Amazing Stories (1985)
A truly amazing, fantastical, science fiction, funny and odd, and sometimes scary, sad and endearing anthology series presented by Steven Spielberg with guest appearances by many famous actors, actresses, and directors.
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Episode 1 - The Wedding Ring
Release Date: 1986-09-22A wax museum dresser takes a ring from a statue. The ring transforms his overworked wife into a femme fatale.
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Episode 2 - Miscalculation
Release Date: 1986-09-29Nerdy 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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Episode 3 - Magic Saturday
Release Date: 1986-10-06Marky 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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Episode 4 - Welcome to My Nightmare
Release Date: 1986-10-13Horror 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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Episode 5 - You Gotta Believe Me
Release Date: 1986-10-20Convinced 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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Episode 6 - The Greibble
Release Date: 1986-11-03A housewife has a very real nightmare. She encounters a large creature that has a taste for inanimate objects.
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Episode 7 - Life on Death Row
Release Date: 1986-11-10An 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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Episode 8 - Go to the Head of the Class
Release Date: 1986-11-21A 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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Episode 9 - Thanksgiving
Release Date: 1986-11-24When a dry well yields treasures, a man cashes in, while his stepdaughter repays the kindness of the “hole people.”
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Episode 10 - The Pumpkin Competition
Release Date: 1986-12-01An old spinster who is tired of losing a pumpkin competition recieves special advice from an agricultural professor.
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Episode 11 - What If...?
Release Date: 1986-12-08Ignored 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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Episode 12 - The Eternal Mind
Release Date: 1986-12-29Applying 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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Episode 13 - Lane Change
Release Date: 1987-01-12One 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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Episode 14 - Blue Man Down
Release Date: 1987-01-19Two 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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Episode 15 - The 21-Inch Sun
Release Date: 1987-02-02A 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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Episode 16 - Family Dog
Release Date: 1987-02-16The 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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Episode 17 - Gershwin's Trunk
Release Date: 1987-03-13A broadway lyricist seeks inspiration by contacting the spirit of Gershwin through a psychic.
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Episode 18 - Such Interesting Neighbors
Release Date: 1987-03-20Rattlesnakes, 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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Episode 19 - Without Diana
Release Date: 1987-03-27An 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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Episode 20 - Moving Day
Release Date: 1987-04-03When 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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Episode 21 - Miss Stardust
Release Date: 1987-04-10An extraterrestrial threatens to destroy the earth unless the "Miss Stardust" beauty-pageant promoter allows entrants from other planets.