4.7/10458 votesLoading...#1 - Fine Tuning
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 11/10/1985
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
5.3/10212 votesLoading...#2 - 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
5.5/10413 votesLoading...#3 - Guilt Trip
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 12/1/1985
The emotion Guilt feels overworked. He takes a vacation cruise and falls for the emotion Love.
Director: Burt Reynolds
Writer: Gail Parent, Kevin Parent
5.5/10334 votesLoading...#4 - Secret Cinema
Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 4/6/1986
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
5.6/10332 votesLoading...#5 - Hell Toupee
Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 4/13/1986
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
5.7/10552 votesLoading...#6 - Alamo Jobe
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 10/20/1985
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
5.8/10278 votesLoading...#7 - 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
5.9/10206 votesLoading...#8 - 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 votesLoading...#9 - 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
6.0/10349 votesLoading...#10 - Boo!
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 2/16/1986
Ghosts in an attic try to get rid of a couple who move into their house.
Director: Joe Dante
Writer: Lowell Ganz, Babaloo Mandel
6.0/10216 votesLoading...#11 - 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
6.1/10203 votesLoading...#12 - 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
6.2/10612 votesLoading...#13 - The Main Attraction
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 10/6/1985
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
6.2/10217 votesLoading...#14 - 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
6.2/10200 votesLoading...#15 - 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
6.3/10403 votesLoading...#16 - Mr. Magic
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 11/17/1985
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
6.3/10430 votesLoading...#18 - Santa '85
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 12/15/1985
A little boy helps Santa when the legendary man is thrown in jail while delivering presents.
Director: Phil Joanou
Writer: Joshua Brand, John Falsey
6.3/10299 votesLoading...#19 - Grandpa's Ghost
Season 1 Episode 24 - Aired 5/25/1986
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
6.3/10294 votesLoading...#20 - 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
6.3/10278 votesLoading...#21 - 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
6.3/10185 votesLoading...#22 - 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
6.3/10199 votesLoading...#23 - 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
6.4/10493 votesLoading...#24 - Vanessa in the Garden
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 12/29/1985
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
6.4/10281 votesLoading...#25 - One For the Books
Season 1 Episode 23 - Aired 5/11/1986
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
The Worst Episodes of Amazing Stories
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Worst Episodes Summary
"Fine Tuning" is the worst rated episode of "Amazing Stories". It scored 4.7/10 based on 458 votes. Directed by Bob Balaban and written by Earl Pomerantz, it aired on 11/10/1985. This episode scored 0.6 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Miss Stardust".
