Amazing Stories was a
television program from the
1980s. The
executive producer was
Steven Spielberg. Each
episode had a different story that had a
fantasy/
fiction/
horror edge to it.
One of the episodes of Amazing Stories was one where a
WWII bomber goes out on a
mission. After the mission is done, the
plane flies back home,
crippled. The plane isn't able to lower the
landing gear and the
belly gunner is stuck in his little dome under the plane. The
captain,
Kevin Costner, has to land on its
belly, thus killing the belly gunner. The belly gunner is an
artist and whips out a
sketchpad. He
draws the plane with its
landing gear down and
concentrates really hard. The plane comes down for a landing and amazingly big
cartoon wheels pop out allowing the plane to land
safely. Those able to catch this episode will find it very
chilling and
tense.
Another episode I remember concerns an
elderly person who doesn't know they are
dead. They keep on walking as some sort of
undead person. They are convinced they need to lay down and die when they
sneeze their
nose off when someone (a loving
grandchild perhaps?) exposes them to
ground black pepper.
One episode of the show has a son who builds a house for his family out in the
country on the site of a train accident. The
ghost train ends up running through the house!
One episode concerns a
meteor shower in a town that causes
metal to stick to a mega-
popular guy and some mega-
geeky girl. It was funny to see
spoons/
cars/
razors!/
etc stick to them or come flying at them. Imagine the popular guy's
horror when he sees the
geek girl bum rushing him, ready to
kiss him with the
idea that they'll be stuck to one another
forever!
There was another episode where some kid was told by an
elf to never let go of his
childhood and stop being a
kid. He ends up in the
desert in some
tent surrounded by his childhood
knick-knacks. He was tired of being a
dirty vagrant bum with a bunch of old
shit and was going to
commit suicide until somebody recognized some of his toys were worth crazy
bling. He sold some
shit to become
mega rich and the elf came back to visit him.
This is the kind of
stuff that needs to be re-released on DVD! I loved Amazing Stories.
The Amazing Stories
periodical appears next to
George McFly in the
movie,
Back to the Future. The scene is when
George McFly is visted by "
Darth Vader" from the planet "
Vulcan".