did anybody like amazing stories?

[blackdragon6]

it was kinda like a lighter fantasy version of the outer limits.my fave episode is with robert townsend and the plant that was typing his sitcom scripts for him.

[Bouncing Boy]

I loved Amazing Stories. I don't remember the one you mention though. My favorites were:

"Fine Tuning" where a group of kids working on a science project recieve transmisions from an alien planet where the aliens have recieved our transmissions and have put on their own versions of I Love Lucy, The Honeymooners and other early TV shows. They then discover that the aliens are coming to earth to bring humans back to their home planet to make more shows. It was a very funny episode. I wish I still had a tape of it.

"Dorothy and Ben" where a man awakes in a hospital to find that he has been in a coma for fifty years and he's now an old man. While roming the halls of the hospital, he finds that he can communicate to this little girl who is in a coma and may be dying. It's a very sad, touching episode.

"The Doll" in which John Lithgow buys a doll for his niece and falls in love with it and tries to find the woman who the doll was modeled after. Had both it's funny and touching moments.

"The Family Dog" the animated episode which is about this family that takes their dog into this experimental Dog training facility to turn their dog into a white hot ball of canine fury. This was much later spun off into it's own series that unfortunatly was very short lived.

[CHEYENNE-BLACKBIRD]

i don't have a favorite episode as i like nearly all of them.especialy the one where the train burst threw the house to get the dying grandfather.and of course the widley favorite cartoon wheel airplane episode.and the aformentioned plant episode

[EZMOHR]

Ah, yes.....When I was a kid this was the only show I would sit down and watch. Some of my favorite episodes include

The afforementioned "The Mission". This is the one where the belly gunner on a B-24 draws Disney wheels on his plane to save his life. Very cool when you are young.

My absolute favorite is the Christopher Lloyd one, "Go to the Head of the Class". This is the one where two kids do a spell on their sadistic teacher, and he loses his head, but not his tormenting ways.

The Family Dog episode was really cool also. It had some very "Tim Burton" moments in it that were quite scary and funny.

I also liked the Patrick Swayze (In full 80's Swayze-mullet action) one where he is the man on death row is struck by lightning and then only days before his execution he is given the power to heal people with a touch. It actually has a pretty good ending

The one that sticks out as the only AS that did not have some goody-goody lesson was the Gregory Hines episode "The Amazing Fallsworth". It was a straight up detective story that was really cool as a mystery.

It is such a shame that they will put out dreck like Punky Brewster, and other inferior 80's shows on DVD, but this one is not out yet. Hopefully all rights can get brought together and we can get AS on DVD.

[CHEYENNE-BLACKBIRD]

yeah it needs to be on dvd though alot of shows needs to be on dvd.

[VCreed32]

*Reminisces*
There was... something in my eye.

[blackdragon6]

hey you EZMOHR bastard punky brewster ruled!!!!!!!!!!!! :evilangry

[Tish-the-Scorpion]

man i love punky and amazing stories.god the eighties were so much fun.

[ReptileJK]

Man, loved this show!

I remember a great episode (can't recall the title) that I think starred one of the Carradine's. He and his daughter lived on a farm in the desert. One day the daughter realized (I don't remember how) that if she put food in the bucket of their well and sent it down, something living at the bottom of the well would replace it with a gold trinket. When her father found out, he took a shot-gun and put on a gas mask etc., and was going to go down the well and take the gold from whatever was living down there by force. His daughter lowered him down on a winch. The winch started unwinding (like something was pulling on it from below) and when she managed to pull her dad back up, all of his clothes were filled with gold trinkets......but he was gone.

:D

How awesome is that?!

[Tish-the-Scorpion]

Man, loved this show!

I remember a great episode (can't recall the title) that I think starred one of the Carradine's. He and his daughter lived on a farm in the desert. One day the daughter realized (I don't remember how) that if she put food in the bucket of their well and sent it down, something living at the bottom of the well would replace it with a gold trinket. When her father found out, he took a shot-gun and put on a gas mask etc., and was going to go down the well and take the gold from whatever was living down there by force. His daughter lowered him down on a winch. The winch started unwinding (like something was pulling on it from below) and when she managed to pull her dad back up, all of his clothes were filled with gold trinkets......but he was gone.

:D

How awesome is that?!i saw that episode last weekend at 4 in the morning on sci-fi

[The Joker]

I watched Amazing Stories. But I cant say I was really a fan of it.

Just wasnt my cup of tea.

I can understand why people would like it though.

[CDTM]

Watched it, loved it.

But somehow I thought it'd end up in Death Spiral or something. Just a feeling...

[Toreador]

It was a hit-or-miss with me. Some were alright while others stank for me (like that Miss Galaxy one). There run of the mill stuff was a little hokey for me. My favorite episode was 'Gather Ye Acorns' with Mark Hamill.

[EZMOHR]

hey you EZMOHR bastard punky brewster ruled!!!!!!!!!!!! :evilangry


Dude, Punky Power, Brandon, Allan, and that little bitch Cherry :D ain't got nuthin on Amazing Stories. I mean, they had an episode were they arrested Santa......ARRESTED SANTA FREAKIN' CLAUS.

Oh, and I did watch Punky when I was a kid. :)

[Chevan]

I remember that show, though I wasn't sure it was the one you guys were talking about until you mentioned the Family Dog shorts. I loved those.

Oh, and somebody mentioned The Amazing Fallsworth. Was that the one with the guy that was choking people with piano wire?

[VCreed32]

Yep, Hines could 'read' people through touch and touched the murderer.

[blackdragon6]

i saw that episode last weekend at 4 in the morning on sci-fi
YEP it camed on right after the episode i mentioned

[blackdragon6]

Dude, Punky Power, Brandon, Allan, and that little bitch Cherry :D ain't got nuthin on Amazing Stories. I mean, they had an episode were they arrested Santa......ARRESTED SANTA FREAKIN' CLAUS.

Oh, and I did watch Punky when I was a kid. :)ok we're cool














for now

[GremlinClr]

My favorite episode was 'Gather Ye Acorns' with Mark Hamill.

Y'know thats the only episode I can clearly remember because it made such an impression on me as a child.

I would so buy DVD sets of that show.

[blackdragon6]

Y'know thats the only episode I can clearly remember because it made such an impression on me as a child.

I would so buy DVD sets of that show.
most people would say its the christopher lloyed episode

[billdo75]

A few episodes that stick out in my mind:

Episode 26 - Miscalculation
This high school kid is a dork. He rigged up some chemical that could bring pictures to life. He tried several times with different magazines and what-not. He tried one where it was just a waist up picture and sure enough, the girl he got had nothing below her waist. Brought to life some amazon. Anyways, in the end he gets together with this dorky girl next door, but the last scene shows some of his goop falling on the cover of Fangoria or something like that. Good stuff.

Episode 44 - Moving Day
This kid comes home one night and his parents end up revealing that they're aliens and they have to return to their home planet. He's all upset because he can't tell his girlfriend. Turns out, her family are aliens too and they all meet up on the mothership and live (presumably) happily ever after.

As a side note, I just went to TV Guide's site and searched for Amazing Stories, and Thursday morning, they're going to show 5 episodes (All in US Mountain time) on SciFi:

6:00 AM - Mr. Magic
6:30 AM - No Day at the Beach
7:00 AM - Fine Tuning
7:30 AM - Alamo Jobe
8:00 AM - Hell Toupee

Sweet!!

[blackdragon6]

yeah it needs to be on dvd .well people its coming to dvd :D

[Zanku]

Before I lost Sci Fi, every week day they'd air 13 episodes of a different sci-fi show, some new, some old(which i loved, since they had many shows). I caught amazing stories a couple of times, it was ok.

The most disturbing episode was the one with the evil toupee.

[J. Robb]

I loved "Amazing Stories" when I was a kid. I think the fatal mistake the series made was starting off with one of its least interesting episodes: the Ghost Train one. That seemed to turn viewers off and they never seemed to come back, which is too bad, there were a lot of great episodes.

The 80s "Twilight Zone" was also really well done (loved the original series too), as was a lot of "Tales from the Crypt". Give me those half-hour mini-movies anyday over today's slow-motion storytelling like "Lost".

[EZMOHR]

After tomorrow, the only DVD I truly can't wait for is the second volume of Twin Peaks. That needs to come out NOW.

[Haunt]

My absolute favorite is the Christopher Lloyd one, "Go to the Head of the Class". This is the one where two kids do a spell on their sadistic teacher, and he loses his head, but not his tormenting ways.


this was the first one i saw and my favorite.

I loved "Amazing Stories" when I was a kid. I think the fatal mistake the series made was starting off with one of its least interesting episodes: the Ghost Train one. That seemed to turn viewers off and they never seemed to come back, which is too bad, there were a lot of great episodes.

The 80s "Twilight Zone" was also really well done (loved the original series too), as was a lot of "Tales from the Crypt". Give me those half-hour mini-movies anyday over today's slow-motion storytelling like "Lost".


all of the 80's Twilight Zone is on dvd now. i know because i just go finished watching an episode with Morgan Freeman, Garrett Morris, and Dan Hedaya (as the Devil) in it. not as good as the original Twilight Zone but entertaining, nonetheless.

hey you EZMOHR bastard punky brewster ruled!!!!!!!!!!!! :evilangry


what was up with that effed up cartoon, though? they had a magic friend who sounded like Slimer.

[EZMOHR]

Dude, wasn't his name like Glomer or some shit like that.

[J. Robb]

Dude, wasn't his name like Glomer or some shit like that.
Yeah, those old cartoons always needed some annoying little sidekick, either a talking animal or space creature or whatever, always with an annoying voice. Frank Welker made a killing. :p