The Best Episodes of Amazing Stories Season 2

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1. #1 Fan Favorite
   

   7.9/10(674 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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2. 

   7.7/10(639 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
3. 

   7.6/10(366 votes)

   #3 - 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
4. 

   7.4/10(353 votes)

   #4 - 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
5. 

   7.3/10(318 votes)

   #5 - 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
6. 

   6.7/10(242 votes)

   #6 - 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
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   6.7/10(241 votes)

   #7 - 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
8. 

   6.6/10(368 votes)

   #8 - 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
9. 

   6.6/10(235 votes)

   #9 - 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
10. 

    6.4/10(335 votes)

    #10 - 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
11. 

    6.3/10(305 votes)

    #11 - 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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    Writer:Todd Holland
12. 

    6.3/10(210 votes)

    #12 - 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
13. 

    6.3/10(231 votes)

    #13 - Moving Day

    S2:E204/3/1987

    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

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    Director:Robert Stevens

    Writer:Frank Kerr
14. 

    6.2/10(251 votes)

    #14 - The Pumpkin Competition

    S2:E1012/1/1986

    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

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    Director:Norman Reynolds

    Writer:Peter Z. Orton
15. 

    6.1/10(233 votes)

    #15 - Gershwin's Trunk

    S2:E173/13/1987

    A broadway lyricist seeks inspiration by contacting the spirit of Gershwin through a psychic.

    Director:Paul Bartel

    Writers:Paul Bartel, John Meyer

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    Director:Paul Bartel

    Writers:Paul Bartel, John Meyer
16. 

    6.1/10(229 votes)

    #16 - Without Diana

    S2:E193/27/1987

    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

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    Director:Lesli Linka Glatter

    Writer:Mick Garris
17. 

    5.9/10(252 votes)

    #17 - Magic Saturday

    S2:E310/6/1986

    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

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    Writer:Richard Christian Matheson
18. 

    5.9/10(230 votes)

    #18 - The Eternal Mind

    S2:E1212/29/1986

    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

    Writers:Gary Stephens, Julie Moskowitz

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    Director:J. Michael Riva

    Writers:Gary Stephens, Julie Moskowitz
19. 

    5.8/10(319 votes)

    #19 - The Greibble

    S2:E611/3/1986

    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

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    Director:Joe Dante

    Writer:Mick Garris
20. 

    5.7/10(238 votes)

    #20 - What If...?

    S2:E1112/8/1986

    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

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    Writer:Anne Spielberg
21. 

    5.2/10(241 votes)

    #21 - Miss Stardust

    S2:E214/10/1987

    An extraterrestrial threatens to destroy the earth unless the "Miss Stardust" beauty-pageant promoter allows entrants from other planets.

    Director:Tobe Hooper

    Writers:Richard Christian Matheson, Tom Szollosi

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    Director:Tobe Hooper

    Writers:Richard Christian Matheson, Tom Szollosi