

Amazing Stories
1985–1987 · NBC · 30 min · 2 seasons
S02E21 · Miss Stardust
Sat, 11 Apr, 2:00 am
Public-relations man Joe Willoughby thinks that promoting the Miss Stardust beauty pageant will be a snap, until "Cabbage Man," a representative from outer space, arrives and contends he owns the rights to the title and threatens to eliminate Earth unless he gets some satisfaction.
About
As one experience ends, another adventure begins… in the extraordinary worlds of Amazing Stories! From acclaimed director-producer Steven Spielberg and Amblin Entertainment comes the Emmy Award-winning TV series. Join a roster of cinema's most illustrious stars, including Kiefer Sutherland, Charlie Sheen, Tim Robbins, John Lithgow, Kevin Costner and more, as well as some of Hollywood's greatest directorial talents. Relive all the mesmerizing magic, mystery and suspense in these unique episodes from some of filmmaking's finest storytellers!
Episodes
- E01
The Wedding Ring
Tue, 23 Sept· 30 minWhen Herbert slips a mysterious ring onto the finger of his beloved wife as an anniversary gift, the weary waitress turns into a seductress. But delight turns to fright when Herbert spots deadly side effects.
- E02
Miscalculation
Tue, 30 Sept· 30 minNerdy 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.
- E03
Magic Saturday
Tue, 7 Oct· 30 minMarky 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.
- E04
Welcome to My Nightmare
Tue, 14 Oct· 30 minHorror 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.
- E05
You Gotta Believe Me
Tue, 21 Oct· 30 minConvinced that his vivid nightmare of a Boeing 747 crashing into his house is a horrific premonition, Earl Sweet desperately tries to alter fate.
- E06
The Greibble
Tue, 4 Nov· 30 minJoan Simmons is a harried mom who is alone in the house and thrown for a loop when a giant floppy, furry creature with a huge appetite for inanimate objects appears during a storm and wreaks havoc.
- E07
Life on Death Row
Tue, 11 Nov· 30 minA murderer on death row finds himself infused with the incredible power to heal by touch. A desperate race to halt his execution builds to a miraculous climax.
- E08
Go to the Head of the Class
Sat, 22 Nov· 30 minA teenage horror buff is so smitten with a sexy classmate that he helps her use black magic on their loathsome English teacher, with shocking and bewildering results.
- E09
Thanksgiving
Tue, 25 Nov· 30 minGreedy mean man finds a bottomless hole on his desert property. He concludes that some kind of beings who trade gold for things live down there. His stepdaughter realizes that "hole people" want food, not objects, but the man won't listen.
- E10
The Pumpkin Competition
Tue, 2 Dec· 30 minRich, stingy and miserly Elma Dinnock is livid at losing the Yarborough Country pumpkin-growing contest 22 years in a row, and so gets help from a mysterious botanist for the next competition. Will she finally triumph?
- E11
What If...?
Tue, 9 Dec· 30 minIgnored 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.
- E12
The Eternal Mind
Tue, 30 Dec· 30 minApplying experiments with chimps to himself, a dying scientist transfers his mind into a computer. But his unique survival after physical death brings unexpected heartaches.
- E13
Lane Change
Tue, 13 Jan· 30 minOne 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.
- E14
Blue Man Down
Tue, 20 Jan· 30 minA guilt-ridden police officer, who blames himself for his partner's violent death, is teamed with a young partner who seems invisible to everyone else.
- E15
The 21 Inch Sun
Tue, 3 Feb· 30 minA 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.
- E16
The Family Dog
Tue, 17 Feb· 30 minThe 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.
- E17
Gershwin's Trunk
Sat, 14 Mar· 30 minFrantic to deliver a hit musical, conniving Broadway composer Jo-Jo Gillespie contacts the spirit of George Gershwin through psychic Sister Teresa, and makes marvelous music from beyond the grave. When some begin to suspect that his new music isn't actually his, Jo-Jo stops at nothing, even murder, to protect his secret and his downfall begins.
- E18
Such Interesting Neighbors
Sat, 21 Mar· 30 minRattlesnakes, 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.
- E19
Without Diana
Sat, 28 Mar· 30 minAn 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.
- E20
Moving Day
Sat, 4 Apr· 30 minWhen 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.
- E21
Miss Stardust
Sat, 11 Apr· 30 minPublic-relations man Joe Willoughby thinks that promoting the Miss Stardust beauty pageant will be a snap, until "Cabbage Man," a representative from outer space, arrives and contends he owns the rights to the title and threatens to eliminate Earth unless he gets some satisfaction.
Cast

Ray Walston
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