• Network: NBC
  • Series Premiere Date: Sep 29, 1985
Season #: 2, 1
Metascore
56

Mixed or average reviews - based on 5 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1 out of 5
  2. Negative: 0 out of 5
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  1. San Diego Union-Tribune
    Reviewed by: Robert P. Laurence
    Jan 21, 2020
    90
    "Ghost Train" was an auspicious start...Spielberg has been working with movies of two or three hours length for a long time, but he can still tell a powerful story in the 25-or-less minutes allowed in a half-hour of commercial television. [30 Sept 1985, p.C-7]
  2. Reviewed by: Richard Zoglin
    Jul 2, 2013
    60
    Too many episodes have strained for comic-book laughs revolving around TV in-jokes.... Yet even the worst shows have had moments of wit and a let's-try-anything charm.
  3. Chicago Tribune
    Reviewed by: Steve Daley
    Jan 21, 2020
    50
    Amazing Stories was a long foul ball. We're talking the gestation period of an elephant here, and the birth of a dormouse. [3 Oct 1985, p.C-11]
  4. Washington Post
    Reviewed by: Tom Shales
    Jan 21, 2020
    50
    The great thing about anthologies is that this week's letdown may give way to next week's revelation. Spielberg has many stories yet to tell. We sit here hopeful and eager and rooting for Spielberg to make good on his promise. He has, to paraphrase Noel Coward, a talent to amaze; perhaps it will be more merrily exercised in weeks to come. [30 Sept 1985, p.C1]
  5. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Howard Rosenberg
    Jan 21, 2020
    40
    Not so amazing...All that waiting and wondering about the premiere of Steven Spielberg's "Amazing Stories" came to an end Sunday. Now there will be waiting and wondering anew -- to see if it will get better. [2 Oct 1985, p.6-1]