← Amazing Stories

Season 2

21 episodes · 1986

The second season of this anthology series continues unique tales of fun, adventure and excitement!

  1. 1

    The Wedding Ring

    Sep 22, 198624 min★ 6.4

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

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    Miscalculation

    Sep 29, 198622 min★ 6.6

    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.

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    Magic Saturday

    Oct 6, 198624 min★ 5.9

    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.

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    Welcome to My Nightmare

    Oct 13, 198623 min★ 6.3

    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.

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    You Gotta Believe Me

    Oct 20, 198624 min★ 7.3

    Convinced 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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    The Greibble

    Nov 3, 198624 min★ 5.8

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

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    Life on Death Row

    Nov 10, 198624 min★ 7.4

    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.

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    Go to the Head of the Class

    Nov 21, 198645 min★ 7.7

    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.

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    Thanksgiving

    Nov 24, 198624 min★ 7.6

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

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    The Pumpkin Competition

    Dec 1, 198623 min★ 6.2

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

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    What If...?

    Dec 8, 198622 min★ 5.7

    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.

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    The Eternal Mind

    Dec 29, 198625 min★ 5.8

    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.

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    Lane Change

    Jan 12, 198724 min★ 6.7

    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.

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    Blue Man Down

    Jan 19, 198724 min★ 6.7

    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.

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    The 21-Inch Sun

    Feb 2, 198723 min★ 6.6

    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.

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    Family Dog

    Feb 16, 198724 min★ 7.9

    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.

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    Gershwin's Trunk

    Mar 13, 198724 min★ 6.1

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

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    Such Interesting Neighbors

    Mar 20, 198724 min★ 6.3

    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.

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    Without Diana

    Mar 27, 198723 min★ 6.0

    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.

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    Moving Day

    Apr 3, 198724 min★ 6.3

    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.

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    Miss Stardust

    Apr 10, 198724 min★ 5.1

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