6.5/10902 votes#1 - Ghost Train
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 9/29/1985
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
6.2/10612 votes#2 - The Main Attraction
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 10/6/1985
Big Man on Campus Brad Bender has no problem attracting people to his charms. But when a meteorite crashes in his neighborhood, his magnetism gets even stronger, sometimes attracting the wrong people... and things.
Director: Matthew Robbins
Writer: Mick Garris, Brad Bird
5.7/10552 votes#3 - Alamo Jobe
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 10/20/1985
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.
Director: Michael D. Moore
Writer: Joshua Brand, John Falsey
7.6/10911 votes#4 - Mummy Daddy
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/27/1985
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
7.7/101,298 votes#5 - The Mission
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 11/3/1985
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
7.1/10541 votes#6 - The Amazing Falsworth
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 11/5/1985
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
4.7/10458 votes#7 - Fine Tuning
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 11/10/1985
Three high-school kids build an antenna that can catch signals from outer space. They learn that the aliens are big fans of 1950s American television and are coming to Hollywood to meet some of their favorite Earth stars.
Director: Bob Balaban
Writer: Earl Pomerantz
6.3/10403 votes#8 - Mr. Magic
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 11/17/1985
A fading illusionist has a last shot at greatness thanks to a deck of magic playing cards.
Director: Donald Petrie
Writer: Joshua Brand, John Falsey
5.5/10413 votes#9 - Guilt Trip
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 12/1/1985
The emotion Guilt feels overworked. He takes a vacation cruise and falls for the emotion Love.
Director: Burt Reynolds
Writer: Gail Parent, Kevin Parent
6.3/10470 votes#10 - Remote Control Man
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 12/8/1985
A henpecked man finds comfort in a unique television set that bring lifelike images to him.
Director: Bob Clark
Writer: N/A
6.3/10430 votes#11 - Santa '85
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 12/15/1985
A little boy helps Santa when the legendary man is thrown in jail while delivering presents.
Director: Phil Joanou
Writer: Joshua Brand, John Falsey
6.4/10493 votes#12 - Vanessa in the Garden
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 12/29/1985
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
6.6/10402 votes#13 - The Sitter
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 1/5/1986
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
6.7/10370 votes#14 - No Day at the Beach
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 1/12/1986
A GI tries to be a hero during an amphibious assault in Italy during World War II.
Director: Lesli Linka Glatter
Writer: Mick Garris
6.6/10334 votes#15 - One For the Road
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 1/19/1986
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
6.6/10398 votes#16 - Gather Ye Acorns
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 2/2/1986
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
6.0/10349 votes#17 - Boo!
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 2/16/1986
Ghosts in an attic try to get rid of a couple who move into their house.
Director: Joe Dante
Writer: Lowell Ganz, Babaloo Mandel
7.2/10379 votes#18 - Dorothy and Ben
Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 3/2/1986
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
6.9/10639 votes#19 - Mirror, Mirror
Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 3/9/1986
A popular horror novelist is terrorized by a strange figure in his bathroom mirror.
Director: Martin Scorsese
Writer: Joseph Minion
5.5/10334 votes#20 - Secret Cinema
Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 4/6/1986
Young everyday woman Jane becomes convinced that someone is recording and influencing her everyday life and that she's become the unwilling star of a secret cinema.
Director: Paul Bartel
Writer: Paul Bartel
5.6/10332 votes#21 - Hell Toupee
Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 4/13/1986
Defense attorney Harry Ballentine is understandably nervous when his client is mild-mannered accountant Murray Bernstein - who after investing in a strange toupee had felt compelled to murder the first lawyer he saw. Harry goes after it.
Director: Irvin Kershner
Writer: Gail Parent
7.2/10403 votes#22 - The Doll
Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 5/4/1986
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
6.4/10281 votes#23 - One For the Books
Season 1 Episode 23 - Aired 5/11/1986
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
6.3/10299 votes#24 - Grandpa's Ghost
Season 1 Episode 24 - Aired 5/25/1986
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?
Director: Timothy Hutton
Writer: Michael De Guzman
The Best Episodes of Amazing Stories Season 1
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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...
Genres:Sci-Fi & FantasyDramaComedyFamilyMysteryCrime
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Season 1 Ratings Summary
"Ghost Train" is the best rated episode of "Amazing Stories" season 1. It scored 6.5/10 based on 902 votes. Directed by Steven Spielberg and written by Frank Deese, it aired on 9/29/1985. This episode is rated 0.3 points higher than the second-best, "The Main Attraction".