Amazing Stories - Season 2

Amazing Stories - Season 2

Season 2

The second season of this anthology series continues unique tales of fun, adventure and excitement!
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Episodes21
DatesSep 22, 1986 - Apr 10, 1987
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Episodes

The Wedding Ring
Season 2Episode 130 min

The Wedding Ring

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.

Sep 22, 1986
Miscalculation
Season 2Episode 230 min

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.

Sep 29, 1986
Magic Saturday
Season 2Episode 330 min

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.

Oct 6, 1986
Welcome to My Nightmare
Season 2Episode 430 min

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.

Oct 13, 1986
You Gotta Believe Me
Season 2Episode 530 min

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.

Oct 20, 1986
The Greibble
Season 2Episode 630 min

The Greibble

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.

Nov 3, 1986
Life on Death Row
Season 2Episode 730 min

Life on Death Row

A murderer on death row finds himself infused with the incredible power to heal by touch. A desperate race to halt his execution builds to a miraculous climax.

Nov 10, 1986
Go to the Head of the Class
Season 2Episode 830 min

Go to the Head of the Class

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.

Nov 21, 1986
Thanksgiving
Season 2Episode 930 min

Thanksgiving

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.

Nov 24, 1986
The Pumpkin Competition
Season 2Episode 1030 min

The Pumpkin Competition

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?

Dec 1, 1986
What If...?
Season 2Episode 1130 min

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.

Dec 8, 1986
The Eternal Mind
Season 2Episode 1230 min

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.

Dec 29, 1986
Lane Change
Season 2Episode 1330 min

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.

Jan 12, 1987
Blue Man Down
Season 2Episode 1430 min

Blue Man Down

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.

Jan 19, 1987
The 21 Inch Sun
Season 2Episode 1530 min

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.

Feb 2, 1987
The Family Dog
Season 2Episode 1630 min

The 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.

Feb 16, 1987
Gershwin's Trunk
Season 2Episode 1730 min

Gershwin's Trunk

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 grave. When some begin to suspect that his new music isn't actually his, Jo-Jo stops at nothing, even murder, to protect his secret and his downfall begins.

Mar 13, 1987
Such Interesting Neighbors
Season 2Episode 1830 min

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.

Mar 20, 1987
Without Diana
Season 2Episode 1930 min

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.

Mar 27, 1987
Moving Day
Season 2Episode 2030 min

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.

Apr 3, 1987
Miss Stardust
Season 2Episode 2130 min

Miss Stardust

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 owns the rights to the title and threatens to eliminate Earth unless he gets some satisfaction.

Apr 10, 1987

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