The Best Episodes of Amazing Stories

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   8.3/10(15 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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   Writer:Brad Bird
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   8.2/10(9 votes)

   #2 - 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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   8.2/10(7 votes)

   #3 - 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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   8.1/10(11 votes)

   #4 - 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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   8.1/10(9 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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   8.1/10(8 votes)

   #6 - 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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   7.8/10(12 votes)

   #7 - 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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   7.7/10(11 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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   7.7/10(7 votes)

   #9 - Without Diana

   S2:E193/27/1987

   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.

   Director:Lesli Linka Glatter

   Writer:Mick Garris

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   Director:Lesli Linka Glatter

   Writer:Mick Garris
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    7.6/10(7 votes)

    #10 - 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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    7.5/10(12 votes)

    #11 - 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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    7.4/10(10 votes)

    #12 - 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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    7.4/10(8 votes)

    #13 - The Eternal Mind

    S2:E1212/29/1986

    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.

    Director:J. Michael Riva

    Writers:Gary Stephens, Julie Moskowitz

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    Director:J. Michael Riva

    Writers:Gary Stephens, Julie Moskowitz
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    7.4/10(7 votes)

    #14 - Such Interesting Neighbors

    S2:E183/20/1987

    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.

    Director:Graham Baker

    Writers:Mick Garris, Tom McLoughlin

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    Director:Graham Baker

    Writers:Mick Garris, Tom McLoughlin
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    7.4/10(7 votes)

    #15 - Moving Day

    S2:E204/3/1987

    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.

    Director:Robert Stevens

    Writer:Frank Kerr

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    Director:Robert Stevens

    Writer:Frank Kerr
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    7.3/10(10 votes)

    #16 - 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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    7.3/10(9 votes)

    #17 - 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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    7.3/10(9 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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    7.3/10(7 votes)

    #19 - What If...?

    S2:E1112/8/1986

    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.

    Director:Joan Darling

    Writer:Anne Spielberg

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    Writer:Anne Spielberg
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    7.3/10(7 votes)

    #20 - Miss Stardust

    S2:E214/10/1987

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

    Director:Tobe Hooper

    Writers:Richard Christian Matheson, Tom Szollosi

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    Director:Tobe Hooper

    Writers:Richard Christian Matheson, Tom Szollosi
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    7.2/10(10 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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    7.2/10(10 votes)

    #22 - 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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    7.1/10(14 votes)

    #23 - 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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    7.0/10(18 votes)

    #24 - 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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    7.0/10(10 votes)

    #25 - 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