The Worst Episodes of Amazing Stories

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   5.9/10(10 votes)

   #1 - Secret Cinema

   S1:E204/6/1986

   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

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   Writer:Paul Bartel
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   6.1/10(14 votes)

   #2 - The Main Attraction

   S1:E210/6/1985

   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

   Writers:Mick Garris, Brad Bird

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   Director:Matthew Robbins

   Writers:Mick Garris, Brad Bird
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   6.1/10(9 votes)

   #3 - 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
4. 

   6.2/10(10 votes)

   #4 - Hell Toupee

   S1:E214/13/1986

   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

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   Director:Irvin Kershner

   Writer:Gail Parent
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   6.4/10(10 votes)

   #5 - Fine Tuning

   S1:E711/10/1985

   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

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   Director:Bob Balaban

   Writer:Earl Pomerantz
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   6.4/10(10 votes)

   #6 - Guilt Trip

   S1:E912/1/1985

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

   Director:Burt Reynolds

   Writers:Gail Parent, Kevin Parent

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   Director:Burt Reynolds

   Writers:Gail Parent, Kevin Parent
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   6.4/10(10 votes)

   #7 - The Sitter

   S1:E131/5/1986

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

   Director:Joan Darling

   Writer:Mick Garris

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   Director:Joan Darling

   Writer:Mick Garris
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   6.4/10(9 votes)

   #8 - 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
9. 

   6.6/10(14 votes)

   #9 - Alamo Jobe

   S1:E310/20/1985

   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

   Writers:Joshua Brand, John Falsey

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   Director:Michael D. Moore

   Writers:Joshua Brand, John Falsey
10. 

    6.6/10(10 votes)

    #10 - Gather Ye Acorns

    S1:E162/2/1986

    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.

    Director:Norman Reynolds

    Writer:Stu Krieger

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    Director:Norman Reynolds

    Writer:Stu Krieger
11. 

    6.6/10(14 votes)

    #11 - Mirror, Mirror

    S1:E193/9/1986

    A popular horror novelist is terrorized by a strange figure in his bathroom mirror.

    Director:Martin Scorsese

    Writer:Joseph Minion

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    Director:Martin Scorsese

    Writer:Joseph Minion
12. 

    6.7/10(18 votes)

    #12 - Ghost Train

    S1:E19/29/1985

    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!

    Director:Steven Spielberg

    Writer:Frank Deese

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    Writer:Frank Deese
13. 

    6.7/10(10 votes)

    #13 - Remote Control Man

    S1:E1012/8/1985

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

    Director:Bob Clark

    Writer:Unknown

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    Writer:Unknown
14. 

    6.7/10(10 votes)

    #14 - Boo!

    S1:E172/16/1986

    Ghosts in an attic try to get rid of a couple who move into their house.

    Director:Joe Dante

    Writers:Lowell Ganz, Babaloo Mandel

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    Director:Joe Dante

    Writers:Lowell Ganz, Babaloo Mandel
15. 

    6.7/10(9 votes)

    #15 - 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
16. 

    6.9/10(12 votes)

    #16 - Mr. Magic

    S1:E811/17/1985

    A fading illusionist has a last shot at greatness thanks to a deck of magic playing cards.

    Director:Donald Petrie

    Writers:Joshua Brand, John Falsey

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    Director:Donald Petrie

    Writers:Joshua Brand, John Falsey
17. 

    6.9/10(10 votes)

    #17 - Santa '85

    S1:E1112/15/1985

    A little boy helps Santa when the legendary man is thrown in jail while delivering presents.

    Director:Phil Joanou

    Writers:Joshua Brand, John Falsey

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    Director:Phil Joanou

    Writers:Joshua Brand, John Falsey
18. 

    7.0/10(18 votes)

    #18 - The Mission

    S1:E511/3/1985

    During World War II, men in an air force bomber are caught in a no win scenario when their belly gunner (an amateur artist) is trapped in his seat and the plane has no wheels for landing.

    Director:Steven Spielberg

    Writer:Menno Meyjes

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    Director:Steven Spielberg

    Writer:Menno Meyjes
19. 

    7.0/10(10 votes)

    #19 - One For the Road

    S1:E151/19/1986

    During the Depression, several bar patrons hope to get insurance money by tricking a man into signing a policy with the hope that he will drink himself to death.

    Director:Thomas Carter

    Writer:James D. Bissell

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    Director:Thomas Carter

    Writer:James D. Bissell
20. 

    7.0/10(9 votes)

    #20 - Grandpa's Ghost

    S1:E245/25/1986

    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

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    Director:Timothy Hutton

    Writer:Michael De Guzman
21. 

    7.0/10(9 votes)

    #21 - 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
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    7.0/10(8 votes)

    #22 - 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
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    7.1/10(14 votes)

    #23 - Mummy Daddy

    S1:E410/27/1985

    An actor who's playing a mummy in a horror film learns that his wife has gone into labor and rushes to be with her – without removing his costume.

    Director:William Dear

    Writer:Earl Pomerantz

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    Director:William Dear

    Writer:Earl Pomerantz
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    7.2/10(10 votes)

    #24 - Vanessa in the Garden

    S1:E1212/29/1985

    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

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    Director:Clint Eastwood

    Writer:Steven Spielberg
25. 

    7.2/10(10 votes)

    #25 - 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