Amazing Stories — Season 2

Aired 22 September 1986 • 24 min

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

Aired 29 September 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.

Aired 6 October 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.

Aired 13 October 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.

Aired 20 October 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.

Aired 3 November 1986 • 24 min

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

Aired 10 November 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.

Aired 21 November 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.

Aired 24 November 1986 • 24 min

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

Aired 1 December 1986 • 23 min

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

Aired 8 December 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.

Aired 29 December 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.

Aired 12 January 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.

Aired 19 January 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.

Aired 2 February 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.

Aired 16 February 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.

Aired 13 March 1987 • 24 min

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

Aired 20 March 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.

Aired 27 March 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.

Aired 3 April 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.

Aired 10 April 1987 • 24 min

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