Episode
Amazing Stories: What If...?
Overview
Ignored by his self-absorbed, social-climbing parents, 5-year-old Jonah Kelley wanders his lonely, sterile house and then the outside world, searching for someone who will see him, while things and people disappear in his wake.
Details
- Series
- Amazing Stories
- Season
- Season 2
- Episode
- Episode 11
- Air date
- 1986-12-08
- Runtime
- 22 min
Episode context
What If...? is Episode 11 in Season 2 of Amazing Stories. It aired on 1986-12-08. The runtime is 22 min.
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