The Best Episodes of Amazing Stories Season 2

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Director: Paul Bartel

Writer: Paul Bartel, John Meyer

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

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

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

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