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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- Seasons
- 2
- Episodes aired
- 45
- Latest aired
- S02E21
- Total runtime
- 19h
Timeline when each season aired
- Season 1 September 1985 – May 1986 24 episodes
- Season 2 September 1986 – April 1987 21 episodes
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S02E01 The Wedding Ring
September 22 · 24min find the promo
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A wax museum dresser takes a ring from a statue. The ring transforms his overworked wife into a femme fatale.
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S02E02 Miscalculation
September 29 · 22min find the promo
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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.
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S02E03 Magic Saturday
October 6 · 24min find the promo
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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.
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S02E04 Welcome to My Nightmare
October 13 · 23min find the promo
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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.
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S02E05 You Gotta Believe Me
October 20 · 24min find the promo
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Convinced that his vivid nightmare of a Boeing 747 crashing into his house is a horrific premonition, Earl Sweet desperately tries to alter fate.
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S02E06 The Greibble
November 3 · 24min find the promo
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A housewife has a very real nightmare. She encounters a large creature that has a taste for inanimate objects.
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S02E07 Life on Death Row
November 10 · 24min find the promo
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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.
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S02E08 Go to the Head of the Class
November 21 · 45min find the promo
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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.
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S02E09 Thanksgiving
November 24 · 24min find the promo
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When a dry well yields treasures, a man cashes in, while his stepdaughter repays the kindness of the “hole people.”
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S02E10 The Pumpkin Competition
December 1 · 23min find the promo
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An old spinster who is tired of losing a pumpkin competition recieves special advice from an agricultural professor.
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S02E11 What If...?
December 8 · 22min find the promo
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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.
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S02E12 The Eternal Mind
December 29 · 25min find the promo
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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.
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S02E13 Lane Change
January 12 · 24min find the promo
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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.
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S02E14 Blue Man Down
January 19 · 24min find the promo
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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.
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S02E15 The 21-Inch Sun
February 2 · 23min find the promo
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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.
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S02E16 Family Dog
February 16 · 24min find the promo
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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.
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S02E17 Gershwin's Trunk
March 13 · 24min find the promo
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A broadway lyricist seeks inspiration by contacting the spirit of Gershwin through a psychic.
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S02E18 Such Interesting Neighbors
March 20 · 24min find the promo
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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.
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S02E19 Without Diana
March 27 · 23min find the promo
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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.
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S02E20 Moving Day
April 3 · 24min find the promo
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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.
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S02E21 Miss Stardust
April 10 · 24min find the promo
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An extraterrestrial threatens to destroy the earth unless the "Miss Stardust" beauty-pageant promoter allows entrants from other planets.