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My top 4 eps were easy, but #5 could be any number of episodes. Still, these are my top 5 episodes of Amazing Stories :

1. Go To The Head Of The Class. Christopher Lloyd(Back To The Future, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Clue, Taxi, The Addams Family) stars as a nasty teacher. A nerdy student hooks up with a rebellious girl to exact revenge on the professor. They gather up ingredients from the cemetery and perform a spell, but things go awry and what comes after them is not what they had planned. Directed by Robert Zemeckis(Back To The Future 1-3, Romancing The Stone, Roger Rabbit, Forrest Gump, Cast Away, The Polar Express.) It was written by Bob Gale, who wrote the BTTF movies with Zemeckis.

2. Welcome To My Nightmare. A nerdish teen, who thrives on movies(mostly horror, it seems) more than reality, realizes that the movies may not be all they are cracked up to be when he is magically thrown into a scene from "Psycho", completely shot in black and white, and with Norman Bates coming to make a house call. A young Christina Applegate(Married With Children) appears in the episode.

3. Mummy, Daddy. An actor, playing a mummy in a Hollywood production, jets off to the hospital when his wife goes into labor, with no time to remove his make-up. Unbeknownst to him, a real life mummy has risen, and he must get to his wife and prove to the local townfolk which mummy is genuine before they do him in. Bronson Pinchot(Perfect Strangers) appears in this one.

4. Santa '85. Santa Claus triggers a home's security system when delivering presents. Once he is arrested by the gruff, no nonsense sheriff as a thief and thrown in jail with other drunk and disorderly sidewalk Santas, a young boy must break him out and save Christmas....and make the cranky old sheriff a believer.

5. The Pumpkin Competition. A nasty old lady(Polly Holliday, Alice, Flo, Gremlins) who owns half the town, is determined to win the town's pumpkin competition, after continually losing year after year. When a mysterious professor gives her a formula to make sure she wins the next competition, the old lady bets everything that she will take home the prize. Also features June Lockhart(Lassie) in a supporting role.