FRIDAY THE THIRTEENTH: THE SERIES
Episode Guide
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for helping Alyse Wax to compile this list.
Prologue:
"Lewis Vendredi made a deal with the devil, to sell
cursed antiques. But
he broke the pact, and it cost him his
soul. His niece Micki, and her
cousin Ryan, have inherited
the store, and with it, the curse. Now, they
must get
everything back, and the real terror begins."
This short narrative appeared at the beginning of
certain episodes,
depending which station was broadcasting
the show. It just set up the
basic plot, and showed scenes
from the first episode.
Regular and Semi-Regular Cast:
(Louise Ann) Robey.......................Micki Foster
John D. LeMay (1987-89)................. Ryan Dallion
Chris Wiggins........................... Jack Marshack
Steve Monarque (1989-90)................ Johnny Ventura
R.G. Armstrong.......................... Lewis Vendredi
Broadcast History:
Syndicated only
Produced: 1987-1990 in Toronto, Canada
72 episodes
Ran September 28, 1987 to May 14, 1990
Executive producer: Frank Mancuso Jr.
Producer: Jon Anderson
Composer: Fred Mollin
First Season
1.1 "The Inheritance"
Object: A Doll
Original Airdate: 9-28-87
Writer: William Taub
Director: William Fruet
Guest Cast:
R.G. Armstrong.......... Lewis Vendredi
Sarah Polley............ Mary
Lynne Cormack........... Mrs. Simms
Michael Fletcher........ Mr. Simms
Ester Hockin............ The babysitter
Barclay Hope............ Lloyd.
Synopsis
This is the pilot episode. We see how Lewis Vendredi
breaks his pact with
Satan to sell cursed antiques. Micki,
Ryan and Jack meet for the first
time. We find out that
Micki is engaged to a yuppie lawyer. She is also a
bit of a
snob, very spoiled. At first she is disgusted with Ryan.
They
meet Jack, who broke into the shop to try to collect
money from Lewis,
unaware dude is dead. Jack was the one who
selected the name "Curious
Goods." Oh yeah, the curse. A
little girl receives a doll that kills
anyone who refuses to
do what the girl wants. In return, the girl
obviously
doesn't have to put up with these people. Example: she kills
her
step-mother who tries to take the doll.
Status
Recovered and locked in the vault.
1.2 "The Poison Pen"
Object: Quill pen
Original Airdate: 10-5-87
Writer: Durnford King
Director: Timothy Bond
Guest Cast:
Colin Fox................ Le Croix
Larry Reynolds........... Brother Currie
Synopsis
Micki, Ryan, and Jack masquerade as monks to sneak into
a monestary and
recover a quill pen being used by one of the
brothers, nicknamed "The
Oracle of Death." The brother
writes out a prophecy with the pen, stating
that someone is
to die, and then has only to fill in the name. Jack
names
Micki and Ryan brothers Simon and Mathew, and they are named
in a
prophecy, but no harm comes to them because they are not
the true brothers.
Instead, the real brothers Simon and
Mathew, in a European monestary, are
killed. The brother who
has the pen writes out a prophecy, but before he
can fill in
the names, Jack points out that the paper he wrote the
prophecy
on is the invoice he signed when he purchased the
pen from Lewis. A
guillotine blade run amuck kills him.
Status
Quill recovered.
1.3 "Cupid's Quiver"
Object: Cupid statuette
Original Airdate: 10-12-87
Writer: Stephen Katz :)
Director: Atom Egoyan
Guest Cast:
Denis Forest............. Eddie Monroe
Carolyn Dunn............. Laurie Warren
Ross Fraser.............. Hastings
Kevin Lund............... Bowser
Dennis Fitzgerald........ Harold
Synopsis
This one was written by a friend of mine, so I have to
say it was good :).
Actually, it really was good. An ugly
college man, who works cleaning up
in an exclusive frat
house, finds a Cupid statue in one of the frat man's
room.
When pointed at someone of the opposite sex, a tiny arrow
would hit
that person, causing them to fall in love with the
owner. The catch? The
owner must kill their "new love"
after they make love. Micki and Ryan meet
a young woman with
whom the Cupid's owner is obsessed. She gets shot with
the
arrow, but Micki overhears her conversation with the ugly
guy, and she
goes in the girl's place. Ryan bursts in just
as Micki's cover is blown.
But then the guy shoots Micki
with the arrow.
Status
Micki says that she loves the ugly guy, but a
pipe bursts and knocks Micki
out. Ryan chases the guy into
the rafters, where dude slips and plunges to
his death.
Cupid recovered.
1.4 "A Cup Of Time"
Object: Teacup
Original Airdate: 10-19-87
Writer: Barbara Turner Sachs
Director: F. Harvey Frost
Guest Cast:
Hilary Shepard........... Lady Die
Maxine Miller............ Birdie
Lisa Jacob............... Young girl
Synopsis
An old woman recieves a teacup with a design of ivy
around the rim. The
ivy is "swapper's ivy," meaning that by
killing someone with the cup, you
would recieve a wish. The
old lady wishes herself to be a young rock
singer. The woman
kills homeless living in the park by offering them some
tea
in the cup. The ivy design becomes real (through the wonders
of
animatronics), and strangles the victim.
Status
Teacup recovered.
1.5 "Hellowe'en"
Object: Amulet of Zohar
Original Airdate: 10-26-87
Writer: William Taub
Director: Timothy Bond
Guest Cast:
R.G. Armstrong........... Lewis Vendredi
Adrian Pockock........... Greta
Victoria Deslaurier...... Evil Greta
Synopsis
Jack, Micki and Ryan have a Halloween party. A party
guest plays with a
crystal ball and accidently calls up the
spirit of Uncle Lewis. Uncle
Lewis pretending to be sorry
for all that he has done convinces the
gullible Micki and
Ryan to give him the Amulet of Zohar. Once he has
the
amulet, he will become alive if he can find a corpse before
dawn.
Jack, Micki and Ryan manage to delay him long enough
for dawn to come.
Status
Lewis dissapears when they open a curtain and the sunlight hits him.
Amulet returned.
1.6 "The Great Montarro"
Object: The box of Hudan (Magicians box)
Original Airdate: 11-2-87
Writer: Durnford King
Director: Richard Friedman
Guest Cast:
Graeme Campbell.......... Montarro
Lesly Donaldson.......... Lyla
August Schellenberg...... Fatheem
Martin Nuefeld........... Robert
Murray Westgate.......... Monte
Jefferson Mappin......... Tommy
Synopsis
A world-renowned magician is killed while trying to do a
dangerous trick,
in which he locks himself in a coffin, and
then nine huge knife penetrate
the coffin, and, supposedly
it's inhabitant. However, when a victim is
placed in the
Hudan box, they are the one's who are killed, while
the
magician performs the trick successfully, and lives. Another
magician,
Montarro, has the box now, and is competing in a
televised magic special,
in which the winner receives
$100,000 and admittance to a very selective
magicians club.
Jack enters as the Great Mad Marshack, reviving an old act
he
did, the Pendulum of Death. He is blindfolded, wrapped in
a
straightjacket, chained together with padlocks, and hung
upside down over
a bed of spikes. The rope he is hanging by
is set on fire and he has one
minute to get out. Micki goes
on as his assistant, and Ryan helps with the
props. During
auditions, someone sabotages the trick, and he plunges to
his
death. However, it turns out that Jack wasn't really in it.
Micki
befriends Montarro's daughter, who turns out to be
helping her father with
the murders. Micki is locked in the
Hudan box, and it's show time....
Status
Ryan and Jack free her just as the blades fall,
causing Montarro to be
killed. The Hudan box is returned.
1.7 "Doctor Jack"
Object: Scalpel
Original Airdate: 11-9-87
Writer: Marc Scott Zicree
Director: Richard Freeman
Guest Cast:
Cliff Goran.............. Dr. Howell
Elva Mae Hoover.......... Jean Flappen
Doris Petrie............. Dr. Price
Michael Copeman.......... Jim Bronson
Synopsis
Jack, Micki, and Ryan trace a cursed scalpel to a doctor
in a hospital.
While trying to steal the scalpel, Jack falls
down an elevator shaft and
needs emergency surgery. The
doctor does not realise his patient is Jack
until he is in
the operating room. Not wanting to ruin his reputation
as
the miracle doctor he performs the surgery.
Status
Micki and Ryan get the scapel back by zapping
the doctor with electrical
paddles as he tries to slash them
with the scapel.
1.8 "Shadow Boxer"
Object: Boxing gloves
Original Airdate: 11-21-87
Writer: Joshua Daniel Miller
Director: Timothy Bond
Guest Cast:
David Ferry.............. Tommy Dunn
Jack Duffy............... Manny King
Philip Akin.............. Kid Cornelius
Nicholas Pasco........... Tonny Terrific
Synopsis
A boxer kills the owner of a boxing club for gloves that
let him win all of
his fights. Jack, Micki and Ryan had talked
to owner prior to his death to
get back the gloves. They
begin to investigate when they find out that he
has been
murdered. When the boxer uses the gloves, the shadow of the
boxer
goes out and kills someone while he is in the ring.
Micki flirts with him
and manages to get the gloves but he
comes to the store. While he holds a
knife to Micki's neck,
Ryan goes to get the glove and Jack stays with Micki
and the
boxer. When Ryan comes back, he hands the boxer one glove.
The
other glove he's wearing and has it hidden behind his
back. Ryan hits Jack
which kills the boxer (remember you
have to hit one person and another
dies).
Status
Jack is bit irritated with Ryan. They agree
never to use any object for
any reason. Micki is okay, and
the gloves are returned to the vault.
1.9 "The Root Of All Evil"
Object: Portable mulcher
Original Airdate: 11-28-87
Writer: Rob Hedden
Director: Allan King
Guest Cast:
Rico Colantoni........... Adrian
Jack Mather.............. Smitty
Barclay Hope............. Lloyd
Ian White................ Charles
Kay Tremblay............. Amanda
Rita Tuckett............. Mrs. O'Conner
Synopsis
A mulching machine turns bodies into cash. A greedy
gardening assistant
gets a hold of this machine. When bodies
are fed into it, money comes
spewing out. The more
prosperous and wealthy the person was, the more
money you
got. Llyod, Micki's fiance also came back. Micki was
planning
on going home with him, but at last minute decided
she couldn't go through
with it.
Status
Mulcher recovered, and Llyod is out of the
picture.
1.10 "Tales of the Undead"
Object: Comic book
Original Airdate: 1-25-88
Writers: Alfred Sole and
Paul Monette
Director: Lyndon Chubbuck
Guest Cast:
Ray Walston.............. Jay Star
Synopsis
An old comic book granted the power to turn the person
using it into
Ferrus, an armored superbeing. Lewis bought it
from the artist, Jay Star.
Ryan goes to speak to him about
it, and finds a bitter old man who sold the
rights to his
comic "Tales of the Undead" from which Ferrus came from.
Star
goes to search for the comic to get revenge on the
publishers who cheated
him. He became Ferrus who was
supposedly indestructable. But Star, years
ago, had written
a comic in which Ferrus is killed off. Micki and Ryan
find
out how to do it, and kill him.
Status
Comic book recovered.
1.11 "Scarecrow"
Object: A scarecrow, icarus feather is mentioned
Original Airdate: 2-1-88
Writers: Larry B. Williams
and Marc Scott Zicree
Director: William Fruet
Guest Cast:
James D. Douglas......... Charlie Cobean
Patricia Phillips........ Marge Longaker
Nicholas Van Bureck...... Jordy Meeno
Synopsis
If you pin a picture of someone to the chest of this
scarecrow, he will
murder them. In return, the owner would
recieve an exceptionally good
harvest. The owner owned a BandB
where Micki and Ryan were staying. Ryan
met a boy who's
father had been killed by the scarecrow, and it is the
first
time he mentions the death of his kid brother Jimmy. The
scarecrow's
owner overheard their conversation about the
scarecrow. The owner stole
Micki's drivers licence, but Ryan
managed to grab it off just in time. The
scarecrow stumbled
backwards, and hit the wall. A picture of the owner
fell on
to the scarecrow, and she was decapitated.
Status
The scarecrow was locked in the vault.
1.12 "Faith Healer"
Object: Glove
Original Airdate: 2-8-88
Writer: Christine Cornish
Director: David Cronenberg
Guest Cast:
Miguel Fernandez......... Stewart Fishoff
Robert Silverman......... Jerry Scott
Synopsis
A phony faith healer obtains a white glove that has the
power to heal a
sick person. However, the afflictions that
he heals in other people begin
to effect him so he must find
a victim to touch with the glove. Touching
someone transfers
all the sickness to the victim's body. Somehow in the
end,
Jerry, a friend of Jack's, who has made a career out of
debunking
faith healers and is terminally ill, locks the
healer in a car so that he
can get the glove and heal
himself. However, he has no one to transfer the
sickness to,
so he dies. Jack is depressed about this (and the fact
that
Jerry held Jack hostage to kill later) and he and Micki
exchange some
very cruel words. Ryan breaks it up before too
much is said, and Micki and
Jack gang up (jokingly) on Ryan.
Status
Glove recovered and returned to the vault.
1.13 "The Baron's Bride"
Object: Broach, cape is mentioned
Original Airdate: 2-15-88
Writer: Larry Gaynor
Director: Bradford May
Guest Cast:
Tom McCamus.............. Frank Edwards
Kevin Bundy.............. Abraham
Susannah Hoffman......... Caitlin
Diana Barrington......... Marie Simmons
Synopsis
The broach was used on a black velvet cape worn by a
`vampire' who becomes
irresistable to women. When you put
blood on the broach, it took you back
in time to England.
Micki and Ryan got sucked into the curse and helped
Abraham
hunt down the guy with the broach. Abraham is skeptical
about
Micki and Ryan's vampire tale. After his wife is
killed by a vampire, he
refuses to see them again. When
Micki and Ryan go out to hunt the vampire,
they are cornered
by him, and Micki falls under his spell. The vampire
begins
to choke Ryan, but Bram comes up and stabs the vampire.
Micki and
Ryan use their own blood to get back home.
Status
Broach returned to the vault. Jack suspects
that Abraham was Bram Stoker.
1.14 "Bedazzled"
Object: Brass Lantern
Original Airdate: 2-22-88
Writers: Paul Monette and
Alfred Sole
Director: Alexander Singer
Guest Cast:
Alan Jordan.............. Jonah
David Mucci.............. Tom
Synopsis
The episode opens with Jack and Ryan snatching the
lantern from a diver
after a successful dive. The lantern
allows the owner to locate sunken
treasure (the lantern's
beam points to the treasure underwater). In
return, the
owner must kill the diver that brings the treasure up,
by
shining the lantern's beam on them, burning them alive. Jack
and Ryan
return it to the store, and then go off to an
astrology convention, leaving
Micki in the store alone, until
one of her friends leaves her son, Richie,
there to be
babysat. Meanwhile, Jonah and a henchman had followed
them
back to the store, and after killing a phone repairman,
the
impersonate him and talk their way past Micki into the
basement, where
they try to break into the vault. Richie
discovers their true intentions,
and the killers hold Micki
and the boy hostage while they try to open the
vault. She
fools them and gets the lantern out of the vault. I call
Jonah
"Dude that won't die" Because he got hit in the head
with a heavy piece of
iron, was electrocuted, hit on the head
again with a waffle iron, fell over
the second story balcony,
and STILL lived. Micki had to kill him by
reflecting the
lantern beam at him.
Status
Lantern returned to the vault, and Richie will
probably need heavy
psychotherapy for years to come. Jack
and Ryan return home, and when asked
what she did when they
were out, says she did nothing exciting....
1.15 "Vanity's Mirror"
Object: Compact
Original Airdate: 2-29-88
Writers: Roy Sallows and
Ira Levant
Director: William Fruet
Guest Cast:
Ingrid Veninger.......... Helen Mackie
Gwendolyn Pacey.......... Joanne Mackie
David Orth............... Scott Thomas
Synopsis
An unpopular, homely girl, who lives in the shadow of
her beautiful and
popular older sister, gets a hold of this
compact. When she flashes it in
a boy's eyes, they fall
madly, hopelessly in love with her. They do
anything she
wants, but as soon as they tell her they love her, she
must
kill them. She curses her sisters boyfriend the night of the
prom,
and hangs her from the lighting fixture, allowing a
chair to brush just
under her toes to give her a fair chance
at living.
Status
Jack came in just as the chair slipped from
under the girl's feet, saving
her. The younger sister and
her sister's boyfriend ended up dancing on the
roof,
culminating in the both of them committing suicide by
throwing
themselves off the roof. The compact was thrown out
of the girls purse,
landing under a bush. Micki feels
incredibly guilty about not obtaining
this object.
1.16 "Tattoo"
Object: Tattoo needles
Original Airdate: 3-7-88
Writers: Stephan Katz and
Dan Distefano
Director: Lyndon Chubbuck
Guest Cast:
Leonard Chow............. Tommy Chen
Keye Luke................ Lom Chen
Dennis Akiyama........... Hai Kwan
Synopsis
After tattooing someone, the tattoos would come to life
and kill the
wearer, and the needles would bring good luck to
the person using them.
This was used by a young Chinese man
to help improve his gambling luck.
Status
Needles recovered.
1.17 "The Electrocutioner"
Object: Electric chair
Original Airdate: 4-18-88
Writer: Rob Hedden
Director: Rob Hedden
Guest Cast:
Angelo Rizacos........... Eli Pittman
Frank Adamson............ Warden Hobbs
Synopsis
A man sentenced to death by electrocution was pronounced
dead, but somehow
survived. He later purchased the electric
chair fromUncle Lewis, changed
his identity, and went to
work at a juvenile detention center as a dentist.
He would
kill kids using the chair (disguised as a dentists chair),
then
the chair would electrically charge him so he could kill
the people
responsible for sentencing him to death. Micki,
Ryan and Jack anticipate
who the next victim will be, and
they are ready. They attatch some cables
to him and ground
him so he ends up frying himself.
Status
Chair recovered.
1.18 "Brain Drain"
Object: Trephine
Original Airdate: 4-25-88
Writer: Joshua Daniel Miller
Director: Lyndon Chubbuck
Guest Cast:
Carrie Snodgress......... Dr. Viola Rhodes
Denis Forest............. Stewart Pangborn
Synopsis
A not-to-bright assistant to a scientist realizes that
the chair his boss
has can drain the fluid from the stem of
one person's brain and transfer it
into anothers, also
transferring intelligence. He uses it on himself and
the
scientist. He becomes brillant and takes over the research
of his
former employer. His research involves teaching a
monkey brain that kept
in fluid and connected to a computer,
to speak. He continues to use the
chair on visiting
scientists and eventually on a rekindled love interest
of
Jacks. While Jack, Micki, and Ryan are struggling with this
man, he
falls into the chair and the chair stabs him and the
monkey brain. The
fluid from the monkey brain is transferred
to him.
Status
Trephine recovered.
1.19 and 1.20 "The Quilt of Hathor"
Object: The Quilt of Hathor
Original Airdate: 5-2-88 and 5-9-88
Writer: Janet MacLean
Director: Timothy Bond
Guest Cast:
Scott Paulin............. Reverend Josiah
Grange
Kate Trotter............. Effie Stokes
Carolyn Dunn............. Laura
Helen Carscallen......... Sarah Good
Bernard Behrens.......... Inquisitor Holmes
Synopsis
The quilt allows whoever sleeps under it to have dreams,
or nightmares,
usually about murder, and that dream will come
true. A plain woman
belonging to a religious group, the
Penitites, (think the Amish or the
Kindred from The X-Files)
and she wishes to marry the leader of the group.
She kills
a string of women to whom he had been betrothed to,
and
eventually becomes "thy betrothed." She then kills her
husband so that
she can have control of the group.
Meanwhile, Ryan falls in love with the
leaders daughter, who
is betrothed to someone else. As Micki is leaving,
Ryan says
he is staying. He is then accused of a murder he didn't
commit.
This was a two-hour movie that I stumbled onto by
accident, but I believe
it was also shown as a two-parter.
Status
After accidently taking the wrong quilt, Micki
gets the correct one, Ryan
is acquitted, and returns home.
Micki's anger at him for abandoning her and
Jack disappear.
1.21 "Double Exposure"
Object: Camera
Original Airdate: 5-16-88
Writer: Durnford King
Director: Neill Fearnley
Guest Cast:
Gary Frank............... Winston Knight
Catherine Disher......... Cathy
Synopsis
A news reporter uses a cursed camera to make a double of
himself. One
stays in the newsroom and does the evening
news. The other has been dubbed
the Machete Killer, for he
slashes his victims throats open with a machete.
But his
being on the evening news creates a perceft alibi, especially
when
Ryan sees him murder his girlfriend (natch).
Status
Camera recovered and reporter killed.
1.22 "The Pirates Promise"
Object: Foghorn
Original Airdate: 6-27-88
Writer: Carl Binder
Director: Bill Corcoran
Guest Cast:
Cedric Smith............. Joe Fenton
Bernard Behrens.......... Barney
Thomas Hauff............. Dewy Covington
Synopsis
Micki and Ryan get an answer to a mailer that takes them
to a sea coast
town for a foghorn. The local museum owner
suggest they go to the light
house where to former owner of
the foghorn worked. However, the current
lighthouse operator
has been using the foghorn to call an old dead pirate,
Angus
McBride who gives him gold for the bodies of the descendants
of the
sailors who betrayed him. The only witness to these
strange rendezvous is
the local drunk who nobody believes
except, of course, Micki and Ryan. The
lighthouse operator
becomes enraged when he thinks he has found all
the
descendants and is due to the whole treasure but McBride says
"there's
one more". Micki and Ryan have been snooping around
the lighthouse and
Micki is caught. The local museum owner,
who is also a descent, comes to
her aide and is killed. The
lighthouse operator locks Micki in the
lighthouse and takes
the body to McBride but McBride says again "there is
one
more" and points to him. Realizing that he means that he is
a
descendent he runs for the lighthouse and locks himself
inside. The door
explodes and McBride kills him with his
hook and takes him away.
Status
Micki and Ryan take the foghorn and see the
ghost ship sailing away with
McBride and his new crew.
1.23 "Badge of Honor"
Object: Sheriff's badge
Original Airdate: 7-5-88
Writer: Roy Sallows
Director: Michelle Manning
Guest Cast:
Val Avery................ Russ Sharko
David Provol............. Victor Haas
John Stockwell........... Tim Ayres
Denneth McGregor......... Tom Van Der Beck
Synopsis
An old love interest of Micki's wants to stay with her
while he is in town.
Ryan overhears a phone conversation and
begins to suspect that this friend
is a criminal. The friend
is seen making deals with a known conterfeit
money dealer.
The dealer is also being watched by a policeman whose
wife
the dealer killed. The policeman finds a sherriff's badge,
and uses
it to kill the dealer's men by making an impring on
their chest, and frying
them. In the final battle between
the policeman and the dealer, Micki's
friend, who turns out
to be an under cover cop, is killed, as well as the
dealer
and the policeman.
Status
The badge is recovered.
1.24 "Pipe Dream"
Object: Pipe
Original Airdate: 7-11-88
Writer: Marc Scott Zicree
Director: Zale Dalen
Guest Cast:
Michael Constantine...... Ray Dallion
Synopsis
Ryan's dad, an inventor, is remarrying. They haven't
spoken in quite a
while, so Ryan's father's fiance invites
Ryan, unbeknownst to Mr. Dallion.
Mr. Dallion hasn't had
many ideas lately, but at a convention, he meets a
young man
with several ingenious ideas. Not realizing that the pipe
he
recieved as a gift from Lewis was cursed, he lights it and a
puff of
orange smoke kills the man. Mr. Dallion than takes
credit for the
invention, and uses the pipe to kill nosey co-
workers. Micki begins to
suspect that he owns a cursed
object. Ryan's father catches her snooping
and uses the pipe
on her. By this time Ryan has found out and is looking
for
them. Threatening his father with a gun, he asks him about
Micki. His
father replies that it is too late. Ryan runs to
where Micki is hiding and
is overcome by the smoke. Ryan's
father realzing what he has done pushes
his son away and is
killed by the smoke.
Status
Pipe returned to the vault.
1.25 "What a Mother Wouldn't Do"
Object: Baby cradle
Original Airdate: 7-18-88
Writer: Bruce Martin
Director: Neill Fearnley
Guest Cast:
Lynne Cormack............ Leslie Kent
Michael Countryman....... Martin Kent
R.G. Armstrong........... Lewis Vendredi
Synopsis
This cradle once belonged to a woman who took a trip on
the Titanic the
night it sank. She was tryng to pass her
baby to a lifeboat, but the boats
occupance wouldn't take the
baby, who was knocked overboard. The 7 people
in the
lifeboat died when it capsized, but the baby floated to
saftey. The
current owners must kill seven people in water in
order to keep their dying
baby healthy. This must be done
before the exact day and time the Titanic
sunk, otherwise the
baby dies. The baby cannot be removed from the cradle
until
all seven were dead.
Status
Both parents were killed, but their deaths
occurred in water, so the baby
was safe and adopted by a
loving baby-sitter. The cradle was locked away
in the vault.
1.26 "Bottle of Dreams"
Object: Egyptian urn
Original Airdate: 7-25-88
Writer: Roy Sallows
Director: Mac Bradden
Guest Cast:
Elias Zarou.............. Rashid
R.G. Armstrong........... Lewis Vendredi
Synopsis
While Micki, Ryan, and Jack are having a little
celebration to all the
objects they have successfully
obtained, a strange man brings in a small
urn wrapped in
tattered shrouds. While Micki and Ryan put it in the
vault,
The top comes open, and strange, green gas leaks out. The
vault
seals them in, but Jack get's there just in time to see
what's happening,
before the door shuts. Jack calls Rashid,
who comes over to help. We find
out that, essentially, what
Micki and Ryan are experiencing is a "death
dream." The urn
had been used to preserve internal organs of mummys.
the
death dream causes the victim to relive the most terrifying
experiences
of their life over and over, until their hearts
literally burst of fear.
This is one of those usually cheesy
flashback episodes, but I feel it is
skillfully stitched
together, and NOT cheesy. Clips include scenes from
"The
Inheritance", "Cupid's Quiver", "Scarecrow", "Tattoo",
"Doctor Jack",
"Tales of the Undead", and "The Baron's
Bride". We also find out about
Jack's son, who died when he
was only 10 or 12 years old.
Status
Micki and Ryan are saved, by having Jack drink a
potion and being sent into
Micki and Ryan's "dream plane,"
which we also learn is how Jack's son,
Peter died. Peter had
been a clairvoyant, or something like that, and died
by
entering a young, mentally disturbed girl's dream plane in
the hope of
saving her from herself.