# Amazing Stories **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 8, 2004, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazing-stories/249221 "2004-06-08T02:45:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![dnooman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/839c29/32.png) [@dnooman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dnooman)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2004, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazing-stories/249221/1 "2004-06-08T02:45:11Z")
Anyone know when Amazing Stories is coming to DVD or if it is? I seem to be the only person I know that absolutely loved that show. ---
**Author:** ![Freejooky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ba8739/32.png) [@Freejooky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freejooky)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2004, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazing-stories/249221/2 "2004-06-08T04:46:07Z")
I know it was released on VHS in the eighties, but they only put two episodes on a tape, for a total of 8 or so. I’d love for it to come out on DVD. ---
**Author:** ![Arden\_Ranger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b487fb/32.png) [@Arden\_Ranger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arden_Ranger)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2004, 6:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazing-stories/249221/3 "2004-06-08T06:52:09Z")
Ahhh…I loved that show! I think my favorite was the one about the Jamacian babysitter that showed up one day and gave those two little hellions exactly what they wanted. Cowboys & Indians? Okay! ---
**Author:** ![Freejooky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ba8739/32.png) [@Freejooky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freejooky)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2004, 7:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazing-stories/249221/4 "2004-06-08T07:30:08Z")
That’s my favorite episode! What was the name of the voodoo monster that the woman (was she haitan? jamaican?) kept threatening the children with, who showed up in the end? That shit was SCARY! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![bienville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@bienville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bienville)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2004, 10:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazing-stories/249221/5 "2004-06-08T10:40:58Z")
My favorite was the one with Mark Hamill and his jar of pennies! ---
**Author:** ![dnooman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/839c29/32.png) [@dnooman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dnooman)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2004, 8:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazing-stories/249221/6 "2004-06-09T08:12:06Z")
I always liked the one with the jock and the female nerd, that were magnetically attracted because of a meteorite. The flagpole scene was priceless. ---
**Author:** ![bienville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@bienville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bienville)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2004, 10:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazing-stories/249221/7 "2004-06-09T10:45:29Z")
> [@Arden Ranger](#): > > I think my favorite was the one about the Jamacian babysitter that showed up one day and gave those two little hellions exactly what they wanted. [QUOTE=] I always liked the one with the jock and the female nerd, that were magnetically attracted because of a meteorite. [QUOTE] Wow! I haven’t seen these shows in forever, yet these brief descriptions bring the episodes back so vividly to my memory! Keep sharing, folks! ---
**Author:** ![Baldwin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baldwin/32/7264_2.png) [@Baldwin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baldwin)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2004, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazing-stories/249221/8 "2004-06-09T15:59:19Z")
Used to watch that show, week after week, hoping it would somehow become good. Never happened. Spielberg was such a hot property, NBC gave him a dream deal with, if I recall, a two-season commitment and a huge budget. The problem was, Spielberg wanted to use his own half-baked story ideas. Good director, but he can’t write to save his dick. Imagine all the great science fiction short stories they could have adapted, or all the original scripts they could have had real writers do… A real waste. ---
**Author:** ![bauble](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f6c823/32.png) [@bauble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bauble)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2004, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazing-stories/249221/9 "2004-06-09T16:21:50Z")
> [@Freejooky](#): > > That’s my favorite episode! What was the name of the voodoo monster that the woman (was she haitan? jamaican?) kept threatening the children with, who showed up in the end? That shit was SCARY! 🙂 I’m not positive, but if I’m remembering the same episode and scene (and if my memory hasn’t worn out again), I think it was called a “duppy”. ---
**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2004, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazing-stories/249221/10 "2004-06-09T17:51:55Z")
I liked the one with Christopher Lloyd as the psycho English teacher, whose headless body chased two hapless students around. I also liked the one with Rhea Pearlman and Danny De Vito - she was a mousy wife who got ahold of a magic ring that turned her into a “black widow” with tremendous sexual appetite, and he was her husband who was first pleased, and then terrified of her. Good stuff! ---
**Author:** ![GargoyleWB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gargoylewb/32/199_2.png) [@GargoyleWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GargoyleWB)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2004, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazing-stories/249221/11 "2004-06-09T18:13:42Z")
“Ra Aman Ka!” (makes funny finger gesture and runs away…) Also, the Family Dog, “You dumbhead nong-nong!” ---
**Author:** ![Freejooky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ba8739/32.png) [@Freejooky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freejooky)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2004, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazing-stories/249221/12 "2004-06-09T18:47:47Z")
> [@Baldwin](#): > > Used to watch that show, week after week, hoping it would somehow become good. Never happened. > > Spielberg was such a hot property, NBC gave him a dream deal with, if I recall, a two-season commitment and a huge budget. The problem was, Spielberg wanted to use his own half-baked story ideas. Good director, but he can’t write to save his dick. Imagine all the great science fiction short stories they could have adapted, or all the original scripts they could have had real writers do… A real waste. Actually, a lot of it was that, if I’m not mistaken - I know one Stephen King story was made into an episode, and I believe several great sci-fi/pulp stories were adapted into episodes. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2004, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazing-stories/249221/13 "2004-06-09T19:22:56Z")
27 Oct 85 _Mummy, Daddy_ ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2004, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazing-stories/249221/14 "2004-06-09T19:26:00Z")
…was one of my faves