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The Best Episodes of Amazing Stories

Every episode of Amazing Stories ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Amazing Stories!

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A truly amazing, fantastical, science fiction, funny and odd, and sometimes scary, sad and endearing anthology series presented by Steven Spielberg with guest appearances by many famous actors, actresses, and directors.

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
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    Amazing Stories Season 2 Episode 16 - Family Dog
    7.9/10(674 votes)

    S2:E16

    The only animated episode of the show that's also a backdoor pilot. It has three segments: A family takes out their frustrations on their poor dog, watches their Christmas home movie, and sends the dog to guard dog school after a burglary.

    Director:Brad Bird
    Writer:Brad Bird

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  2. Amazing Stories Season 2 Episode 8 - Go to the Head of the Class
    7.7/10(639 votes)

    S2:E8

    A teacher's bizarre discipline causes two students to seek revenge with a spell culled from a rock song played backwards. Unfortunately something goes wrong when they cast the spell. When they attempt another spell to fix the problem they accidently remove the head of their teacher.

    Director:Robert Zemeckis
    Writers:Mick Garris, Tom McLoughlin, Bob Gale

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  3. Amazing Stories Season 1 Episode 4 - Mummy Daddy
    7.6/10(958 votes)

    S1:E4

    An actor who's playing a mummy in a horror film learns that his wife has gone into labor and rushes to be with her – without removing his costume.

    Director:William Dear
    Writer:Earl Pomerantz

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  4. Amazing Stories Season 1 Episode 5 - The Mission
    7.6/10(1433 votes)

    S1:E5

    During World War II, men in an air force bomber are caught in a no win scenario when their belly gunner (an amateur artist) is trapped in his seat and the plane has no wheels for landing.

    Director:Steven Spielberg
    Writer:Menno Meyjes

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  5. Amazing Stories Season 2 Episode 9 - Thanksgiving
    7.6/10(366 votes)

    S2:E9

    When a dry well yields treasures, a man cashes in, while his stepdaughter repays the kindness of the “hole people.”

    Director:Todd Holland
    Writer:Pierre R. Debs

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  6. Amazing Stories Season 2 Episode 7 - Life on Death Row
    7.4/10(353 votes)

    S2:E7

    An inmate is struck by lightning. He is given miraculous healing powers that spark a last-minute attempt to save him from the electric chair.

    Director:Mick Garris
    Writer:Rockne S. O'Bannon

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  7. Amazing Stories Season 2 Episode 5 - You Gotta Believe Me
    7.3/10(318 votes)

    S2:E5

    Convinced that his vivid nightmare of a Boeing 747 crashing into his house is a horrific premonition, Earl Sweet desperately tries to alter fate.

    Director:Kevin Reynolds
    Writer:Stu Krieger

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  8. Amazing Stories Season 1 Episode 18 - Dorothy and Ben
    7.2/10(424 votes)

    S1:E18

    After 40 years in a coma, Ben Dumpfy awakens and discovers that he can communicate with a seven-year-old girl who is in a coma after a bike accident.

    Director:Thomas Carter
    Writer:Michael De Guzman

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  9. Amazing Stories Season 1 Episode 6 - The Amazing Falsworth
    7.1/10(608 votes)

    S1:E6

    A psychic showman realizes that during a performance that someone in the audience wants to commit murder. Frightened, he calls the police, and the detective shows up to investigate.

    Director:Peter Hyams
    Writer:Mick Garris

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  10. Amazing Stories Season 1 Episode 22 - The Doll
    7.1/10(451 votes)

    S1:E22

    The lonely, loveless life of a shy bachelor takes an astounding turn when he buys a special doll, exquisitely hand-crafted by a mysterious German toymaker. He tries to track down the woman who modeled for it.

    Director:Phil Joanou
    Writer:Richard Matheson

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  11. Amazing Stories Season 1 Episode 19 - Mirror, Mirror
    6.8/10(707 votes)

    S1:E19

    A popular horror novelist is terrorized by a strange figure in his bathroom mirror.

    Director:Martin Scorsese
    Writer:Joseph Minion

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  12. Amazing Stories Season 1 Episode 14 - No Day at the Beach
    6.7/10(412 votes)

    S1:E14

    A GI tries to be a hero during an amphibious assault in Italy during World War II.

    Director:Lesli Linka Glatter
    Writer:Mick Garris

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  13. Amazing Stories Season 2 Episode 13 - Lane Change
    6.7/10(242 votes)

    S2:E13

    One stormy night on a deserted highway, a distraught wife driving toward an impending divorce glimpses her past through the windshield after picking up a mysterious woman who ran out of gas.

    Director:Ken Kwapis
    Writer:Ali Marie Matheson

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  14. Amazing Stories Season 2 Episode 14 - Blue Man Down
    6.7/10(241 votes)

    S2:E14

    Two police officers try to break up a supermarket robbery, but the younger officer is killed. A new female partner helps the other officer avenge his friends death. He later discovers that his new partner is the ghost of an officer who died 12 years earlier.

    Director:Paul Michael Glaser
    Writer:Jacob Epstein

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  15. Amazing Stories Season 1 Episode 13 - The Sitter
    6.6/10(444 votes)

    S1:E13

    Two young boys get the best of every sitter in town, until they meet one who uses voodoo to settle them down.

    Director:Joan Darling
    Writer:Mick Garris

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  16. Amazing Stories Season 1 Episode 15 - One For the Road
    6.6/10(371 votes)

    S1:E15

    During the Depression, several bar patrons hope to get insurance money by tricking a man into signing a policy with the hope that he will drink himself to death.

    Director:Thomas Carter
    Writer:James D. Bissell

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  17. Amazing Stories Season 1 Episode 16 - Gather Ye Acorns
    6.6/10(446 votes)

    S1:E16

    On the advice from a mysterious little man, an 18-year-old boy begins to collect rare comics and toys. When he sells them as an old man, he gains wealth and happiness.

    Director:Norman Reynolds
    Writer:Stu Krieger

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  18. Amazing Stories Season 2 Episode 2 - Miscalculation
    6.6/10(368 votes)

    S2:E2

    Nerdy collegiate Phil unsuccessfully tries every trick in the book to meet girls. Then he discovers a potion that makes gorgeous magazine pin-ups spring to life. Unfortunately, he can't guess the right ratio to use, so his experiments backfire in a freaky way.

    Director:Tom Holland
    Writer:Michael McDowell

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  19. Amazing Stories Season 2 Episode 15 - The 21-Inch Sun
    6.6/10(235 votes)

    S2:E15

    A sitcom scriptwriter, who's suffering from writer's block, discovers that his house plant has miraculously gained sentience and a funny bone after being left in front of a TV while old sitcoms were playing. The plant ghostwrites for him.

    Director:Nick Castle
    Writer:Bruce Kirschbaum

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  20. Amazing Stories Season 1 Episode 1 - Ghost Train
    6.5/10(1011 votes)

    S1:E1

    Ohpa Globe is happy to see his son's new house, but when he sees that the home is built on ghost train tracks, he changes his focus. To his family's chagrin, he is convinced it is his destiny to die in those cornfields, to board a train he inadvertently caused to crash 75 years ago! He tells his nine-year old grandson he still has his ticket for the old "Highball Express", and that arriving train will careen through their house!

    Director:Steven Spielberg
    Writer:Frank Deese

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  21. Amazing Stories Season 1 Episode 12 - Vanessa in the Garden
    6.4/10(549 votes)

    S1:E12

    When an artist is devastated by the death of his wife, he finds a way for her to live on in his painting.

    Director:Clint Eastwood
    Writer:Steven Spielberg

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  22. Amazing Stories Season 1 Episode 23 - One For the Books
    6.4/10(320 votes)

    S1:E23

    An elderly college janitor amazes himself, his wife and the scientific community when his brain turns into a sponge that soaks up more and more incredible knowledge of every subject taught at the school - until a shocking event changes everything.

    Director:Lesli Linka Glatter
    Writer:Richard Matheson

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  23. Amazing Stories Season 2 Episode 1 - The Wedding Ring
    6.4/10(335 votes)

    S2:E1

    A wax museum dresser takes a ring from a statue. The ring transforms his overworked wife into a femme fatale.

    Director:Danny DeVito
    Writer:Stu Krieger

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  24. Amazing Stories Season 1 Episode 8 - Mr. Magic
    6.3/10(454 votes)

    S1:E8

    A fading illusionist has a last shot at greatness thanks to a deck of magic playing cards.

    Director:Donald Petrie
    Writers:Joshua Brand, John Falsey

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  25. Amazing Stories Season 1 Episode 10 - Remote Control Man
    6.3/10(524 votes)

    S1:E10

    A henpecked man finds comfort in a unique television set that bring lifelike images to him.

    Director:Bob Clark
    Writer:Unknown

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Best Episodes Summary

"Family Dog" is the best rated episode of "Amazing Stories". It scored 7.9/10 based on 674 votes. Directed by Brad Bird and written by Brad Bird, it aired on 2/16/1987. This episode scored 0.2 points higher than the second highest rated, "Go to the Head of the Class".