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First Aired: September 29th, 1985
Status: Ended
Network: NBC
Summary: A truly amazing, fantastical, science fiction, funny and odd, and sometimes scary, sad and endearing anthology series presented by Steven Spielberg with guest appearances by many famous actors, actresses, and directors.
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# of Episodes: 45
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Season 2
Episode 1: The Wedding Ring
Air Date: September 22nd, 1986
Summary: A wax museum dresser takes a ring from a statue. The ring transforms his overworked wife into a femme fatale.
Episode 2: Miscalculation
Air Date: September 29th, 1986
Summary: 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.
Episode 3: Magic Saturday
Air Date: October 6th, 1986
Summary: 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.
Episode 4: Welcome to My Nightmare
Air Date: October 13rd, 1986
Summary: 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.
Episode 5: You Gotta Believe Me
Air Date: October 20th, 1986
Summary: Convinced that his vivid nightmare of a Boeing 747 crashing into his house is a horrific premonition, Earl Sweet desperately tries to alter fate.
Episode 6: The Greibble
Air Date: November 3rd, 1986
Summary: A housewife has a very real nightmare. She encounters a large creature that has a taste for inanimate objects.
Episode 7: Life on Death Row
Air Date: November 10th, 1986
Summary: 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.
Episode 8: Go to the Head of the Class
Air Date: November 21st, 1986
Summary: 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.
Episode 9: Thanksgiving
Air Date: November 24th, 1986
Summary: When a dry well yields treasures, a man cashes in, while his stepdaughter repays the kindness of the “hole people.”
Episode 10: The Pumpkin Competition
Air Date: December 1st, 1986
Summary: An old spinster who is tired of losing a pumpkin competition recieves special advice from an agricultural professor.
Episode 11: What If...?
Air Date: December 8th, 1986
Summary: 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.
Episode 12: The Eternal Mind
Air Date: December 29th, 1986
Summary: 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.
Episode 13: Lane Change
Air Date: January 12nd, 1987
Summary: 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.
Episode 14: Blue Man Down
Air Date: January 19th, 1987
Summary: 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.
Episode 15: The 21-Inch Sun
Air Date: February 2nd, 1987
Summary: 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.
Episode 16: Family Dog
Air Date: February 16th, 1987
Summary: 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.
Episode 17: Gershwin's Trunk
Air Date: March 13rd, 1987
Summary: A broadway lyricist seeks inspiration by contacting the spirit of Gershwin through a psychic.
Episode 18: Such Interesting Neighbors
Air Date: March 20th, 1987
Summary: 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.
Episode 19: Without Diana
Air Date: March 27th, 1987
Summary: 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.
Episode 20: Moving Day
Air Date: April 3rd, 1987
Summary: 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.
Episode 21: Miss Stardust
Air Date: April 10th, 1987
Summary: An extraterrestrial threatens to destroy the earth unless the "Miss Stardust" beauty-pageant promoter allows entrants from other planets.
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