List of Friday the 13th: The Series episodes

The following is a list of episodes of the horror series Friday the 13th: The Series. Starring John D. LeMay, Chris Wiggins, Louise Robey and Steve Monarque. Friday the 13th aired from October 3, 1987 to May 26, 1990 in first-run syndication, for a total of 72 episodes.

Season 2 (1988–89)
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 * EpisodeNumber = 27
 * EpisodeNumber2 = 1
 * Title = Doorway to Hell
 * DirectedBy = William Fruet
 * WrittenBy = Jim Henshaw
 * OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1988|9|30}}
 * ShortSummary = Uncle Lewis's ghost is back and he lures Ryan and Micki to an abandoned home in hopes of eliminating them and returning to the living world.

Cursed Antique: A mirror that acts as a portal to the Realm of Darkness. Though magical, it is technically not one of the cursed antiques.

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 * EpisodeNumber = 28
 * EpisodeNumber2 = 2
 * Title = The Voodoo Mambo
 * DirectedBy = Timothy Bond
 * WrittenBy = Agy Polly
 * OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1988|10|7}}
 * ShortSummary = A disinherited man, Carl Walters, uses, and is used by, a bloodthirsty voodoo priestess Laotia who is connected to an old friend of Jack.

Cursed Antique: A voodoo mask of Ghede Nibo that contains the evil spirit of a voodoo priestess and steals the souls of others by ripping out their throats. Villain[s] & Fate: Carl Walters, killed by Laotia. Laotia is killed when, after returning to the living, the mask rips her throat out.

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 * EpisodeNumber = 29
 * EpisodeNumber2 = 3
 * Title = And Now the News
 * DirectedBy = Bruce Pittman
 * WrittenBy = Richard Brenner
 * OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1988|10|14}}
 * ShortSummary = Just as an ambitious psychiatrist, Dr. Avril Carter's (Kate Trotter's) patients are enjoying miraculous cures, other doctors' patients are being frightened to death, literally.

Cursed Antique: A cathedrals type radio that transmits valuable information to the owner after it frightens its listeners to death. Villain and Fate: Dr. Avril Carter, electrocuted to death by the radio.

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 * EpisodeNumber = 30
 * EpisodeNumber2 = 4
 * Title = Tails I Live, Heads You Die
 * DirectedBy = Mark Sobel
 * WrittenBy = Marilyn Anderson, Billy Riback
 * OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1988|10|21}}
 * ShortSummary = The leader of a Satanic cult, Sylvan Winters (Colin Fox), brings powerful, long-dead magicians, Carl Naft and Tiriel, back to life. Together, they plan to summon Satan himself, and to "rule the world, in His name".

Cursed Antique: The Coin of Zioclese that can bring others back to life after it kills someone, leaving a ram's head branded on their forehead. Villain(s) and Fate: Sylvan Winters, his cult-members, and two reanimated dead magicians Carl Naft and Tiriel, all buried under tons of rubble.

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 * EpisodeNumber = 31
 * EpisodeNumber2 = 5
 * Title = Symphony in B-Sharp
 * DirectedBy = Francis Delia
 * WrittenBy = {{StoryTeleplay|s=Peter Mohan|t=Carl Binder|tfirst=y}}
 * OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1988|11|4}}
 * ShortSummary = Ryan falls for a talented young violinist (Ely Pouget) who is being haunted by her supposedly dead mentor and lover, Janos Korda.

Cursed Antique: A violin that temporarily restores its owner's crippled hands after killing someone with a blade hidden in the bow. Villain and Fate: Janos Korda, leaps to his death.

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 * EpisodeNumber = 32
 * EpisodeNumber2 = 6
 * Title = Master of Disguise
 * DirectedBy = Tom McLoughlin
 * WrittenBy = Bruce Martin
 * OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1988|11|11}}
 * ShortSummary = While providing antiques to a film set, Micki catches the eye of an up-and-coming actor, William Pratt, whose good looks mask an ugly agenda.

Cursed Antique: A makeup case belonging to John Wilkes Booth, that temporarily grants its deformed owner good looks, after it is covered with blood from a murder victim.

Villain and Fate: William Pratt, incarcerated. Trivia: This episode reveals Jack knew Boris Karloff.

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 * EpisodeNumber = 33
 * EpisodeNumber2 = 7
 * Title = Wax Magic
 * DirectedBy = William Fruet
 * WrittenBy = Carl Binder
 * OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1988|11|18}}
 * ShortSummary = Ryan gets close to the wife of a jealous wax sculptor, Alwen Chase, while investigating a series of axe-murders at a local carnival.

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 * EpisodeNumber = 34
 * EpisodeNumber2 = 8
 * Title = Read My Lips
 * DirectedBy = Francis Delia
 * WrittenBy = Peter Lauterman, Angelo Stea
 * OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1988|11|25}}
 * ShortSummary = An old friend of Micki's is about to marry a ventriloquist, Edgar van Horne, whose sharp-humored dummy does not approve.

Cursed Antique: Adolf Hitler's pink silk boutonniere that brings a ventriloquist's dummy to life and compels people (Billy Drago, John Byner) to kill. Villain(s) and Fate(s): Edgar van Horne, driven insane and locked up in a mental institution; Travis Plunkett, stabbed to death by the dummy.

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 * EpisodeNumber = 35
 * EpisodeNumber2 = 9
 * Title = 13 O’Clock
 * DirectedBy = Rob Hedden
 * WrittenBy = Rob Hedden
 * OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1989|1|7}}
 * ShortSummary = A rich man, Henry Wilkerson's ambitious trophy-wife, Reatha Wilkerson, (Gwynyth Walsh) murders him for his magical stopwatch. Two street-kids witness the murder, and appeal to Curious Goods for help.

Cursed Antique: A pocket watch that stops time for an hour at 1 a.m. (the 13th hour), allowing the user to plunder the motionless world, after the owner kills someone. Villain(s) and Fate(s): Reatha Wilkerson and Eric (David Proval), frozen in time; Henry Wilkerson, stabbed to death.

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 * EpisodeNumber = 36
 * EpisodeNumber2 = 10
 * Title = Night Hunger
 * DirectedBy = Martin Lavut
 * WrittenBy = Jim Henshaw
 * OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1989|1|14}}
 * ShortSummary = Curious Goods neighbor Dominic Fiorno asks the group to help his son Michael, who has been driving in illegal amateur car-races.

Cursed Antique: A silver chain with a blank car key that magically upgrades its owner's car after its dipped in the blood of a run over victim and gives them telepathic control over their car after it wraps itself around their heart. Villain and Fate: Michael Fiorno, caught in a car crash and burned to death.

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 * EpisodeNumber = 37
 * EpisodeNumber2 = 11
 * Title = The Sweetest Sting
 * DirectedBy = David Winning
 * WrittenBy = {{StoryTeleplay|s=Rick Butler|t=Rick Butler, Roy Sallows|tfirst=y}}
 * OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1989|1|21}}
 * ShortSummary = A beekeeper Elroy McCabe(Art Hindle) uses a swarm of vampiric bees to provide terminal patients with new bodies, and to extort money and services from them afterwards.

Cursed Antique: A transport beehive which causes the bees to become vampires, able to transfer life-force from one person to another by stinging. Villain and Fate: McCabe, killed by the bees.

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 * EpisodeNumber = 38
 * EpisodeNumber2 = 12
 * Title = The Playhouse
 * DirectedBy = Tom McLoughlin
 * WrittenBy = Tom McLoughlin
 * OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1989|1|28}}
 * ShortSummary = Two abused children, Mike and Janine Carlson, are connected with a mysterious rash of disappearing children.

Cursed Antique: A playhouse that grants children a fantasy world, but they must lure other children into it as prisoners.

Villain & Fate: Mike and Janine Carlson, placed into foster care. The children are not true villains, more along the lines of anti-heroes. Trivia: The only episode with no deaths.

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 * EpisodeNumber = 39
 * EpisodeNumber2 = 13
 * Title = Eye of Death
 * DirectedBy = Timothy Bond
 * WrittenBy = Peter Jobin, Timothy Bond, Roy Sallows
 * OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1989|2|4}}
 * ShortSummary = Another antique dealer and formerly one of Jack's business rivals, Atticus Rook, is time-traveling and getting collectable Civil War artifacts straight from the battlefields. While trying to stop him, Ryan becomes trapped in the past.

Cursed Antique: The Eye of Death Civil War Era magic lantern that allows its owner to travel back to the time shown in the slide, requiring a murder for each leg of the trip. Villain and Fate: Atticus Rook, materialized inside a solid wall because of a time-travel mishap.

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 * EpisodeNumber = 40
 * EpisodeNumber2 = 14
 * Title = Face of Evil
 * DirectedBy = William Fruet
 * WrittenBy = Jim Henshaw
 * OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1989|2|11}}
 * ShortSummary = An aging super-model, Tabitha Robbins, uses the cursed compact to revive her career, at the cost of her competition's lives.

Cursed Antique: The gold compact, lost at the end of "Vanity's Mirror", is found, but now it restores a model's beauty by killing others or mutilating their faces. Villain and Fate: Tabitha Robbins, killed by the power of the compact.

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 * EpisodeNumber = 41
 * EpisodeNumber2 = 15
 * Title = Better Off Dead
 * DirectedBy = Armand Mastroianni
 * WrittenBy = Bruce Martin
 * OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1989|2|18}}
 * ShortSummary = A doctor, Warren Voss, (Neil Munro) has been abducting prostitutes in order to experiment on them and find a cure for "hyper-violence syndrome". Jack, Micki, and Ryan learn that Dr. Voss is also willing to experiment on women who are not prostitutes.

Cursed Antique: A silver syringe that extracts part of the soul from others, allowing him to temporarily cure his daughter of her hyper-violence, but the "donors" become hyper-violent themselves. Villain and Fate: Dr. Warren Voss, killed by his own hyper-violent daughter.

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 * EpisodeNumber = 42
 * EpisodeNumber2 = 16
 * Title = Scarlet Cinema
 * DirectedBy = David Winning
 * WrittenBy = Rob Hedden
 * OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1989|2|25}}
 * ShortSummary = A film student with a thing for werewolf films, Darius Pogue, uses a cursed movie camera to bring the beast to life, and, eventually, to become a werewolf himself.

Cursed Antique: A movie camera that brings film characters to life, and grants wishes after the character kills three people. Villain and Fate: Darius Pogue, killed in werewolf form, not by a silver bullet, but by a length of film coated with silver nitrate.

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 * EpisodeNumber = 43
 * EpisodeNumber2 = 17
 * Title = The Mephisto Ring
 * DirectedBy = Bruce Pittman
 * WrittenBy = {{StoryTeleplay|s=Peter Largo|t=Marilyn Anderson, Billy Ryback|tfirst=y}}
 * OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1989|4|15}}
 * ShortSummary = An indebted gambler, Donald Wren (Denis Forest), may have struck it rich with a ring that provides betting tips at the cost of a person's life.

Cursed Antique: A 1919 World Series ring that predicts the outcome of sporting events after killing someone who puts it on. Villain(s) and Fate(s): Donald Wren, shot to death; Anthony Macklin, killed by the ring.

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 * EpisodeNumber = 44
 * EpisodeNumber2 = 18
 * Title = A Friend to the End
 * DirectedBy = David Morse
 * WrittenBy = {{StoryTeleplay|s=David Morse, Scott Schneid, Tony Michelman|t=Scott Schneid, Tony Michelman|tfirst=y}}
 * OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1989|4|22}}
 * ShortSummary = While Micki and Ryan track down a sculptor, DeJager, who turns her models into stone statues, Micki's lonely nephew, J.B, finds a new, dangerous playmate, Ricky.

Cursed Antique: A stone fragment called the Shard of Medusa that turns people to stone, and a child's coffin that resurrects a dead child, but the child must kill to stay alive. Villain(s) and Fate(s): DeJager, reclaims the Shard of Medusa and escapes to Europe; Ricky, allows himself to decay to death after J.B. persuades him not to kill Micki. {Only episode where a cursed artifact is not recovered by Micki and Ryan)

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 * EpisodeNumber = 45
 * EpisodeNumber2 = 19
 * Title = The Butcher
 * DirectedBy = Francis Delia
 * WrittenBy = Francis Delia, Ron Magid
 * OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1989|4|29}}
 * ShortSummary = Jack's past comes back to haunt him in the form of a resurrected Nazi officer, Rausch (Nigel Bennett) whom he killed and must kill again.

Cursed Antique: The silver Thule Amulet, which allows a Nazi criminal to resurrect a dead warrior and communicate telepathically with him. Villain[s] and Fate: Rausch, posing as Karl Steiner. Strangled with barb wire and finally dies when the amulet is taken from him and placed in the vault. However, the events are masterminded by Horst Mueller (Colin Fox), who is incarcerated throughout most of the episode.

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 * EpisodeNumber = 46
 * EpisodeNumber2 = 20
 * Title = Mesmer's Bauble
 * DirectedBy = Armand Mastroianni
 * WrittenBy = Joe Gannon
 * OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1989|5|6}}
 * ShortSummary = A lonely man, Howard Moore, uses a cursed bauble to get close to a beautiful popular singer, Angelica (Vanity) - very, very close.

Cursed Antique: A hypnotist's crystal bauble that grants wishes after it is used to kill a hypnotized victim. Villain and Fate: Moore transformed into Angelica, however without the crystal he is exposed as himself and is electrocuted.

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 * EpisodeNumber = 47
 * EpisodeNumber2 = 21
 * Title = Wedding in Black
 * DirectedBy = Rodney Charters
 * WrittenBy = Peter Lauterman, Angelo Stea
 * OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1989|5|13}}
 * ShortSummary = The Devil (Satan) sends three dead souls, Calvin Collier, Maya Zedler, and Brother Antonio, back into the living world, with orders to lure Ryan, Micki, and Jack out of it.

Cursed Antique: A snow globe that traps its victims in a fantasy landscape. Though magical, it is technically not one of the cursed antiques and is destroyed. Villain and Fate: Calvin Collier, Maya Zedler, and Brother Antonio sent by Satan. All three were technically souls sent back after failing their task.

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 * EpisodeNumber = 48
 * EpisodeNumber2 = 22
 * Title = Wedding Bell Blues
 * DirectedBy = Jorge Montesi
 * WrittenBy = Nancy Ann Miller
 * OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1989|5|20}}
 * ShortSummary = With help from Johnny Ventura, Micki hunts down a hexed pool cue, which is being used by Jennifer Carpenter, a woman with terrible taste in love.

Cursed Antique: A cue stick that grants unbeatable skill at pool after it is used to kill someone. Villain and Fate: Jennifer Carpenter, unknown after murdering her fiancé, Danny.

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 * EpisodeNumber = 49
 * EpisodeNumber2 = 23
 * Title = The Maestro
 * DirectedBy = Timothy Bond
 * WrittenBy = Karen Janigan
 * OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1989|5|27}}
 * ShortSummary = Jack's niece, Grace, comes to town to dance for a prestigious choreographer Anton Pascola (Colm Feore), whose dancers seem prone to suicide and deadly accidents.

Cursed Antique: A Victorian symphonia (music box) that provides new choreographic material, but kills the dancers in the process. Villain and Fate: Anton Pascola, literally dances to death, taking Grace with him.

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 * EpisodeNumber = 50
 * EpisodeNumber2 = 24
 * Title = The Shaman's Apprentice
 * DirectedBy = William Fruet
 * WrittenBy = Michael Michaelian
 * OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1989|6|3}}
 * ShortSummary = A Native American doctor, John Whitecloud, uses a magic rattle to cure terminally ill patients, and to kill people who disrespect his Shamanist faith.

Cursed Antique: A Native American shaman's ceremonial rattle that can cure any disease, but only after it is used to kill. Villain and Fate: Dr. John Whitecloud, presumably dragged off into the afterlife.

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 * EpisodeNumber = 51
 * EpisodeNumber2 = 25
 * Title = The Prisoner
 * DirectedBy = Armand Mastroianni
 * WrittenBy = Jim Henshaw
 * OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1989|6|10}}
 * ShortSummary = An invisible burglar kills Johnny's father, and sets Johnny up as the killer. While in prison awaiting trial, Johnny recognizes the murderer, Dayton Railsback, by smell.

Cursed Antique: A Japanese kamikaze pilot jacket that renders the wearer invisible after it is smeared with blood from a murder victim. Villain and Fate: Dayton Railsback, burned to death.

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 * EpisodeNumber = 52
 * EpisodeNumber2 = 26
 * Title = Coven of Darkness
 * DirectedBy = George Bloomfield
 * WrittenBy = Wendy Rodriguez
 * OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1989|6|17}}
 * ShortSummary = Uncle Lewis's old witches coven, led by Lysa Redding, wants a powerful witch's ladder that will enhance their powers, and they hex Ryan to get it for them. Meanwhile, Micki discovers her new potential.

Cursed Antique: A witch's ladder that can greatly enhances the owner's magic powers. Also a sculptor's tool that enchants victims by shaping their likeness in clay. Villain and Fate: Lysa Redding, killed by a bolt of psychic energy sent by Micki through Ryan that sends her through a window. Ryan uses this power to destroy the entire coven.

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