The Best Episodes of Amazing Stories

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   8.0/10(658 votes)

   #1 - Family Dog

   S2:E162/16/1987

   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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   Director:Brad Bird

   Writer:Brad Bird
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   7.7/10(604 votes)

   #2 - Go to the Head of the Class

   S2:E811/21/1986

   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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   Director:Robert Zemeckis

   Writers:Mick Garris, Tom McLoughlin, Bob Gale
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   7.6/10(968 votes)

   #3 - Mummy Daddy

   S1:E410/27/1985

   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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   Director:William Dear

   Writer:Earl Pomerantz
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   7.6/10(1374 votes)

   #4 - The Mission

   S1:E511/3/1985

   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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   Director:Steven Spielberg

   Writer:Menno Meyjes
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   7.6/10(344 votes)

   #5 - Thanksgiving

   S2:E911/24/1986

   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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   Director:Todd Holland

   Writer:Pierre R. Debs
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   7.4/10(332 votes)

   #6 - Life on Death Row

   S2:E711/10/1986

   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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   Director:Mick Garris

   Writer:Rockne S. O'Bannon
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   7.3/10(301 votes)

   #7 - You Gotta Believe Me

   S2:E510/20/1986

   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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   Director:Kevin Reynolds

   Writer:Stu Krieger
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   7.2/10(401 votes)

   #8 - Dorothy and Ben

   S1:E183/2/1986

   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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   Director:Thomas Carter

   Writer:Michael De Guzman
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   7.1/10(574 votes)

   #9 - The Amazing Falsworth

   S1:E611/5/1985

   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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   Director:Peter Hyams

   Writer:Mick Garris
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    7.1/10(431 votes)

    #10 - The Doll

    S1:E225/4/1986

    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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    Director:Phil Joanou

    Writer:Richard Matheson
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    6.8/10(672 votes)

    #11 - Mirror, Mirror

    S1:E193/9/1986

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

    Director:Martin Scorsese

    Writer:Joseph Minion

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    Director:Martin Scorsese

    Writer:Joseph Minion
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    6.7/10(231 votes)

    #12 - Lane Change

    S2:E131/12/1987

    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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    Director:Ken Kwapis

    Writer:Ali Marie Matheson
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    6.7/10(228 votes)

    #13 - Blue Man Down

    S2:E141/19/1987

    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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    Director:Paul Michael Glaser

    Writer:Jacob Epstein
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    6.6/10(425 votes)

    #14 - The Sitter

    S1:E131/5/1986

    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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    Director:Joan Darling

    Writer:Mick Garris
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    6.6/10(395 votes)

    #15 - No Day at the Beach

    S1:E141/12/1986

    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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    Director:Lesli Linka Glatter

    Writer:Mick Garris
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    6.6/10(353 votes)

    #16 - One For the Road

    S1:E151/19/1986

    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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    Director:Thomas Carter

    Writer:James D. Bissell
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    6.6/10(423 votes)

    #17 - Gather Ye Acorns

    S1:E162/2/1986

    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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    Director:Norman Reynolds

    Writer:Stu Krieger
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    6.6/10(411 votes)

    #18 - Miscalculation

    S2:E29/29/1986

    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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    Director:Tom Holland

    Writer:Michael McDowell
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    6.6/10(222 votes)

    #19 - The 21-Inch Sun

    S2:E152/2/1987

    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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    Director:Nick Castle

    Writer:Bruce Kirschbaum
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    6.5/10(959 votes)

    #20 - Ghost Train

    S1:E19/29/1985

    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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    Writer:Frank Deese
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    6.4/10(522 votes)

    #21 - Vanessa in the Garden

    S1:E1212/29/1985

    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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    Director:Clint Eastwood

    Writer:Steven Spielberg
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    6.4/10(305 votes)

    #22 - One For the Books

    S1:E235/11/1986

    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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    Writer:Richard Matheson
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    6.4/10(317 votes)

    #23 - The Wedding Ring

    S2:E19/22/1986

    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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    Director:Danny DeVito

    Writer:Stu Krieger
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    6.3/10(426 votes)

    #24 - Mr. Magic

    S1:E811/17/1985

    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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    Director:Donald Petrie

    Writers:Joshua Brand, John Falsey
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    6.3/10(495 votes)

    #25 - Remote Control Man

    S1:E1012/8/1985

    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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    Director:Bob Clark

    Writer:Unknown