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AMAZING STORIES - Fine Tuning

Air Date/Released Sunday, November 10, 1985
Station/Studio NBC / Amblin Entertainment

Steven Spielberg's light-hearted anthology series, focusing on tales of fantasy, imagination, and science fiction.

A high school student's science project to build a long-range radio receiver tunes in signals from another planet. Aliens 10 light years away are broadcasting TV series copied on I LOVE LUCY and BONANZA, signals they received from Earth 20-30 years earlier. An interstellar newscast alerts the boy and his two friends that the aliens are arriving on Earth, to visit Hollywood and bring entertainers to their planet. The kids visit the aliens' spacecraft as they are watching The Three Stooges in DIZZY PILOTS (1943).


A group of retired vaudevillians visit the ship to entertain the aliens; among them is former Ted Healy stooge Paul 'Mousie' Garner.

Cast: Matthew Laborteaux (Andrew), Gary Riley (Jimmy), Jimmy Gatherum (George), Milton Berle (Himself), Debbie Carrington, Daniel Frishman, Patty Maloney, Kevin Thompson (Aliens), Paul 'Mousie' Garner, Vance Colvig, Don Davis, Happy Hall, Jack Spoons, Whitey Roberts, Angelo Rossito (Vaudevillians), Tom Amundsen (Tour guide), Charlie Cirillo (Tourist), Bryon Gordon (Father), Starr Hester (Waitress), Peter Kwong (Weatherman), Titus Napoleon (Used car salesman), Ray Walston (Caveman in opening credits)

Crew: Steven Spielberg, Kathleen Kennedy, Frank Marshall (Executive Producers), Bob Balaban (Director), Story (Steven Spielberg), Earl Pomerantz (Teleplay), Joshua Brand, John Falsey, David E. Vogel (Producers), Steven Spielberg, Joshua Brand, John Falsey (Series Developers), Robert Stevens (Director of Photography), Joe Ann Fogle (Film Editor), John Williams (Theme), Jonathan Tunick (Music)
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