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.

Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama

Cast:Charles Durning , Douglas Seale , Louis Giambalvo , Sharon Spelman , J.J. Cohen , Paul Bartel , Jeff Cohen , Dana Gladstone , Taliesin Jaffe , Tracey Walter , Joshua Rudoy , Royal Dano , Rick Andosca , Gregory Wagrowski , Fredric Cook , Brad Bird , JoAnn Willette , Arnold Johnson

1Season 1

S1.E1 ∙ Ghost Train

Sun, Sep 29, 1985

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.

2Season 1

S1.E2 ∙ The Main Attraction

Sun, Oct 6, 1985

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.

3Season 1

S1.E3 ∙ Alamo Jobe

Sun, Oct 20, 1985

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.

4Season 1

S1.E4 ∙ Mummy Daddy

Sun, Oct 27, 1985

A dedicated actor in a realistic mummy costume that he can't take off is shooting a movie in a swamp. When he hears his wife is in labor, he runs towards the town but the local rednecks think he's the real deal and form a posse.

5Season 1

S1.E5 ∙ The Mission

Sun, Nov 3, 1985

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.

6Season 1

S1.E6 ∙ The Amazing Falsworth

Tue, Nov 5, 1985

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.

7Season 1

S1.E7 ∙ Fine Tuning

Sun, Nov 10, 1985

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.

8Season 1

S1.E8 ∙ Mr. Magic

Sun, Nov 17, 1985

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.

9Season 1

S1.E9 ∙ Guilt Trip

Sun, Dec 1, 1985

Overworked and exhausted, the emotion Guilt in human personification takes a fateful cruise and falls in love with Love.

10Season 1

S1.E10 ∙ Remote Control Man

Sun, Dec 8, 1985

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.

11Season 1

S1.E11 ∙ Santa '85

Sun, Dec 15, 1985

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.

12Season 1

S1.E12 ∙ Vanessa in the Garden

Sun, Dec 29, 1985

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.

13Season 1

S1.E13 ∙ The Sitter

Sun, Jan 5, 1986

A Jamaican babysitter uses voodoo to tame a pair of mischievous, stir-crazy boys.

14Season 1

S1.E14 ∙ No Day at the Beach

Sun, Jan 12, 1986

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.

15Season 1

S1.E15 ∙ One for the Road

Sun, Jan 19, 1986

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.

16Season 1

S1.E16 ∙ Gather Ye Acorns

Sun, Feb 2, 1986

Jonathan Quick, the bane of his practical parents' existence, takes an ancient tree troll's advice to pack up his treasured comic-book collection and follow his heart. And so, fifty years later..

17Season 1

S1.E17 ∙ Boo!

Sun, Feb 16, 1986

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.

18Season 1

S1.E18 ∙ Dorothy and Ben

Sun, Mar 2, 1986

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.

19Season 1

S1.E19 ∙ Mirror, Mirror

Sun, Mar 9, 1986

While guesting on a talk show, horror novelist Jordan Manmouth claims he is immune to being frightened by the nightmarish creatures he creates - and comes to regret the taunt when he is terrorized by a black-caped phantom.

20Season 1

S1.E20 ∙ Secret Cinema

Sun, Apr 6, 1986

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

21Season 1

S1.E21 ∙ Hell Toupee

Sun, Apr 13, 1986

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.

22Season 1

S1.E22 ∙ The Doll

Sun, May 4, 1986

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.

23Season 1

S1.E23 ∙ One for the Books

Sun, May 11, 1986

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.

24Season 1

S1.E24 ∙ Grandpa's Ghost

Sun, May 25, 1986

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?

1Season 2

S2.E1 ∙ The Wedding Ring

Mon, Sep 22, 1986

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.

2Season 2

S2.E2 ∙ Miscalculation

Mon, Sep 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.

3Season 2

S2.E3 ∙ Magic Saturday

Mon, Oct 6, 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.

4Season 2

S2.E4 ∙ Welcome to My Nightmare

Mon, Oct 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.

5Season 2

S2.E5 ∙ You Gotta Believe Me

Mon, Oct 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.

6Season 2

S2.E6 ∙ The Greibble

Mon, Nov 3, 1986

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.

7Season 2

S2.E7 ∙ Life on Death Row

Mon, Nov 10, 1986

Hours before his scheduled execution, a death-row inmate is given the power to heal.

8Season 2

S2.E8 ∙ Go to the Head of the Class

Fri, Nov 21, 1986

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.

9Season 2

S2.E9 ∙ Thanksgiving

Mon, Nov 24, 1986

Greedy mean man finds a bottomless hole on his desert property. He concludes that some kind of beings who trade gold for things live down there. His stepdaughter realizes that "hole people" want food, not objects, but the man won't listen.

10Season 2

S2.E10 ∙ The Pumpkin Competition

Mon, Dec 1, 1986

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?

11Season 2

S2.E11 ∙ What If...?

Mon, Dec 8, 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.

12Season 2

S2.E12 ∙ The Eternal Mind

Mon, Dec 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.

13Season 2

S2.E13 ∙ Lane Change

Mon, Jan 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.

14Season 2

S2.E14 ∙ Blue Man Down

Mon, Jan 19, 1987

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.

15Season 2

S2.E15 ∙ The 21-Inch Sun

Mon, Feb 2, 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.

16Season 2

S2.E16 ∙ Family Dog

Mon, Feb 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.

17Season 2

S2.E17 ∙ Gershwin's Trunk

Fri, Mar 13, 1987

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.

18Season 2

S2.E18 ∙ Such Interesting Neighbors

Fri, Mar 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.

19Season 2

S2.E19 ∙ Without Diana

Fri, Mar 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.

20Season 2

S2.E20 ∙ Moving Day

Fri, Apr 3, 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.

21Season 2

S2.E21 ∙ Miss Stardust

Fri, Apr 10, 1987

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.