Amazing Stories (Season 1)

Ghost Train (Episode 1) 6.8

Writer: Frank Deese

Air date: 1985-09-29

Runtime: 25 min

Overview: Ohpa Globe is happy to see his son's new house, but when he sees that the home is built on ghost train tracks, he changes his focus. To his family's chagrin, he is convinced it is his destiny to die in those cornfields, to board a train he inadvertently caused to crash 75 years ago! He tells his nine-year old grandson he still has his ticket for the old "Highball Express", and that arriving train will careen through their house!

The Main Attraction (Episode 2) 6.2

Writer: Mick Garris

Air date: 1985-10-06

Runtime: 25 min

Overview: Big Man on Campus Brad Bender has no problem attracting people to his charms. But when a meteorite crashes in his neighborhood, his magnetism gets even stronger, sometimes attracting the wrong people... and things.

Alamo Jobe (Episode 3) 6.7

Writer: Joshua Brand

Air date: 1985-10-20

Runtime: 25 min

Overview: 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.

Mummy Daddy (Episode 4) 7.2

Writer: Earl Pomerantz

Air date: 1985-10-27

Runtime: 25 min

Overview: An actor who's playing a mummy in a horror film learns that his wife has gone into labor and rushes to be with her – without removing his costume.

The Mission (Episode 5) 7.2

Writer: Menno Meyjes

Air date: 1985-11-03

Runtime: 47 min

Overview: During World War II, men in an air force bomber are caught in a no win scenario when their belly gunner (an amateur artist) is trapped in his seat and the plane has no wheels for landing.

The Amazing Falsworth (Episode 6) 7.5

Writer: Mick Garris

Air date: 1985-11-05

Runtime: 25 min

Overview: A psychic showman realizes that during a performance that someone in the audience wants to commit murder. Frightened, he calls the police, and the detective shows up to investigate.

Fine Tuning (Episode 7) 6.4

Writer: Earl Pomerantz

Air date: 1985-11-10

Runtime: 25 min

Overview: 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.

Mr. Magic (Episode 8) 7.0

Writer: Joshua Brand

Air date: 1985-11-17

Runtime: 25 min

Overview: A fading illusionist has a last shot at greatness thanks to a deck of magic playing cards.

Guilt Trip (Episode 9) 6.4

Writer: Gail Parent

Air date: 1985-12-01

Runtime: 25 min

Overview: The emotion Guilt feels overworked. He takes a vacation cruise and falls for the emotion Love.

Remote Control Man (Episode 10) 6.8

Air date: 1985-12-08

Runtime: 25 min

Overview: A henpecked man finds comfort in a unique television set that bring lifelike images to him.

Santa '85 (Episode 11) 7.0

Writer: Joshua Brand

Air date: 1985-12-15

Runtime: 25 min

Overview: A little boy helps Santa when the legendary man is thrown in jail while delivering presents.

Vanessa in the Garden (Episode 12) 7.3

Writer: Steven Spielberg

Air date: 1985-12-29

Runtime: 25 min

Overview: When an artist is devastated by the death of his wife, he finds a way for her to live on in his painting.

The Sitter (Episode 13) 6.4

Writer: Mick Garris

Air date: 1986-01-05

Runtime: 25 min

Overview: Two young boys get the best of every sitter in town, until they meet one who uses voodoo to settle them down.

No Day at the Beach (Episode 14) 7.4

Writer: Mick Garris

Air date: 1986-01-12

Runtime: 25 min

Overview: A GI tries to be a hero during an amphibious assault in Italy during World War II.

One For the Road (Episode 15) 7.1

Writer: James D. Bissell

Air date: 1986-01-19

Runtime: 25 min

Overview: During the Depression, several bar patrons hope to get insurance money by tricking a man into signing a policy with the hope that he will drink himself to death.

Gather Ye Acorns (Episode 16) 6.7

Writer: Stu Krieger

Air date: 1986-02-02

Runtime: 25 min

Overview: On the advice from a mysterious little man, an 18-year-old boy begins to collect rare comics and toys. When he sells them as an old man, he gains wealth and happiness.

Boo! (Episode 17) 6.8

Writer: Lowell Ganz

Air date: 1986-02-16

Runtime: 25 min

Overview: Ghosts in an attic try to get rid of a couple who move into their house.

Dorothy and Ben (Episode 18) 7.7

Writer: Michael De Guzman

Air date: 1986-03-02

Runtime: 25 min

Overview: After 40 years in a coma, Ben Dumpfy awakens and discovers that he can communicate with a seven-year-old girl who is in a coma after a bike accident.

Mirror, Mirror (Episode 19) 7.1

Writer: Joseph Minion

Air date: 1986-03-09

Runtime: 25 min

Overview: A popular horror novelist is terrorized by a strange figure in his bathroom mirror.

Secret Cinema (Episode 20) 6.0

Writer: Paul Bartel

Air date: 1986-04-06

Runtime: 25 min

Overview: 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.

Hell Toupee (Episode 21) 6.2

Writer: Gail Parent

Air date: 1986-04-13

Runtime: 25 min

Overview: 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.

The Doll (Episode 22) 8.0

Writer: Richard Matheson

Air date: 1986-05-04

Runtime: 25 min

Overview: 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.

One For the Books (Episode 23) 7.3

Writer: Richard Matheson

Air date: 1986-05-11

Runtime: 25 min

Overview: 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.

Grandpa's Ghost (Episode 24) 7.0

Writer: Michael De Guzman

Air date: 1986-05-25

Runtime: 25 min

Overview: 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?