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Seasons

2 1

21. Miss Stardust

April 10, 1987

"Weird Al" Yankovic stars as the Cabbage Man, an alien who threatens to destroy Earth unless the Miss Stardust beauty pageant accepts contestants from other planets.

20. Moving Day

April 3, 1987

Moving away is hard for any kid. But the pain is out of this world for outcast teen Alexander Webster, who learns that his new home is 85 billion miles away.

19. Without Diana

March 27, 1987

With his wife on her deathbed, an aging man reunites with the daughter he lost 40 years earlier. But the little girl hasn't aged a day.

18. Such Interesting Neighbors

March 20, 1987

The Lewise family is suspicious of the new neighbors, the Hellenbecks. They arrived in the middle of the night with no moving van, they don't have a car, and they don't know anything about the 20th century. Are the Hellenbecks... aliens?

17. Gershwin's Trunk

March 13, 1987

A Broadway composer played by Bob Balaban gets some otherworldly inspiration when he enlists a psychic to channel the spirit of George Gershwin.

16. The Family Dog

February 16, 1987

Future animation giant Brad Bird wrote and directed this classic episode about a suburban home as seen from the perspective of the family dog. Voice talents include Annie Potts and Oscar winner Mercedes McCambridge.

15. The 21 Inch Sun

February 2, 1987

Robert Townsend stars as a talented but slow-working TV scribe who is given one day to write a sitcom. Although his creative well has almost run dry, his strange houseplant Lucy is overflowing with juicy ideas.

14. Blue Man Down

January 19, 1987

A cop who blames himself for his partner's death is reassigned to traffic duty. There, he reluctantly accepts a new partner with a mysterious past.

13. Lane Change

January 12, 1987

Driving on a lonely highway, Charlene picks up a stranded older woman who sees strange visions in passing vehicles. Kathy Baker stars as Charlene.

12. The Eternal Mind

December 29, 1986

Jeffrey Jones does a bittersweet turn as a dying scientist and husband who gets a new lease on life when his thoughts are transferred to a computer.

11. What If...?

December 8, 1986

A young boy longs for attention from his self-absorbed parents and wonders what would happen if Mom and Dad didn't come home from one of their many social engagements. His what-if musings soon yield bizarre consequences.

10. The Pumpkin Competition

December 1, 1986

After 18 years of losing a local pumpkin contest to her rival, the miserly Elma is approached by a botanist who claims to have a formula for creating super-size vegetables.

9. Thanksgiving

November 24, 1986

Kyra Sedgwick and David Carradine star as a teenager and her mean stepfather, who get a Thanksgiving surprise in the form of a mysterious gold coin from their dried-up well.

8. Go to the Head of the Class

November 21, 1986

A revenge plot goes awry when two students cast a deadly spell on an overbearing professor played by Christopher Lloyd. Robert Zemeckis directs this hour-long episode, which features eye-popping visuals from special-effects master Stan Winston.

7. Life on Death Row

November 10, 1986

While escaping from death row, inmate Eric David Peterson is struck by lightning and contracts miraculous healing powers. A pre-Dirty Dancing Patrick Swayze stars.

6. The Greibble

November 3, 1986

When a mother cleans her son's room, she throws away a comic book featuring a monster called the Greibble, but it seems the hungry beast will not be discarded so easily. Hayley Mills stars as the mom.

5. You Gotta Believe Me

October 20, 1986

Charles Durning shines as Earl, a man who rushes to the airport in his pajamas after having a plane-crash nightmare he believes to be prophetic.

4. Welcome to My Nightmare

October 13, 1986

It's a Wonderful Life meets Psycho in this tale of a teen horror-film fanatic who wishes his life were like the movies.

3. Magic Saturday

October 6, 1986

A 10-year-old boy uses an ancient Chinese spell to switch bodies with his sick grandfather so the old man can relive his former glories on the baseball field. M. Emmet Walsh gives a touching performance as Grandpa.

2. Miscalculation

September 29, 1986

Jon Cryer stars as a dorky high school student who spills chemicals on a picture of a dog and brings it to life. But this weird science gets much weirder when he tries the same trick on a magazine pinup.

1. The Wedding Ring

September 22, 1986

Danny DeVito directs and stars as Herbert, a wax-museum costumer who steals a ring from a statue and gives it to his mousy wife (DeVito's real-life spouse, Rhea Perlman). But the ring, it seems, has magical transformative powers.

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