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The Worst Episodes of Amazing Stories

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

    #1 - 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
  2. Background image for The Main Attraction
    6.2/10(12 votes)

    #2 - 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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  3. Background image for Hell Toupee
    6.2/10(9 votes)

    #3 - 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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  4. Background image for Fine Tuning
    6.4/10(9 votes)

    #4 - 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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  5. Background image for Guilt Trip
    6.4/10(9 votes)

    #5 - Guilt Trip

    S1:E9

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

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

    #6 - 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
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  8. Background image for The Greibble
    6.4/10(8 votes)

    #7 - 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
  9. Background image for Alamo Jobe
    6.7/10(12 votes)

    #8 - 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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  10. Background image for Gather Ye Acorns
    6.7/10(9 votes)

    #9 - 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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  11. Background image for Ghost Train
    6.8/10(16 votes)

    #10 - 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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  12. Background image for Remote Control Man
    6.8/10(9 votes)

    #11 - 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
  13. Background image for Boo!
    6.8/10(9 votes)

    #12 - Boo!

    S1:E17

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

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  14. Background image for Welcome to My Nightmare
    6.8/10(8 votes)

    #13 - 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
  15. Background image for Gershwin's Trunk
    6.9/10(7 votes)

    #14 - Gershwin's Trunk

    S2:E17

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

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  16. Background image for Mr. Magic
    7.0/10(11 votes)

    #15 - Mr. Magic

    S1:E8

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

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  17. Background image for Santa '85
    7.0/10(9 votes)

    #16 - Santa '85

    S1:E11

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

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  18. Background image for Grandpa's Ghost
    7.0/10(8 votes)

    #17 - Grandpa's Ghost

    S1:E24

    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?

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  19. Background image for One For the Road
    7.1/10(9 votes)

    #18 - One For the Road

    S1:E15

    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.

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  20. Background image for Mirror, Mirror
    7.1/10(12 votes)

    #19 - Mirror, Mirror

    S1:E19

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

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  21. Background image for Magic Saturday
    7.1/10(8 votes)

    #20 - 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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  22. Background image for The Pumpkin Competition
    7.1/10(7 votes)

    #21 - 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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  23. Background image for Mummy Daddy
    7.2/10(12 votes)

    #22 - Mummy Daddy

    S1:E4

    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.

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  24. Background image for The Mission
    7.2/10(16 votes)

    #23 - The Mission

    S1:E5

    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.

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  25. Background image for You Gotta Believe Me
    7.2/10(9 votes)

    #24 - You Gotta Believe Me

    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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  26. Background image for Vanessa in the Garden
    7.3/10(9 votes)

    #25 - Vanessa in the Garden

    S1:E12

    When an artist is devastated by the death of his wife, he finds a way for her to live on in his painting.

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Worst Episodes Summary

"Secret Cinema" is the worst rated episode of "Amazing Stories". It scored 6/10 based on 9 votes. Directed by Paul Bartel and written by Paul Bartel, it aired on 4/6/1986. This episode scored 0.2 points lower than the second lowest rated, "The Main Attraction".