Episode
Freddy's Nightmares: Lucky Stiff
Overview
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.
Details
- Series
- Freddy's Nightmares
- Season
- Season 2
- Episode
- Episode 6
- Air date
- 1989-11-12
- Runtime
- 60 min
Episode context
Lucky Stiff is Episode 6 in Season 2 of Freddy's Nightmares. It aired on 1989-11-12. The runtime is 60 min.
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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.
Episode 7: Silence is Golden
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
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Episode 4: Photo Finish
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.
Episode 8: Bloodlines
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.
Episode 3: Welcome to Springwood
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.
Episode 9: Monkey Dreams
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.
Episode 2: Heartbreak Hotel
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.
Episode 10: Do You Know Where Your Kids Are?
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.
Episode 1: Dream Come True
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.
Episode 11: Dreams That Kill
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.
Episode 12: It's My Party and You'll Die If I Want You To
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.
Episode 13: What You Don't Know Can Kill You
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.