Amazing Stories
From visionary executive producers Steven Spielberg, Edward Kitsis & Adam Horowitz, this reimagining of the classic anthology series transports everyday characters into worlds of wonder, possibility, and imagination.
- Metascore56
- 1985-1987
- 2 seasons
- NBC
- Action & Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Suspense, Science Fiction
From visionary executive producers Steven Spielberg, Edward Kitsis & Adam Horowitz, this reimagining of the classic anthology series transports everyday characters into worlds of wonder, possibility, and imagination.
Season 2 Episode Guide
21 Episodes 1986 - 1987
Episode 1
The Wedding Ring
Mon, Sep 22, 1986 23 mins
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.
Episode 2
Miscalculation
Mon, Sep 29, 1986 21 mins
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
Mon, Oct 6, 1986 23 mins
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
Mon, Oct 13, 1986 22 mins
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
Mon, Oct 20, 1986 23 mins
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
Mon, Nov 3, 1986 23 mins
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.
Episode 7
Life on Death Row
Mon, Nov 10, 1986 30 mins
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.
Episode 8
Go to the Head of the Class
Fri, Nov 21, 1986 60 mins
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.
Episode 9
Thanksgiving
Mon, Nov 24, 1986 23 mins
Eighteen-year-old Dora is miserable living in an isolated desert town with her dour stepfather, but their discovery of mysterious "hole people" in a dried-up well changes each of their fates by Thanksgiving Day.
Episode 10
The Pumpkin Competition
Mon, Dec 1, 1986 30 mins
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?
Episode 11
What If...?
Mon, Dec 8, 1986 21 mins
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
Mon, Dec 29, 1986 24 mins
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
Mon, Jan 12, 1987 23 mins
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
Mon, Jan 19, 1987 23 mins
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.
Episode 15
The 21-Inch Sun
Mon, Feb 2, 1987 22 mins
Struggling sitcom writer Billy Burliss is suddenly the toast of television, thanks to the typing tendrils of his script-writing spider plant, Lucy - which is fed only by the rays of a black-and-white TV set.
Episode 16
Family Dog
Mon, Feb 16, 1987 21 mins
In this animated episode of three interrelated stories, a middle-class, suburban family, is seen through the eyes of their put-upon dog.
Episode 17
Gershwin's Trunk
Fri, Mar 13, 1987 30 mins
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.
Episode 18
Such Interesting Neighbors
Fri, Mar 20, 1987 30 mins
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
Fri, Mar 27, 1987 22 mins
In 1946, during the Easter picnic and egg hunt, eight-year-old Diana has a fight with her loving father who has just returned from World War II. She's been holding a grudge against him for years, because she doesn't understand why he had to leave her several years ago. During the game, she vanishes in the woods. The search party fails to find her and they end up blaming hidden quicksand spots in the woods for the tragedy. 40 years later, her parents are now old and her mother is on her deathbed, but they're still hoping that they'll see their little baby girl somehow, even if only for a spell.
Episode 20
Moving Day
Fri, Apr 3, 1987 23 mins
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
Fri, Apr 10, 1987 23 mins
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.