The Best Episodes Written By Mick Garris

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1. #1 Fan Favorite
   

   8.1/10(11 votes)

   #1 - Go to the Head of the Class

   S2:E811/21/1986

   A teacher's bizarre discipline causes two students to seek revenge with a spell culled from a rock song played backwards. Unfortunately something goes wrong when they cast the spell. When they attempt another spell to fix the problem they accidently remove the head of their teacher.

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   7.7/10(7 votes)

   #2 - 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.

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   7.5/10(12 votes)

   #3 - The Amazing Falsworth

   S1:E611/5/1985

   A psychic showman realizes that during a performance that someone in the audience wants to commit murder. Frightened, he calls the police, and the detective shows up to investigate.

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   7.4/10(10 votes)

   #4 - No Day at the Beach

   S1:E141/12/1986

   A GI tries to be a hero during an amphibious assault in Italy during World War II.

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   7.4/10(7 votes)

   #5 - 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.

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   6.4/10(9 votes)

   #6 - 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.

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   6.4/10(10 votes)

   #7 - The Sitter

   S1:E131/5/1986

   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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   6.2/10(13 votes)

   #8 - 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.

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   6.0/10(35 votes)

   #9 - Haeckel's Tale

   S1:E121/27/2006

   Based on Clive Barker's short story. While on his way to see his sick father, Ernest Haeckel takes shelter with an elderly man and his young wife but soon discovers their horrible secret...

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    4.9/10(39 votes)

    #10 - Chocolate

    S1:E511/25/2005

    Jamie, a newly divorced man who creates artificial flavours for the food industry, suddenly and inexplicably starts to experience brief and random flashes from someone - and somewhere - unknown: sight, sound, smell, touch. Learning that he's experiencing life through the senses of a mysterious woman, he begins to fall in love with her-without having met her. Eventually, he discovers a horrifying secret that binds him inexorably with the perfect woman in an erotic, horrifying dance of death.

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    4.9/10(11 votes)

    #11 - The V Word

    S2:E311/10/2006

    A lone vampire punishes two teenage boys who make the poor decision to break into a mortuary.

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    4.8/10(3 votes)

    #12 - The Sacrifice

    S1:E16/5/2008

    On the lam from the authorities, four criminals find themselves held up at a decrepit fort inhabited by three alluring women.

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13. 

    4.7/10(26 votes)

    #13 - Valerie on the Stairs

    S2:E812/29/2006

    Rob Hanisee is a writer that has a strange apparition. Beautiful, naked and mysterious, Valerie might be the muse that Rob has always searched for - or the manifestation of a much darker force. Blood and death follow Rob across the line between life and art.

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    3.5/10(3 votes)

    #14 - Chance

    S1:E101/10/2009

    A man must confront his evil doppelganger.

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    2.8/10(4 votes)

    #15 - Spooked

    S1:E26/12/2008

    A private eye is forced to confront the demons from his past while staking out a haunted house.

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