Monday, February 3, 2014

BUCKET LIST UPDATE No. 119: Watch every episode of 'Amazing Stories'

When I was a kid, one of my favorite TV shows was NBC’s “Amazing Stories.” The show, which was sort of like a modern day “Twilight Zone,” featured mostly 30-minute fantasy, horror and science fiction stories. It premiered in 1985 and went off the air in 1987 after 45 episodes.


As much as I liked this show, I was around nine or 10 years old when it first started coming on, I couldn’t honestly say that I’d seen every episode. For that reason, I added “Watch every episode of ‘Amazing Stories’” to my bucket list a couple of years ago. Thanks to NetFlix, I recently finished watching all 45 episodes during the past week.

The series was created and spearheaded by Hollywood legend Steven Spielberg. Other directors working on the series included Michael D. Moore, Burt Reynolds, Clint Eastwood, Martin Scorsese, Timothy Hutton, Danny DeVito and Robert Zemeckis. 

A number of great actors also appeared on “Amazing Stories,” including Paul Bartel, Sid Caesar, Kevin Costner, Dom DeLuise, Gregory Hines, Harvey Keitel, Matthew Labyorteaux, David Carradine, James Cromwell, Mark Hamill, John Lithgow, Christopher Lloyd, Rhea Perlman, Charlie Sheen, Patrick Swayze, Sam Waterston, Loni Anderson, Bronson Pinchot, Danny Devito, Seth Green, David Rappaport, Beau Bridges, Kiefer Sutherland, Dick Cavett, Milton Berle, Tim Robbins, Christina Applegate, Charles Nelson Reilly, “Weird Al” Yankovic, Forest Whitaker, Gary Coleman, Ed McMahon, Richard Simmons, Carrie Fisher – the list goes on and on.

It’s hard to pick a favorite episode, but I remembered a number of them from when I was a kid, including “Alamo Jobe,” “The Mission,” “Mummy Daddy,” “Thanksgiving,” “The Pumpkin Competition” and “Go to the Head of the Class.” If I absolutely had to pick a favorite, it would be “Go to the Head of the Class.” If you have NetFlix and are interested in watch all 45 “Amazing Stories” episodes for yourself, what follows is a complete checklist of every episode.

SEASON ONE:
1. Ghost Train
2. The Main Attraction
3. Alamo Jobe
4. Mummy Daddy
5. The Mission
6. The Amazing Falsworth
7. Fine Tuning
8. Mr. Magic
9. Guilt Trip
10. Remote Control Man
11. Santa ‘85
12. Vanessa in the Garden
13. The Sitter
14. No Day at the Beach
15. One for the Road
16. Gather Ye Acorns
17. Boo!
18. Dorothy and Ben
19. Mirror, Mirror
20. Secret Cinema
21. Hell Toupee
22. The Doll
23. One for the Books
24. Grandpa’s Ghost

SEASON TWO:
1. The Wedding Ring
2. Miscalculation
3. Magic Saturday
4. Welcome to My Nightmare
5. You Gotta Believe Me
6. The Greibble
7. Life on Death Row
8. Go to the Head of the Class
9. Thanksgiving
10. The Pumpkin Competition
11. What If…?
12. The Eternal Mind
13. Lane Change
14. Blue Man Down
15. The 21 Inch Sun
16. The Family Dog
17. Gershwin’s Trunk
18. Such Interesting Neighbors
19. Without Diana
20. Moving Day
21. Miss Stardust


In the end, how many of you remember “Amazing Stories”? How many of you liked the series? What did you think about it? Which was your favorite episode? Let us know in the comments section below.

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