Amazing Stories Season 2

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

01. The Wedding Ring
Sep 22, 1986

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

02. Miscalculation
Sep 29, 1986

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.

03. Magic Saturday
Oct 06, 1986

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.

04. Welcome to My Nightmare
Oct 13, 1986

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.

05. You Gotta Believe Me
Oct 20, 1986

Convinced that his vivid nightmare of a Boeing 747 crashing into his house is a horrific premonition, Earl Sweet desperately tries to alter fate.

Mary Betten
Mary Betten

Nancy

Ebbe Rose Smith
Ebbe Rose Smith

Theresa

Wil Shriner
Wil Shriner

James

John Roselius
John Roselius

Todd Johnson

Jennie Sadler
Jennie Sadler

Airline Representative

Richard Burns
Richard Burns

Air Traffic Control

Eve Smith
Eve Smith

Old Woman

Wade Mayer
Wade Mayer

Airline Representative

Rosemarie Castellano
Rosemarie Castellano

fashionable Woman

Todd Allen
Todd Allen

Air Traffic Control

Todd Allen
Todd Allen

air traffic control

Stu Krieger
Stu Krieger

Writer

Kevin Reynolds
Kevin Reynolds

Director

Brad Fiedel
Brad Fiedel

Music

06. The Greibble
Nov 03, 1986

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

07. Life on Death Row
Nov 10, 1986

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.

08. Go to the Head of the Class
Nov 21, 1986

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.

09. Thanksgiving
Nov 24, 1986

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

10. The Pumpkin Competition
Dec 01, 1986

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

11. What If...?
Dec 08, 1986

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.

Susan Swift
Susan Swift

Marsha

Jake Hart
Jake Hart

Jonah Kelly

Clare Kirkconnell
Clare Kirkconnell

Pamela Kelly

Tom McConnell
Tom McConnell

Raymond Kelly

Ric Cane
Ric Cane

Crosswalk man

Sherry Landrum
Sherry Landrum

Woman in car

Diane Lewis
Diane Lewis

female friend

Laurel Green
Laurel Green

woman

Ann Bell
Ann Bell

Pregnant Woman

12. The Eternal Mind
Dec 29, 1986

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.

13. Lane Change
Jan 12, 1987

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.

14. Blue Man Down
Jan 19, 1987

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.

15. The 21-Inch Sun
Feb 02, 1987

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.

Robert Townsend
Robert Townsend

Billy Burliss

Michael Lerner
Michael Lerner

Mr. Marvin

Robert Starr
Robert Starr

Robert

Bridget Sienna
Bridget Sienna

Actress

Alan Solomon
Alan Solomon

Actor

Richard Chudnow
Richard Chudnow

Castel's Assistant

Jeremy Iacone
Jeremy Iacone

Italian Man

Charlene Nelson
Charlene Nelson

Production Assistant

Jean St. James
Jean St. James

Personal Secretary

Lisa London
Lisa London

Secretary

Marina Anderson
Marina Anderson

Berlis Babe

Nick Castle
Nick Castle

Director

Ralph Burns
Ralph Burns

Music

16. Family Dog
Feb 16, 1987

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.

Brooke Ashley
Brooke Ashley

Buffy Binford (voice)

Brad Bird
Brad Bird

Family Dog (Voice)

Marshall Efron
Marshall Efron

burglar (voice)

Stanley Ralph Ross
Stanley Ralph Ross

burglar (voice)

Jack Angel
Jack Angel

security guard (voice)

Brad Bird
Brad Bird

Writer

Brad Bird
Brad Bird

Director

James Beihold
James Beihold

Layout

Fred Cline
Fred Cline

Background Designer

Karen Hansen
Karen Hansen

Other

Denese Oates
Denese Oates

Other

Andrew Phillipson
Andrew Phillipson

Background Designer

Philip Phillipson
Philip Phillipson

Background Designer

Dennis Venizelos
Dennis Venizelos

Background Designer

Ruth Edelman
Ruth Edelman

Supervising Animator

Kendall O'Connor
Kendall O'Connor

Color Grading

Danny Elfman
Danny Elfman

Music

Steve Bartek
Steve Bartek

Music

Ken Bruce
Ken Bruce

Animation

Chris Buck
Chris Buck

Animation Supervisor

Tim Burton
Tim Burton

Animation

David Cutler
David Cutler

Animation

Lou Dellarosa
Lou Dellarosa

Animation Production Assistant

Russ Edmonds
Russ Edmonds

Animation

Ralph Eggleston
Ralph Eggleston

Animation

Tony Fucile
Tony Fucile

Animation

Klay Hall
Klay Hall

Animation

Terrey Hamada
Terrey Hamada

Animation

Tim Hauser
Tim Hauser

Animation

Ron Hughart
Ron Hughart

Animation

Dan Jeup
Dan Jeup

Animation

Mark Kausler
Mark Kausler

Animation

Susan Kroyer
Susan Kroyer

Animation

Susan Lantz
Susan Lantz

Animation

Rich Moore
Rich Moore

Animation

Alan Smart
Alan Smart

Animation

David Stephan
David Stephan

Animation

Jill Stirdivant
Jill Stirdivant

Color Designer

Brigitte Strother
Brigitte Strother

Color Designer

Gregg Vanzo
Gregg Vanzo

Animation

Tanya T. Wilson
Tanya T. Wilson

Animation

Kirk Wise
Kirk Wise

Animation

17. Gershwin's Trunk
Mar 13, 1987

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

18. Such Interesting Neighbors
Mar 20, 1987

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.

19. Without Diana
Mar 27, 1987

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.

Billy Green Bush
Billy Green Bush

George Willoughby

Dianne Hull
Dianne Hull

Kathryn Willoughby

Gennie James
Gennie James

Diana Willoughby

Rick Andosca
Rick Andosca

Policeman

20. Moving Day
Apr 03, 1987

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.

21. Miss Stardust
Apr 10, 1987

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