Season 2

Amazing StoriesSeason 2

1986
21 Episodes

The second season of this anthology series continues unique tales of fun, adventure and excitement!

Episodes

The Wedding Ring
S02E01
7.3

The Wedding Ring

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

22 Sept 198624m
Miscalculation
S02E02
7.3

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.

29 Sept 198622m
Magic Saturday
S02E03
7.0

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.

06 Oct 198624m
Welcome to My Nightmare
S02E04
6.7

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.

13 Oct 198623m
You Gotta Believe Me
S02E05
7.2

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.

20 Oct 198624m
The Greibble
S02E06
6.4

The Greibble

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

03 Nov 198624m
Life on Death Row
S02E07
8.2

Life on Death Row

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.

10 Nov 198624m
Go to the Head of the Class
S02E08
8.1

Go to the Head of the Class

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.

21 Nov 198645m
Thanksgiving
S02E09
8.1

Thanksgiving

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

24 Nov 198624m
The Pumpkin Competition
S02E10
7.0

The Pumpkin Competition

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

01 Dec 198623m
What If...?
S02E11
7.3

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.

08 Dec 198622m
The Eternal Mind
S02E12
7.4

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.

29 Dec 198625m
Lane Change
S02E13
8.2

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.

12 Jan 198724m
Blue Man Down
S02E14
8.1

Blue Man Down

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.

19 Jan 198724m
The 21-Inch Sun
S02E15
7.6

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.

02 Feb 198723m
Family Dog
S02E16
8.3

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.

16 Feb 198724m
Gershwin's Trunk
S02E17
6.1

Gershwin's Trunk

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

13 Mar 198724m
Such Interesting Neighbors
S02E18
7.4

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.

20 Mar 198724m
Without Diana
S02E19
7.7

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.

27 Mar 198723m
Moving Day
S02E20
7.4

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.

03 Apr 198724m
Miss Stardust
S02E21
7.3

Miss Stardust

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

10 Apr 198724m