Amazing Stories

Amazing Stories Season 1

TV Show

Season 1 Plot

The first season of this anthology series sets the tone with tales of light humor and even heavy drama with a twist of magic!

Amazing Stories Season 1 aired on September 29th, 1985.

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Season 1 Episodes

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1. Ghost Train

September 29th, 198525 min

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!

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2. The Main Attraction

October 6th, 198525 min

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.

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3. Alamo Jobe

October 20th, 198525 min

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.

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4. Mummy Daddy

October 27th, 198525 min

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.

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5. The Mission

November 3rd, 198547 min

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.

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6. The Amazing Falsworth

November 5th, 198525 min

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.

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7. Fine Tuning

November 10th, 198525 min

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.

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8. Mr. Magic

November 17th, 198525 min

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

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9. Guilt Trip

December 1st, 198525 min

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

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10. Remote Control Man

December 8th, 198525 min

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

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11. Santa '85

December 15th, 198525 min

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

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12. Vanessa in the Garden

December 29th, 198525 min

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

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13. The Sitter

January 5th, 198625 min

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

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14. No Day at the Beach

January 12th, 198625 min

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

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15. One For the Road

January 19th, 198625 min

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.

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16. Gather Ye Acorns

February 2nd, 198625 min

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.

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17. Boo!

February 16th, 198625 min

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

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18. Dorothy and Ben

March 2nd, 198625 min

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.

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19. Mirror, Mirror

March 9th, 198625 min

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

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20. Secret Cinema

April 6th, 198625 min

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.

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21. Hell Toupee

April 13th, 198625 min

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.

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22. The Doll

May 4th, 198625 min

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.

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23. One For the Books

May 11th, 198625 min

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.

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24. Grandpa's Ghost

May 25th, 198625 min

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?

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