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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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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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Episode 1
A wax museum dresser takes a ring from a statue. The ring transforms his overworked wife into a femme fatale.
Directed by Danny DeVitoWritten by Stu KriegerGuest stars Danny DeVito, Rhea Perlman, Fred Scialla, Tracey Walter, Louis Giambalvo, Bernadette Birkett, David Byrd
Episode 2
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.
Directed by Tom HollandWritten by Michael McDowellGuest stars Jon Cryer, JoAnn Willette, J.J. Cohen, Catherine Gilmour, Rebecca Schaeffer, Galyn Görg, Lana Clarkson, Penelope Sudrow
Episode 3
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.
Directed by Robert MarkowitzWritten by Richard Christian MathesonGuest stars Taliesin Jaffe, M. Emmet Walsh, Jeff Cohen, Caren Kaye, David L. Crowley, David Arnott
Episode 4
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.
Directed by Todd HollandWritten by Todd HollandGuest stars Christina Applegate, David Hollander, Robyn Lively, Parker Jacobs, Sharon Spelman, Robert L. Gibson, Steve Antin, Cheryl McWilliams
Episode 5
Convinced that his vivid nightmare of a Boeing 747 crashing into his house is a horrific premonition, Earl Sweet desperately tries to alter fate.
Directed by Kevin ReynoldsWritten by Stu KriegerGuest stars Charles Durning, Mary Betten, Tim Russ, Jennie Sadler, Wil Shriner, Eve Smith, Joel Lawrence, Cassandra Gava
Episode 6
A housewife has a very real nightmare. She encounters a large creature that has a taste for inanimate objects.
Directed by Joe DanteWritten by Mick GarrisGuest stars Hayley Mills, Don McLeod, Frank Welker, Dick Miller, Justin Mooney, Jim Jansen
Episode 7
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.
Directed by Mick GarrisWritten by Rockne S. O'BannonGuest stars Patrick Swayze, Héctor Elizondo, Kevin Hagen, Arnold Johnson, Roberto Contreras, Paul Eiding, James T. Callahan, Jed Mills
Episode 8
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.
Directed by Robert ZemeckisWritten by Mick Garris, Tom McLoughlin, Bob GaleGuest stars Scott Coffey, Mary Stuart Masterson, Christopher Lloyd, Tom Bresnahan, Billy Beck
Episode 9
When a dry well yields treasures, a man cashes in, while his stepdaughter repays the kindness of the “hole people.”
Directed by Todd HollandWritten by Pierre R. DebsGuest stars Kyra Sedgwick, David Carradine
Episode 10
An old spinster who is tired of losing a pumpkin competition recieves special advice from an agricultural professor.
Directed by Norman ReynoldsWritten by Peter Z. OrtonGuest stars June Lockhart, Polly Holliday, J.A. Preston, Joshua Rudoy, Ann Walker, Britt Leach, Ritch Brinkley
Episode 11
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.
Directed by Joan DarlingWritten by Anne SpielbergGuest stars Jake Hart, Clare Kirkconnell, Tom McConnell, Ric Cane, Sherry Landrum, Laurel Green, Ann Bell, Michael Horse
Episode 12
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.
Directed by J. Michael RivaWritten by Gary Stephens, Julie MoskowitzGuest stars Katherine Borowitz, Jeffrey Jones, Gregory Wagrowski, Robert Axelrod, Aaron Seville, Paul Tauger
Episode 13
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.
Directed by Ken KwapisWritten by Ali Marie MathesonGuest stars Priscilla Pointer, Kathy Baker, Misty Forrest, Cletus Young
Episode 14
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.
Directed by Paul Michael GlaserWritten by Jacob EpsteinGuest stars Kate McNeil, Max Gail, Chris Nash, Eddie Zammit, Michael Villella, Frank Doubleday, Jay Ingram, Mark Erickson
Episode 15
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.
Directed by Nick CastleWritten by Bruce KirschbaumGuest stars Robert Townsend, Michael Lerner, Robert Starr, Bridget Sienna, Alan Solomon, Richard Chudnow, Jeremy Iacone, Alec Murdock
Episode 16
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.
Directed by Brad BirdWritten by Brad BirdGuest stars Brooke Ashley, Mercedes McCambridge, Annie Potts, Stan Freberg, Scott Menville, Brad Bird, Marshall Efron, Stanley Ralph Ross
Episode 17
A broadway lyricist seeks inspiration by contacting the spirit of Gershwin through a psychic.
Directed by Paul BartelWritten by Paul Bartel, John MeyerGuest stars Paul Bartel, Bob Balaban, Carrie Fisher, Lainie Kazan, John McCook, Hurd Hatfield, Dan Ponce, Irene Olga López
Episode 18
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.
Directed by Graham BakerWritten by Mick Garris, Tom McLoughlinGuest stars Adam Ant, Marcia Strassman, Ryan McWhorter, Frederick Coffin, Ina Fried, Victoria Catlin
Episode 19
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.
Directed by Lesli Linka GlatterWritten by Mick GarrisGuest stars Billy Green Bush, Dianne Hull, Gennie James, Rick Andosca, Fredric Cook
Episode 20
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.
Directed by Robert StevensWritten by Frank KerrGuest stars Dennis Lipscomb, Stephen Geoffreys, Mary Ellen Trainor, Kristen Vigard
Episode 21
An extraterrestrial threatens to destroy the earth unless the "Miss Stardust" beauty-pageant promoter allows entrants from other planets.
Directed by Tobe HooperWritten by Richard Christian Matheson, Tom SzollosiGuest stars 'Weird Al' Yankovic, Dick Shawn, Jim Siedow, Angel Tompkins, Gabe Cohen, Robert Kim, Wade Mayer, Libby Aubrey
Episode information updated Sep 18, 2026
Douglas SealeMike Malloy
Gary RileyJimmy
Charles DurningAssistant to the Boss
Brad BirdScientist #2
J.J. CohenJake
Joshua RudoyBilly
Larry SpinakArnold Skamp
Dana GladstoneGeorge Gershwin
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