Amazing Stories

Season 1 Episode 23: One for the Books

2 Seasons May 11, 1986 TV-PG 25m 6.4

An elderly college janitor amazes himself, his wife and the scientific community when his brain turns into a sponge that soaks up more and more incredible knowledge of every subject taught at the school - until a shocking event changes...

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Season 1 Episodes:

Episode 1 Ghost Train

1. Ghost Train

Aired: Sep 29, 1985

Opa Globe is convinced it is his destiny to board a train he inadvertently ca...

Episode 2 The Main Attraction

2. The Main Attraction

Aired: Oct 6, 1985

Athletic teenage hunk Brad Bender thinks he is too cool for nerdy classmate S...

Episode 3 Alamo Jobe

3. Alamo Jobe

Aired: Oct 20, 1985

During the Battle of the Alamo on March 6, 1836, 15-year-old messenger Jobe H...

Episode 4 Mummy Daddy

4. Mummy Daddy

Aired: Oct 27, 1985

A dedicated actor in a realistic mummy costume that he can't take off is shoo...

Episode 5 The Mission

5. The Mission

Aired: Nov 2, 1985

A courageous young World War II gunner and aspiring cartoonist, trapped in th...

Episode 6 The Amazing Falsworth

6. The Amazing Falsworth

Aired: Nov 4, 1985

A nightclub audience gasps at The Amazing Falsworth's psychic powers, but the...

Episode 7 Fine Tuning

7. Fine Tuning

Aired: Nov 9, 1985

Three high-school kids build an antenna that can catch signals from outer spa...

Episode 8 Mr. Magic

8. Mr. Magic

Aired: Nov 16, 1985

Old-timer Lou Bundles, once a world-famous magician, is now fumbling every tr...

Episode 9 Guilt Trip

9. Guilt Trip

Aired: Nov 30, 1985

Overworked and exhausted, the emotion Guilt in human personification takes a ...

Episode 10 Remote Control Man

10. Remote Control Man

Aired: Dec 7, 1985

A meek, unhappy and frustrated husband with a nagging wife and incorrigible s...

Episode 11 Santa '85

11. Santa '85

Aired: Dec 14, 1985

Kris Kringle's Christmas is rudely interrupted when he lands in the clink wit...

Episode 13 The Sitter

13. The Sitter

Aired: Jan 4, 1986

A Jamaican babysitter uses voodoo to tame a pair of mischievous, stir-crazy b...

Episode 14 No Day at the Beach

14. No Day at the Beach

Aired: Jan 11, 1986

Scorned by his troop of poker-playing teen-aged soldiers, Arnold Skamp become...

Episode 15 One for the Road

15. One for the Road

Aired: Jan 18, 1986

In 1934, a couple of South Bronx barflies try to kill drunk Mike Malloy for h...

Episode 16 Gather Ye Acorns

16. Gather Ye Acorns

Aired: Feb 1, 1986

Jonathan Quick, the bane of his practical parents' existence, takes an ancien...

Episode 17 Boo!

17. Boo!

Aired: Feb 15, 1986

Sweet, old-fashioned ghosts Nelson and Evelyn Chumsky are aghast when a porn ...

Episode 18 Dorothy and Ben

18. Dorothy and Ben

Aired: Mar 1, 1986

It is shocking enough when old Ben Dumfy emerges like Rip Van Winkle from a 4...

Episode 19 Mirror, Mirror

19. Mirror, Mirror

Aired: Mar 8, 1986

While guesting on a talk show, horror novelist Jordan Manmouth claims he is i...

Episode 20 Secret Cinema

20. Secret Cinema

Aired: Apr 5, 1986

Young everyday woman Jane becomes convinced that someone is recording and inf...

Episode 21 Hell Toupee

21. Hell Toupee

Aired: Apr 12, 1986

Defense attorney Harry Ballentine is understandably nervous when his client i...

Episode 22 The Doll

22. The Doll

Aired: May 4, 1986

The lonely, loveless life of a shy bachelor takes an astounding turn when he ...

Episode 23 One for the Books

23. One for the Books

Aired: May 11, 1986

An elderly college janitor amazes himself, his wife and the scientific commun...

Episode 24 Grandpa's Ghost

24. Grandpa's Ghost

Aired: May 25, 1986

Edwin's grandpa died in his sleep last night. So why is the old man still han...

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Info about Amazing Stories

Current Status: Ended

Network: NBC

Production Country: United States

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Adventure, Thriller, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Fantasy

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