24 min • Sep 22, 1986 (40 years ago)

A wax museum dresser takes a ring from a statue. The ring transforms his overworked wife into a femme fatale.

22 min • Sep 29, 1986 (40 years ago)

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.

24 min • Oct 6, 1986 (40 years ago)

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.

23 min • Oct 13, 1986 (40 years ago)

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.

24 min • Oct 20, 1986 (40 years ago)

Convinced that his vivid nightmare of a Boeing 747 crashing into his house is a horrific premonition, Earl Sweet desperately tries to alter fate.

24 min • Nov 3, 1986 (39 years ago)

A housewife has a very real nightmare. She encounters a large creature that has a taste for inanimate objects.

24 min • Nov 10, 1986 (39 years ago)

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.

45 min • Nov 21, 1986 (39 years ago)

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.

24 min • Nov 24, 1986 (39 years ago)

When a dry well yields treasures, a man cashes in, while his stepdaughter repays the kindness of the “hole people.”

23 min • Dec 1, 1986 (39 years ago)

An old spinster who is tired of losing a pumpkin competition recieves special advice from an agricultural professor.

22 min • Dec 8, 1986 (39 years ago)

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.

25 min • Dec 29, 1986 (39 years ago)

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.

24 min • Jan 12, 1987 (39 years ago)

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.

24 min • Jan 19, 1987 (39 years ago)

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.

23 min • Feb 2, 1987 (39 years ago)

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.

24 min • Feb 16, 1987 (39 years ago)

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.

24 min • Mar 13, 1987 (39 years ago)

A broadway lyricist seeks inspiration by contacting the spirit of Gershwin through a psychic.

24 min • Mar 20, 1987 (39 years ago)

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.

23 min • Mar 27, 1987 (39 years ago)

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.

24 min • Apr 3, 1987 (39 years ago)

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.

24 min • Apr 10, 1987 (39 years ago)

An extraterrestrial threatens to destroy the earth unless the "Miss Stardust" beauty-pageant promoter allows entrants from other planets.