Amazing Stories
(1985)Streaming Episode Guide
Season 2
The second season of this anthology series continues unique tales of fun, adventure and excitement!Miss Stardust
Episode 21 - 4-10-1987
23m
An extraterrestrial threatens to destroy the earth unless the "Miss Stardust" beauty-pageant promoter allows entrants from other planets.
5.2/10Buy
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Moving Day
Episode 20 - 4-03-1987
23m
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.
6.3/10Buy
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Without Diana
Episode 19 - 3-27-1987
22m
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.
6.1/10Buy
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Such Interesting Neighbors
Episode 18 - 3-20-1987
30m
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.
6.3/10Buy
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Gershwin's Trunk
Episode 17 - 3-13-1987
30m
A broadway lyricist seeks inspiration by contacting the spirit of Gershwin through a psychic.
6.1/10Buy
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Family Dog
Episode 16 - 2-16-1987
21m
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.
8/10Buy
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The 21-Inch Sun
Episode 15 - 2-02-1987
22m
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.
6.6/10Buy
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Blue Man Down
Episode 14 - 1-19-1987
23m
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.
6.8/10Where to watch
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Lane Change
Episode 13 - 1-12-1987
23m
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.
6.7/10Where to watch
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The Eternal Mind
Episode 12 - 12-29-1986
24m
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.
5.9/10Buy
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What If...?
Episode 11 - 12-08-1986
21m
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.
5.8/10Buy
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The Pumpkin Competition
Episode 10 - 12-01-1986
30m
An old spinster who is tired of losing a pumpkin competition recieves special advice from an agricultural professor.
6.2/10Buy
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Thanksgiving
Episode 9 - 11-24-1986
23m
When a dry well yields treasures, a man cashes in, while his stepdaughter repays the kindness of the “hole people.”
7.6/10Buy
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Go to the Head of the Class
Episode 8 - 11-21-1986
1h 0m
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.
7.7/10Buy
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Life on Death Row
Episode 7 - 11-10-1986
30m
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.
7.4/10Buy
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The Greibble
Episode 6 - 11-03-1986
23m
A housewife has a very real nightmare. She encounters a large creature that has a taste for inanimate objects.
5.8/10Buy
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You Gotta Believe Me
Episode 5 - 10-20-1986
23m
Convinced that his vivid nightmare of a Boeing 747 crashing into his house is a horrific premonition, Earl Sweet desperately tries to alter fate.
7.3/10Buy
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Welcome to My Nightmare
Episode 4 - 10-13-1986
22m
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.
6.3/10Buy
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Magic Saturday
Episode 3 - 10-06-1986
23m
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.
6/10Buy
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Miscalculation
Episode 2 - 9-29-1986
21m
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.
6.6/10Buy
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The Wedding Ring
Episode 1 - 9-22-1986
23m
A wax museum dresser takes a ring from a statue. The ring transforms his overworked wife into a femme fatale.
6.3/10Buy
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Season 1
The first season of this anthology series sets the tone with tales of light humor and even heavy drama with a twist of magic!Grandpa's Ghost
Episode 24 - 5-25-1986
24m
Edwin's grandpa died in his sleep last night. So why is the old man still hanging around the apartment, playing the piano and swapping stories with Edwin's grandma?
6.3/10Where to watch
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One For the Books
Episode 23 - 5-11-1986
25m
An elderly college janitor amazes himself, his wife and the scientific community when his brain turns into a sponge that soaks up more and more incredible knowledge of every subject taught at the school - until a shocking event changes everything.
6.4/10Where to watch
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The Doll
Episode 22 - 5-04-1986
25m
The lonely, loveless life of a shy bachelor takes an astounding turn when he buys a special doll, exquisitely hand-crafted by a mysterious German toymaker. He tries to track down the woman who modeled for it.
7.1/10Buy
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Hell Toupee
Episode 21 - 4-13-1986
25m
Defense attorney Harry Ballentine is understandably nervous when his client is mild-mannered accountant Murray Bernstein - who after investing in a strange toupee had felt compelled to murder the first lawyer he saw. Harry goes after it.
5.6/10Buy
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Secret Cinema
Episode 20 - 4-06-1986
25m
Young everyday woman Jane becomes convinced that someone is recording and influencing her everyday life and that she's become the unwilling star of a secret cinema.
5.4/10Buy
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Mirror, Mirror
Episode 19 - 3-09-1986
24m
A popular horror novelist is terrorized by a strange figure in his bathroom mirror.
6.9/10Buy
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Dorothy and Ben
Episode 18 - 3-02-1986
25m
After 40 years in a coma, Ben Dumpfy awakens and discovers that he can communicate with a seven-year-old girl who is in a coma after a bike accident.
7.2/10Buy
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Boo!
Episode 17 - 2-16-1986
25m
Ghosts in an attic try to get rid of a couple who move into their house.
6/10Buy
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Gather Ye Acorns
Episode 16 - 2-02-1986
25m
On the advice from a mysterious little man, an 18-year-old boy begins to collect rare comics and toys. When he sells them as an old man, he gains wealth and happiness.
6.6/10Buy
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One For the Road
Episode 15 - 1-19-1986
25m
During the Depression, several bar patrons hope to get insurance money by tricking a man into signing a policy with the hope that he will drink himself to death.
6.6/10Buy
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No Day at the Beach
Episode 14 - 1-12-1986
24m
A GI tries to be a hero during an amphibious assault in Italy during World War II.
6.7/10Buy
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The Sitter
Episode 13 - 1-05-1986
25m
Two young boys get the best of every sitter in town, until they meet one who uses voodoo to settle them down.
6.6/10Buy
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Vanessa in the Garden
Episode 12 - 12-29-1985
25m
When an artist is devastated by the death of his wife, he finds a way for her to live on in his painting.
6.4/10Buy
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Santa '85
Episode 11 - 12-15-1985
25m
A little boy helps Santa when the legendary man is thrown in jail while delivering presents.
6.3/10Buy
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Remote Control Man
Episode 10 - 12-08-1985
25m
A henpecked man finds comfort in a unique television set that bring lifelike images to him.
6.3/10Buy
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Guilt Trip
Episode 9 - 12-01-1985
25m
The emotion Guilt feels overworked. He takes a vacation cruise and falls for the emotion Love.
5.5/10Buy
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Mr. Magic
Episode 8 - 11-17-1985
25m
A fading illusionist has a last shot at greatness thanks to a deck of magic playing cards.
6.3/10Buy
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Fine Tuning
Episode 7 - 11-10-1985
25m
Three high-school kids build an antenna that can catch signals from outer space. They learn that the aliens are big fans of 1950s American television and are coming to Hollywood to meet some of their favorite Earth stars.
4.7/10Buy
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The Amazing Falsworth
Episode 6 - 11-05-1985
25m
A psychic showman realizes that during a performance that someone in the audience wants to commit murder. Frightened, he calls the police, and the detective shows up to investigate.
7.1/10Buy
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The Mission
Episode 5 - 11-03-1985
46m
During World War II, men in an air force bomber are caught in a no win scenario when their belly gunner (an amateur artist) is trapped in his seat and the plane has no wheels for landing.
7.7/10Buy
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Mummy Daddy
Episode 4 - 10-27-1985
25m
An actor who's playing a mummy in a horror film learns that his wife has gone into labor and rushes to be with her – without removing his costume.
7.6/10Buy
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Alamo Jobe
Episode 3 - 10-20-1985
25m
During 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 time to San Antonio in 1985. The 1980s prove to be too much for Jobe to handle.
5.7/10Buy
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The Main Attraction
Episode 2 - 10-06-1985
25m
Big Man on Campus Brad Bender has no problem attracting people to his charms. But when a meteorite crashes in his neighborhood, his magnetism gets even stronger, sometimes attracting the wrong people... and things.
6.2/10Buy
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Ghost Train
Episode 1 - 9-29-1985
25m
Ohpa Globe is happy to see his son's new house, but when he sees that the home is built on ghost train tracks, he changes his focus. To his family's chagrin, he is convinced it is his destiny to die in those cornfields, to board a train he inadvertently caused to crash 75 years ago! He tells his nine-year old grandson he still has his ticket for the old "Highball Express", and that arriving train will careen through their house!
6.5/10Buy
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Family Dog
Episode 16 - 2-16-1987
21m
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.
8/10Buy
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The Mission
Episode 5 - 11-03-1985
46m
During World War II, men in an air force bomber are caught in a no win scenario when their belly gunner (an amateur artist) is trapped in his seat and the plane has no wheels for landing.
7.7/10Buy
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Go to the Head of the Class
Episode 8 - 11-21-1986
1h 0m
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.
7.7/10Buy
Haven't Seen
Mummy Daddy
Episode 4 - 10-27-1985
25m
An actor who's playing a mummy in a horror film learns that his wife has gone into labor and rushes to be with her – without removing his costume.
7.6/10Buy
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Thanksgiving
Episode 9 - 11-24-1986
23m
When a dry well yields treasures, a man cashes in, while his stepdaughter repays the kindness of the “hole people.”
7.6/10Buy
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