6.3/10294 votes#1 - The Wedding Ring
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 9/22/1986
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
6.6/10389 votes#2 - Miscalculation
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 9/29/1986
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
6.0/10216 votes#3 - Magic Saturday
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 10/6/1986
Marky adores hearing his grandfather tell wondrous tales of hitchhiking through the universe and playing baseball with him on Saturdays. So when old "Stormin' Norman" takes ill, the boy invokes a magic spell to let his grandpa play one last magical ball game.
Director: Robert Markowitz
Writer: Richard Christian Matheson
6.3/10278 votes#4 - Welcome to My Nightmare
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 10/13/1986
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
7.3/10279 votes#5 - You Gotta Believe Me
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 10/20/1986
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
5.8/10278 votes#6 - The Greibble
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 11/3/1986
A housewife has a very real nightmare. She encounters a large creature that has a taste for inanimate objects.
Director: Joe Dante
Writer: Mick Garris
7.4/10310 votes#7 - Life on Death Row
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 11/10/1986
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
7.7/10571 votes#8 - Go to the Head of the Class
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 11/21/1986
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
Writer: Mick Garris, Bob Gale, Tom McLoughlin
7.6/10313 votes#9 - Thanksgiving
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 11/24/1986
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
6.2/10217 votes#10 - The Pumpkin Competition
Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 12/1/1986
An old spinster who is tired of losing a pumpkin competition recieves special advice from an agricultural professor.
Director: Norman Reynolds
Writer: Peter Z. Orton
5.9/10206 votes#11 - What If...?
Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 12/8/1986
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
5.9/10201 votes#12 - The Eternal Mind
Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 12/29/1986
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
Writer: Julie Moskowitz, Gary Stephens
6.7/10213 votes#13 - Lane Change
Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 1/12/1987
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
6.9/10211 votes#14 - Blue Man Down
Season 2 Episode 14 - Aired 1/19/1987
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
6.6/10204 votes#15 - The 21-Inch Sun
Season 2 Episode 15 - Aired 2/2/1987
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
8.0/10623 votes#16 - Family Dog
Season 2 Episode 16 - Aired 2/16/1987
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
6.1/10203 votes#17 - Gershwin's Trunk
Season 2 Episode 17 - Aired 3/13/1987
A broadway lyricist seeks inspiration by contacting the spirit of Gershwin through a psychic.
Director: Paul Bartel
Writer: Paul Bartel, John Meyer
6.3/10185 votes#18 - Such Interesting Neighbors
Season 2 Episode 18 - Aired 3/20/1987
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
Writer: Mick Garris, Tom McLoughlin
6.2/10200 votes#19 - Without Diana
Season 2 Episode 19 - Aired 3/27/1987
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
6.3/10199 votes#20 - Moving Day
Season 2 Episode 20 - Aired 4/3/1987
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
5.3/10212 votes#21 - Miss Stardust
Season 2 Episode 21 - Aired 4/10/1987
An extraterrestrial threatens to destroy the earth unless the "Miss Stardust" beauty-pageant promoter allows entrants from other planets.
Director: Tobe Hooper
Writer: Richard Christian Matheson, Tom Szollosi
The Best Episodes of Amazing Stories Season 2
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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...
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Season 2 Ratings Summary
"The Wedding Ring" is the best rated episode of "Amazing Stories" season 2. It scored 6.3/10 based on 294 votes. Directed by Danny DeVito and written by Stu Krieger, it aired on 9/22/1986. This episode is rated 0.3 points higher than the second-best, "Miscalculation".