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The Worst Episodes of Amazing Stories

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  1. Background image for Miss Stardust
    5.3/10(218 votes)

    #1 - Miss Stardust

    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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  2. Background image for The Greibble
    5.8/10(288 votes)

    #2 - The Greibble

    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
  3. Background image for What If...?
    5.8/10(213 votes)

    #3 - What If...?

    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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  4. Background image for The Eternal Mind
    5.9/10(206 votes)

    #4 - The Eternal Mind

    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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  5. Background image for Secret Cinema
    6.0/10(9 votes)

    #5 - Secret Cinema

    S1:E20

    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.

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    Director:Paul Bartel
  6. Background image for Magic Saturday
    6.0/10(222 votes)

    #6 - Magic Saturday

    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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  8. Background image for Gershwin's Trunk
    6.1/10(208 votes)

    #7 - Gershwin's Trunk

    S2:E17

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

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  9. Background image for Without Diana
    6.1/10(206 votes)

    #8 - Without Diana

    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. Background image for The Main Attraction
    6.2/10(12 votes)

    #9 - The Main Attraction

    S1:E2

    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.

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  11. Background image for Hell Toupee
    6.2/10(9 votes)

    #10 - Hell Toupee

    S1:E21

    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.

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  12. Background image for The Pumpkin Competition
    6.2/10(223 votes)

    #11 - The Pumpkin Competition

    S2:E10

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

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  13. Background image for Welcome to My Nightmare
    6.3/10(285 votes)

    #12 - Welcome to My Nightmare

    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
  14. Background image for Such Interesting Neighbors
    6.3/10(190 votes)

    #13 - Such Interesting Neighbors

    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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  15. Background image for Moving Day
    6.3/10(208 votes)

    #14 - Moving Day

    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
  16. Background image for Fine Tuning
    6.4/10(9 votes)

    #15 - Fine Tuning

    S1:E7

    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.

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  17. Background image for Guilt Trip
    6.4/10(9 votes)

    #16 - Guilt Trip

    S1:E9

    The emotion Guilt feels overworked. He takes a vacation cruise and falls for the emotion Love.

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  18. Background image for The Sitter
    6.4/10(9 votes)

    #17 - The Sitter

    S1:E13

    Two young boys get the best of every sitter in town, until they meet one who uses voodoo to settle them down.

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    Director:Joan Darling
  19. Background image for The Wedding Ring
    6.4/10(301 votes)

    #18 - The Wedding Ring

    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
  20. Background image for Miscalculation
    6.6/10(397 votes)

    #19 - Miscalculation

    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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  21. Background image for The 21-Inch Sun
    6.6/10(210 votes)

    #20 - The 21-Inch Sun

    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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  22. Background image for Alamo Jobe
    6.7/10(12 votes)

    #21 - Alamo Jobe

    S1:E3

    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.

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  23. Background image for Gather Ye Acorns
    6.7/10(9 votes)

    #22 - Gather Ye Acorns

    S1:E16

    On the advice from a mysterious little man, an 18-year-old boy begins to collect rare comics and toys. When he sells them as an old man, he gains wealth and happiness.

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  24. Background image for Lane Change
    6.7/10(219 votes)

    #23 - Lane Change

    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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  25. Background image for Ghost Train
    6.8/10(16 votes)

    #24 - Ghost Train

    S1:E1

    Ohpa Globe is happy to see his son's new house, but when he sees that the home is built on ghost train tracks, he changes his focus. To his family's chagrin, he is convinced it is his destiny to die in those cornfields, to board a train he inadvertently caused to crash 75 years ago! He tells his nine-year old grandson he still has his ticket for the old "Highball Express", and that arriving train will careen through their house!

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  26. Background image for Remote Control Man
    6.8/10(9 votes)

    #25 - Remote Control Man

    S1:E10

    A henpecked man finds comfort in a unique television set that bring lifelike images to him.

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    Director:Bob Clark
    Writer:Unknown

Worst Episodes Summary

"Miss Stardust" is the worst rated episode of "Amazing Stories". It scored 5.3/10 based on 218 votes. Directed by Tobe Hooper and written by Richard Christian Matheson, Tom Szollosi, it aired on 4/10/1987. This episode scored 0.5 points lower than the second lowest rated, "The Greibble".