Amazing Stories
NBC (ended 1987)
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Season 2
- Ep 21Miss Stardust4/10/87
A beauty pageant promoter is forced to allow the cream of the alien crop into his self-proclaimed "Miss Galaxy" contest. - Ep 19Without Diana3/27/87
A father meets his long lost daughter who appears to him exactly as she appeared forty years ago. - Ep 18Such Interesting Neighbors3/20/87
The Lewise family believes that their new neighbors the Hellenbecks are from outer space. The couple and their only child are strange, and seem to have little or no knowledge of 20th century customs and behaviors. Soon strange things begin happening and a strange heat-seeking device tries to kill the Lewises. The Hellenbecks reveal they are from the future, and came back in time to have a naturally-born child (which is forbidden in their future). Together the two families manage to defeat a killer-android and the Hellenbecks depart rather than endanger their newfound friends.moreless - Ep 17Gershwin's Trunk3/13/87
A broadway lyricist seeks inspiration by contacting the spirit of Gershwin through a psychic. - Ep 16The Family Dog2/16/87
In an animated episode, the antics of a family are seen through the point of view of the family dog. - Ep 15The 21 Inch Sun2/2/87
A television writer is given an opportunity to write a sitcom. The source of inspiration for the sitcom comes to the man from his plants. - Ep 14Blue Man Down1/19/87
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 friend's death. He later discovers that his new partner is the ghost of an officer who died 12 years earlier. - Ep 13Lane Change1/12/87
Traveling a deserted highway, a woman facing divorce sees her past through the windshield after she picks up a stranded woman. - Ep 12The Eternal Mind12/29/86
A dying scientist volunteers to be the first person to merge with a computer. - Ep 11What If...?12/8/86
A little boy is neglected by his parents and soon finds that his belongings are disappearing... - Ep 9Thanksgiving11/24/86
Two farmers discover something when digging for a well. - Ep 8Go to the Head of the Class11/21/86
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. - Ep 7Life on Death Row11/10/86
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. - Ep 6The Greibble11/3/86
A housewife has a very real nightmare. She encounters a large creature that has a taste for inanimate objects. - Ep 5You Gotta Believe Me10/20/86
Awakened by a dream of a plane crashing outside his home, a man tries to convince people of his premonition. - Ep 4Welcome to My Nightmare10/13/86
A horror movie buff's obsession with the girl next door lands him in a terrifying scene from Psycho. - Ep 3Magic Saturday10/6/86
A man temporarily exchanges bodies with his grandson so that he can relive his youth on the baseball field. While the man enjoys his new life, the boy discovers his grandfather's old body is dying. - Ep 2Miscalculation9/29/86
A college student searching for a date accidently spills chemicals on a magazine and conjures up a dog. He tries desperately to create a beautiful woman, but can't quite seem to find just the right mixture. - Ep 2Moving Day4/3/87
A teen learns that his family is bound for a new home: a planet almost a hundred billion miles away. - Ep 1The Wedding Ring9/22/86
A wax museum dresser takes a ring from a statue. The ring transforms his overworked wife into a femme fatale. - Ep 1The Pumpkin Competition12/1/86
An old woman who is tired of losing a pumpkin competition receives special advice from an agricultural professor.
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Season 1
- Ep 24Grandpa's Ghost5/25/86
A man tries to reconcile his grandmother with the death of his grandpa. The ghost of the old man only appears in the presence of his wife. - Ep 23One For the Books5/11/86
An elderly custodian suddenly gains incredible knowledge. - Ep 22The Doll5/4/86
A lonely bachelor is fascinated by a doll he bought for his niece. - Ep 21Hell Toupee4/13/86
A new toupee causes a man to feel an urge to kill the first lawyer he sees. - Ep 19Mirror, Mirror3/9/86
A popular horror novelist is terrorized by a strange figure in his bathroom mirror. - Ep 18Dorothy and Ben3/2/86
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. - Ep 17Boo!2/16/86
Ghosts in an attic try to get rid of a couple who move into their house. - Ep 16Gather Ye Acorns2/2/86
On the advice of 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. - Ep 15One For the Road1/19/86
During the Depression, several bar patrons hope to get insurance money by tricking a man into signing an policy with the hope that he will drink himself to death. - Ep 14No Day at the Beach1/12/86
A GI tries to be a hero during an amphibious assault in Italy during World War II. - Ep 13The Sitter1/5/86
Two young boys get the best of every sitter in town, until they meet one who uses voodoo to settle them down. - Ep 12Vanessa in the Garden12/29/85
When an artist is devastated by the death of his wife, hew finds a way for her to live on in his paintings. - Ep 11Santa '8512/15/85
A little boy helps Santa when the legendary man is thrown in jail while delivering presents. - Ep 9Guilt Trip12/1/85
Job pressures lead the emotion Guilt to start binge drinking. His work suffers as a result, so his boss sends him on a vacation cruise. - Ep 8Mr. Magic11/17/85
A fading illusionist has a last shot at greatness thanks to a deck of magic playing cards. - Ep 7Fine Tuning11/10/85
A teenager learns that three aliens are coming to Earth to visit their idol: the actors of old TV shows. - Ep 6The Amazing Falsworth11/5/85
In the middle of a performance, a psychic realizes that he is in contact with a serial killer. Unfortunately, he is blindfolded and does not see the killer's face, a circumstance that causes problems later on. - Ep 5The Mission11/3/85
During World War II, men in a 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. - Ep 4Mummy, Daddy10/27/85
An actor, Harold, who stars in a mummy film finds himself in serious trouble from frightened people when he leaves the set in full costume to reach his pregnant wife who is about to give birth. - Ep 3Alamo Jobe10/20/85
A young messenger during the fight of the Alamo is transported to twentieth century San Antonio. - Ep 2The Main Attraction10/6/85
A high school football player is magnetized by a fallen meteorite. - Ep 2Secret Cinema4/6/86
A young woman believes that her mother, her fiance, and her psychiatrist are secretly filming her life. - Ep 1Remote Control Man12/8/85
A hen-pecked man finds comfort in a unique television set that brings life-like images to him. - Ep 1Ghost Train9/29/85
A train from long ago is coming to get an old man who missed it many years earlier.
