The Worst Episodes of Amazing Stories

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

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

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

Director: Burt Reynolds

Writer: Gail Parent, Kevin Parent

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Director: Joe Dante

Writer: Lowell Ganz, Babaloo Mandel

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

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

Director: Paul Bartel

Writer: Paul Bartel, John Meyer

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

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

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

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

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

Director: Bob Clark

Writer: N/A

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

Director: Phil Joanou

Writer: Joshua Brand, John Falsey

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

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

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

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

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

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

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