henry thomas, drew barrymore, robert m'naghten, that's the secret sauce to that movie. >> all of the kids had fallen in love with e.t. and i would like to say the e.t. had fallen in love with them. >> be good. >> yes. >> steven spielberg, they are small stories told against a giants canvas. 6. >> they're here. >> in the 1980s, i felt like i was speaking to myself, loving escapism. "poltergeist" was all of the things that scared me. i had a tree that would scare the hell out of me. and i had kids on one final adventure, in "the goonies," and the riches to save their parents' homes. and gremlins running around and tearing things up. loving stories that were bizarre. >> everybody has dreams and thoughts back in time somewhere. and he put it together. >> you built a time machine out of a delorean? >> if you're going to build a time machine out of a car, do it in style. >> it was a mystery when it came out. but what the real mystery is that it endured for decades. >> saturday night, we're sending you back to the future. >> a simple idea, on what would it be like to see your parents when t