5.2/10113 votesLoading...#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
- 5.3/10288 votesLoading...
#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
- 5.4/1083 votesLoading...
#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
- 5.5/10170 votesLoading...
#4 - 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
- 5.5/10135 votesLoading...
#5 - 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
- 5.5/10108 votesLoading...
#6 - 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
- 5.5/1082 votesLoading...
#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
- 5.6/1071 votesLoading...
#8 - 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
- 5.7/10144 votesLoading...
#9 - 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
- 5.7/1083 votesLoading...
#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
- 5.8/10150 votesLoading...
#11 - 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
- 5.8/10147 votesLoading...
#12 - 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
- 5.8/1087 votesLoading...
#13 - 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
- 5.8/1082 votesLoading...
#14 - 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
- 5.8/1074 votesLoading...
#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
- 5.9/10252 votesLoading...
#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
- 5.9/10152 votesLoading...
#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
- 5.9/10127 votesLoading...
#18 - 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
- 5.9/1092 votesLoading...
#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
- 6.0/10115 votesLoading...
#20 - 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
- 6.0/1086 votesLoading...
#21 - 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
- 6.0/1078 votesLoading...
#22 - 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
- 6.0/1079 votesLoading...
#23 - 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
- 6.1/10171 votesLoading...
#24 - 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
- 6.1/1093 votesLoading...
#25 - 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 Worst Episodes of Freddy's Nightmares
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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Worst Episodes Summary
"Deadline" is the worst rated episode of "Freddy's Nightmares". It scored 5.2/10 based on 113 votes. Directed by Michael Lange and written by N/A, it aired on 1/29/1989. This episode scored 0.1 points lower than the second lowest rated, "It's a Miserable Life".