Talk:Amazing Stories (1985 TV series)

Reasons for lack of commercial success?

The article currently states (with a "citation needed" tag) that the lack of a regular host contributed to its downfall. My own thoughts on this are that the theme and tone of the shows varied too widely to capture a consistent audience. The title sequence shows Spielberg's intent for the show of three generations of a family watching TV together, but while the show over its entire course would please everyone, this would rarely occur within each episode. Watching them again recently on DVD, I was rather struck by the contrast between the noirish, graphically violent "The Amazing Falsworth" about a stage psychic who discovers a serial killer in his audience (one of the best written, acted, and directed eps in the series, btw), and the innocent and childish "Fine Tuning" about aliens liking American TV, which aired the following week. I'm not trying to write a review here, more to set forth a hypothesis: I think if we dug enough we'd find critics discussing this issue of inconsistency, and opining on the inability of parents to know from one week to the next if the kids will be enthralled, bored, or would have to be sent to the next room depending on what the subject matter of the episode was. Thoughts? Anyone see any commentary along these lines? Or is there established commentary on the difficulty of maintaining an anthology television series in general? Postdlf 15:09, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

there's a wikipedia article about the number 23--some folks think it's a mystical number. i heard that the episode "the mission" specifies a bit of fighter-plane lore that no plane has (at least, perhaps, at that time) survived more than 22 combat flights. the fateful mission in that episode was flight #23. can anyone verify and cross link? 23rdians love this sort of stuff. 76.202.249.19 (talk) 17:34, 22 January 2008 (UTC)

i remember this show as a kid, great program

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BetacommandBot (talk) 04:35, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

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There was a couple of Laserdiscs released with selected episodes as well, but I cannot tell you when or what episodes. I think there were two discs, I have one of them. If someone knows more about this, it would be good info to have. I don't want to add information without specifics.

151.148.122.100 (talk) 22:12, 5 March 2008 (UTC)