The Best Episodes of Amazing Stories Season 1

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

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

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

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

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

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

Director: Martin Scorsese

Writer: Joseph Minion

A GI tries to be a hero during an amphibious assault in Italy during World War II.

Director: Lesli Linka Glatter

Writer: Mick Garris

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Director: Bob Clark

Writer: N/A

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

Director: Phil Joanou

Writer: Joshua Brand, John Falsey

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

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

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

Director: Joe Dante

Writer: Lowell Ganz, Babaloo Mandel

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

The emotion Guilt feels overworked. He takes a vacation cruise and falls for the emotion Love.

Director: Burt Reynolds

Writer: Gail Parent, Kevin Parent

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

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

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