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Season 2
21 episodes · 22nd September 1986
The second season of this anthology series continues unique tales of fun, adventure and excitement!
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Episodes
01
The Wedding Ring
Episode 122nd September 1986
A wax museum dresser takes a ring from a statue. The ring transforms his overworked wife into a femme fatale.
02
Miscalculation
Episode 229th September 1986
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.
03
Magic Saturday
Episode 36th October 1986
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.
04
Welcome to My Nightmare
Episode 413th October 1986
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.
05
You Gotta Believe Me
Episode 520th October 1986
Convinced that his vivid nightmare of a Boeing 747 crashing into his house is a horrific premonition, Earl Sweet desperately tries to alter fate.
06
The Greibble
Episode 63rd November 1986
A housewife has a very real nightmare. She encounters a large creature that has a taste for inanimate objects.
07
Life on Death Row
Episode 710th November 1986
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.
08
Go to the Head of the Class
Episode 821st November 1986
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.
09
Thanksgiving
Episode 924th November 1986
When a dry well yields treasures, a man cashes in, while his stepdaughter repays the kindness of the “hole people.”
10
The Pumpkin Competition
Episode 101st December 1986
An old spinster who is tired of losing a pumpkin competition recieves special advice from an agricultural professor.
11
What If...?
Episode 118th December 1986
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.
12
The Eternal Mind
Episode 1229th December 1986
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.
13
Lane Change
Episode 1312th January 1987
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.
14
Blue Man Down
Episode 1419th January 1987
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.
15
The 21-Inch Sun
Episode 152nd February 1987
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.
16
Family Dog
Episode 1616th February 1987
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.
17
Gershwin's Trunk
Episode 1713th March 1987
A broadway lyricist seeks inspiration by contacting the spirit of Gershwin through a psychic.
18
Such Interesting Neighbors
Episode 1820th March 1987
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.
19
Without Diana
Episode 1927th March 1987
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.
20
Moving Day
Episode 203rd April 1987
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.
21
Miss Stardust
Episode 2110th April 1987
An extraterrestrial threatens to destroy the earth unless the "Miss Stardust" beauty-pageant promoter allows entrants from other planets.
The Wedding Ring
Episode 122nd September 1986
A wax museum dresser takes a ring from a statue. The ring transforms his overworked wife into a femme fatale.
02
Miscalculation
Episode 229th September 1986
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.
03
Magic Saturday
Episode 36th October 1986
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.
04
Welcome to My Nightmare
Episode 413th October 1986
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.
05
You Gotta Believe Me
Episode 520th October 1986
Convinced that his vivid nightmare of a Boeing 747 crashing into his house is a horrific premonition, Earl Sweet desperately tries to alter fate.
06
The Greibble
Episode 63rd November 1986
A housewife has a very real nightmare. She encounters a large creature that has a taste for inanimate objects.
07
Life on Death Row
Episode 710th November 1986
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.
08
Go to the Head of the Class
Episode 821st November 1986
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.
09
Thanksgiving
Episode 924th November 1986
When a dry well yields treasures, a man cashes in, while his stepdaughter repays the kindness of the “hole people.”
10
The Pumpkin Competition
Episode 101st December 1986
An old spinster who is tired of losing a pumpkin competition recieves special advice from an agricultural professor.
11
What If...?
Episode 118th December 1986
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.
12
The Eternal Mind
Episode 1229th December 1986
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.
13
Lane Change
Episode 1312th January 1987
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.
14
Blue Man Down
Episode 1419th January 1987
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.
15
The 21-Inch Sun
Episode 152nd February 1987
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.
16
Family Dog
Episode 1616th February 1987
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.
17
Gershwin's Trunk
Episode 1713th March 1987
A broadway lyricist seeks inspiration by contacting the spirit of Gershwin through a psychic.
18
Such Interesting Neighbors
Episode 1820th March 1987
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.
19
Without Diana
Episode 1927th March 1987
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.
20
Moving Day
Episode 203rd April 1987
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.
21
Miss Stardust
Episode 2110th April 1987
An extraterrestrial threatens to destroy the earth unless the "Miss Stardust" beauty-pageant promoter allows entrants from other planets.
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