Amazing Stories - Season 1

Amazing Stories - Season 1

Season 1

The first season of this anthology series sets the tone with tales of light humor and even heavy drama with a twist of magic!
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Episodes24
DatesSep 29, 1985 - May 25, 1986
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Episodes

Ghost Train
Season 1Episode 130 min

Ghost Train

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.

Sep 29, 1985
The Main Attraction
Season 1Episode 230 min

The Main Attraction

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.

Oct 6, 1985
Alamo Jobe
Season 1Episode 330 min

Alamo Jobe

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.

Oct 20, 1985
Mummy, Daddy
Season 1Episode 430 min

Mummy, Daddy

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.

Oct 27, 1985
The Mission
Season 1Episode 560 min

The Mission

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.

Nov 3, 1985
The Amazing Falsworth
Season 1Episode 630 min

The Amazing Falsworth

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.

Nov 5, 1985
Fine Tuning
Season 1Episode 730 min

Fine Tuning

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.

Nov 10, 1985
Mr. Magic
Season 1Episode 830 min

Mr. Magic

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.

Nov 17, 1985
Guilt Trip
Season 1Episode 930 min

Guilt Trip

Overworked and exhausted, the emotion Guilt in human personification takes a fateful cruise and falls in love with Love.

Dec 1, 1985
Remote Control Man
Season 1Episode 1030 min

Remote Control Man

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 him the chance to replace his family with various TV characters. But then reality hits.

Dec 8, 1985
Santa '85
Season 1Episode 1130 min

Santa '85

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 his only hope of deliverance becomes a smart eight-year-old boy (Damon), who is the only one who believes him and who won't let Christmas pass without Santa.

Dec 15, 1985
Vanessa in the Garden
Season 1Episode 1230 min

Vanessa in the Garden

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.

Dec 29, 1985
The Sitter
Season 1Episode 1330 min

The Sitter

A Jamaican babysitter uses voodoo to tame a pair of mischievous, stir-crazy boys.

Jan 5, 1986
No Day at the Beach
Season 1Episode 1430 min

No Day at the Beach

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. What his fellow marines learn afterwards, shocks them even more.

Jan 12, 1986
One for the Road
Season 1Episode 1530 min

One for the Road

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.

Jan 19, 1986
Gather Ye Acorns
Season 1Episode 1630 min

Gather Ye Acorns

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.

Feb 2, 1986
Boo!
Season 1Episode 1730 min

Boo!

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.

Feb 16, 1986
Dorothy and Ben
Season 1Episode 1830 min

Dorothy and Ben

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.

Mar 2, 1986
Mirror, Mirror
Season 1Episode 1930 min

Mirror, Mirror

An egotistical horror novelist dismisses the supernatural in real life, but he is forced to reconsider his disbelief when he finds himself pursued by a bizarre figure with a misshapen face. The strange thing? He can only see the man when he looks in the mirror. Each time he looks into a reflective surface, he finds the weird figure gaining on him with malicious intent, which has him terrified of what will happen if the ghastly figure should ever reach him.

Mar 9, 1986
Secret Cinema
Season 1Episode 2030 min

Secret Cinema

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.

Apr 6, 1986
Hell Toupee
Season 1Episode 2130 min

Hell Toupee

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.

Apr 13, 1986
The Doll
Season 1Episode 2230 min

The Doll

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.

May 4, 1986
One for the Books
Season 1Episode 2330 min

One for the Books

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 at the school - until a shocking event changes everything.

May 11, 1986
Grandpa's Ghost
Season 1Episode 2430 min

Grandpa's Ghost

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?

May 25, 1986

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