Hello again! Welcome to the first "real" post for this year's Countdown to Halloween. To start off the event properly, I present an episode of the 1980s fantasy anthology series Amazing Stories.
Amazing Stories, executive produced by Steven Spielberg, was a series on NBC that presented a different story of the fantastic every week: some scary, some sweet, all featuring a story of the supernatural, otherworldly, or scientific.
In this episode, "Mummy, Daddy," a horror movie actor, in full costume as a mummy for his latest movie, is trying to find his way to the birth of his new baby. However, a real mummy coincidentally makes his moves on the town the same night as the actor is on the way to his baby's birth. Confusion and hilarity ensue.
I was a fan of this series during its run, and this episode, which first aired October 27, 1985, is one of my favorites. Thanks to Twitter/X user Retro Art Blog for reminding me of this.
Enjoy!
5 comments:
I loved Amazing Stories and this episode was also one of my favorites. I loved when the townspeople were chasing him he yells through his bandages "Bunch of rednecks!" and of course Tracey Walter's line, "The mummy's a daddy..."
Tom: It's defintely one of the series' best and most memorable!
For me, AMAZING STORIES was most notable for helping keep AMAZING SCIENCE FICTION magazine alive for another decade, as Spielberg bought rights to the original title of the magazine and (IIRC) some option on any fiction in its back issues (not complete, by any means, even though during the Ziff-Davis ownership of the magazine, 1938-1965, they did buy all literary rights to the fiction they took)...Ursula K. Le Guin's THE LATHE OF HEAVEN, for a not quite random example, had been published in AMAZING later on (in two parts in 1971), and the PBS telefilm predated Spielberg's series by a few years.
TSR, the game company, had bought AMAZING by time Spielberg & co. made the deal.
AFAIK, the NBC series never adapted any fiction from AMAZING the magazine.
Thanks Todd! It's fascinating the deals that take place to make things happen.
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