Amazing Stories

Amazing Stories

1985
Amazing Stories
Amazing Stories

Amazing Stories

7.4 | TV-PG | en | Drama

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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EP1  The Wedding Ring
Sep. 22,1986
The Wedding Ring

A wax museum dresser takes a ring from a statue. The ring transforms his overworked wife into a femme fatale.

EP2  Miscalculation
Sep. 29,1986
Miscalculation

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.

EP3  Magic Saturday
Oct. 06,1986
Magic Saturday

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.

EP4  Welcome to My Nightmare
Oct. 13,1986
Welcome to My Nightmare

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.

EP5  You Gotta Believe Me
Oct. 20,1986
You Gotta Believe Me

Convinced that his vivid nightmare of a Boeing 747 crashing into his house is a horrific premonition, Earl Sweet desperately tries to alter fate.

EP6  The Greibble
Nov. 03,1986
The Greibble

A housewife has a very real nightmare. She encounters a large creature that has a taste for inanimate objects.

EP7  Life on Death Row
Nov. 10,1986
Life on Death Row

An inmate is struck by lightning. He is given miraculous healing powers that spark a last-minute attempt to save him from the electric chair.

EP8  Go to the Head of the Class
Nov. 21,1986
Go to the Head of the Class

A 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.

EP9  Thanksgiving
Nov. 24,1986
Thanksgiving

When a dry well yields treasures, a man cashes in, while his stepdaughter repays the kindness of the “hole people.”

EP10  The Pumpkin Competition
Dec. 01,1986
The Pumpkin Competition

An old spinster who is tired of losing a pumpkin competition recieves special advice from an agricultural professor.

EP11  What If...?
Dec. 08,1986
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.

EP12  The Eternal Mind
Dec. 29,1986
The Eternal Mind

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.

EP13  Lane Change
Jan. 12,1987
Lane Change

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.

EP14  Blue Man Down
Jan. 19,1987
Blue Man Down

Two 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.

EP15  The 21-Inch Sun
Feb. 02,1987
The 21-Inch Sun

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.

EP16  Family Dog
Feb. 16,1987
Family Dog

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.

EP17  Gershwin's Trunk
Mar. 13,1987
Gershwin's Trunk

A broadway lyricist seeks inspiration by contacting the spirit of Gershwin through a psychic.

EP18  Such Interesting Neighbors
Mar. 20,1987
Such Interesting Neighbors

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.

EP19  Without Diana
Mar. 27,1987
Without Diana

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.

EP20  Moving Day
Apr. 03,1987
Moving Day

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.

EP21  Miss Stardust
Apr. 10,1987
Miss Stardust

An extraterrestrial threatens to destroy the earth unless the "Miss Stardust" beauty-pageant promoter allows entrants from other planets.

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7.4 | TV-PG | en | Drama , Comedy , Crime | More Info
Released: 1985-09-29 | Released Producted By: Amblin Entertainment , Universal Television Country: United States of America Budget: 0 Revenue: 0 Official Website: https://tv.apple.com/us/show/amazing-stories/umc.cmc.15p55n2osur6c56uam2gxhye3
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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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Drama , Comedy , Crime

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Cast

Director

James D. Bissell

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Amblin Entertainment , Universal Television

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James D. Bissell
James D. Bissell

Title Designer

Ron Cobb
Ron Cobb

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Steven Spielberg
Steven Spielberg

Executive Producer

Kathleen Kennedy
Kathleen Kennedy

Production Executive

Frank Marshall
Frank Marshall

Production Executive

John Williams
John Williams

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Amazing Stories Audience Reviews

Alicia I love this movie so much
Redwarmin This movie is the proof that the world is becoming a sick and dumb place
Maidexpl Entertaining from beginning to end, it maintains the spirit of the franchise while establishing it's own seal with a fun cast
Jerrie It's a good bad... and worth a popcorn matinée. While it's easy to lament what could have been...
MartinHafer If you are looking for an anthology program with all the magic and fine writing of "The Twilight Zone" or "The Outer Limits", you should keep on looking. "Amazing Stories" was a short-lived 80s series and after re-watching a bunch of episodes recently, I was actually surprised it lasted two seasons and wasn't canceled sooner. This is because although it was a Steven Spielberg production, the show was incredibly uneven. Many of the episodes were bad--poorly written and very broadly acted. I think perhaps much of this is because they were trying to create a show that would appeal much more to kids than adults--and so many episodes are just tedious and annoying. It's a real shame, as a few of the shows (such as the one starring John Lithgow) were magical and sweet. The idea of such a program COULD have worked. It's just a darn shame the writing was so bad and the appeal strictly limited to kids.By the way, if you think I am wrong about the show, try re-watching a few episodes yourself. I thought the show was pretty good back in the 80s when it debuted but when seen today, they have clearly NOT aged well. The acting and subtlety seem more akin to "Family Matters" (that annoying Urkel show) or "Full House" than an anthology series. Also, the earlier episodes were a tad better and often featured top directors or famous actors directing (such as Timothy Hutton and Burt Reynolds). Later, the show fell into a more mundane pattern with less stars and a bit less entertainment.Also, if you watch, pay attention to the heavily computer generated intro. In the mid-80s, it was DEFINITELY state of the art and amazing. By today, it looks incredibly dated and shabby. This is NOT a criticism--more a comment about how far CGI has come since then.
gcd70 Not only inspired by, but a veritable sequel of, "Twilight Zone - the Movie", is this trilogy of fantasy-adventure tales called "Amazing Stories". This video was released as a selection of episodes from the television series.Steven Spielberg again joins the team (you may remember his "Sunnyvale Rest Home" segment from "Twilight Zone") with an entry called "The Mission". An American flight crew take their lucky charm, the belly gunner, with them on his 24th mission, even though that number is believed to be bad luck. This is quite an emotional and stirring narrative that unfortunately ends with a rather implausible, though fantastic, whimper. Kevin Costner, Casey Siemaszko and Kiefer Sutherland are all very good, as is the support (may have inspired "Memphis Belle")."Mummy Daddy" is a humorous tongue-in-cheek comedy about an actor who gets a call that his wife has begun labour and so takes off in full mummy costume to go to the hospital. When he gets lost in the swamps where they were filming, and the real mummy, "Ra Amin Kha", is set loose, director William Dear provides enjoyable laughs.Finally Robert Zemeckis presents what is the weakest of the three shows, "Go to the Head of the Class", a macabre but fairly impotent tale about two young students who cast a spell on the English teacher they despise, only to be horrified when they discover they've killed him. Their subsequent effort at resurrecting him has bizarre results. Stan Winston's f/x and Christopher Lloyd's performance are both fun.Overall a reasonable 110 minutes entertainment, but hardly classic fantasy.Tuesday, July 12, 1994 - Video
brooke-hudson Although I enjoyed the Amazing stories portion of this movie. Even more I loved Family Dog. When I was a kid, we watched this over and over again. My parents had recorded it off of TV, and couldn't get enough of it. One day the tape was destroyed, and I couldn't watch my favorite cartoon. However, I never forgot the lines from the movie. About a year ago I decided i wanted to look for the cartoon online, and lo and behold here it is. I'll never forget how funny this cartoon is. It will stay with me till the day I die! FAMILY DOG IS TRULY THE BEST! Wendy Lou says where's my Baby! where's maryanne, Where's maryanne! Where's Maryanne? There she is! Hewo maryanne, was you good baby! (Truly the best line in the entire movie. I couldn't love it any more. My children will be watching this movie.
CindyLH I was 26 years old when "Amazing Stories" was on TV. My co-workers and I always talked about it the next day at work. Everyone I knew loved the show...it always gave us something great to talk about and almost always made us really, really laugh. Everyone got involved in the conversations and it was always in a positive way. Some of the shows were serious...some were very touching...and some were absolutely hilarious. But they were all very clever in one way or another. They remind me of "Tales from the Crypt" and "The Twilight Zone. Two very, very, very funny episodes were "Head of the Classs" and the one with the college boys with the pink goop in Science class. They were the two that were our favorites. Who couldn't help but repeat the line "Kiss me and I'm yours forever"? Or how about "Mr. Braaaaaad"? I did, however, miss the magnetic episode. And even from just hearing about it really tickled me. I remember laughing so hard that tears were running down my face when the people at work told me about it. I would really love to be able to see that one. Even after twenty years, I still find myself bringing up the show for some good reason or another. I miss the show very much, and I'm sitting on pins and needles waiting for it to come out on DVD.