Amazing Stories Episode Guide

Episode Guide

Amazing Stories: Season 2 (1986 - 1987)

• Season 2 Episode 21: Miss Stardust

  A beauty contest organiser has to deal with a visitor from outer space who insists aliens be allowed to compete

• Season 2 Episode 20: Moving Day

  A teenager gets upset about leaving home : especially when he learns he's moving to a distant planet

• Season 2 Episode 19: Without Diana

  A child who died 40 years previously appears to her father with words of comfort

• Season 2 Episode 18: Such Interesting Neighbors

  Is there a link between the arrival of a new family in town, strange time shifts and earth tremors? Guest starring Adam Ant

• Season 2 Episode 17: Gershwin's Trunk

  A composer contacts the spirit of Gershwin in his desperate bid to deliver a hit musical

• Season 2 Episode 16: Family Dog

  A middle-class American family is seen through the eyes of the family dog. Animated.

• Season 2 Episode 15: 21-Inch Sun

  A writer falls asleep while trying to dash off a sitcom overnight, but wakes up to find the script mysteriously finished

• Season 2 Episode 14: Blue Man Down

  A cop who blames himself for his partner's death is helped by an unusual policewoman

• Season 2 Episode 13: Lane Change

  A distressed motorist picks up an unusually perceptive passenger on a deserted road

• Season 2 Episode 12: Eternal Mind

  In a bid to cheat death, a dying scientist transfers his mind to a computer. Bizarre drama, starring Jeffrey Jones

• Season 2 Episode 11: What If?

  A youngster neglected by his self-indulgent parents is magically given a new lease of life

• Season 2 Episode 10: The Pumpkin Competition

  A woman (Polly Holliday) enlists a botanist's help in a pumpkin-growing competition.

• Season 2 Episode 9: Thanksgiving

  A water prospector in an isolated desert town discovers strange beings at the bottom of the well

• Season 2 Episode 8: Go to the Head of the Class

  A smitten teen helps a flirty classmate cast a spell over their odious English teacher (Christopher Lloyd).

• Season 2 Episode 7: Life on Death Row

  A desperate race begins to save a death row convict when he is infused with incredible healing powers. Patrick Swayze stars

• Season 2 Episode 6: The Greibble

  A boy's favourite book magically springs to life and wreaks havoc after his mother throws it out

• Season 2 Episode 5: You Gotta Believe Me

  A man tries to cheat fate after he convinces himself a nightmare about a plane crashing into his house will come true

• Season 2 Episode 4: Welcome to My Nightmare

  A teenager is obsessed with horror movies : until he starts living in one

• Season 2 Episode 3: Magic Saturday

  A 10-year-old's spell allows his grandfather to play baseball one more time.

• Season 2 Episode 2: Miscalculations

  A dateless collegian (Jon Cryer) discovers a potion that brings pinups to life.

• Season 2 Episode 1: The Wedding Ring

  A lovelorn husband buys an enchanted gift for his weary wife. Danny De Vito stars

Amazing Stories: Season 1 (1985 - 1986)

• Season 1 Episode 24: Grandpa's Ghost

  Edwin wonders why his dead grandpa continues to visit.

• Season 1 Episode 23: One for the Books

  A college janitor is mysteriously transformed overnight into a multilingual mathematical genius

• Season 1 Episode 22: The Doll

  A mysterious toy-maker's doll changes a lonely bachelor's (John Lithgow) life.

• Season 1 Episode 21: Hell Toupee

  A man feels mysteriously compelled to murder the first attorney he sees after buying a toupee

• Season 1 Episode 20: Secret Cinema

  A woman fears for her sanity when she convinces herself she's starring in a film of her own life

• Season 1 Episode 19: Mirror, Mirror

  A horror-novelist (Sam Waterston) boasts about being fearless.

• Season 1 Episode 18: Dorothy & Ben

  A man astonishes everyone by emerging from a 40-year coma

• Season 1 Episode 17: Boo!

  A ghostly couple are upset by the new residents of their peaceful home

• Season 1 Episode 16: Gather Ye Acorns

  A boy ignores his practical parents and takes a tree troll's advice to follow his heart

• Season 1 Episode 15: One for the Road

  A couple of barflies get more than they bargained for when they murder a drunk for his insurance money

• Season 1 Episode 14: No Day at the Beach

  A heroic GI miraculously saves the lives of the soldiers who shunned him

• Season 1 Episode 13: The Sitter

  Two mischievous boys fall under the spell of their Jamaican baby sitter (Mabel King).

• Season 1 Episode 12: Vanessa in the Garden

  Clint Eastwood directs this tale of a brilliant artist who attempts to bring his wife back to life. Harvey Keitel stars

• Season 1 Episode 11: Santa '85

  Santa Claus ignores his wife's advice, and gets caught out by a burglar alarm in New York

• Season 1 Episode 10: Remote Control Man

  Characters from a henpecked husband's beloved television set come to life.

• Season 1 Episode 9: Guilt Trip

  Overworked and exhausted, Guilt takes a break and falls for Lovely

• Season 1 Episode 8: Mr Magic

  An elderly magician regains his former glory thanks to a mysterious pack of playing cards

• Season 1 Episode 7: Fine Tuning

  A project to create a small but powerful TV antenna picks up a signal from another planet

• Season 1 Episode 6: The Amazing Falsworth

  A performing psychic enters the deranged mind of a serial killer sitting in the audience. Gregory Hines stars

• Season 1 Episode 5: The Mission

  Part one. A World War Two gunner faces certain death trapped inside his aircraft. Kevin Costner and Kiefer Sutherland star in the pilot episode directed by Steven Spielberg

• Season 1 Episode 4: Mummy, Daddy

  A father-to-be, made-up for his role as a mummy in a horror film, is mistaken for the real thing in a town steeped in Egyptian legend

• Season 1 Episode 3: Alamo Jobe

  A soldier is transported from the Alamo to a 20th-century tourist trap

• Season 1 Episode 2: The Main Attraction

  An arrogant student is convinced he'll be made prom king, but gets his comeuppance during a freak meteor shower

• Season 1 Episode 1: Ghost Train

  A boy's grandfather, who was blamed for a train crash 75 years earlier, swears he'll ride the Highball Express once more