Amazing Stories

1. S01E01Ghost TrainSeptember 29, 1985 6.2Opa 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 grandso
2. S01E02The Main AttractionOctober 6, 1985 5.2Athletic teenage hunk Brad Bender thinks he is too cool for nerdy classmate Shirley, who is crazy over him, until, to his horror, a meteor s
3. S01E03Alamo JobeOctober 20, 1985 5.2During 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 ti
4. S01E04Mummy, DaddyOctober 27, 1985 6.5A 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
5. S01E05The MissionNovember 3, 1985 4.7A courageous young World War II gunner and aspiring cartoonist, trapped in the belly gun of a B-17 aircraft with the landing gear destroyed,
6. S01E06The Amazing FalsworthNovember 5, 1985 4.3A nightclub audience gasps at The Amazing Falsworth's psychic powers, but the shock is his alone when the blindfolded performer picks up the
7. S01E07Fine TuningNovember 10, 1985 4.8Three high-school kids build an antenna that can catch signals from outer space. They learn that the aliens are big fans of 1950s American t
8. S01E08Mr. MagicNovember 17, 1985 4.3Old-timer Lou Bundles, once a world-famous magician, is now fumbling every trick, and desperately purchases an amazing old deck of cards at
9. S01E09Guilt TripDecember 1, 1985 4.8Overworked and exhausted, the emotion Guilt in human personification takes a fateful cruise and falls in love with Love.
10. S01E10Remote Control ManDecember 8, 1985 5.0A meek, unhappy and frustrated husband with a nagging wife and incorrigible sons finally finds solace in his new TV set that "comes alive" w
11. S01E11Santa '85December 15, 1985 5.3Kris Kringle's Christmas is rudely interrupted when he lands in the clink with a bunch of bogus Santas after tripping a home burglar alarm.
12. S01E12Vanessa in the GardenDecember 29, 1985 4.5When a brilliant young artist's beloved wife dies in a carriage wreck, the grief-stricken husband is possessed with an incredible plan to br
13. S01E13The SitterJanuary 5, 1986 5.0A Jamaican babysitter uses voodoo to tame a pair of mischievous, stir-crazy boys.
14. S01E14Season's bestNo Day at the BeachJanuary 12, 1986 7.0Scorned by his troop of poker-playing teen-aged soldiers, Arnold Skamp becomes a war hero by miraculously saving their lives when they charg
15. S01E15One for the RoadJanuary 19, 1986 6.3In 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 tha
16. S01E16Gather Ye AcornsFebruary 2, 1986 6.0Jonathan Quick, the bane of his practical parents' existence, takes an ancient tree troll's advice to pack up his treasured comic-book colle
17. S01E17Boo!February 16, 1986 5.5Sweet, old-fashioned ghosts Nelson and Evelyn Chumsky are aghast when a porn queen and her sleazy husband move into their home, and try to s
18. S01E18Dorothy and BenMarch 2, 1986 6.0It is shocking enough when old Ben Dumfy emerges like Rip Van Winkle from a 40-year coma, but his special mental communication with Dorothy,
19. S01E19Mirror, MirrorMarch 9, 1986 6.3An egotistical horror novelist dismisses the supernatural in real life, but he is forced to reconsider his disbelief when he finds himself p
20. S01E20Secret CinemaApril 6, 1986 6.0Young everyday woman Jane becomes convinced that someone is recording and influencing her everyday life and that she's become the unwilling
21. S01E21Hell ToupeeApril 13, 1986 5.7Defense attorney Harry Ballentine is understandably nervous when his client is mild-mannered accountant Murray Bernstein - who after investi
22. S01E22The DollMay 4, 1986 6.7The lonely, loveless life of a shy bachelor takes an astounding turn when he buys a special doll, exquisitely hand-crafted by a mysterious G
23. S01E23One for the BooksMay 11, 1986 5.0An elderly college janitor amazes himself, his wife and the scientific community when his brain turns into a sponge that soaks up more and m
24. S01E24Grandpa's GhostMay 25, 1986 5.3Edwin's grandpa died in his sleep last night. So why is the old man still hanging around the apartment, playing the piano and swapping stori

Season 1 ranked & reviewed

1. S02E01The Wedding RingSeptember 22, 1986 6.0When Herbert slips a mysterious ring onto the finger of his beloved wife as an anniversary gift, the weary waitress turns into a seductress.
2. S02E02MiscalculationSeptember 29, 1986 7.5Nerdy collegiate Phil unsuccessfully tries every trick in the book to meet girls. Then he discovers a potion that makes gorgeous magazine pi
3. S02E03Magic SaturdayOctober 6, 1986 4.5Marky adores hearing his grandfather tell wondrous tales of hitchhiking through the universe and playing baseball with him on Saturdays. So
4. S02E04Welcome to My NightmareOctober 13, 1986 7.0Horror films are Harry's life, but when the movie-obsessed teenager suddenly steps into a blood-curdling scene from Psycho (1960), he desper
5. S02E05You Gotta Believe MeOctober 20, 1986 5.5Convinced that his vivid nightmare of a Boeing 747 crashing into his house is a horrific premonition, Earl Sweet desperately tries to alter
6. S02E06The GreibbleNovember 3, 1986 5.5Joan 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 i
7. S02E07Life on Death RowNovember 10, 1986 5.5A 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
8. S02E08Season's bestGo to the Head of the ClassNovember 21, 1986 8.0A teenage horror buff is so smitten with a sexy classmate that he helps her use black magic on their loathsome English teacher, with shockin
9. S02E09ThanksgivingNovember 24, 1986 6.0Greedy mean man finds a bottomless hole on his desert property. He concludes that some kind of beings who trade gold for things live down th
10. S02E10The Pumpkin CompetitionDecember 1, 1986 6.5Rich, stingy and miserly Elma Dinnock is livid at losing the Yarborough Country pumpkin-growing contest 22 years in a row, and so gets help
11. S02E11What If...?December 8, 1986 5.5Ignored by his self-absorbed, social-climbing parents, 5-year-old Jonah Kelley wanders his lonely, sterile house and then the outside world,
12. S02E12The Eternal MindDecember 29, 1986 5.0Applying experiments with chimps to himself, a dying scientist transfers his mind into a computer. But his unique survival after physical de
13. S02E13Lane ChangeJanuary 12, 1987 6.0One stormy night on a deserted highway, a distraught wife driving toward an impending divorce glimpses her past through the windshield after
14. S02E14Blue Man DownJanuary 19, 1987 5.0A guilt-ridden police officer, who blames himself for his partner's violent death, is teamed with a young partner who seems invisible to eve
15. S02E15The 21 Inch SunFebruary 2, 1987 6.0A sitcom scriptwriter, who's suffering from writer's block, discovers that his house plant has miraculously gained sentience and a funny bon
16. S02E16The Family DogFebruary 16, 1987 5.5The only animated episode of the show that's also a backdoor pilot. It has three segments: A family takes out their frustrations on their po
17. S02E17Gershwin's TrunkMarch 13, 1987 5.0Frantic to deliver a hit musical, conniving Broadway composer Jo-Jo Gillespie contacts the spirit of George Gershwin through psychic Sister
18. S02E18Such Interesting NeighborsMarch 20, 1987 7.0Rattlesnakes, howling coyotes, sudden earthquakes and time warps jar the Lewis family in their new home, and all the bizarre incidents seem
19. S02E19Without DianaMarch 27, 1987 6.5An elderly couple have never stopped believing that their daughter, who went missing in the woods 40 years ago, will somehow appear to them
20. S02E20Moving DayApril 3, 1987 7.0When 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 whe
21. S02E21Miss StardustApril 10, 1987 4.7Public-relations man Joe Willoughby thinks that promoting the Miss Stardust beauty pageant will be a snap, until "Cabbage Man," a representa

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