Academy-Award winning director, screenwriter and producer Steven Spielberg had, by 1985, already captivated audiences with the cinematic successes of Jaws, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, The Color Purple, Back to the Future, to name only a few. With Amazing Stories, Spielberg and NBC brought high production fiction to network television. It won five Emmy Awards during its two-year series.