- Divorced Installment: Both the movie *batteries not included and the game The Dig were originally envisioned as episodes of the show.
- Edited for Syndication: Five "movies" consisting of Amazing Stories episodes edited together were released to local stations in the late '80s.
- Follow the Leader: This article
from Cracked charges that five major films stole their plots from Amazing Stories episodes.list
- Keep Circulating the Tapes: Universal released the first season on DVD in 2006. The second season remains unreleased. Both seasons were available on Netflix for a time, but as of 2015, that is no longer the case.
- Playing Against Type: Both in front of and behind the camera with "Vanessa in the Garden," a period fantasy romance starring Harvey Keitel as a bereaved artist, the only episode to be actually written by Steven Spielberg, and directed by Clint Eastwood (his only dramatic television work as a director to date).
- What Could Have Been: When Intrada released the three complation albums featuring the score of 31 episodes of the show, they originally wanted to include Danny Elfman and Steve Bartek's score for the episode "Family Dog", but the masters couldn't be found.
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