Home Video and Rebroadcasts
A selection of the original series episodes were released in the VHS format in 1993; these were titled "Book One" through "Book Five" in the US. In Japan and Europe episodes were cut together as movies and released in 8 volumes during the late 80s, early 90s. A 3-tape VHS (PAL) set was released in the UK in 2001.
Europe/Japan VHS series
- Amazing Stories: The Movie (1987)
- Amazing Stories II (1987)
- Amazing Stories III (1988)
- Amazing Stories IV (1988)
- Amazing Stories V (1989)
- Amazing Stories VI (1989)
- Amazing Stories VII (1990)
- Amazing Stories VIII (1990)
US VHS series
- Amazing Stories: Book One (1993)
- Amazing Stories: Book Two (1993)
- Amazing Stories: Book Three (1993)
- Amazing Stories: Book Four (1993)
- Amazing Stories: Book Five (1993)
The Complete First Season (DVD) was released on July 18, 2006 in the US. The second season of the series has not been released on DVD in the US as of yet, but is available in Japan (Region 2, NTSC) and was released there on July, 8th 2009. The full series was also released on DVD in Germany (Region 2, PAL) with both English and German dubbed audio as 11 single DVDs or a boxset containing all episodes, which was released on November 20, 2009.
Three of the episodes ("The Mission", "Mummy Daddy" and "Go to the Head of the Class") were packaged together as an anthology film and released theatrically in several European countries such as Spain, France (July 10, 1986) or Finland (June 26, 1987), and also in Australia on September 17, 1987. It later appeared on LaserDisc in Japan as Amazing Stories: The Movie shortly afterwards.
As of 2006, the SciFi channel in the United States showed episodes on an irregular schedule. The MoviePlex channel also shows the series as a collection of "movies," which are blocks of three episodes.
Both the first and second season are available on Netflix.
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