The WORST episodes of Amazing Stories (1985)
Every episode of Amazing Stories (1985) ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst episodes of Amazing Stories (1985)!
Truly amazing, fantastical, funny, and odd, and sometimes scary, sad, and endearing stories are portrayed. Many famous actors, actresses, and directors made guest appearances.
#1 - Miss Stardust
Season 2 - Episode 21 - Aired 4/10/1987
A beauty pageant promoter is forced to allow the cream of the alien crop into his self-proclaimed "Miss Galaxy" contest.
#2 - 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.
#3 - 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.
#4 - 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.
#5 - 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.
#6 - 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.
#7 - 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.
#8 - Hell Toupee
Season 1 - Episode 21 - Aired 4/13/1986
A new toupee causes a man to feel an urge to kill the first lawyer he sees.
#9 - Gather Ye Acorns
Season 1 - Episode 16 - Aired 2/2/1986
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.
#10 - Santa '85
Season 1 - Episode 11 - Aired 12/15/1985
A little boy helps Santa when the legendary man is thrown in jail while delivering presents.
#11 - 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.
#12 - Fine Tuning
Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/10/1985
Teenager (Andy) is working on a science project to intercept distant television signals but inadvertently tunes into a series of alien broadcasts...aliens who have mimicked old b&w TV shows such as "I Love Lucy." Andy and his friends tune in on a newscast saying three alien explorers are travelling to Earth on an expedition to meet their inspiration. Andy and his friends find the aliens - who easily stand out - and decide to take them on a tour of Hollywood, but the aliens are disappointed to learn that they can't bring anyone (such as Milton Berle) back with them. Finally, Andy digs up some aging vaudeville entertainers from a retirement home who are glad to go back with the aliens and entertain them.
#13 - 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.
#14 - Alamo Jobe
Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/20/1985
During the fight of the Alamo a young messenger is transported to twentieth century San Antonio.
#15 - 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.
#16 - The Doll
Season 1 - Episode 22 - Aired 5/4/1986
A lonely bachelor is fascinated by a doll he bought for his niece.
#17 - 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.
#18 - 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.
#19 - 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.
#20 - 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.
#21 - 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.
#22 - 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.
#23 - One for the Books
Season 1 - Episode 23 - Aired 5/11/1986
An elderly custodian suddenly gains incredible knowledge.
#24 - Secret Cinema
Season 1 - Episode 20 - Aired 4/6/1986
A young woman believes that her mother, her fiance, and her psychiatrist are secretly filming her life.
#25 - Dorothy and Ben
Season 1 - Episode 18 - Aired 3/2/1986
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.