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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!

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
    8.0/10(649 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.

    Director:Brad Bird
    Writer:Brad Bird
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  2. Background image for Go to the Head of the Class
    7.7/10(591 votes)

    #2 - 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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  3. Background image for Mummy Daddy
    7.6/10(947 votes)

    #3 - 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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  4. Background image for The Mission
    7.6/10(1.4k votes)

    #4 - 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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  5. Background image for Thanksgiving
    7.6/10(338 votes)

    #5 - 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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  6. Background image for Life on Death Row
    7.4/10(328 votes)

    #6 - 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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  8. Background image for You Gotta Believe Me
    7.3/10(295 votes)

    #7 - 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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  9. Background image for Dorothy and Ben
    7.2/10(393 votes)

    #8 - 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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  10. Background image for The Amazing Falsworth
    7.1/10(567 votes)

    #9 - 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.

    Director:Peter Hyams
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  11. Background image for The Doll
    7.1/10(425 votes)

    #10 - 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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  12. Background image for Mirror, Mirror
    6.8/10(662 votes)

    #11 - Mirror, Mirror

    S1:E19

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

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  13. Background image for Blue Man Down
    6.8/10(221 votes)

    #12 - 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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  14. Background image for No Day at the Beach
    6.7/10(390 votes)

    #13 - 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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  15. Background image for Lane Change
    6.7/10(224 votes)

    #14 - 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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  16. Background image for The Sitter
    6.6/10(420 votes)

    #15 - The Sitter

    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
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  17. Background image for One For the Road
    6.6/10(350 votes)

    #16 - 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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  18. Background image for Gather Ye Acorns
    6.6/10(417 votes)

    #17 - Gather Ye Acorns

    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.

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  19. Background image for Miscalculation
    6.6/10(405 votes)

    #18 - 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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  20. Background image for The 21-Inch Sun
    6.6/10(215 votes)

    #19 - 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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  21. Background image for Ghost Train
    6.5/10(946 votes)

    #20 - Ghost Train

    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!

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  22. Background image for Vanessa in the Garden
    6.4/10(515 votes)

    #21 - 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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  23. Background image for One For the Books
    6.4/10(296 votes)

    #22 - 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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  24. Background image for The Wedding Ring
    6.4/10(308 votes)

    #23 - 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.

    Director:Danny DeVito
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  25. Background image for Mr. Magic
    6.3/10(421 votes)

    #24 - Mr. Magic

    S1:E8

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

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  26. Background image for Remote Control Man
    6.3/10(491 votes)

    #25 - Remote Control Man

    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 8/10 based on 649 votes. Directed by Brad Bird and written by Brad Bird, it aired on 2/16/1987. This episode scored 0.3 points higher than the second highest rated, "Go to the Head of the Class".