The Worst Episodes of Amazing Stories

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   4.8/10(521 votes)

   #1 - 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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   5.2/10(241 votes)

   #2 - Miss Stardust

   S2:E214/10/1987

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

   Director:Tobe Hooper

   Writers:Richard Christian Matheson, Tom Szollosi

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   Director:Tobe Hooper

   Writers:Richard Christian Matheson, Tom Szollosi
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   5.4/10(379 votes)

   #3 - 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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   Director:Paul Bartel

   Writer:Paul Bartel
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   5.5/10(461 votes)

   #4 - 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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   5.6/10(373 votes)

   #5 - 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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   5.7/10(611 votes)

   #6 - 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
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   5.7/10(239 votes)

   #7 - What If...?

   S2:E1112/8/1986

   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

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   Director:Joan Darling

   Writer:Anne Spielberg
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   5.8/10(320 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
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   5.9/10(253 votes)

   #9 - 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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   Director:Robert Markowitz

   Writer:Richard Christian Matheson
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    5.9/10(230 votes)

    #10 - The Eternal Mind

    S2:E1212/29/1986

    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

    Writers:Gary Stephens, Julie Moskowitz

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    Director:J. Michael Riva

    Writers:Gary Stephens, Julie Moskowitz
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    6.1/10(390 votes)

    #11 - 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
12. 

    6.1/10(234 votes)

    #12 - 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
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    6.1/10(230 votes)

    #13 - Without Diana

    S2:E193/27/1987

    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

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    Director:Lesli Linka Glatter

    Writer:Mick Garris
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    6.2/10(686 votes)

    #14 - 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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    6.2/10(251 votes)

    #15 - 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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    6.3/10(453 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
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    6.3/10(523 votes)

    #17 - 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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    Director:Bob Clark

    Writer:Unknown
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    6.3/10(478 votes)

    #18 - 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
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    6.3/10(335 votes)

    #19 - 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
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    6.3/10(305 votes)

    #20 - 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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    Director:Todd Holland

    Writer:Todd Holland
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    6.3/10(211 votes)

    #21 - Such Interesting Neighbors

    S2:E183/20/1987

    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

    Writers:Mick Garris, Tom McLoughlin

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    Director:Graham Baker

    Writers:Mick Garris, Tom McLoughlin
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    6.3/10(232 votes)

    #22 - Moving Day

    S2:E204/3/1987

    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

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    Director:Robert Stevens

    Writer:Frank Kerr
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    6.4/10(549 votes)

    #23 - 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
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    6.4/10(320 votes)

    #24 - One For the Books

    S1:E235/11/1986

    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

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    Director:Lesli Linka Glatter

    Writer:Richard Matheson
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    6.4/10(336 votes)

    #25 - The Wedding Ring

    S2:E19/22/1986

    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

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    Director:Danny DeVito

    Writer:Stu Krieger