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#1 - Deadline
Season 1 Episode 13
Aired 1/29/1989
A newshound finds himself too involved with the obituaries he has to write. Also Emily is the only survivor of a car accident that claims the lives of her friends but their spirits and a strange man torment her.
Director: Michael Lange
Writer: N/A
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#2 - It's a Miserable Life
Season 1 Episode 2
Aired 10/16/1988
To most people a bullet to the head spells death, but to these unfortunate drive-by shooting victims, it becomes something far worse.
Director: Tom McLoughlin
Writer: N/A
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#3 - Monkey Dreams
Season 2 Episode 9
Aired 12/3/1989
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: N/A
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#4 - The Bride Wore Red
Season 1 Episode 10
Aired 12/18/1988
An about to be married man goes to a bar where his friends are throwing a bachelor party. There he meets a female stripper who wants to keep him away from his fiancee. Meanwhile Jessica starts to have a nervous breakdown when her parents announce that they are getting a divorce.
Director: George Kaczender
Writer: N/A
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#5 - School Daze
Season 1 Episode 15
Aired 2/12/1989
Steve Dart a student at Springwood High School decides to take it easy to escape stress. When he is called to the principal's office he starts having nightmares and soon discovers the high school's shocking secret. Also Max must work for his uncle's pizza restaurant and he too discovers a shocking secret.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
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#6 - Saturday Night Special
Season 1 Episode 6
Aired 11/13/1988
Two nobodies yearn for perfection. Gordon fantasizes a dream date with a sex goddess, Lana.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
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#7 - Dust To Dust
Season 2 Episode 20
Aired 2/25/1990
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
Writer: N/A
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#8 - Rebel Without a Car
Season 1 Episode 9
Aired 12/11/1988
Alex is a shy teenager who just wants to fit in. He wants to have a cool car just like everyone else does and he gets his wish but he soon regrets it. Meanwhile Connie wants to be accepted into a college frat house but she also gets more than she bargained for.
Director: John Lafia
Writer: N/A
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#9 - Cabin Fever
Season 1 Episode 16
Aired 2/19/1989
Carl is a nervous man on a plane who is freaking out over some delusions of weird events. Meanwhile, a woman is stalked by a bunch of weirdos who abduct women and keep them for show and tell.
Director: Robert Englund
Writer: N/A
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#10 - Memory Overload
Season 2 Episode 5
Aired 11/5/1989
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: N/A
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#11 - Prisoner of Love
Season 2 Episode 21
Aired 3/4/1990
This episode is about a priest who is giving the last rites to a woman on death row. She manages to seduce him and he plans an unimaginable escape from the death house with a tragic ending. The second episode is centred on Violet Rodriguez as she tries to escape,the similar way Brenda Vincent tried, but with hopefully better results.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
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#12 - Do Dreams Bleed
Season 1 Episode 11
Aired 1/8/1989
A mysterious killer called The Chopper is terrorizing Springwood using an ax to kill his victims. High school student John Warring witnesses the latest murder and starts having nightmares about the killer. His girlfriend starts to do a little investigation on The Chopper
Director: Dwight H. Little
Writer: N/A
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#13 - The End of the World
Season 1 Episode 12
Aired 1/15/1989
As a child, Amy was in a terrible car accident that claimed the life of her mother. She is haunted by nightmares of that tragic event. She soon learns that her dreams are a way of changing the past. Amy is also haunted by visions of a deadly holocaust.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
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#14 - Identity Crisis
Season 1 Episode 21
Aired 5/21/1989
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
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#15 - Life Sentence
Season 2 Episode 22
Aired 3/11/1990
This episode is centered on Andy Caulfield, a prisoner who is about to get payroll, until he is faced with a prison counsellor who also happens to be a relative of one of his victims. The second half of this episode is based on Warden Hendler, who is using prisoners as Guinea pigs to test a new drug for extracting vital information. However the experiment backfires with drastic results.
Director: Anita W. Addison
Writer: N/A
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#16 - 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
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#17 - Mother's Day
Season 1 Episode 8
Aired 11/27/1988
Billy has just moved into the old Krueger house. He falls for a pretty teenage girl who convinces him to throw a party while his parents are away. The girl's mother is being harassed by a mysterious caller on the radio.
Director: Michael Lange
Writer: David Ehrman
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#18 - Black Tickets
Season 1 Episode 14
Aired 2/5/1989
Rick and Miranda are teenage lovers who leave Springwood. Their car stalls so they check into a hotel, but the hotel is run by sadistic hicks. Also Miranda is pregnant but is trying to hold down her job.
Director: George Kaczender
Writer: N/A
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#19 - Welcome to Springwood
Season 2 Episode 3
Aired 10/22/1989
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
Writer: Gilbert Adler, A L Katz
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#20 - 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
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#21 - Funhouse
Season 2 Episode 18
Aired 2/11/1990
This is a sequel to Welcome To Springwood, because of the character Turk. A Couple moves into a supposedly haunted house where a murder once took place. Someone is indeed in the house, but whether or not it's a ghost is another story. The second half of the episode is centered on the mover, and how he is roped back into the ""House of a Hundred Secrets"". Where the story ends with a twist.
Director: Gilbert Adler
Writer: N/A
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#22 - 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
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#23 - 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
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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
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#25 - 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
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Worst Episodes Summary
"Deadline" is the worst rated episode of "Freddy's Nightmares". It scored 5/10 based on 117 votes. Directed by Michael Lange and written by N/A, it aired on 1/29/1989. This episode scored 0.2 points lower than the second lowest rated, "It's a Miserable Life".