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The Best Episodes of Freddy's Nightmares

Every episode of Freddy's Nightmares ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Freddy's Nightmares!

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The evil, sinister killer of the "Nightmare On Elm Street" movies, Freddy Krueger, hosts this show, where each week, he shows us a tale of evil and death about the lives of people who live

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    Freddy's Nightmares Season 2 Episode 4 - Photo Finish
    7.5/10(2 votes)

    #1 - Photo Finish

    S2:E4

    A woman photographer is being terrorised by Freddy, and whatever photos she takes, tragedy strikes on every one. The second half of the episode is about three FBI agents investigating a family killing in Springwood on Halloween. It turns out that Freddy has used his evil to kill the family and is planning a similar fate for the FBI.

    Director:Tom DeSimone
    Writer:Bill Froehlich

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  2. Freddy's Nightmares Season 2 Episode 1 - Dream Come True
    7.3/10(3 votes)

    #2 - Dream Come True

    S2:E1

    A young boy is suffering from nightmares by Freddy. A psychiatrist is asked to help the boy. The doctor does help but at the most horrible cost. Meanwhile a cameraman is determined to prove that Freddy does exist. Freddy decides to teach him a lesson Krueger style.

    Director:George Kaczender
    Writer:Tom Blomquist

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  3. Freddy's Nightmares Season 2 Episode 6 - Lucky Stiff
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #3 - Lucky Stiff

    S2:E6

    A man wins a lottery and he and his wife are in the money ... or so they think. Tragedy strikes, and after his death his lottery ticket turns up missing.

    Director:William Malone
    Writer:David Braff

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  4. Freddy's Nightmares Season 2 Episode 9 - Monkey Dreams
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #4 - Monkey Dreams

    S2:E9

    Joe is a gambler who is fleeing from some gangsters. He is really a scientist who is trying to search for alien lifeforms. Another scientist is trying to see if monkeys can talk.

    Director:Robert Englund
    Writer:Michael Kirschenbaum

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  5. Freddy's Nightmares Season 2 Episode 13 - What You Don't Know Can Kill You
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #5 - What You Don't Know Can Kill You

    S2:E13

    This is about a psychiatrist who uses women under hypnosis to get what he wants. Eventually a fellow psychiatrist finds out what he's up to and the Doctor does his best in mind control to stop word from leaking out. The second half of the episode is about a man that is on the run from the police for accidental murder. His girlfriend suggests that he goes under laser plastic surgery to change his face. He does it, but later finds out that the new face he has is also owned by a mob boss who just turned state's evidence.

    Director:Ken Wiederhorn
    Writer:Jonathan Glassner

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  6. Freddy's Nightmares Season 2 Episode 19 - A Family Affair
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #6 - A Family Affair

    S2:E19

    Paul is cheating on his wife and when the woman he's having an affair with starts forcing her way into his life, he breaks off the relationship with her. Paul trying to patch things up with his son who's two year absence was triggered by the earlier events. This turns deadly because of his choices.

    Director:Keith Samples
    Writer:David Braff

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  7. Freddy's Nightmares Season 2 Episode 20 - Dust To Dust
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #7 - Dust To Dust

    S2:E20

    This is a sequel to PrimeCut. Three former cannibals start up their eating habits again when an unknown man drops dead in their living room. After all three eat him, they find out that the man was an astronaut who escaped an underground lab in Springwood. The astronaut was infected with a virus, which has now infected the three cannibals. The government picks them up and puts them in their underground lab for testing. The second half of the episode is centered on ""Tracker"", the lone survivor of the virus. ""Tracker"" wants to escape and eventually lures an innocent scientist to help her.

    Director:Bill Froehlich
    Writers:David Braff, Bill Froehlich

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  8. Freddy's Nightmares Season 1 Episode 1 - No More Mr. Nice Guy
    6.7/10(6 votes)

    #8 - No More Mr. Nice Guy

    S1:E1

    Tonights episode is all about a fellow who decides that the best way to get ahead is to stomp on everyone in his path.

    Director:Tobe Hooper
    Writers:David Ehrman, Rhet Topham, Michael De Luca

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  9. Freddy's Nightmares Season 1 Episode 3 - Killer Instinct
    6.0/10(2 votes)

    #9 - Killer Instinct

    S1:E3

    Chris Ketchum wants to be the best runner on her track team just like her mother was. Her coach gives her a talisman that once belonged to her mother. Soon Chris discovers that whatever she imagines becomes reality.

    Director:Mick Garris
    Writer:Allen B. Ury

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  10. Freddy's Nightmares Season 1 Episode 4 - Freddy's Tricks and Treats
    6.0/10(2 votes)

    #10 - Freddy's Tricks and Treats

    S1:E4

    It's Halloween and the students are having a blast at the costume party over at Springwood College. Marsha would rather study than party however. Someone wants to be her study friend and soon Marsha starts to have nightmares. Her dead crazy grandmother comes back to life, Marsha's boyfriend is killed and soon she finds herself in the hands of Freddy Krueger. She tries to escape by going to a dream clinic where dreams are recorded only to find out that there is no escape from Freddy.

    Director:Ken Wiederhorn
    Writers:Gilbert Adler, A L Katz

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  11. Freddy's Nightmares Season 1 Episode 17 - Love Stinks
    6.0/10(1 votes)

    #11 - Love Stinks

    S1:E17

    A deeply disturbed girl sets her sights on a teenage boy which leads to a horde of terrible nightmares. Max must work for his uncle's pizza restraunt and discovers a shocking secret.

    Director:John Lafia
    Writers:Michael De Luca, Jeff Freilich

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  12. Freddy's Nightmares Season 1 Episode 18 - The Art of Death
    6.0/10(2 votes)

    #12 - The Art of Death

    S1:E18

    Jack meets a man named The Phantom who says he was created by Jack through his drawings. The Phantom gets Jack to draw events that he wish could happen, and then they do. Jack try's to get the girl he likes in school, but it all goes wrong. The second half is about Joan living with her severe case of closterfobia. Her nightmares get a little out of hand and ends deadly all thanks to our freind freddy.

    Director:Ken Wiederhorn
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. Freddy's Nightmares Season 1 Episode 19 - Missing Persons
    6.0/10(1 votes)

    #13 - Missing Persons

    S1:E19

    Our freind Freddy return in another fun fill ride. Gina is faced with her childhood past while babysitting. Is about a man who is tired of his life so on his way to work he imagines that he's someone else. But when his fantasy of being another person is over, he finds that it's more real than he thought.

    Director:Jeff Freilich
    Writer:Jeff Freilich

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  14. Freddy's Nightmares Season 1 Episode 20 - The Light At the End of the Tunnel
    6.0/10(1 votes)

    #14 - The Light At the End of the Tunnel

    S1:E20

    Michael, a man in his thirties who is dead scared of the dark. All that has to change when he starts work, fixing pipes in the dark sewers.A sleazy video store owner who gets his, by reliving nightmares without the possibility of ever waking up.

    Director:Jonathan R. Betuel
    Writers:James Cappe, Jonathan R. Betuel

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  15. Freddy's Nightmares Season 1 Episode 21 - Identity Crisis
    6.0/10(1 votes)

    #15 - Identity Crisis

    S1:E21

    Buddy Powers is having a hard time dealing with his son and new boss.Both of them value money and Buddy values peace and love. Buddy wnats his boss dead. Christina is wondering if she is adopted because there are no similarities between her and her mother.When Christina asks her mom questions about her past, she doesn't get the answers she wants.

    Director:David Calloway
    Writer:Rebecca Pogrow

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  16. Freddy's Nightmares Season 1 Episode 22 - Safe Sex
    6.0/10(1 votes)

    #16 - Safe Sex

    S1:E22

    A teenager is in love with a goth girl who is obsessed with Freddy Krueger. The teenager is soon plagued with dreams involving Freddy. The second half is about the goth girl having nightmares about Freddy, who she soon learns there's nothing great about Freddy.

    Director:Gerald T. Olson
    Writer:David J. Schow

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  17. Freddy's Nightmares Season 2 Episode 2 - Heartbreak Hotel
    6.0/10(1 votes)

    #17 - Heartbreak Hotel

    S2:E2

    A reporter who does some tacky stories for a newspaper is sent to the Springwood Hotel to investigate an elvis sighting there at the hotel he discovers that what ever he writes becomes reality Also a man survives a car accident and develops amenisia his family is trying to help him regain his memory.

    Director:William Malone
    Writer:Jonathan Glassner

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  18. Freddy's Nightmares Season 2 Episode 3 - Welcome to Springwood
    6.0/10(2 votes)

    #18 - Welcome to Springwood

    S2:E3

    A Couple move to Springwood. Right away the wife of the couple begins to suspect that a serial killer has targeted the house that they have moved into. This has a surprising ending. The second half of the episode is about a woman who finds an old stack of love letters from the nineteeth century. She begins to obsess over their relationship, and begins to see their ghosts.

    Director:Ken Wiederhorn
    Writers:Gilbert Adler, A L Katz

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  19. Freddy's Nightmares Season 2 Episode 5 - Memory Overload
    6.0/10(1 votes)

    #19 - Memory Overload

    S2:E5

    Professor Windom is a man with a drinking problem. But he has to get over his fears, and quickly, as a former student of his is in a lot of problems and needs his help. The second half of this episode is about Barbara, who is a bitch at work. She starts getting stressed out when her computer starts talking to her and believes she's going to be in trouble with the cops for tax evasion. Unwittingly she jumps into her computer to stop the certain file from being saved.

    Director:Don Weis
    Writer:Michael Kirschenbaum

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  20. Freddy's Nightmares Season 2 Episode 7 - Silence is Golden
    6.0/10(1 votes)

    #20 - Silence is Golden

    S2:E7

    Rick Blake is haunted by a mime who keeps tormenting him. Meanwhile it turns out that the mime is also a burglar who learns that the last people he robbed were also killed

    Director:Charles Braverman
    Writer:Jonathan Glassner

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  21. Freddy's Nightmares Season 2 Episode 8 - Bloodlines
    6.0/10(1 votes)

    #21 - Bloodlines

    S2:E8

    An escaped convict goes on a search for the money he stole before he went to jail but his wife and his offspring aren't ready to forgive him. Meanwhile, Jack adopts a young girl but his wife believes that she is possessed by the devil.

    Director:James Quinn
    Writers:Gilbert Adler, A L Katz

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  22. Freddy's Nightmares Season 2 Episode 10 - Do You Know Where Your Kids Are?
    6.0/10(1 votes)

    #22 - Do You Know Where Your Kids Are?

    S2:E10

    This is a sequel to Bloodlines. Lisa Wax has to babysit for the Burtons, not knowing that the Burtons' eldest adopted daughter Patty has been locked up in the family basement most of her life for killing her adopted mother. Lisa starts having hallucinations and seeing visions of Patty as the Devil himself, trying to lure the little boy into the basement. Somehow Patty escapes and imprisons Lisa in the basement, without the parent's thinking any different. The second half of the episode is about Patty and how she somehow meets Mrs.Wax. Mrs.Wax invites her to stay in her house. The town thinks that Lisa is dead, due to a car accident. Meanwhile Lisa escapes the basement and heads to a confrontation to end all confrontations.

    Director:Bill Froehlich
    Writer:Wayne Allan Rice

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  23. Freddy's Nightmares Season 2 Episode 11 - Dreams That Kill
    6.0/10(1 votes)

    #23 - Dreams That Kill

    S2:E11

    A Talkshow host who is doing a story about if nightmares can kill, is being haunted by Freddy. He goes ahead with the story anyway despite Freddy's warnings. The second half is about a teenage boy who is involved in a car accident and is a subject of an illegal surgery by a doctor who switched brain tissue from the talkshow host to the boy. The boy is now being hunted by Freddy, who will stop at nothing to kill him.

    Director:Tom DeSimone
    Writer:Tom Blomquist

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  24. Freddy's Nightmares Season 2 Episode 12 - It's My Party and You'll Die If I Want You To
    6.0/10(1 votes)

    #24 - It's My Party and You'll Die If I Want You To

    S2:E12

    Marla Murlee is a con artist posing as a psychic. She tries to contact someone from the Titanic disaster but is booed by her rival Harry Lee. Freddy hears this and decides to accept her invitation at the real ceremony. She does contact a spirit, not from the Titanic but from Elm Street. Freddy uses her body for his killing but he's not done yet. His next target is the Springwood High 2 decade reunion. The next victim is his ex-girlfriend Denise who broke their prom date as a joke. Also a student is studying Freddy to make a film about him.

    Director:Tom DeSimone
    Writers:David Braff, Jonathan Glassner

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  25. Freddy's Nightmares Season 2 Episode 14 - Easy Come, Easy Go
    6.0/10(1 votes)

    #25 - Easy Come, Easy Go

    S2:E14

    Greta who has already murdered twice to avoid sharing her first husband's lottery winnings, faces a new challenge when a witness to her crimes blackmails her into marriage. Single again, Greta finds out a deep, dark family secret when her sister Peggy and Peggy's husband Sonny drop in for a surprise visit.

    Director:William Malone
    Writer:David Braff

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Best Episodes Summary

"Photo Finish" is the best rated episode of "Freddy's Nightmares". It scored 7.5/10 based on 2 votes. Directed by Tom DeSimone and written by Bill Froehlich, it aired on 10/29/1989. This episode scored 0.2 points higher than the second highest rated, "Dream Come True".