Amazing Stories

E01

Episode 1

★ 7.3

The Wedding Ring

1986-09-22 · 24m

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

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E02

Episode 2

★ 7.3

Miscalculation

1986-09-29 · 22m

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.

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E03

Episode 3

★ 7.0

Magic Saturday

1986-10-06 · 24m

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.

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E04

Episode 4

★ 6.7

Welcome to My Nightmare

1986-10-13 · 23m

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.

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E05

Episode 5

★ 7.2

You Gotta Believe Me

1986-10-20 · 24m

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

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E06

Episode 6

★ 6.4

The Greibble

1986-11-03 · 24m

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

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E07

Episode 7

★ 8.2

Life on Death Row

1986-11-10 · 24m

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.

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E08

Episode 8

★ 8.1

Go to the Head of the Class

1986-11-21 · 45m

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.

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E09

Episode 9

★ 8.1

Thanksgiving

1986-11-24 · 24m

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

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E10

Episode 10

★ 7.0

The Pumpkin Competition

1986-12-01 · 23m

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

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E11

Episode 11

★ 7.3

What If...?

1986-12-08 · 22m

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.

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E12

Episode 12

★ 7.4

The Eternal Mind

1986-12-29 · 25m

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.

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E13

Episode 13

★ 8.2

Lane Change

1987-01-12 · 24m

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.

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E14

Episode 14

★ 8.1

Blue Man Down

1987-01-19 · 24m

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.

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E15

Episode 15

★ 7.6

The 21-Inch Sun

1987-02-02 · 23m

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.

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E16

Episode 16

★ 8.2

Family Dog

1987-02-16 · 24m

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.

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E17

Episode 17

★ 6.1

Gershwin's Trunk

1987-03-13 · 24m

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

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E18

Episode 18

★ 7.4

Such Interesting Neighbors

1987-03-20 · 24m

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.

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E19

Episode 19

★ 7.7

Without Diana

1987-03-27 · 23m

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.

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E20

Episode 20

★ 7.4

Moving Day

1987-04-03 · 24m

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.

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E21

Episode 21

★ 7.3

Miss Stardust

1987-04-10 · 24m

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

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