The BEST episodes of Amazing Stories (1985) season 2
Every episode of Amazing Stories (1985) season 2, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Amazing Stories (1985) season 2!
Truly amazing, fantastical, funny, and odd, and sometimes scary, sad, and endearing stories are portrayed. Many famous actors, actresses, and directors made guest appearances.
#2 - Go to the Head of the Class
Season 2 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/21/1986
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.
#3 - Thanksgiving
Season 2 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/24/1986
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.
#4 - The Wedding Ring
Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/22/1986
A wax museum dresser takes a ring from a statue. The ring transforms his overworked wife into a femme fatale.
#5 - Life on Death Row
Season 2 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/10/1986
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.
#6 - Welcome to My Nightmare
Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/13/1986
A horror movie buff's obsession with the girl next door lands him in a terrifying scene from Psycho.
#7 - Miscalculation
Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/29/1986
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.
#8 - Without Diana
Season 2 - Episode 19 - Aired 3/27/1987
A father meets his long lost daughter who appears to him exactly as she appeared forty years ago.
#9 - Blue Man Down
Season 2 - Episode 14 - Aired 1/19/1987
Two police officers try to break up a supermarket robbery, but the younger officer is killed. A new female partner helps the other officer avenge his friends death. He later discovers that his new partner is the ghost of an officer who died 12 years earlier.
#10 - The Eternal Mind
Season 2 - Episode 12 - Aired 12/29/1986
A dying scientist volunteers to be the first person to merge with a computer.
#11 - You Gotta Believe Me
Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/20/1986
Awakened by a dream of a plane crashing outside his home, a man tries to convince people of his premonition.
#12 - The 21-Inch Sun
Season 2 - Episode 15 - Aired 2/2/1987
A television writer is given an opportunity to write a sitcom. The source of inspiration for the sitcom comes to the man from his plants.
#13 - The Pumpkin Competition
Season 2 - Episode 10 - Aired 12/1/1986
An old spinster who is tired of losing a pumpkin competition recieves special advice from an agricultural professor.
#14 - Such Interesting Neighbors
Season 2 - Episode 18 - Aired 3/20/1987
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.
#15 - Magic Saturday
Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/6/1986
A man temporarily exchanges bodies with his grandson so that he can relive his youth on the baseball field. While the man enjoys his new life, the boy discovers his grandfather's old body is dying.
#16 - Lane Change
Season 2 - Episode 13 - Aired 1/12/1987
Traveling a deserted highway, a woman facing divorce sees her past through the windshield after she picks up a stranded woman.
#17 - What If...?
Season 2 - Episode 11 - Aired 12/8/1986
A boy wonders what would happen if his parents did not return from one of their many social events.
#18 - Moving Day
Season 2 - Episode 20 - Aired 4/3/1987
A teen learns that his family is bound for a new home: a planet almost a hundred billion miles away.
#19 - Gershwin's Trunk
Season 2 - Episode 17 - Aired 3/13/1987
A broadway lyricist seeks inspiration by contacting the spirit of Gershwin through a psychic.
#20 - The Greibble
Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/3/1986
A housewife has a very real nightmare. She encounters a large creature that has a taste for inanimate objects.
