Amazing Stories
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1.
Amazing Stories (1985–1987)
Episode:
Ghost Train
(1985)
Not Rated | 25 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Opa Globe is convinced it is his destiny to board a train he inadvertently caused to crash 75 years ago, and tells his nine-year old grandson the old Highball Express will careen through their house.
Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: Roberts Blossom, Scott Paulin, Gail Edwards, Lukas Haas
Votes: 868
2.
Amazing Stories (1985–1987)
Episode:
The Main Attraction
(1985)
Not Rated | 25 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Athletic teenage hunk Brad Bender thinks he is too cool for nerdy classmate Shirley, who is crazy over him, until, to his horror, a meteor shower's power suddenly turns him into a human magnet.
Director: Matthew Robbins | Stars: John Scott Clough, Lisa Jane Persky, Richard Bull, Barbara Sharma
Votes: 589
3.
Amazing Stories (1985–1987)
Episode:
Alamo Jobe
(1985)
Not Rated | 25 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
During the Battle of the Alamo on March 6, 1836, 15-year-old messenger Jobe H. Farnum is about to be killed. He is transported forward in time to San Antonio in 1985. The 1980s prove to be too much for Jobe to handle.
Director: Michael D. Moore | Stars: Kelly Reno, William Boyett, Lurene Tuttle, Richard Young
Votes: 529
4.
Amazing Stories (1985–1987)
Episode:
Mummy Daddy
(1985)
Not Rated | 25 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
A dedicated actor in a realistic mummy costume that he can't take off is shooting a movie in a swamp. When he hears his wife is in labor, he runs towards the town but the local rednecks think he's the real deal and form a posse.
Director: William Dear | Stars: Tom Harrison, Bronson Pinchot, Brion James, Tracey Walter
Votes: 878
5.
Amazing Stories (1985–1987)
Episode:
The Mission
(1985)
PG | 46 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
A courageous young World War II gunner and aspiring cartoonist, trapped in the belly gun of a B-17 aircraft with the landing gear destroyed, has only his imagination as a force that might be able to save him.
Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: Kevin Costner, Casey Siemaszko, Kiefer Sutherland, J.J. Cohen
Votes: 1,253
6.
Amazing Stories (1985–1987)
Episode:
The Amazing Falsworth
(1985)
PG-13 | 25 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
A nightclub audience gasps at The Amazing Falsworth's psychic powers, but the shock is his alone when the blindfolded performer picks up the vibes of a serial killer in the room.
Director: Peter Hyams | Stars: Gregory Hines, Richard Masur, Don Calfa, Suzanne Bateman
Votes: 523
7.
Amazing Stories (1985–1987)
Episode:
Fine Tuning
(1985)
G | 25 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Three high-school kids build an antenna that can catch signals from outer space. They learn that the aliens are big fans of 1950s American television and are coming to Hollywood to meet some of their favorite Earth stars.
Director: Bob Balaban | Stars: Matthew Labyorteaux, Gary Riley, Jim Gatherum, Milton Berle
Votes: 446
8.
Amazing Stories (1985–1987)
Episode:
Mr. Magic
(1985)
PG | 25 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Old-timer Lou Bundles, once a world-famous magician, is now fumbling every trick, and desperately purchases an amazing old deck of cards at a small magic shop in hopes of going out in a spectacular display of legerdemain.
Director: Donald Petrie | Stars: Sid Caesar, Leo Rossi, Larry Gelman, Julius Harris
Votes: 389
9.
Amazing Stories (1985–1987)
Episode:
Guilt Trip
(1985)
Not Rated | 25 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Overworked and exhausted, the emotion Guilt in human personification takes a fateful cruise and falls in love with Love.
Director: Burt Reynolds | Stars: Dom DeLuise, Loni Anderson, Charles Durning, Carol Arthur
Votes: 402
10.
Amazing Stories (1985–1987)
Episode:
Remote Control Man
(1985)
Not Rated | 25 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
A meek, unhappy and frustrated husband with a nagging wife and incorrigible sons finally finds solace in his new TV set that "comes alive" with the use of a magic remote control and gives ... See full summary »
Director: Bob Clark | Stars: Sydney Lassick, Nancy Parsons, Philip Bruns, Jeff Cohen
Votes: 458
11.
Amazing Stories (1985–1987)
Episode:
Santa '85
(1985)
Not Rated | 25 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Kris Kringle's Christmas is rudely interrupted when he lands in the clink with a bunch of bogus Santas after tripping a home burglar alarm. The cynical sheriff doesn't believe his story, so... See full summary »
Director: Phil Joanou | Stars: Douglas Seale, Pat Hingle, Gabriel Damon, Marvin J. McIntyre
Votes: 420
12.
Amazing Stories (1985–1987)
Episode:
Vanessa in the Garden
(1985)
Not Rated | 25 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
When a brilliant young artist's beloved wife dies in a carriage wreck, the grief-stricken husband is possessed with an incredible plan to bring her back through his art.
Director: Clint Eastwood | Stars: Harvey Keitel, Sondra Locke, Beau Bridges, Margaret Howell
Votes: 479
13.
Amazing Stories (1985–1987)
Episode:
The Sitter
(1986)
Not Rated | 25 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
A Jamaican babysitter uses voodoo to tame a pair of mischievous, stir-crazy boys.
Director: Joan Darling | Stars: Mabel King, Seth Green, Joshua Rudoy, Wendy Phillips
Votes: 392
14.
Amazing Stories (1985–1987)
Episode:
No Day at the Beach
(1986)
PG | 24 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Scorned by his troop of poker-playing teen-aged soldiers, Arnold Skamp becomes a war hero by miraculously saving their lives when they charge the battle-torn beaches of Port Nuovo, Italy. ... See full summary »
Director: Lesli Linka Glatter | Stars: Charlie Sheen, Larry Spinak, Ralph Seymour, Philip McKeon
Votes: 355
15.
Amazing Stories (1985–1987)
Episode:
One for the Road
(1986)
Not Rated | 25 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
In 1934, a couple of South Bronx barflies try to kill drunk Mike Malloy for his insurance money and find they're tangling with much more than they bargained for.
Director: Thomas Carter | Stars: James Cromwell, Geoffrey Lewis, Joe Pantoliano, Al Ruscio
Votes: 323
16.
Amazing Stories (1985–1987)
Episode:
Gather Ye Acorns
(1986)
Not Rated | 25 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Jonathan Quick, the bane of his practical parents' existence, takes an ancient tree troll's advice to pack up his treasured comic-book collection and follow his heart. And so, fifty years later..
Director: Norman Reynolds | Stars: Mark Hamill, David Rappaport, Lois De Banzie, Mary Jo Deschanel
Votes: 384
17.
Amazing Stories (1985–1987)
Episode:
Boo!
(1986)
Not Rated | 25 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Sweet, old-fashioned ghosts Nelson and Evelyn Chumsky are aghast when a porn queen and her sleazy husband move into their home, and try to scare the raunchy new residents away.
Director: Joe Dante | Stars: Eddie Bracken, Evelyn Keyes, Bruce Davison, Andrea Marcovicci
Votes: 337
18.
Amazing Stories (1985–1987)
Episode:
Dorothy and Ben
(1986)
Not Rated | 25 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
It is shocking enough when old Ben Dumfy emerges like Rip Van Winkle from a 40-year coma, but his special mental communication with Dorothy, a comatose 7-year-old, leads to an even greater miracle. But there's a price.
Director: Thomas Carter | Stars: Joe Seneca, Lane Smith, Louis Giambalvo, Kathleen Lloyd
Votes: 364
19.
Amazing Stories (1985–1987)
Episode:
Mirror, Mirror
(1986)
PG | 24 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
While guesting on a talk show, horror novelist Jordan Manmouth claims he is immune to being frightened by the nightmarish creatures he creates - and comes to regret the taunt when he is terrorized by a black-caped phantom.
Director: Martin Scorsese | Stars: Sam Waterston, Helen Shaver, Dick Cavett, Tim Robbins
Votes: 620
20.
Amazing Stories (1985–1987)
Episode:
Secret Cinema
(1986)
Not Rated | 25 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Young everyday woman Jane becomes convinced that someone is recording and influencing her everyday life and that she's become the unwilling star of a secret cinema.
Director: Paul Bartel | Stars: Eve Arden, Paul Bartel, Griffin Dunne, Penny Peyser
Votes: 319
21.
Amazing Stories (1985–1987)
Episode:
Hell Toupee
(1986)
Not Rated | 25 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Defense attorney Harry Ballentine is understandably nervous when his client is mild-mannered accountant Murray Bernstein - who after investing in a strange toupee had felt compelled to murder the first lawyer he saw. Harry goes after it.
Director: Irvin Kershner | Stars: Tony Kienitz, Cindy Morgan, Stanley Brock, Gary Allen
Votes: 316
22.
Amazing Stories (1985–1987)
Episode:
The Doll
(1986)
Not Rated | 25 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
The lonely, loveless life of a shy bachelor takes an astounding turn when he buys a special doll, exquisitely hand-crafted by a mysterious German toymaker. He tries to track down the woman who modeled for it.
Director: Phil Joanou | Stars: John Lithgow, Anne Helm, Sharon Spelman, John Christopher Jones
Votes: 386
23.
Amazing Stories (1985–1987)
Episode:
One for the Books
(1986)
Not Rated | 25 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
An elderly college janitor amazes himself, his wife and the scientific community when his brain turns into a sponge that soaks up more and more incredible knowledge of every subject taught ... See full summary »
Director: Lesli Linka Glatter | Stars: Leo Penn, Joyce Van Patten, Nicholas Pryor, John Alvin
Votes: 268
24.
Amazing Stories (1985–1987)
Episode:
Grandpa's Ghost
(1986)
Not Rated | 24 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Edwin's grandpa died in his sleep last night. So why is the old man still hanging around the apartment, playing the piano and swapping stories with Edwin's grandma?
Director: Timothy Hutton | Stars: Andrew McCarthy, Herta Ware, Ian Wolfe, Erin Lyerla
Votes: 289
25.
Amazing Stories (1985–1987)
Episode:
The Wedding Ring
(1986)
PG | 23 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
When Herbert slips a mysterious ring onto the finger of his beloved wife as an anniversary gift, the weary waitress turns into a seductress. But delight turns to fright when Herbert spots deadly side effects.
Director: Danny DeVito | Stars: Rhea Perlman, Danny DeVito, Louis Giambalvo, Bernadette Birkett
Votes: 279
26.
Amazing Stories (1985–1987)
Episode:
Miscalculation
(1986)
Not Rated | 21 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
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 ... See full summary »
Director: Tom Holland | Stars: Jon Cryer, JoAnn Willette, J.J. Cohen, Lana Clarkson
Votes: 376
27.
Amazing Stories (1985–1987)
Episode:
Magic Saturday
(1986)
Not Rated | 23 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
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 ... See full summary »
Director: Robert Markowitz | Stars: M. Emmet Walsh, Taliesin Jaffe, David L. Crowley, Caren Kaye
Votes: 207
28.
Amazing Stories (1985–1987)
Episode:
Welcome to My Nightmare
(1986)
Not Rated | 22 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
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.
Director: Todd Holland | Stars: David Hollander, Steve Antin, Sharon Spelman, Robyn Lively
Votes: 266
29.
Amazing Stories (1985–1987)
Episode:
You Gotta Believe Me
(1986)
Not Rated | 23 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Convinced that his vivid nightmare of a Boeing 747 crashing into his house is a horrific premonition, Earl Sweet desperately tries to alter fate.
Director: Kevin Reynolds | Stars: Charles Durning, Mary Betten, Ebbe Roe Smith, Wil Shriner
Votes: 268
30.
Amazing Stories (1985–1987)
Episode:
The Greibble
(1986)
Not Rated | 23 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Joan Simmons is a harried mom who is alone in the house and thrown for a loop when a giant floppy, furry creature with a huge appetite for inanimate objects appears during a storm and wreaks havoc.
Director: Joe Dante | Stars: Hayley Mills, Dick Miller, Justin Mooney, Don McLeod
Votes: 270
31.
Amazing Stories (1985–1987)
Episode:
Life on Death Row
(1986)
PG | 30 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Hours before his scheduled execution, a death-row inmate is given the power to heal.
Director: Mick Garris | Stars: Patrick Swayze, James T. Callahan, Kevin Hagen, Hector Elizondo
Votes: 295
32.
Amazing Stories (1985–1987)
Episode:
Go to the Head of the Class
(1986)
PG-13 | 60 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
A teenage horror buff is so smitten with a sexy classmate that he helps her use black magic on their loathsome English teacher, with shocking and bewildering results.
Director: Robert Zemeckis | Stars: Christopher Lloyd, Scott Coffey, Mary Stuart Masterson, Tom Bresnahan
Votes: 548
33.
Amazing Stories (1985–1987)
Episode:
Thanksgiving
(1986)
Not Rated | 23 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Greedy mean man finds a bottomless hole on his desert property. He concludes that some kind of beings who trade gold for things live down there. His stepdaughter realizes that "hole people" want food, not objects, but the man won't listen.
Director: Todd Holland | Stars: David Carradine, Kyra Sedgwick
Votes: 298
34.
Amazing Stories (1985–1987)
Episode:
The Pumpkin Competition
(1986)
G | 30 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Rich, stingy and miserly Elma Dinnock is livid at losing the Yarborough Country pumpkin-growing contest 22 years in a row, and so gets help from a mysterious botanist for the next competition. Will she finally triumph?
Director: Norman Reynolds | Stars: Polly Holliday, June Lockhart, J.A. Preston, Ritch Brinkley
Votes: 207
35.
Amazing Stories (1985–1987)
Episode:
What If...?
(1986)
Not Rated | 21 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
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.
Director: Joan Darling | Stars: Jake Hart, Clare Kirkconnell, Tom McConnell, Ric Cane
Votes: 197
36.
Amazing Stories (1985–1987)
Episode:
The Eternal Mind
(1986)
Not Rated | 24 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
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.
Director: J. Michael Riva | Stars: Jeffrey Jones, Katherine Borowitz, Gregory Wagrowski, Robert Axelrod
Votes: 192
37.
Amazing Stories (1985–1987)
Episode:
Lane Change
(1987)
Not Rated | 23 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
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.
Director: Ken Kwapis | Stars: Kathy Baker, Priscilla Pointer, Cletus Young, Misty Forrest
Votes: 202
38.
Amazing Stories (1985–1987)
Episode:
Blue Man Down
(1987)
PG | 23 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
A guilt-ridden police officer, who blames himself for his partner's violent death, is teamed with a young partner who seems invisible to everyone else.
Director: Paul Michael Glaser | Stars: Max Gail, Kate McNeil, Chris Nash, Sal Viscuso
Votes: 200
39.
Amazing Stories (1985–1987)
Episode:
The 21-Inch Sun
(1987)
Not Rated | 22 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
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.
Director: Nick Castle | Stars: Robert Townsend, Michael Lerner, Craig Richard Nelson, Robert Starr
Votes: 194
40.
Amazing Stories (1985–1987)
Episode:
Family Dog
(1987)
G | 21 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
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.
Director: Brad Bird | Stars: Stan Freberg, Annie Potts, Mercedes McCambridge, Scott Menville
Votes: 597
41.
Amazing Stories (1985–1987)
Episode:
Gershwin's Trunk
(1987)
Not Rated | 30 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Frantic to deliver a hit musical, conniving Broadway composer Jo-Jo Gillespie contacts the spirit of George Gershwin through psychic Sister Teresa, and makes marvelous music from beyond the... See full summary »
Director: Paul Bartel | Stars: Bob Balaban, Lainie Kazan, John McCook, Dana Gladstone
Votes: 191
42.
Amazing Stories (1985–1987)
Episode:
Such Interesting Neighbors
(1987)
Not Rated | 30 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
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 ... See full summary »
Director: Graham Baker | Stars: Frederick Coffin, Marcia Strassman, Ina Fried, Victoria Catlin
Votes: 176
43.
Amazing Stories (1985–1987)
Episode:
Without Diana
(1987)
PG | 22 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
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.
Director: Lesli Linka Glatter | Stars: Billy Green Bush, Dianne Hull, Gennie James, Fredric Cook
Votes: 189
44.
Amazing Stories (1985–1987)
Episode:
Moving Day
(1987)
Not Rated | 23 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
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.
Director: Robert Stevens | Stars: Stephen Geoffreys, Dennis Lipscomb, Mary Ellen Trainor, Kristen Vigard
Votes: 188
45.
Amazing Stories (1985–1987)
Episode:
Miss Stardust
(1987)
Not Rated | 23 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Public-relations man Joe Willoughby thinks that promoting the Miss Stardust beauty pageant will be a snap, until "Cabbage Man," a representative from outer space, arrives and contends he ... See full summary »
Director: Tobe Hooper | Stars: Dick Shawn, Laraine Newman, Rick Overton, Jack Carter
Votes: 202
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