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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!

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...
Genres:MysterySci-Fi & Fantasy
Network:Syndication

Best Episodes Summary

"Do You Know Where Your Kids Are?" is the best rated episode of "Freddy's Nightmares". It scored 7.5/10 based on 103 votes. Directed by Bill Froehlich and written by N/A, it aired on 12/10/1989. This episode scored 0.2 points higher than the second highest rated, "It's My Party and You'll Die If I Want You To".

  • Do You Know Where Your Kids Are?
    7.5/10103 votes
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    #1 - Do You Know Where Your Kids Are?

    Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 12/10/1989

    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: N/A

  • It's My Party and You'll Die If I Want You To
    7.3/10102 votes
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    #2 - It's My Party and You'll Die If I Want You To

    Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 12/24/1989

    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: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Photo Finish
    7.2/10105 votes
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    #3 - Photo Finish

    Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 10/29/1989

    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

  • Sister's Keeper
    6.7/10194 votes
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    #4 - Sister's Keeper

    Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 11/20/1988

    In this follow-up to ""No More Mr. Nice Guy"", Freddy continues to stalk the last remaining Elm Street children by going after the Blocker twins.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Silence is Golden
    6.7/1085 votes
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    #5 - Silence is Golden

    Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 11/19/1989

    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: N/A

  • Easy Come, Easy Go
    6.6/1082 votes
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    #6 - Easy Come, Easy Go

    Season 2 Episode 14 - Aired 1/14/1990

    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

  • A Family Affair
    6.6/1089 votes
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    #7 - A Family Affair

    Season 2 Episode 19 - Aired 2/18/1990

    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

  • Safe Sex
    6.5/10119 votes
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    #8 - Safe Sex

    Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 5/28/1989

    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: N/A

    Writer: David J. Schow

  • Dream Come True
    6.5/10104 votes
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    #9 - Dream Come True

    Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 10/8/1989

    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

  • No More Mr. Nice Guy
    6.4/10429 votes
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    #10 - No More Mr. Nice Guy

    Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 10/9/1988

    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

    Writer: Rhet Topham, David Ehrman, Michael De Luca

  • Freddy's Tricks and Treats
    6.4/10236 votes
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    #11 - Freddy's Tricks and Treats

    Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/30/1988

    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

    Writer: N/A

  • The Art of Death
    6.4/1095 votes
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    #12 - The Art of Death

    Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 3/12/1989

    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: N/A

  • Lucky Stiff
    6.4/1094 votes
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    #13 - Lucky Stiff

    Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 11/12/1989

    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: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Bloodlines
    6.4/1079 votes
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    #14 - Bloodlines

    Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 11/26/1989

    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: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Dreams That Kill
    6.3/1094 votes
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    #15 - Dreams That Kill

    Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 12/17/1989

    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: N/A

    Writer: Tom Blomquist

  • Love Stinks
    6.2/10115 votes
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    #16 - Love Stinks

    Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 2/26/1989

    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: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • What You Don't Know Can Kill You
    6.2/1071 votes
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    #17 - What You Don't Know Can Kill You

    Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 1/7/1990

    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: N/A

  • Judy Miller, Come On Down
    6.1/10174 votes
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    #18 - Judy Miller, Come On Down

    Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 11/6/1988

    Judy Miller wants more than anything to win the lottery. Her obsession is challenged when a housekeeper comes to warn her about her greed.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Missing Persons
    6.1/1094 votes
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    #19 - Missing Persons

    Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 5/7/1989

    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: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Light At the End of the Tunnel
    6.1/1083 votes
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    #20 - The Light At the End of the Tunnel

    Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 5/14/1989

    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: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Prime Cut
    6.1/1080 votes
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    #21 - Prime Cut

    Season 2 Episode 15 - Aired 1/21/1990

    A Camping trip turns into a nightmare as the male campers believe that their woman tracker is a vampire, who is planning on feeding off their blood. The second half of the episode is about some survivors of a plane crash, who have to eat their dead friends to survive. Meanwhile a killer is slowly stalking them in the mountains.

    Director: David Calloway

    Writer: Michael Kirschenbaum

  • Heartbreak Hotel
    6.0/1086 votes
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    #22 - Heartbreak Hotel

    Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 10/15/1989

    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: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Interior Loft
    6.0/1078 votes
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    #23 - Interior Loft

    Season 2 Episode 16 - Aired 1/28/1990

    A woman decides to take up a side job in the phone sex business, for her husband. Disaster strikes when an unknown psychopath becomes obsessed with Kim and starts murdering women for her. The confrontation occurs in the loft. The second half of the episode is about Kim, who is recovering from the attack. She starts to mentally unhinge and her husband becomes gradually more worried that his wife is plotting to kill him.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Interior Loft-Later
    6.0/1079 votes
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    #24 - Interior Loft-Later

    Season 2 Episode 17 - Aired 2/4/1990

    An artist fakes his death after accidentally killing a subject.However he starts to suspect his wife is having an affair and that's when the twist occurs. The second half is about two women who are wary of letting a guy move into their apartment. Eventually their suspicions prove correct when he starts hitting on both of them. But one stunt backfires, big time.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Killer Instinct
    5.9/10254 votes
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    #25 - Killer Instinct

    Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 10/23/1988

    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: N/A