Amazing Stories Season 2
The second season of this anthology series continues unique tales of fun, adventure and excitement!
22 September 1986
Episodes
1. The Wedding Ring
A wax museum dresser takes a ring from a statue. The ring transforms his overworked wife into a femme fatale.
22 September 1986
2. Miscalculation
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.
29 September 1986
3. Magic Saturday
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.
06 October 1986
4. Welcome to My Nightmare
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.
13 October 1986
5. You Gotta Believe Me
Convinced that his vivid nightmare of a Boeing 747 crashing into his house is a horrific premonition, Earl Sweet desperately tries to alter fate.
20 October 1986
6. The Greibble
A housewife has a very real nightmare. She encounters a large creature that has a taste for inanimate objects.
03 November 1986
7. Life on Death Row
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.
10 November 1986
8. Go to the Head of the Class
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.
21 November 1986
9. Thanksgiving
When a dry well yields treasures, a man cashes in, while his stepdaughter repays the kindness of the “hole people.”
24 November 1986
10. The Pumpkin Competition
An old spinster who is tired of losing a pumpkin competition recieves special advice from an agricultural professor.
01 December 1986
11. What If...?
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.
08 December 1986
12. The Eternal Mind
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.
29 December 1986
13. Lane Change
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.
12 January 1987
14. Blue Man Down
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.
19 January 1987
15. The 21-Inch Sun
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.
02 February 1987
16. Family Dog
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.
16 February 1987
17. Gershwin's Trunk
A broadway lyricist seeks inspiration by contacting the spirit of Gershwin through a psychic.
13 March 1987
18. Such Interesting Neighbors
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.
20 March 1987
19. Without Diana
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.
27 March 1987
20. Moving Day
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.
03 April 1987
21. Miss Stardust
An extraterrestrial threatens to destroy the earth unless the "Miss Stardust" beauty-pageant promoter allows entrants from other planets.
10 April 1987