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 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.47.16.42 (talk) 00:17, 23 May 2011 (UTC)

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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)

Reception section

@AaronY: While I agree with you that without a source expressly saying so, the claim that "most" reviews were positive is not verified, you then proceeded to remove the ones that were not, as with this edit, when obviously those were originally included to show that not all reviews were positive and those citations were only out of place after you yourself changed the text. Negative reviews obviously should be referenced in this article as well, so please preserve those references but with appropriate prose. postdlf (talk) 17:34, 23 January 2014 (UTC)

Orphaned references in Amazing Stories (TV series)

I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of Amazing Stories (TV series)'s orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.

Reference named "emmys":

• From Christopher Lloyd: "Emmys > Christopher Lloyd: Awards & Nominations". Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. Retrieved 2014-01-31.
• From Netflix: "Arrested Development". Emmys.com. Retrieved July 18, 2013.

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Orphaned references in Amazing Stories (1985 TV series)

I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of Amazing Stories (1985 TV series)'s orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.

Reference named "PBS":

• From Jeff Jarvis: "Interviews: Jeff Jarvis". Frontline. pbs.org. Nov 30, 2006. Retrieved 17 March 2013.
• From Jon Cryer: Hetrick, Adam (July 11, 2012). "Company Concert, With Neil Patrick Harris and Patti LuPone, to Be Released on DVD This Fall". Playbill.com. Retrieved November 8, 2020.

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