Amazing Stories

S02E16

Family Dog

The only animated episode of the show that's also a backdoor pilot. It has three segments: A family takes out their frustrations on their poor dog, watches their Christmas home movie, and sends the dog to guard dog school after a burglary.

• Directed by Brad Bird
• Written by Brad Bird

S02E13

Lane Change

One stormy night on a deserted highway, a distraught wife driving toward an impending divorce glimpses her past through the windshield after picking up a mysterious woman who ran out of gas.

• Directed by Ken Kwapis
• Written by Ali Marie Matheson

S02E07

Life on Death Row

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.

• Directed by Mick Garris
• Written by Rockne S. O'Bannon

S02E09

Thanksgiving

When a dry well yields treasures, a man cashes in, while his stepdaughter repays the kindness of the “hole people.”

• Directed by Todd Holland
• Written by Pierre R. Debs

S02E08

Go to the Head of the Class

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.

• Directed by Robert Zemeckis
• Written by Bob Gale, Mick Garris

S02E14

Blue Man Down

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.

• Directed by Paul Michael Glaser
• Written by Jacob Epstein

S02E21

Miss Stardust

• Directed by Tobe Hooper
• Written by Richard Christian Matheson, Tom Szollosi

S02E20

Moving Day

• Directed by Robert Stevens
• Written by Frank Kerr

S02E19

Without Diana

• Directed by Lesli Linka Glatter
• Written by Mick Garris

S02E18

Such Interesting Neighbors

• Directed by Graham Baker
• Written by Mick Garris, Tom McLoughlin

S02E17

Gershwin's Trunk

• Directed by Paul Bartel
• Written by John Meyer, Paul Bartel

S02E16

Family Dog

• Directed by Brad Bird
• Written by Brad Bird