of a strange mystical little troll, "Mother Nature's Only Son," who claims that if he buys a nice new car and keeps his treasured childhood possessions with him, he will be free of work, rat race and family. Decades pass and by 1955 Jonathan's life has only gotten worse. He chooses to stay a dreamer no matter what and by the 1980s, he's become a broken shell of an old man contemplating suicide. However, that's when he finally gets a break. Is it too little, too late, or a dream come true?
Episode 17
Boo!
Sun, Feb 16, 198625 mins
Sweet, old-fashioned ghosts Nelson and Evelyn Chumsky are aghast when a porn queen and her sleazy husband move into their home, and try to scare the raunchy new residents away.
Episode 18
Dorothy and Ben
Sun, Mar 2, 198625 mins
It is shocking enough when old Ben Dumfy emerges like Rip Van Winkle from a 40-year coma, but his special mental communication with Dorothy, a comatose 7-year-old, leads to an even greater miracle. But there's a price.
Episode 19
Mirror, Mirror
Sun, Mar 9, 198624 mins
An egotistical horror novelist dismisses the supernatural in real life, but he is forced to reconsider his disbelief when he finds himself pursued by a bizarre figure with a misshapen face. The strange thing? He can only see the man when he looks in the mirror. Each time he looks into a reflective surface, he finds the weird figure gaining on him with malicious intent, which has him terrified of what will happen if the ghastly figure should ever reach him.
Episode 20
Secret Cinema
Sun, Apr 6, 198625 mins
Jane thinks she has lost her mind when her life starts falling apart for no reason. Unbeknown to her, hidden cameras are filming her every move. She becomes the target of funny as well as cruel pranks and witnesses some increasingly bizarre situations. Is Jane really an unwilling star of some secret cinema society and is her life being turned into a comedy or a tragedy? Remake of Paul Bartel's 1968 short of the same name. Bartel himself both directs the episode and plays the shrink. However, this version is much more lighthearted than the original.
Episode 21
Hell Toupee
Sun, Apr 13, 198625 mins
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.
Episode 22
The Doll
Sun, May 4, 198625 mins
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.
Episode 23
One for the Books
Sun, May 11, 198625 mins
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.
Episode 24
Grandpa's Ghost
Sun, May 25, 198624 mins
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?