Friday the 13th: The Series
Friday the 13th: The Series
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Friday the 13th: The Series

7.3 / 10
1987
3 seasons
72 episodes
MysterySci-Fi & FantasyDrama

Micki and Ryan with the help of their friend Jack try to recover cursed antiques so they can store them in safety inside the antique store's vault.

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ORIGINAL SERIES INTRO WITH VO

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Seasons

  • The Inheritance

    1.The Inheritance

    7.0
    03-10-198745m

    In the opening segment (to be repeated throughout the first two years), we see Lewis Vendredi try to recover the cursed antiques, and end up condemned to hell. Distant cousins Ryan...

  • The Poison Pen

    2.The Poison Pen

    6.0
    10-10-198745m

    The cousins and Jack track an antique quill pen to a monastery famed for its mysterious prophecies. The pen can be used to make anything written with it come true...at the cost of...

  • Cupid's Quiver

    3.Cupid's Quiver

    4.5
    17-10-198745m

    An unattractive low-life gets hold of a cursed statue of Cupid that allows him to turn women into loving worshippers who fall at his feet. However, he is compelled to kill them in...

  • A Cup of Time

    4.A Cup of Time

    6.0
    24-10-198745m

    An antique tea cup decorated with ""borrowers' ivy"" lets the user borrow youth and talent from a victim by taking their life. A senior citizen uses the cup to reinvent herself as...

  • Hellowe'en

    5.Hellowe'en

    6.0
    31-10-198745m

    Micki and Ryan throw a Halloween party at the shop to meet the neighbors, but two visitors inadvertently resurrect Uncle Vendredi's spirit. Now totally corrupted by evil, Lewis pla...

  • The Great Montarro

    6.The Great Montarro

    7.0
    07-11-198745m

    A magician creates a new death-defying act using a pair of cursed antique ""magic boxes"" created by the famous magician Houdin. Anyone placed in one box can survive any danger...b...

  • Doctor Jack

    7.Doctor Jack

    6.0
    14-11-198745m

    A doctor has obtained the cursed scapel used by Jack the Ripper, and discovers he can use it to kill one victim and miraculously heal one of his patients. His reputation as a mirac...

  • Shadow Boxer

    8.Shadow Boxer

    6.0
    21-11-198745m

    A cursed set of boxing gloves makes their owner unbeatable in the ring...while his shadow goes out and beats an innocent to death. The trio manage to recover the gloves, but the bo...

  • Root of All Evil

    9.Root of All Evil

    7.0
    28-11-198745m

    A gardener's assistant gets hold of a cursed mulcher. The more wealthy and valuable the person you feed into it, the more money that comes out. The trio manage to feed the assistan...

  • Tales of the Undead

    10.Tales of the Undead

    7.0
    30-01-198845m

    A old and embittered comic book writer, Jay Star, gets hold of a cursed comic book that allows him to transform into Ferrus the Invincible and take vengeance on the individuals who...

  • Scarecrow

    11.Scarecrow

    7.0
    06-02-198845m

    A small farming community has excellent harvesters. Little do they realize that one of the farmers uses a cursed scarecrow. She must pin the pictures of three victims on the scarec...

  • Faith Healer

    12.Faith Healer

    7.0
    13-02-198845m

    Jack is asked by a friend to investigate a ""faith healer"" who uses a cursed glove to heal one person...by transferring their ills magnified tenfold to another victim. Jack must n...

  • The Baron's Bride

    13.The Baron's Bride

    7.0
    20-02-198845m

    A cursed broach possesses several strange abilities, including the ability to transform its wearer into a vampire and the ability to, when daubed with blood, let its wearer travel...

  • Bedazzled

    14.Bedazzled

    6.0
    27-02-198845m

    Jack and Ryan recover a cursed lantern from two treasure hunters who use it to recover lost treasure by killing their divers with it. They take it back to the vault and then head o...

  • Vanity's Mirror

    15.Vanity's Mirror

    7.0
    05-03-198845m

    A homely girl, overshadowed by her prom queen sister, gets hold of a vanity which she can use to bedazzle any boy into falling in love with her. However, as soon as they do, she mu...

  • Tattoo

    16.Tattoo

    7.0
    12-03-198845m

    A young man, Tommy Chow, gets hold of a set of tattoo needles. He tattoes an innocent victim, and the tattoo then comes to gory life and kills the victim. In return, Tommy, a compu...

  • The Electrocutioner

    17.The Electrocutioner

    7.0
    23-04-198845m

    An innocent man is condemned to the electric chair, but manages to survive. Embittered, the man buys the electric chair from Lewis Vendredi. A dentist, he takes a job in an orphana...

  • Brain Drain

    18.Brain Drain

    6.0
    30-04-198845m

    A dim-wittedd man discovers a cursed trefinator in a museum warehouse: a guillotine-like device that transfers spinal fluid from one individual to another. The cursed item actually...

  • The Quilt of Hathor (1)

    19.The Quilt of Hathor (1)

    6.0
    07-05-198845m

    A cursed quilt, which allows the person underneath it to dream their enemies to death, finds its way into an Amish-like ""Pennitite"" community. A plain woman stumbles upon it and...

  • The Quilt of Hathor: The Awakening (2)

    20.The Quilt of Hathor: The Awakening (2)

    7.0
    14-05-198845m

    Jack and Micki, depressed because Ryan stayed with the Pennitites, learn that the Quilt of Hathor they have is a forgery when they are able to harm it (all of the cursed antiques a...

  • Double Exposure

    21.Double Exposure

    7.0
    21-05-198845m

    Winston Knight, a TV anchorman, gains great fame because a serial killer, the Machete Killer, will only contact him. What no one knows is that Knight is using a cursed camera that...

  • The Pirate's Promise

    22.The Pirate's Promise

    7.0
    02-07-198845m

    Tracking a cursed foghorn, Micki and Ryan arrive at an isolated community. Initially unbeknownst to them, the local lighthouse keeper is using the foghorn to summon up the ghost of...

  • Badge of Honor

    23.Badge of Honor

    6.0
    09-07-198845m

    An old boyfriend of Micki's, Tim Ayres, shows up in town, and immediately begins acting suspiciously. Ryan, somewhat jealous, believes that Ayres is working with local counterfeite...

  • Pipe Dream

    24.Pipe Dream

    7.0
    16-07-198845m

    Ryan's father Ray, a small-time inventor, rolls into town and announces that he's achieved great financial success and is planning to finally marry. Ray's managed to do so with the...

  • What a Mother Wouldn't Do

    25.What a Mother Wouldn't Do

    7.0
    23-07-198845m

    Two desperate parents were given an antique cradle by a symathetic Lewis Vendredi. The cradle belonged to a female passenger aboard the Titanic. Trying to rescue her child, she acc...

  • Bottle of Dreams

    26.Bottle of Dreams

    6.0
    30-07-198845m

    A mysterious messenger brings a Coptic urn to the store, which bursts open when Micki and Ryan take it to the Vault. The gas from the jar puts them into a trance where they are for...

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