The Best Episodes of Amazing Stories
Last Updated: Mar 13, 2019
Amazing Stories is a fantasy, horror and science fiction anthology series created by Steven Spielberg. It originally ran for two seasons on NBC from 1985 to 1987 and featured an all-star roster of guest stars and directors. The series was nominated for 12 Emmy Awards and won five.
#1 - The Family Dog
Season 2 - Episode 16
In an animated episode, the antics of a family are seen through the point of view of the family dog.
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#2 - The Mission
Season 1 - Episode 5
During World War II, men in an air force bomber are caught in a no win scenario when their belly gunner (an amateur artist) is trapped in his seat and the plane has no wheels for landing.
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#3 - Go to the Head of the Class
Season 2 - Episode 8
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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#4 - Gather Ye Acorns
Season 1 - Episode 16
On the advice from a mysterious little man, an 18-year-old boy begins to collect rare comics and toys. When he sells them as an old man, he gains wealth and happiness.
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#5 - Thanksgiving
Season 2 - Episode 9
Nora and her father Calvin are farmers who are digging a well for water. The two lower a flashlight on a rope down the hole. Suddenly something pulls on the rope. When they pull it up, they see that the flashlight has been replaced with a gold ingot. Calvin goes to town with it while Nora sends down another package to the "hole people" containing ham and a dictionary. When she pulls it back up she receives gold and jewels and a note thanking her, saying the 'ham' was very tasty, and asking for more things. She sends down chicken and gets even more gold. Calvin returns in a tow truck. On a tow cable, he sends down a container filled with flashlights. When he pulls it up, he discovers they have been destroyed. Calvin is upset and decides to go down into the hole. He gets a gun and puts on a gas mask and army suit. He lowers himself down and tells Nora to bring him up after 10 minutes. Nora brings him up but all that comes up is the suit, stuffed with gold and jewelry and coins.
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#6 - Life on Death Row
Season 2 - Episode 7
An inmate is struck by lightning. He is given miraculous healing powers that spark a last-minute attempt to save him from the electric chair.
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#7 - Dorothy and Ben
Season 1 - Episode 18
After 40 years in a coma, Ben Dumpfy awakens and discovers that he can communicate with a seven-year-old girl who is in a coma after a bike accident.
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#8 - The Amazing Falsworth
Season 1 - Episode 6
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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#9 - Mummy, Daddy
Season 1 - Episode 4
An actor, Harold, who stars in a mummy film finds himself in serious trouble from frightened people when he leaves the set in full costume to reach his pregnant wife who is about to give birth. Unfortunately, matters become even more complicated when a local mummy, Ra Amin Kamin, comes to life and starts trying to kill Harold. In the end, Harold gets to the hospital in time and Ra Amin Kamin finds himself the new star of the movie...
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#10 - Miscalculation
Season 2 - Episode 2
A high school student searching for a date accidently spills chemicals on a magazine and conjures up a dog. He tries desperately to create a beautiful woman, but things go terribly wrong.
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#11 - Moving Day
Season 2 - Episode 20
A teen learns that his family is bound for a new home: a planet almost a hundred billion miles away.
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#12 - The Sitter
Season 1 - Episode 13
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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#13 - Ghost Train
Season 1 - Episode 1
Trains of ages past are about to crash into the present world of a young boy.
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#14 - The Doll
Season 1 - Episode 22
A lonely bachelor is fascinated by a doll he bought for his niece.
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#15 - Such Interesting Neighbors
Season 2 - Episode 18
The Lewise family believes that their new neighbors the Hellenbecks are from outer space. The couple and their only child are strange, and seem to have little or no knowledge of 20th century customs and behaviors. Soon strange things begin happening and a strange heat-seeking device tries to kill the Lewises. The Hellenbecks reveal they are from the future, and came back in time to have a naturally-born child (which is forbidden in their future). Together the two families manage to defeat a killer-android and the Hellenbecks depart rather then endanger their new found friends.
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#16 - The Pumpkin Competition
Season 2 - Episode 10
An old spinster who is tired of losing a pumpkin competition recieves special advice from an agricultural professor.
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#17 - One For the Books
Season 1 - Episode 23
An elderly custodian suddenly gains incredible knowledge.
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#18 - Mr. Magic
Season 1 - Episode 8
A fading illusionist has a last shot at greatness thanks to a deck of magic playing cards.
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#19 - The Wedding Ring
Season 2 - Episode 1
A wax museum dresser takes a ring from a statue. The ring transforms his overworked wife into a femme fatale.
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#20 - No Day at the Beach
Season 1 - Episode 14
A GI tries to be a hero during an amphibious assault in Italy during World War II.
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#21 - What If...?
Season 2 - Episode 11
A boy wonders what would happen if his parents did not return from one of their many social events.
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#22 - Mirror, Mirror
Season 1 - Episode 19
A popular horror novelist is terrorized by a strange figure in his bathroom mirror.
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#23 - Without Diana
Season 2 - Episode 19
A father meets his long lost daughter who appears to him exactly as she appeared forty years ago.
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#24 - The Greibble
Season 2 - Episode 6
A housewife has a very real nightmare. She encounters a large creature that has a taste for inanimate objects.
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#25 - Welcome to My Nightmare
Season 2 - Episode 4
A horror movie buff's obsession with the girl next door lands him in a terrifying scene from Psycho.
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