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The Best Episodes of Amazing Stories Season 2

Every episode of Amazing Stories Season 2 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Amazing Stories Season 2!

The Best Episodes of Amazing Stories Season 2

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...
  1. 8.5/10(14 votes)

    #1 - Family Dog

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    S2:E16

    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.

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    Director:Brad Bird
    Writer:Brad Bird
  2. 8.4/10(8 votes)

    #2 - Life on Death Row

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    S2:E7

    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.

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  3. 8.4/10(8 votes)

    #3 - Thanksgiving

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    S2:E9

    When a dry well yields treasures, a man cashes in, while his stepdaughter repays the kindness of the “hole people.”

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  4. 8.4/10(7 votes)

    #4 - Blue Man Down

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    S2:E14

    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.

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  5. 8.2/10(10 votes)

    #5 - Go to the Head of the Class

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    S2:E8

    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.

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  6. 8.2/10(6 votes)

    #6 - Lane Change

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    S2:E13

    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.

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  8. 7.8/10(6 votes)

    #7 - The 21-Inch Sun

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    S2:E15

    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.

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  9. 7.8/10(6 votes)

    #8 - Without Diana

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    S2:E19

    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.

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  10. 7.7/10(6 votes)

    #9 - Such Interesting Neighbors

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    S2:E18

    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.

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  11. 7.7/10(6 votes)

    #10 - Moving Day

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    S2:E20

    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.

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    Writer:Frank Kerr
  12. 7.6/10(7 votes)

    #11 - The Eternal Mind

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    S2:E12

    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.

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  13. 7.5/10(8 votes)

    #12 - The Wedding Ring

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    S2:E1

    A wax museum dresser takes a ring from a statue. The ring transforms his overworked wife into a femme fatale.

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    Director:Danny DeVito
  14. 7.5/10(6 votes)

    #13 - What If...?

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    S2:E11

    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.

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  15. 7.5/10(6 votes)

    #14 - Miss Stardust

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    S2:E21

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

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  16. 7.4/10(8 votes)

    #15 - Miscalculation

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    S2:E2

    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.

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  17. 7.2/10(9 votes)

    #16 - You Gotta Believe Me

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    S2:E5

    Convinced that his vivid nightmare of a Boeing 747 crashing into his house is a horrific premonition, Earl Sweet desperately tries to alter fate.

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  18. 7.1/10(8 votes)

    #17 - Magic Saturday

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    S2:E3

    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.

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  19. 7.1/10(7 votes)

    #18 - The Pumpkin Competition

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    S2:E10

    An old spinster who is tired of losing a pumpkin competition recieves special advice from an agricultural professor.

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  20. 6.9/10(7 votes)

    #19 - Gershwin's Trunk

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    S2:E17

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

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  21. 6.8/10(8 votes)

    #20 - Welcome to My Nightmare

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    S2:E4

    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.

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    Director:Todd Holland
  22. 6.4/10(8 votes)

    #21 - The Greibble

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    S2:E6

    A housewife has a very real nightmare. She encounters a large creature that has a taste for inanimate objects.

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    Director:Joe Dante

Season 2 Ratings Summary

"Family Dog" is the best rated episode of "Amazing Stories" season 2. It scored 8.5/10 based on 14 votes. Directed by Brad Bird and written by Brad Bird, it aired on 2/16/1987. This episode is rated 0.1 points higher than the second-best, "Life on Death Row".