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The Best Episodes Written By Mick Garris

Every TV Episode Written by Mick Garris Ranked from Best to Worst by Thousands of Voters

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    undefined Season 2 Episode 8 - Go to the Head of the Class
    8.1/10(11 votes)

    S2:E8

    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.

    Director:N/A
    Writer:Mick Garris

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  2. undefined Season 2 Episode 19 - Without Diana
    7.7/10(7 votes)

    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.

    Director:N/A
    Writer:Mick Garris

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  3. undefined Season 1 Episode 14 - No Day at the Beach
    7.4/10(10 votes)

    S1:E14

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

    Director:N/A
    Writer:Mick Garris

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  4. undefined Season 2 Episode 18 - Such Interesting Neighbors
    7.4/10(7 votes)

    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.

    Director:N/A
    Writer:Mick Garris

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  5. undefined Season 1 Episode 6 - The Amazing Falsworth
    7.2/10(14 votes)

    S1:E6

    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.

    Director:N/A
    Writer:Mick Garris

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  6. undefined Season 2 Episode 6 - The Greibble
    6.4/10(9 votes)

    S2:E6

    A housewife has a very real nightmare. She encounters a large creature that has a taste for inanimate objects.

    Director:N/A
    Writer:Mick Garris

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  7. undefined Season 1 Episode 13 - The Sitter
    6.4/10(10 votes)

    S1:E13

    Two young boys get the best of every sitter in town, until they meet one who uses voodoo to settle them down.

    Director:N/A
    Writer:Mick Garris

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  8. undefined Season 1 Episode 2 - The Main Attraction
    6.1/10(16 votes)

    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.

    Director:N/A
    Writer:Mick Garris

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  9. undefined Season 1 Episode 12 - Haeckel's Tale
    6.0/10(42 votes)

    S1:E12

    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...

    Director:N/A
    Writer:Mick Garris

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  10. undefined Season 2 Episode 8 - Valerie on the Stairs
    4.9/10(31 votes)

    S2:E8

    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.

    Director:N/A
    Writer:Mick Garris

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  11. undefined Season 1 Episode 5 - Chocolate
    4.9/10(44 votes)

    S1:E5

    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.

    Director:N/A
    Writer:Mick Garris

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  12. undefined Season 2 Episode 3 - The V Word
    4.8/10(14 votes)

    S2:E3

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

    Director:N/A
    Writer:Mick Garris

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  13. undefined Season 1 Episode 1 - The Sacrifice
    4.7/10(5 votes)

    S1:E1

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

    Director:N/A
    Writer:Mick Garris

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  14. undefined Season 1 Episode 2 - Spooked
    3.2/10(6 votes)

    S1:E2

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

    Director:N/A
    Writer:Mick Garris

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  15. undefined Season 1 Episode 10 - Chance
    3.1/10(5 votes)

    S1:E10

    A man must confront his evil doppelganger.

    Director:N/A
    Writer:Mick Garris

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Mick Garris Ratings Summary

"Go to the Head of the Class" is the best rated episode written by Mick Garris. It scored 8.1/10 from 11 votes. It was directed by N/A. It aired on November 21, 1986. It is rated 0.4 points higher than their second-best episode, "Without Diana".