Amazing Stories

Name: Amazing Stories
Genre: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Comedy, Family
Released: 1985-09-29
Rating: 7.5

ENDED2 Seasons45 Episodes★ 7.5

Amazing Stories is a sci-fi and fantasy series on NBC that ran from 1985 to 1987, ending after 2 seasons and 45 episodes.

Never miss an episode of Amazing Stories

Get an email the moment a new episode airs — plus alerts if it's renewed or canceled.

NetworkNBC

First AiredSep 29, 1985

Last AiredApr 10, 1987

GenreSci-Fi & Fantasy, Comedy, Family

Created BySteven Spielberg, John Falsey, Joshua Brand

LanguageEnglish

CountryUnited States

ProductionUniversal Television, Amblin Entertainment

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.

WHERE TO WATCH

Amazon VideoBUY

Apple TV StoreBUY

Google PlayBUY

Some links may earn us a commission. Data via JustWatch / TMDB

Seasons & Episodes2 seasons · 45 episodes

0% complete

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

E1The Wedding Ring

Sep 22, 198624m★ 7.3

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

E2Miscalculation

Sep 29, 198622m★ 7.3

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.

E3Magic Saturday

Oct 6, 198624m★ 7.0

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.

E4Welcome to My Nightmare

Oct 13, 198623m★ 6.7

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.

E5You Gotta Believe Me

Oct 20, 198624m★ 7.2

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

E6The Greibble

Nov 3, 198624m★ 6.4

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

E7Life on Death Row

Nov 10, 198624m★ 8.2

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.

E8Go to the Head of the Class

Nov 21, 198645m★ 8.1

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.

E9Thanksgiving

Nov 24, 198624m★ 8.1

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

E10The Pumpkin Competition

Dec 1, 198623m★ 7.0

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

E11What If...?

Dec 8, 198622m★ 7.3

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.

E12The Eternal Mind

Dec 29, 198625m★ 7.4

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.

E13Lane Change

Jan 12, 198724m★ 8.2

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.

E14Blue Man Down

Jan 19, 198724m★ 8.1

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.

E15The 21-Inch Sun

Feb 2, 198723m★ 7.6

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.

E16Family Dog

Feb 16, 198724m★ 8.2

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.

E17Gershwin's Trunk

Mar 13, 198724m★ 6.1

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

E18Such Interesting Neighbors

Mar 20, 198724m★ 7.4

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.

E19Without Diana

Mar 27, 198723m★ 7.7

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.

E20Moving Day

Apr 3, 198724m★ 7.4

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.

E21Miss Stardust

Apr 10, 198724m★ 7.3

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

About Amazing Stories

Amazing Stories is a sci-fi & fantasy, comedy, family series on NBC. The show first aired on Sep 29, 1985 and currently has 2 seasons and 45 episodes. Amazing Stories has ended. It has a rating of 7.5/10 based on 237 votes. Created by Steven Spielberg and John Falsey and Joshua Brand.