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Amazing Stories
Amazing Stories: Season 2

Air Date

September 22, 1986

Episodes

21 episodes

Amazing Stories

Season 2

Overview

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

Episodes

The Wedding Ring

1. The Wedding Ring

7.5
September 22, 1986
24 min

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

Miscalculation

2. Miscalculation

7.4
September 29, 1986
22 min

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.

Magic Saturday

3. Magic Saturday

7.1
October 6, 1986
24 min

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.

Welcome to My Nightmare

4. Welcome to My Nightmare

6.8
October 13, 1986
23 min

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.

You Gotta Believe Me

5. You Gotta Believe Me

7.2
October 20, 1986
24 min

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

The Greibble

6. The Greibble

6.4
November 3, 1986
24 min

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

Life on Death Row

7. Life on Death Row

8.4
November 10, 1986
24 min

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.

Go to the Head of the Class

8. Go to the Head of the Class

8.2
November 21, 1986
45 min

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.

Thanksgiving

9. Thanksgiving

8.4
November 24, 1986
24 min

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

The Pumpkin Competition

10. The Pumpkin Competition

7.1
December 1, 1986
23 min

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

What If...?

11. What If...?

7.5
December 8, 1986
22 min

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.

The Eternal Mind

12. The Eternal Mind

7.6
December 29, 1986
25 min

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.

Lane Change

13. Lane Change

8.2
January 12, 1987
24 min

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.

Blue Man Down

14. Blue Man Down

8.4
January 19, 1987
24 min

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.

The 21-Inch Sun

15. The 21-Inch Sun

7.8
February 2, 1987
23 min

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.

Family Dog

16. Family Dog

8.5
February 16, 1987
24 min

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.

Gershwin's Trunk

17. Gershwin's Trunk

6.9
March 13, 1987
24 min

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

Such Interesting Neighbors

18. Such Interesting Neighbors

7.7
March 20, 1987
24 min

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.

Without Diana

19. Without Diana

7.8
March 27, 1987
23 min

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.

Moving Day

20. Moving Day

7.7
April 3, 1987
24 min

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.

Miss Stardust

21. Miss Stardust

7.5
April 10, 1987
24 min

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

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