Storie incredibili
External Rating79%
198530 minTerminata

Amazing Stories

Storie incredibili

Rete:NBC

Episodio Precedente

S02E21 - "Miss Stardust"

Andato in onda il Apr 10, 1987, 4:00 PM

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Storie incredibili (Amazing Stories) è una serie televisiva statunitense di genere fantastico, trasmessa per 2 stagioni dalla NBC, dal 1985 al 1987. Ideata e curata da Steven Spielberg (che diresse anche un paio di episodi, tra cui il primo), la serie è di tipo antologico, in quanto raccoglie episodi a sé stanti (affidati a diversi registi) e senza personaggi fissi, sulla falsariga di serie classiche quali Ai confini della realtà e Alfred Hitchcock presenta di cui cercava di "rinverdire i fasti"[1]. Tuttavia, nonostante le regie affidate a illustri cineasti hollywoodiani (tra cui, oltre a Spielberg, Martin Scorsese e Clint Eastwood) e alla presenza di molti attori famosi, la serie non decollò e chiuse dopo solo due stagioni e 45 episodi. Amazing Stories, la storica rivista di fantascienza che ha ispirato il titolo della serie Candidata nelle due stagioni di programmazione a 12 Emmy Award (molti dei quali "tecnici", come fotografia, trucchi e suono), ne vinse 5, di cui 4 nell'edizione del 1986. Il sesto episodio della serie L'incredibile Falsworth (The Amazing Falsworth, regia di Peter Hyams) fece vincere allo sceneggiatore Mick Garris un Edgar Award come Miglior episodio dell'anno. Nel 2007 è stata nominata ai Saturn Award nella categoria Best Retro Television Series Release on DVD. Il titolo originale della serie, Amazing Stories, è un esplicito omaggio all'omonima e celeberrima rivista di fantascienza americana [2], di cui Spielberg è sempre stato un estimatore fin da bambino. In alcuni paesi, tra cui gli stessi Stati Uniti, il nome di Spielberg (che era all'apice della notorietà dopo i grandi successi di Lo squalo, E.T. e Indiana Jones) venne spesso associato al titolo ufficiale, divenendo "Steven Spielberg Presents Amazing Stories".

Dettagli

Stato
Terminata
Lingua
English
Durata
30 min
Prima TV
September 29, 1985
Terminata
April 10, 1987
Programmazione
Friday alle 0:00

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Episodi (2 Stagioni · 45 Episodi)

L'anello nuziale

When Herbert slips a mysterious ring onto the finger of his beloved wife as an anniversary gift, the weary waitress turns into a seductress. But delight turns to fright when Herbert spots deadly side effects.

Sep 22, 1986

30 min

Miscalculation

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.

Sep 29, 1986

30 min

Magico sabato

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.

Oct 6, 1986

30 min

Welcome to My Nightmare

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.

Oct 13, 1986

30 min

Dovete credermi

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

Oct 20, 1986

30 min

Gribble

Joan Simmons is a harried mom who is alone in the house and thrown for a loop when a giant floppy, furry creature with a huge appetite for inanimate objects appears during a storm and wreaks havoc.

Nov 3, 1986

30 min

Vita nel braccio della morte

A murderer on death row finds himself infused with the incredible power to heal by touch. A desperate race to halt his execution builds to a miraculous climax.

Nov 10, 1986

30 min

Il capo della classe

A teenage horror buff is so smitten with a sexy classmate that he helps her use black magic on their loathsome English teacher, with shocking and bewildering results.

Nov 21, 1986

30 min

Thanksgiving

Greedy mean man finds a bottomless hole on his desert property. He concludes that some kind of beings who trade gold for things live down there. His stepdaughter realizes that "hole people" want food, not objects, but the man won't listen.

Nov 24, 1986

30 min

The Pumpkin Competition

Rich, stingy and miserly Elma Dinnock is livid at losing the Yarborough Country pumpkin-growing contest 22 years in a row, and so gets help from a mysterious botanist for the next competition. Will she finally triumph?

Dec 1, 1986

30 min

What If...?

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.

Dec 8, 1986

30 min

The Eternal Mind

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.

Dec 29, 1986

30 min

Lane Change

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.

Jan 12, 1987

30 min

Un aiuto prezioso

A guilt-ridden police officer, who blames himself for his partner's violent death, is teamed with a young partner who seems invisible to everyone else.

Jan 19, 1987

30 min

Un sole a 21 pollici

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.

Feb 2, 1987

30 min

Qua la zampa Doggie

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.

Feb 16, 1987

30 min

Gershwin's Trunk

Frantic to deliver a hit musical, conniving Broadway composer Jo-Jo Gillespie contacts the spirit of George Gershwin through psychic Sister Teresa, and makes marvelous music from beyond the grave. When some begin to suspect that his new music isn't actually his, Jo-Jo stops at nothing, even murder, to protect his secret and his downfall begins.

Mar 13, 1987

30 min

Such Interesting Neighbors

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.

Mar 20, 1987

30 min

Senza Diana

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.

Mar 27, 1987

30 min

Il giorno di trasloco

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.

Apr 3, 1987

30 min

Miss Stardust

Public-relations man Joe Willoughby thinks that promoting the Miss Stardust beauty pageant will be a snap, until "Cabbage Man," a representative from outer space, arrives and contends he owns the rights to the title and threatens to eliminate Earth unless he gets some satisfaction.

Apr 10, 1987

30 min

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