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The Best Episodes of Amazing Stories

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...

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  1. Background image for Family Dog
    8.5/10(14 votes)

    #1 - Family Dog

    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.

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    Director:Brad Bird
    Writer:Brad Bird
  2. Background image for Life on Death Row
    8.4/10(8 votes)

    #2 - Life on Death Row

    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.

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  3. Background image for Thanksgiving
    8.4/10(8 votes)

    #3 - Thanksgiving

    S2:E9

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

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  4. Background image for Blue Man Down
    8.4/10(7 votes)

    #4 - Blue Man Down

    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.

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  5. Background image for Go to the Head of the Class
    8.2/10(10 votes)

    #5 - Go to the Head of the Class

    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.

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  6. Background image for Lane Change
    8.2/10(6 votes)

    #6 - Lane Change

    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.

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  8. Background image for The Doll
    8.0/10(11 votes)

    #7 - The Doll

    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.

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  9. Background image for The 21-Inch Sun
    7.8/10(6 votes)

    #8 - The 21-Inch Sun

    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.

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  10. Background image for Without Diana
    7.8/10(6 votes)

    #9 - Without Diana

    S2:E19

    An elderly couple have never stopped believing that their daughter, who went missing in the woods 40 years ago, will somehow appear to them one last time before they die.

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  11. Background image for Dorothy and Ben
    7.7/10(10 votes)

    #10 - Dorothy and Ben

    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.

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  12. Background image for Such Interesting Neighbors
    7.7/10(6 votes)

    #11 - Such Interesting Neighbors

    S2:E18

    Rattlesnakes, howling coyotes, sudden earthquakes and time warps jar the Lewis family in their new home, and all the bizarre incidents seem linked to the Hellenbecks, their weird next-door neighbors.

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  13. Background image for Moving Day
    7.7/10(6 votes)

    #12 - Moving Day

    S2:E20

    When Alan Webster's parents tell him that they have to move, the 17-year-old student is understandably upset - but not nearly as much as when he learns their destination is the planet Alturus, 85 billion miles away.

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    Writer:Frank Kerr
  14. Background image for The Eternal Mind
    7.6/10(7 votes)

    #13 - The Eternal Mind

    S2:E12

    Applying experiments with chimps to himself, a dying scientist transfers his mind into a computer. But his unique survival after physical death brings unexpected heartaches.

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  15. Background image for The Amazing Falsworth
    7.5/10(11 votes)

    #14 - The Amazing Falsworth

    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.

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    Director:Peter Hyams
  16. Background image for The Wedding Ring
    7.5/10(8 votes)

    #15 - The Wedding Ring

    S2:E1

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

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    Director:Danny DeVito
  17. Background image for What If...?
    7.5/10(6 votes)

    #16 - What If...?

    S2:E11

    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.

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  18. Background image for Miss Stardust
    7.5/10(6 votes)

    #17 - Miss Stardust

    S2:E21

    An extraterrestrial threatens to destroy the earth unless the "Miss Stardust" beauty-pageant promoter allows entrants from other planets.

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  19. Background image for No Day at the Beach
    7.4/10(9 votes)

    #18 - No Day at the Beach

    S1:E14

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

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  20. Background image for Miscalculation
    7.4/10(8 votes)

    #19 - Miscalculation

    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.

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  21. Background image for Vanessa in the Garden
    7.3/10(9 votes)

    #20 - Vanessa in the Garden

    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.

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  22. Background image for One For the Books
    7.3/10(9 votes)

    #21 - One For the Books

    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.

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  23. Background image for Mummy Daddy
    7.2/10(12 votes)

    #22 - Mummy Daddy

    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.

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  24. Background image for The Mission
    7.2/10(16 votes)

    #23 - The Mission

    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.

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  25. Background image for You Gotta Believe Me
    7.2/10(9 votes)

    #24 - You Gotta Believe Me

    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.

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  26. Background image for One For the Road
    7.1/10(9 votes)

    #25 - One For the Road

    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.

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Best Episodes Summary

"Family Dog" is the best rated episode of "Amazing Stories". It scored 8.5/10 based on 14 votes. Directed by Brad Bird and written by Brad Bird, it aired on 2/16/1987. This episode scored 0.1 points higher than the second highest rated, "Life on Death Row".