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The Worst Episodes of Freddy's Nightmares

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Every episode of Freddy's Nightmares ranked from worst to best. Explore the Worst 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...
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  • Deadline
    5.0/10(117)
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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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  • It's a Miserable Life
    5.2/10(298)
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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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  • Monkey Dreams
    5.3/10(86)
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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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  • The Bride Wore Red
    5.4/10(142)
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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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  • School Daze
    5.4/10(114)
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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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  • Saturday Night Special
    5.5/10(178)
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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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  • Dust To Dust
    5.5/10(85)
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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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  • Rebel Without a Car
    5.7/10(150)
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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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  • Cabin Fever
    5.7/10(121)
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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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  • Memory Overload
    5.7/10(86)
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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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  • Prisoner of Love
    5.7/10(74)
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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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  • Do Dreams Bleed
    5.8/10(154)
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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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  • The End of the World
    5.8/10(132)
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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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  • Identity Crisis
    5.8/10(92)
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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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  • Life Sentence
    5.8/10(77)
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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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  • Killer Instinct
    5.9/10(261)
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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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  • Mother's Day
    5.9/10(158)
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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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  • Black Tickets
    5.9/10(153)
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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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  • Welcome to Springwood
    5.9/10(95)
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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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  • Interior Loft
    5.9/10(82)
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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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  • Funhouse
    5.9/10(85)
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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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  • Judy Miller, Come On Down
    6.0/10(178)
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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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  • Heartbreak Hotel
    6.0/10(88)
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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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  • Interior Loft-Later
    6.0/10(82)
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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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  • Prime Cut
    6.1/10(84)
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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".