The Best Episodes of Amazing Stories

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7.9/10(679 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
7.7/10(640 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
7.6/10(1437 votes)
#3 - 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
7.6/10(963 votes)
#4 - 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
7.6/10(370 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
7.4/10(354 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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7.2/10(425 votes)
#7 - 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
7.2/10(319 votes)
#8 - 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
7.1/10(610 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
7.1/10(452 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
6.8/10(708 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
6.7/10(416 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
6.7/10(244 votes)
#13 - 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
6.7/10(242 votes)
#14 - 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
6.6/10(449 votes)
#15 - 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
6.6/10(446 votes)
#16 - 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
6.6/10(373 votes)
#17 - 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
6.6/10(369 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
6.6/10(238 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
6.5/10(1018 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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Director:Steven Spielberg
Writer:Frank Deese
6.4/10(321 votes)
#21 - 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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Director:Lesli Linka Glatter
Writer:Richard Matheson
6.4/10(337 votes)
#22 - 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
6.4/10(551 votes)
#23 - 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
6.3/10(212 votes)
#24 - 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
6.3/10(305 votes)
#25 - Welcome to My Nightmare
S2:E410/13/1986
Horror films are Harry's life, but when the movie-obsessed teenager suddenly steps into a blood-curdling scene from Psycho (1960), he desperately seeks escape to the real world.
Director:Todd Holland
Writer:Todd Holland
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Director:Todd Holland
Writer:Todd Holland