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What's your favorite episode?


My favorite is "Hell Toupee". I'm watching a marathon on the Sci Fi channel, and it just started. There's nothing funnier than killer hairpieces.


"Watching that was like being mugged by a pit crew." -Marc, FNS

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I don't know if I have the episode name right, but I believe it was called "Without Emily" about a young girl that wanders off at a picnic, never to be seen again and assumed dead. Many years later, the girls parent's have still never forgotten her, although the mother is close to dying. Emily appears, as young as ever, to her aged father, and takes her mother to the other side because it was her time to go. Although saddened, the father knows he'll be with them someday. The young girl leaves a memento behind: the gold locket she was wearing when she disappeared. Simple moral: all of our loved ones that have died before us remain very much alive in our minds and hearts so long as we let them--they're not all that far away.

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Actually, it was Without Diana. Yeah, I know that episode. Some episodes are aired on Sci channel. I have taped some of them that interested me. That episode was one of my favorite because I like ghosts.

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You are thinking of "Without Diana," Episode 43, Season Two. InnerMind.com says,

40 years after Diana died tragically at age 8, a man is
visited by his departed daughter, whose reappearance provides
comforts the impending death of his beloved wife.

Starring
Billy Green Bush as George Willoughby
Dianne Hull as Kathryn Willoughby
Gennie James as as Diana Willoughby
With
Fredric Cook as Dr. Wittenberg
Rick Andosca as Policeman
Written by Mick Garris
Directed by Leslie Linka Glatter

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I have 2 favorites: 1 is the one where the little boy Jonah is negelected by his parents who have no interest in him and he is born again to a new parent.

2 is the one where the girl is secretly being filmed for a movie that she has no idea she is the star of.

SciFi has been showing a lot of marathons lately-they had one today and I was tickled!

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In my later years, I remembered 2 that stuck with me:

1)Family Dog-when I was younger, it was animated and I always remembered the dog running away from the little boy, as he wielded the vaccuum cleaner hose at the dog, smiling maniacally. There was also the guard dog training that with one snap the dog would becomea crazed mutt.

2)The one where Santa is apprehended on Christmas Eve as a burglar is one that I never forgot (I mean, how could it be that Santa could get by so many of those home security systems in the 80's?). Of course, the 'Scrooge-like' Sheriff who refuses to believe in Santa because he never got that raygun as a kid is kind of hokey, but it worked-they used the same method in 'The Santa Clause' 10 years later.

Btw, was there ever one about a group of boys who see some crazy guy smashing the face of a woman with a mallot, trying to get her to smile? I saw this on some show, and part of me believes it was 'Amazing Stories.'

Plus, wasn't the one where the guy gets a magical TV the same one where the show wheel of Fortune appears in his living room, and then KITT from Knight Rider crashes through his living room wall?

A-ha-ha-ha, you're really weird!-Willy Wonka

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That last one was "Remote Control," and featured a lot of actual TV stars past and present. The guy turns his wife into a beauty pageant winner (actually a former Miss Universe) and when he realizes she's an airhead who can't cook, turns her into June Cleaver (played by Barbara Billingsley in fact). The studio audience from "Let's Make a Deal" and "Name That Tune" host Jim Lange also pop up in his living room, as of course, does KITT.

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No one seems to have referenced this one, so I wonder if it actually was an episode on the show...

It was a bit cheesy in parts, but remarkably sweet and amusing in its own way. It was this old washed up magician, (he must have been in his 60s or 70s or so if memory serves). His tricks are old and stale and he's going to be fired, and everyone's telling him to quit. One night while he's on stage, and fouling up in a big way, this magical deck of cards he has somehow saves his career by doing all these fantastic flying/floating tricks in midair, to the amazement of the entire audience.
He tries to do a couple more shows, but then realises he needs to retire, and has to say goodbye to his audience. He gives a very odd little speech at his final show (for some reason, watching it as a kid, it sort of moved me :D) about leaving and sometimes having to step down, and then goes out in a flourish with a really well executed card trick featuring the entire deck.

Does anyone remember this episode? Alongwith "The Mission" It's the only one that still sticks in my mind!

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This was a great thread. Just reading the list of everyone's favorites episodes takes me back to Sunday nights. Many of my favorites have already been mentioned (MummyDaddy, Family Dog, Dorothy & Ben, You Gotta Believe Me, etc).
The one that I haven't seen, that sticks with me the most, is one that I can't remember the name of. It's the one where Mark Hamill gets advice from that troll-fairy to save all of his "treasures". At the end of the show, he's broke and homeless and then winds up selling his antiques to make a fortune. I just LOVE that one!!

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I liked the one called "Fine Tuning". Its when a kid builds a antenna for a science fair that picks up channels from other states, other countries, and other planets. He picks up an alien channel that has alien remakes of famous American T.V. Shows. I can remember them doing "I love lucy" I couldn't stop laughing when i saw it. I just that it was hilarious how they didn't speak english or any other form of earth language and kept quoting the famous actors. I loved this series.

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I love that episode - especially when the aliens start singing the theme of "Ponderosa"!

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It has to be 'Mummy Daddy' What a riot. Can anyone spot an artifact from Indiana Jones in this episode? I'm almost sure its from it. Let me know what you think...

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Ojkay!!! Listen I have been looking everywhere for an episode, but I am not sure if it is Tales or Amazing TV show. Its about a mentally challenged boy and he lives with his parents. He has teh powers to bring things to life just by looking at pictures of them. His parents will let him see a picture of a doughnut after supper and then he brings it from the photo. Later he starts to bring things back without having to look at the pictures and it gets really weird after that. Does anyonw know what I am talking about? I know it was from the mid 80s.

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(Ojkay!!! Listen I have been looking everywhere for an episode, but I am not sure if it is Tales or Amazing TV show. Its about a mentally challenged boy and he lives with his parents. He has teh powers to bring things to life just by looking at pictures of them. His parents will let him see a picture of a doughnut after supper and then he brings it from the photo. Later he starts to bring things back without having to look at the pictures and it gets really weird after that. Does anyonw know what I am talking about? I know it was from the mid 80ss)


This was from the second season of the 80s series of the twilight zone.and was called -The Toys of Caliban-



My favourite AS were:-
the mission
gather ye acorns
head of the class
and the one about the irish drunk who didn't seem able to be killed.

but then again they were all good anyway.







To be die,to be really dead,that must be glorious(Bela Lugosi)

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Guys I need help with a episode, I'm almost positive this was a Amazing Stories thing. I can't remember it was so long ago. Anyways, a couple buys a old house that has a well. The husband treats his wife like crap. When they go to see if there's water in the well, they lower a bucket and something grabs the rope at the bottom. They bring it up and there's a note that says send food. So they lower down a sandwich and when they bring it back up there's gold coins in the bucket. They lower down a turkey and bring up and the bucket has more treasures. The guy wants to know what's down there so he takes a metal drum and puts a bunch of flash lights in it with a camera. Lowers it and all of a sudden the rope almost breaks off you hear these awful noises, when he brings it back up, all the flash lights are gone, and the camera is out. A note says, please, just send more food. The guy gets mad and decides he's going to go down himself. He gets all dressed up with a gas mask and guns and stuff. His wife lowers him down. and then she doesn't hear anything for awhile. Hours go by and she starts screaming his name, nothing. She brings him back up and he looks like he's still on the rope all decked out his his gear. Then she touches his mask and all these gold coins come falling out. She opens his jacket and it's filled with treasure and coins with a note, that says, thank you for the food, out of all the things you've sent, we liked this best.

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Check it out...... The sci-fi channel has a complete list of episodes with a synopsis of each episode. I hope I spelled that right.

"You think you are hot sh*t in a champagne glass when you are really cold diarhea in a dixie cup". The Monarch

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You are thinking about "Thanksgiving," Episode #33 (Season Two). InnerMind.com says,

When their dry well yields a gold coin and a note written in hieroglyphics, a man and his teen-age stepdaughter have contrasting reactions: he rushes off to cash in on the wealth, and she reciprocates the beneficence of the "hole people."

Starring
David Carradine as Calvin
Kyra Sedgwick as Dora Johnson
Teleplay by Pierre R. Debs & Robert C. Fox
Directed by Todd Holland

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"gather ye acorns" with mark hamill and the troll and his comic book collection was always my favorite. it stayed with me for years.

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I loved every episode but the one that stuck with me was the Mark Hamill one where he saved all his childhood toys etc, partly because I enjoy him as an actor since Star Wars, but mostly because I'm a collector too and the idea that all the stuff you can't get rid of even though everybody tells you to will become valuable some day. E-Bay proves that's true! If there weren't people who didn't throw stuff away there would be no antiques, no memorabilia, no collectibles!

I saw an article or ad in June saying both seasons of Amazing Stories were coming out on DVD on July 18th but I have never seen them in an ad or anything since then--does anybody know if it came out?? IMDB doesn't say anything about it that I can find.

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This is the one I have been looking for, where Mark Hamill is kind of a looser with a bunch of old junk and it turns out that it ends up being worth a fortune. I really want this episode on DVD if anyone can help. Im not interested in the whole series just this 1 episode. Please help, email [email protected] THANKS

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