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The Best Episodes of Amazing Stories

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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 The Doll
    8.0/10(11 votes)

    #1 - 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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  2. Background image for Family Dog
    8.0/10(642 votes)

    #2 - 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
  3. Background image for Dorothy and Ben
    7.7/10(10 votes)

    #3 - 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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  4. Background image for Go to the Head of the Class
    7.7/10(585 votes)

    #4 - 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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  5. Background image for Thanksgiving
    7.6/10(328 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 The Amazing Falsworth
    7.5/10(11 votes)

    #6 - 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
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  8. Background image for No Day at the Beach
    7.4/10(9 votes)

    #7 - 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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  9. Background image for Life on Death Row
    7.4/10(321 votes)

    #8 - 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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  10. Background image for Vanessa in the Garden
    7.3/10(9 votes)

    #9 - 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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  11. Background image for One For the Books
    7.3/10(9 votes)

    #10 - 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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  12. Background image for You Gotta Believe Me
    7.3/10(287 votes)

    #11 - 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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  13. Background image for Mummy Daddy
    7.2/10(12 votes)

    #12 - 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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  14. Background image for The Mission
    7.2/10(16 votes)

    #13 - 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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  15. Background image for One For the Road
    7.1/10(9 votes)

    #14 - 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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  16. Background image for Mirror, Mirror
    7.1/10(12 votes)

    #15 - Mirror, Mirror

    S1:E19

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

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  17. Background image for Mr. Magic
    7.0/10(11 votes)

    #16 - 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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  18. Background image for Santa '85
    7.0/10(9 votes)

    #17 - Santa '85

    S1:E11

    A little boy helps Santa when the legendary man is thrown in jail while delivering presents.

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  19. Background image for Grandpa's Ghost
    7.0/10(8 votes)

    #18 - Grandpa's Ghost

    S1:E24

    Edwin's grandpa died in his sleep last night. So why is the old man still hanging around the apartment, playing the piano and swapping stories with Edwin's grandma?

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  20. Background image for Blue Man Down
    6.9/10(216 votes)

    #19 - 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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  21. Background image for Ghost Train
    6.8/10(16 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 Remote Control Man
    6.8/10(9 votes)

    #21 - Remote Control Man

    S1:E10

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

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    Director:Bob Clark
    Writer:Unknown
  23. Background image for Boo!
    6.8/10(9 votes)

    #22 - Boo!

    S1:E17

    Ghosts in an attic try to get rid of a couple who move into their house.

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  24. Background image for Alamo Jobe
    6.7/10(12 votes)

    #23 - Alamo Jobe

    S1:E3

    During the Battle of the Alamo on March 6, 1836, 15-year-old messenger Jobe H. Farnum is about to be killed. He is transported forward in time to San Antonio in 1985. The 1980s prove to be too much for Jobe to handle.

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  25. Background image for Gather Ye Acorns
    6.7/10(9 votes)

    #24 - 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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  26. Background image for Lane Change
    6.7/10(219 votes)

    #25 - 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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Best Episodes Summary

"The Doll" is the best rated episode of "Amazing Stories". It scored 8/10 based on 11 votes. Directed by Phil Joanou and written by Richard Matheson, it aired on 5/4/1986. This episode scored 0.0 points higher than the second highest rated, "Family Dog".