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21 episodes

Amazing Stories - Season 2

First aired Sep 22, 1986Season 2

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

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DocTerminus

7.0

Steven Spielberg began his diverse career with television. As his star began to rise above the Hollywood sign, he created AMAZING STORIES, an anthology series not unlike THE TWILIGHT ZONE. Not surprisingly, this new project debuts just a couple of years after his involvement in the doomed TWILIGHT ZONE movie. The filmmaker would fluctuate his involvement in the series from directing a couple of episodes to story suggestions and plot ideas. No matter what, his influence is felt throughout the run. The opportunity to work with Spielberg shook the walls of the movie factory. Martin Scorsese, Clint Eastwood, Burt Reynolds, Brad Bird and Robert Zemeckis are just a handful of directors who helmed an episode. Kevin Costner, Carrie Fisher, Kiefer Sutherland, Rhea Perlman and Danny Devito appeared in the series amongst another list of hundreds of A-list performers. John Lithgow took home an Emmy award for his performance in the touching episode THE DOLL. Since the series is so diverse, each episode should be reviewed on its own merit, as if each was its own unique film. These reviews would no doubt vary from excellent to weak. Not surprising from a series that's budgets from complicated war scenes to shots in limited detail studios. Enjoy the series, and note how many of the stories seem to re-appear as the format for many other films for years to come.

Episodes

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Episode 1

The Wedding Ring

7.3
Sep 22, 198624 min9 votes

A 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

7.3
Sep 29, 198622 min9 votes

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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Episode 3

Magic Saturday

7.0
Oct 6, 198624 min9 votes

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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Episode 4

Welcome to My Nightmare

6.7
Oct 13, 198623 min9 votes

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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Episode 5

You Gotta Believe Me

7.2
Oct 20, 198624 min10 votes

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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Episode 6

The Greibble

6.4
Nov 3, 198624 min9 votes

A 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

8.2
Nov 10, 198624 min9 votes

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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Episode 8

Go to the Head of the Class

8.1
Nov 21, 198645 min11 votes

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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Episode 9

Thanksgiving

8.1
Nov 24, 198624 min9 votes

When 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

7.0
Dec 1, 198623 min8 votes

An 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...?

7.3
Dec 8, 198622 min7 votes

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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Episode 12

The Eternal Mind

7.4
Dec 29, 198625 min8 votes

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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Episode 13

Lane Change

8.2
Jan 12, 198724 min7 votes

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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Episode 14

Blue Man Down

8.1
Jan 19, 198724 min8 votes

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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Episode 15

The 21-Inch Sun

7.6
Feb 2, 198723 min7 votes

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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Episode 16

Family Dog

8.2
Feb 16, 198724 min16 votes

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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Episode 17

Gershwin's Trunk

6.1
Mar 13, 198724 min9 votes

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

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Episode 18

Such Interesting Neighbors

7.4
Mar 20, 198724 min7 votes

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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Episode 19

Without Diana

7.7
Mar 27, 198723 min7 votes

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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Episode 20

Moving Day

7.4
Apr 3, 198724 min7 votes

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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Episode 21

Miss Stardust

7.3
Apr 10, 198724 min7 votes

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

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