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The Worst Episodes of Amazing Stories

Every episode of Amazing Stories ranked from worst to best. Explore the Worst Episodes of Amazing Stories!

The Worst Episodes of Amazing Stories

A truly amazing, fantastical, science fiction, funny and odd, and sometimes scary, sad and endearing anthology series presented by Steven Spielberg with guest appearances by...

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  1. Background image for Fine Tuning
    4.7/10(481 votes)

    #1 - 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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  2. Background image for Miss Stardust
    5.3/10(223 votes)

    #2 - 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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  3. Background image for Guilt Trip
    5.5/10(430 votes)

    #3 - Guilt Trip

    S1:E9

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

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  4. Background image for Secret Cinema
    5.5/10(347 votes)

    #4 - 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.

    Director:Paul Bartel
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  5. Background image for Hell Toupee
    5.6/10(344 votes)

    #5 - 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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  6. Background image for Alamo Jobe
    5.7/10(574 votes)

    #6 - 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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  8. Background image for The Greibble
    5.8/10(296 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.

    Director:Joe Dante
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  9. Background image for What If...?
    5.8/10(220 votes)

    #8 - 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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  10. Background image for Magic Saturday
    5.9/10(231 votes)

    #9 - 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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  11. Background image for The Eternal Mind
    5.9/10(213 votes)

    #10 - 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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  12. Background image for Boo!
    6.0/10(364 votes)

    #11 - Boo!

    S1:E17

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

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  13. Background image for Gershwin's Trunk
    6.1/10(213 votes)

    #12 - Gershwin's Trunk

    S2:E17

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

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  14. Background image for The Main Attraction
    6.2/10(636 votes)

    #13 - 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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  15. Background image for The Pumpkin Competition
    6.2/10(229 votes)

    #14 - 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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  16. Background image for Without Diana
    6.2/10(210 votes)

    #15 - 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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  17. Background image for Mr. Magic
    6.3/10(421 votes)

    #16 - 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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  18. Background image for Remote Control Man
    6.3/10(491 votes)

    #17 - Remote Control Man

    S1:E10

    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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  19. Background image for Santa '85
    6.3/10(449 votes)

    #18 - Santa '85

    S1:E11

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

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  20. Background image for Grandpa's Ghost
    6.3/10(315 votes)

    #19 - 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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  21. Background image for Welcome to My Nightmare
    6.3/10(293 votes)

    #20 - 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.

    Director:Todd Holland
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  22. Background image for Such Interesting Neighbors
    6.3/10(193 votes)

    #21 - 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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  23. Background image for Moving Day
    6.3/10(211 votes)

    #22 - 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.

    Writer:Unknown
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  24. Background image for Vanessa in the Garden
    6.4/10(515 votes)

    #23 - 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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  25. Background image for One For the Books
    6.4/10(296 votes)

    #24 - One For the Books

    S1:E23

    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.

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  26. Background image for The Wedding Ring
    6.4/10(308 votes)

    #25 - 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.

    Director:Danny DeVito
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Worst Episodes Summary

"Fine Tuning" is the worst rated episode of "Amazing Stories". It scored 4.7/10 based on 481 votes. Directed by Bob Balaban and written by Earl Pomerantz, it aired on 11/10/1985. This episode scored 0.6 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Miss Stardust".