Amazing Stories collects some of the most gifted storytellers in the world of television, the predominant instrument for bringing stories into homes around the globe.

Storytellers are the ones who have given us our earliest details of human life — from the great oral tradition of telling stories around the campfire, passed down from one generation to another, to the cave paintings' telling sequential art.

Storytelling is an honest and necessary form of communication, relating everything from the mundane aspects of life throughout the centuries to the imaginings of what can be. Stories can tell eternal truths, subjective truths and devastating lies. They can open worlds.

Fantasy often guides the human heart and instinct as much as any straight drama. It entertains and provokes. Whether Shakespeare, Uncle Remus or Rod Sterling, storytellers reflect their times — and the timelessness of their stories still have impact today, whether in their original form or by their influence on new storytellers, who may or may not know the genesis of their inspiration.

The half-hour dramatic teleplay is almost archaic these days, though television started with this form in the '50s. Shows like The Twilight Zone and Have Gun, Will Travel mastered the form in those years. These compact episodes looked into the hearts and minds of human beings and human relationships, and told vivid, exciting, poignant and above all precise stories within that context. Amazing Stories goes back to that form decades later, a daring decision.

Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese, Robert Zemeckis, Clint Eastwood and many other top talents of the day, both behind and in front of the camera, contributed to this experiment in storytelling — of bringing the campfire tales up into the predominant medium of this day.

CAST:
Ray Walston  - The storyteller
 

DISC 1
Season1
1. Ghost Train
2. The Main Attraction
3. Alamo Jobe
4. Mummy, Daddy
5. The Mission (1 hr)
6. The Amazing Falsworth
7. Fine Tuning

DISC 2
8. Mr. Magic
9. Guilt Trip
10. Remote Control Man
11. Santa '85
12. Vanessa in the Garden
13. The Sitter
14. No Day at the Beach
15. One For the Road

DISC 3
16. Gather Ye Acorns
17. Boo!
18. Dorothy and Ben
19. Mirror, Mirror
20. Secret Cinema
21. Hell Toupee
22. The Doll
23. One For the Books

DISC 4
24. Grandpa's Ghost
Season 2
25. The Wedding Ring
26. Miscalculations
27. Magic Saturday
28. Welcome to My Nightmare
29. You Gotta Believe Me
30. The Greibble
31. Life on Death Row

DISC 5
32. Go to the Head of the Class
33. Thanksgiving
34. The Pumpkin Competition
35. What If...?
36. The Eternal Mind
37. Lane Change
38. Blue Man Down

DISC 6
39. The 21 Inch Sun
40. The Family Dog
41. Gershwin's Trunk
42. Such Interesting Neighbors
43. Without Diana
44. Moving Day
45. Miss Stardust

Complete 1-45; 6 DVD's
Quality = 8 out of 10
Full Screen in English, no subtitles, no commercials.

Price $35.50USD