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Friday the 13th: The Series (1987 – 1990)

1987 • 3 seasons • Drama, Mystery • TV-MA
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Friday the 13th: The Series — Season 1

26 episodes · Oct 3, 1987

1. The Inheritance
Oct 3, 1987 · 45m · 7.0

In the opening segment (to be repeated throughout the first two years), we see Lewis Vendredi try to recover the cursed antiques, and end up condemned to hell. Distant cousins Ryan Dallion and Micki Foster find out they have inherited an an…

2. The Poison Pen
Oct 10, 1987 · 45m · 6.0

The cousins and Jack track an antique quill pen to a monastery famed for its mysterious prophecies. The pen can be used to make anything written with it come true...at the cost of a human life for each ""wish"" granted. However, the identit…

3. Cupid's Quiver
Oct 17, 1987 · 45m · 4.5

An unattractive low-life gets hold of a cursed statue of Cupid that allows him to turn women into loving worshippers who fall at his feet. However, he is compelled to kill them in hideous ways once he has his way with them.

4. A Cup of Time
Oct 24, 1987 · 45m · 6.0

An antique tea cup decorated with ""borrowers' ivy"" lets the user borrow youth and talent from a victim by taking their life. A senior citizen uses the cup to reinvent herself as a young rock singer, ""Lady Die,"" but a young girl whom the…

5. Hellowe'en
Oct 31, 1987 · 45m · 6.0

Micki and Ryan throw a Halloween party at the shop to meet the neighbors, but two visitors inadvertently resurrect Uncle Vendredi's spirit. Now totally corrupted by evil, Lewis plans to use the energies on Halloween, the night where evil wa…

6. The Great Montarro
Nov 7, 1987 · 45m · 7.0

A magician creates a new death-defying act using a pair of cursed antique ""magic boxes"" created by the famous magician Houdin. Anyone placed in one box can survive any danger...because someone placed in the second, hidden box suffers all …

7. Doctor Jack
Nov 14, 1987 · 45m · 6.0

A doctor has obtained the cursed scapel used by Jack the Ripper, and discovers he can use it to kill one victim and miraculously heal one of his patients. His reputation as a miracle worker soon spreads, bringing him to the trio's attention…

8. Shadow Boxer
Nov 21, 1987 · 45m · 6.0

A cursed set of boxing gloves makes their owner unbeatable in the ring...while his shadow goes out and beats an innocent to death. The trio manage to recover the gloves, but the boxer they stole them from breaks into the shop and hold Micki…

9. Root of All Evil
Nov 28, 1987 · 45m · 7.0

A gardener's assistant gets hold of a cursed mulcher. The more wealthy and valuable the person you feed into it, the more money that comes out. The trio manage to feed the assistant into the mulcher, and nothing comes out. Meanwhile, Micki'…

10. Tales of the Undead
Jan 30, 1988 · 45m · 7.0

A old and embittered comic book writer, Jay Star, gets hold of a cursed comic book that allows him to transform into Ferrus the Invincible and take vengeance on the individuals who stripped him of his legal rights to the superhero character…

11. Scarecrow
Feb 6, 1988 · 45m · 7.0

A small farming community has excellent harvesters. Little do they realize that one of the farmers uses a cursed scarecrow. She must pin the pictures of three victims on the scarecrow's chest. When it claims all three victims, tracking them…

12. Faith Healer
Feb 13, 1988 · 45m · 7.0

Jack is asked by a friend to investigate a ""faith healer"" who uses a cursed glove to heal one person...by transferring their ills magnified tenfold to another victim. Jack must not only recover the glove, but deal with his friend, who is …

13. The Baron's Bride
Feb 20, 1988 · 45m · 7.0

A cursed broach possesses several strange abilities, including the ability to transform its wearer into a vampire and the ability to, when daubed with blood, let its wearer travel through time. Micki and Ryan find that the broach's owner, a…

14. Bedazzled
Feb 27, 1988 · 45m · 6.0

Jack and Ryan recover a cursed lantern from two treasure hunters who use it to recover lost treasure by killing their divers with it. They take it back to the vault and then head off for a convention. The two crooks follow them to the shop …

15. Vanity's Mirror
Mar 5, 1988 · 45m · 7.0

A homely girl, overshadowed by her prom queen sister, gets hold of a vanity which she can use to bedazzle any boy into falling in love with her. However, as soon as they do, she must then kill them. She eventually takes over her sister's bo…

16. Tattoo
Mar 12, 1988 · 45m · 7.0

A young man, Tommy Chow, gets hold of a set of tattoo needles. He tattoes an innocent victim, and the tattoo then comes to gory life and kills the victim. In return, Tommy, a compulsive gambler, gets good luck in the games. The trio team up…

17. The Electrocutioner
Apr 23, 1988 · 45m · 7.0

An innocent man is condemned to the electric chair, but manages to survive. Embittered, the man buys the electric chair from Lewis Vendredi. A dentist, he takes a job in an orphanage and disguise it as a dentist's chair. He then kills the o…

18. Brain Drain
Apr 30, 1988 · 45m · 6.0

A dim-wittedd man discovers a cursed trefinator in a museum warehouse: a guillotine-like device that transfers spinal fluid from one individual to another. The cursed item actually transfers intelligence as well, and the man uses it to make…

19. The Quilt of Hathor (1)
May 7, 1988 · 45m · 6.0

A cursed quilt, which allows the person underneath it to dream their enemies to death, finds its way into an Amish-like ""Pennitite"" community. A plain woman stumbles upon it and uses it to kill her rivals for the community leader. Ryan at…

20. The Quilt of Hathor: The Awakening (2)
May 14, 1988 · 45m · 7.0

Jack and Micki, depressed because Ryan stayed with the Pennitites, learn that the Quilt of Hathor they have is a forgery when they are able to harm it (all of the cursed antiques are indestructible). They return to the religious community t…

21. Double Exposure
May 21, 1988 · 45m · 7.0

Winston Knight, a TV anchorman, gains great fame because a serial killer, the Machete Killer, will only contact him. What no one knows is that Knight is using a cursed camera that lets him create an exact duplicate of himself that goes out …

22. The Pirate's Promise
Jul 2, 1988 · 45m · 7.0

Tracking a cursed foghorn, Micki and Ryan arrive at an isolated community. Initially unbeknownst to them, the local lighthouse keeper is using the foghorn to summon up the ghost of pirate Angus MacBride, who kills his descendents in return …

23. Badge of Honor
Jul 9, 1988 · 45m · 6.0

An old boyfriend of Micki's, Tim Ayres, shows up in town, and immediately begins acting suspiciously. Ryan, somewhat jealous, believes that Ayres is working with local counterfeiters. It turns out that Ayres is an undercover cop. Unfortunat…

24. Pipe Dream
Jul 16, 1988 · 45m · 7.0

Ryan's father Ray, a small-time inventor, rolls into town and announces that he's achieved great financial success and is planning to finally marry. Ray's managed to do so with the aid of a pipe given to him by Lewis Vendredi, which allows …

25. What a Mother Wouldn't Do
Jul 23, 1988 · 45m · 7.0

Two desperate parents were given an antique cradle by a symathetic Lewis Vendredi. The cradle belonged to a female passenger aboard the Titanic. Trying to rescue her child, she accidentally capsized a lifeboat that killed seven passengers, …

26. Bottle of Dreams
Jul 30, 1988 · 45m · 6.0

A mysterious messenger brings a Coptic urn to the store, which bursts open when Micki and Ryan take it to the Vault. The gas from the jar puts them into a trance where they are forced to relive their most horrifying moments over and over un…