Amazing Stories (1985)

Season 2

TV-PG
86%
The second season of this anthology series continues unique tales of fun, adventure and excitement!

21 Episodes

  • The Wedding Ring
    E1
    The Wedding RingWhen 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.
  • Miscalculation
    E2
    MiscalculationNerdy 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.
  • Magic Saturday
    E3
    Magic SaturdayMarky 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.
  • Welcome to My Nightmare
    E4
    Welcome to My NightmareHorror 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.
  • You Gotta Believe Me
    E5
    You Gotta Believe MeConvinced that his vivid nightmare of a Boeing 747 crashing into his house is a horrific premonition, Earl Sweet desperately tries to alter fate.
  • The Greibble
    E6
    The GreibbleA housewife has a very real nightmare. She encounters a large creature that has a taste for inanimate objects.
  • Life on Death Row
    E7
    Life on Death RowA 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.
  • Go to the Head of the Class
    E8
    Go to the Head of the ClassA 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.
  • Thanksgiving
    E9
    ThanksgivingGreedy 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.
  • The Pumpkin Competition
    E10
    The Pumpkin CompetitionRich, 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?
  • What If...?
    E11
    What If...?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.
  • The Eternal Mind
    E12
    The Eternal MindApplying experiments with chimps to himself, a dying scientist transfers his mind into a computer. But his unique survival after physical death brings unexpected heartaches.
  • Lane Change
    E13
    Lane ChangeOne 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.
  • Blue Man Down
    E14
    Blue Man DownTwo 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.
  • The 21-Inch Sun
    E15
    The 21-Inch SunA 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.
  • Family Dog
    E16
    Family DogThe 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.
  • Gershwin's Trunk
    E17
    Gershwin's TrunkFrantic 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.
  • Such Interesting Neighbors
    E18
    Such Interesting NeighborsRattlesnakes, 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.
  • Without Diana
    E19
    Without DianaAn 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.
  • Moving Day
    E20
    Moving DayWhen 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.
  • Miss Stardust
    E21
    Miss StardustPublic-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.

Cast of Season 2

  • Steven SpielbergProducer
  • Frank MarshallProducer
  • Kathleen KennedyProducer

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