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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...
  1. 4.7/10(465 votes)

    #1 - Fine Tuning

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    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. 5.3/10(217 votes)

    #2 - Miss Stardust

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    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. 5.5/10(338 votes)

    #3 - Secret Cinema

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    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
  4. 5.6/10(419 votes)

    #4 - Guilt Trip

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    S1:E9

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

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  5. 5.6/10(334 votes)

    #5 - Hell Toupee

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    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. 5.7/10(561 votes)

    #6 - Alamo Jobe

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    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. 5.8/10(286 votes)

    #7 - The Greibble

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    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. 5.8/10(212 votes)

    #8 - What If...?

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    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. 5.9/10(206 votes)

    #9 - The Eternal Mind

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    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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  11. 6.0/10(355 votes)

    #10 - Boo!

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    S1:E17

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

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  12. 6.0/10(221 votes)

    #11 - Magic Saturday

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    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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  13. 6.1/10(208 votes)

    #12 - Gershwin's Trunk

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    S2:E17

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

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  14. 6.2/10(621 votes)

    #13 - The Main Attraction

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    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. 6.2/10(223 votes)

    #14 - The Pumpkin Competition

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    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. 6.2/10(204 votes)

    #15 - Without Diana

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    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. 6.3/10(409 votes)

    #16 - Mr. Magic

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    S1:E8

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

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  18. 6.3/10(480 votes)

    #17 - Remote Control Man

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    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:N/A
  19. 6.3/10(437 votes)

    #18 - Santa '85

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    S1:E11

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

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  20. 6.3/10(304 votes)

    #19 - Grandpa's Ghost

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    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. 6.3/10(283 votes)

    #20 - Welcome to My Nightmare

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    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
  22. 6.3/10(189 votes)

    #21 - Such Interesting Neighbors

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    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. 6.3/10(205 votes)

    #22 - Moving Day

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    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.

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    Writer:Frank Kerr
  24. 6.4/10(502 votes)

    #23 - Vanessa in the Garden

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    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. 6.4/10(287 votes)

    #24 - One For the Books

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    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. 6.4/10(299 votes)

    #25 - The Wedding Ring

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    S2:E1

    A wax museum dresser takes a ring from a statue. The ring transforms his overworked wife into a femme fatale.

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    Director:Danny DeVito

Worst Episodes Summary

"Fine Tuning" is the worst rated episode of "Amazing Stories". It scored 4.7/10 based on 465 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".