- Ray Walston ( My Favourite Martian ) as the storyteller
Season 1
Amazing Stories [Season 1, Episode 1]
Ghost Train
Shown 29 Sep 85
An old man takes his grandson (Lukas Haas - Space Camp ) for a walk on the family ranch. They discover that the new house was built over a disused train line. Grandpa remembers why the railway line was shut down - there was a terrible crash sixty years ago. And now he says the train is coming again, to pick him up.
This was included in Amazing Stories: The Movie II.
Amazing Stories [Season 1, Episode 2]
The Main Attraction
Shown 06 Oct 85
Amazing Stories [Season 1, Episode 3]
Alamo Jobe
Shown 20 Oct 85
Amazing Stories [Season 1, Episode 4]
Mummy, Daddy
Shown 27 Oct 85
This is based on an original story by Steven Spielberg . Bronson Pinchot ( Langoliers ) is a movie director on a horror flick. The star, dressed like a mummy, rushes off to be present when his wife gives birth. However, he runs foul of a drunken redneck played by Brion James ( Blade Runner ). He also meets the REAL mummy!
This was the first story in the Amazing Stories 3 anthology film.
Amazing Stories [Season 1, Episode 5]
The Mission
Shown 03 Nov 85
Kevin Costner ( Waterworld ) captains a USAAF bomber on a mission over Germany. Kiefer Sutherland ( Mirrors ) is one of his crew, and Anthony LaPaglia ( ) puts on a phony accent as an RAF mechanic. Unfortunately the belly gunner is jinxed, and they run into trouble. Shades of Memphis Belle ensue ...
This was included in Amazing Stories: The Movie. Written from an original story by Steven Spielberg , this is just another example of his Magic Realism. The ending is just a supernatural Deus Ex Machina.
Amazing Stories [Season 1, Episode 6]
The Amazing Falsworth
Shown 05 Nov 85
Amazing Stories [Season 1, Episode 7]
Fine Tuning
Shown 10 Nov 85
Amazing Stories [Season 1, Episode 8]
Mr. Magic
Shown 17 Nov 85
Amazing Stories [Season 1, Episode 9]
Guilt Trip
Shown 01 Dec 85
This was directed by Burt Reynolds, and stars his wife Loni Anderson and his buddy Dom Deluise ( Stargate SG-1 ). Deluise is a wise-cracking alcoholic. He is also the Angel of Guilt - like the opposite of Cupid, he goes around and wrecks peoples' lives. This is necessary for the Catholic Church to function. Without Guilt nobody would attend confession, and the Church would lose out on the free money the victims donate to it.
Guilt's alcoholism means he is not at his best, so his boss (Charles Durning - Night Of The Scarecrow ) sends him on a luxury cruise to recuperate. While he is on the ship, Guilt falls in love with a fellow passenger (Ms Anderson).
This was the fourth and final story in the Amazing Stories 3 anthology film.
Amazing Stories [Season 1, Episode 10]
Remote Control Man
Shown 08 Dec 85
This was directed by Bob Clark , and features a hen-pecked husband whose only escapism comes from his television. One day his wife sells his television set, so he gets a new one from a mysterious ship.
The new TV's remote control is a Magic Realism device, and allows him to alter the nature of reality. He turns his wife into Shawn Weatherly - the original Baywatch babe! However, when he turns his son into the A-Team's Face Man (Dirk Benedict - Battlestar Galactica 1978 ) they end up being attacked by villainous loan sharks.
This was the third story in the Amazing Stories 3 anthology film.
Amazing Stories [Season 1, Episode 11]
Santa '85
Shown 15 Dec 85
It is Xmas Day, 1985. Sheriff Pat Hingle ( Batman Returns ) rounds up a few crooks, all dressed like Santa Claus. He could give them the benefit of the doubt, but wants to throw the book at them. It turns out he blames his unhappy life on his childhood disappointment in Santa.
This was included in Amazing Stories: The Movie II.
Amazing Stories [Season 1, Episode 12]
Vanessa in the Garden
Shown 29/Dec/85
An artist (Harvey Keitel - Saturn 3 ) has a ghostly muse. Think of the relationship between Clint Eastwood (who directed this ep) and Sondra Locke (who stars as the title character, Vanessa).
Amazing Stories [Season 1, Episode 13]
The Sitter
Shown 05 Jan 86
Amazing Stories [Season 1, Episode 14]
No Day at the Beach
Shown 12/Jan/86
This is a B&W film set in World War Two. Arnold, a rookie soldier, becomes a hero. One trooper is played by Charlie Sheen ( The Arrival ), and the sergeant is George Dzunda (The Beast Of War).
Amazing Stories [Season 1, Episode 15]
One For the Road
Shown 19/Jan/86
This was Written by Brand & Falsey (Northern Exposure). The theme is that A useless life is an early death - a quote by Goethe.
Pantoliano, Lewis, Cromwell are in a bar. They take out Life insurance on an alkie.
The ending has no explanation - it is just another example of magic realism.
Amazing Stories [Season 1, Episode 16]
Gather Ye Acorns
Shown 02 Feb 86
Amazing Stories [Season 1, Episode 17]
Boo!
Shown 16 Feb 86
Amazing Stories [Season 1, Episode 18]
Dorothy and Ben
Shown 02 Mar 86
Amazing Stories [Season 1, Episode 19]
Mirror, Mirror
Shown 09 Mar 86
Amazing Stories [Season 1, Episode 20]
Secret Cinema
Shown 06 Apr 86
Amazing Stories [Season 1, Episode 21]
Hell Toupee
Shown 13 Apr 86
Amazing Stories [Season 1, Episode 22]
The Doll
Shown 04 May 86
John Lithgow ( Third Rock From The Sun ) visits a doll shop run by a friendly old dollmaker. He buys a doll for his niece's birthday, but he does not realise that she is too old for such things.
The protagonist develops an unhealthy obsession with the doll. Is he being driven insane by loneliness, or is something supernatural influencing his behaviour?
This was included in Amazing Stories: The Movie II. It is based on a short story by Richard Matheson .
Amazing Stories [Season 1, Episode 23]
One For the Books
Shown 11 May 86
Amazing Stories [Season 1, Episode 24]
Grandpa's Ghost
Shown 25 May 86
