1.01    No More Mr. Nice Guy
Written by Michael De Luca, David Ehrman, and Rhet Topham
Directed by Tobe Hooper
Aired: October 8, 1988
The host of the show recounts the events that led to his becoming a master of nightmares: sinister Freddy Krueger, the razor-gloved janitor of the Springwood power plant, is tried for the murders of innocent children, but is acquitted in court because of a technicality. Furious, the parents of the victims form a lynch mob and go after the fedora-donned fiend, planning to obtain the revenge the court robbed them of. The parents catch him, and he is burned alive by the enraged mob. They believe they have obtained revenge against the murderer, but Freddy is far from gone.



1.02    It's a Miserable Life

Written by Michael De Luca and Paul Rosselli
Directed by Tom McLoughlin
Aired: October 15, 1988
A moment becomes a lifetime between the pulling of the trigger and the impact of the bullet to an innocent victim of a drive-by shooting after he receives a bullet to the head. His girlfriend also becomes paralyzed with her fear of hospitals that seem to materialize when she becomes a victim as well.



1.03    Killer Instinct
Written by Allen B. Ury
Directed by Mick Garris
Aired: October 22, 1988
A high school track star that's lost her competitive edge has her coach urging her to get the "killer instinct". The runner learns the painful price of winning when she experiences both the ecstasy of victory and the painful agony of defeat after the coach provides her with a talisman to help her not only visualize winning, but focus on the gruesome destruction of her opponents as well.



1.04    Freddy's Tricks and Treats
Written by Alan L. Katz and Gil Adler
Directed by Ken Wiederhorn
Aired: October 29, 1988
The fiendish Freddy Krueger returns to taunt and haunt a sexually repressed college coed on Halloween night. Deciding to work in her lab that night instead of partaking in the annual ghoulish festivities, she finds herself being tormented by the terror of Springwood.



1.05     Judy Miller, Come On Down
Written by Jack Temchin and Michael De Luca
Directed by Tom DeSimone
Aired: November 5, 1988
A television game-show fanatic is thrust into a mental tug-of-war when her chance to win it big means destroying her oppressive in-laws. Her victory depends on her willingness to reveal her darkest thoughts about her in-laws and witness their subsequent destruction.



1.06     Saturday Night Special
Written by James Nathan and Don Bohlinger
Directed by Lisa Gottlieb
Aired: November 12, 1988
The perils of dating in the 90s are explored from both the male and female points of view when a lonely man exaggerates his virile prowess at a video-dating interview, and ends up with a monster of a date. Meanwhile, a plain-looking woman learns that beauty is only skin deep when she endures drastic measures to become beautiful.



1.07     Sister's Keeper
Written by Jeff Freilich and Michael De Luca
Directed by Ken Weiderhorn
Aired: November 19, 1988
The evil Freddy Krueger returns to sever the emotional and physical bond between the identical twins whose father supposedly helped burn Freddy to death years before. The twins merge their dreams into one in an effort to combat the vengeful terror of Freddy, who's bent on tearing apart their symbiotic relationship.



1.08     Mother's Day
Written by David Ehrman
Directed by Michael Lange
Aired: November 26, 1988
Mother's Day turns into an offspring's nightmare as two teens struggle for their respective mother's attentions. The teenagers are posed with very different problems: a young boy struggles to cope with losing his mother to an oppressive and overbearing new husband; and a teenage girl's cries for help, after being accused of murder, are cut off by her radio talk show hostess mother.



1.09     Rebel without a Car
Written by Christopher Trumbo
Directed by John Lafia
Aired: December 10, 1988
All roads lead to nowhere for a rebellious Springwood hot rodder from the wrong side of the tracks when he attempts to flee the doldrums of the boring town; and his girlfriend is initiated into her own living hell when she vows to escape by pleading for a haughty and exclusive sorority - both youths learn in a nightmarish way that you can never leave home, especially if you live in Springwood.



1.10     The Bride Wore Red
Written by Howard Lakin
Directed by George Kaczender
Aired: December 17, 1988
A somewhat wary groom-to-be has his greatest fears about marriage realized at his bizarre bachelor party, while his fiancée experiences her nuptial nightmare - resulting in the enraged couple feeling the cold, harsh grip of matrimony hours before their wedding.



1.11     Do Dreams Bleed?
Written by Michael De Luca
Directed by Dwight Little
Aired: January 7, 1989
Springwood High's star quarterback and his class president girlfriend take popularity to the cutting edge when "The Chopper" hits town and teaches them that while beauty is only skin deep, evil can hide deep under the surface. As "The Chopper" terrorizes the pair of high school sweethearts, evil Freddy Krueger finds himself competing against the killer's ability to wreck havoc on Springwood.



1.12     The End of the World
Written by James Cappe
Directed by Jonathan Betuel
Aired: January 14, 1989
A motherless young girl takes advantage of the psychic power of her nightmares when she attempts to alter destiny. Her nightmares turn into reality when she attempts to right the wrongs of her past through telekinesis - causing not only tragic consequences for her family, but for the future of mankind as well.



1.13     Deadline
Written by Jill Donner
Directed by Michael Lange
Aired: January 28, 1989
An aspiring local newspaper reporter is forced to spend his summer vacation writing obituaries when his father gets him a job on the staff of the Springwood Gazette. As he writes the stories of his subjects' passing, he gets a little too close to the stories as he re-experiences, in graphic detail, the painful deaths of those he writes about. Meanwhile, a young coed who escaped death in a fiery car crash, in which her friends were killed, is lured to join her friends in death by the mysterious lover who once kept her from them.



1.14     Black Tickets
Written by Howard Lakin
Directed by George Kaczender
Aired: February 4, 1989
Rick and Miranda elope with the hope of living life in the fast lane, but during an unexpected stopover in Springwood, they find their growing pains becoming excruciatingly real as they embark on an odyssey of terror.



1.15     School Daze
Written by David Ehrman
Directed by Michael Klein
Aired: February 11, 1989
An invasion of the personality snatchers at Springwood High forces one student to reluctantly join the responsible zombies of the adult world; while his friend discovers that success and failure are not such distant relatives. The two friends' hopes for the future collide with the reality of the present when they discover that being different can also be dangerous.



1.16     Cabin Fever
Written by Rhet Topham
Directed by Robert Englund
Aired: February 18, 1989
Commuter flight #976 from Chicago to Springwood doesn't need an in-flight movie, as it becomes the setting for terror and turbulence that provide passengers entertainment when the son of an airplane parts manufacturer pays for his father's mistakes. Later, a stewardess from flight #976 learns about taxidermy the hard way from a ghoulish collector, a lonely passenger in need of company - and a victim for his deadly collection.



1.17     Love Stinks
Written by Jeff Freilich and Michael De Luca
Directed by John Lafia
Aired: February 25, 1989
A local baseball hero finally decides to tell the girl of his dreams how he feels about her, but he tells the wrong girl instead. She is not easily dismissed, and the star learns a deadly lesson in love when his romantic intentions become fatal attraction. Meanwhile, a recent Springwood High graduate takes a part time job, but terror reigns as "pizza by the slice" takes on a whole new meaning and his plans for a post-graduation trip go awry during his summer job in the pizza parlor from hell.



1.18     The Art of Death
Written by Michael De Luca and Ken Wiederhorn
Directed by Ken Wiederhorn
Aired: April 29, 1989
A student artist becomes horrified when he discovers his own artwork becoming more and more lifelike, revealing feelings toward some fellow students - thanks to the help of Freddy Krueger. One of the artist's victims goes through a horror-filled weekend when she has to relive an entrapment experience.



1.19     Missing Persons
Written by Jeff Freilich
Directed by Jeff Freilich
Aired: May 6, 1989
A thin, shapely college coed becomes a gross, disfigured human food disposal when a pair of harmless tykes she babysits for the evening turn into a couple of siblings from hell, who prey on her violent weakness for food, and she literally eats herself to death. Elsewhere, a bored family man learns that a more exciting existence could also prove to be a very evil and deadly one, when the businessman bored with his family life explores the evil, and deadly, alternatives to life with "the old ball and chain."



1.20     The Light at the End of the Tunnel
Written by James Cappe and Jonathan Betual
Directed by Jonathan Betual
Aired: May 13, 1989
After months of unemployment takes its toll on his personal relationships, a young man finally accepts a job working in the sewers of Springwood, only to have his boyhood fear of the dark return to haunt him in overwhelming proportions. Later, a sleazy video storeowner with no regard for humanity gets his comeuppance after he double-crosses a very powerful vendor.



1.21     Identity Crisis
Written by Rebecca J. Pogrow
Directed by David K. Calloway
Aired: May 20, 1989
As a former flower child of the sixties - now an architect - approaches his fortieth birthday, his "living nightmare" features his only son as a merciless corporate tyrant, who punishes those who eschew the fascist ideals of "the corporation." Also, a teenage misfit questions her parentage, as she sees her mother as a burned and scarred woman, speaking a language she does not understand. It is soon revealed the teenager is catatonic and insane, the result of surviving a house fire where she saw her mother perish. She sees everyone as burned and scarred, speaking the language she does not understand.



1.22     Safe Sex
Written by David J. Schow
Directed by Jerry Olson
Aired: May 27, 1989
A romance-starved high school student is preoccupied with his desire to conquer an incredibly beautiful, yet oddly mysterious girl. His preoccupation leads to more than a broken heart as his sexual fantasies get the better of him, and his "first time" becomes his last. Meanwhile, a mysterious beauty's fixation with the power of evil comes to a bloody ending when her request for a date with Freddy Krueger turns into a date with death.









2nd SEASON





2.01     Dream Come True
Written by Thomas Lazarus
Directed by George Kaczender
Aired: October 2, 1989
A noted psychotherapist's healing claims are put to the ultimate test after ridding a patient of his horrific encounters with Freddy Krueger, as the doctor himself becomes one of Freddy's victims in the end. A television newsman who thinks he's seen it all has another thing coming when he sets out to track down whoever or whatever is responsible for a string of murders in Springwood.



2.02     Heartbreak Hotel
Written by Johnathan Glassner
Directed by William Malone
Aired: October 9, 1989
A reporter for a sleazy newspaper lands his deadliest scoop ever when he investigates an Elvis sighting in Springwood. As an amnesia victim's memory begins to return, the gruesome circumstances of his present condition return as well.



2.03     Welcome to Springwood
Written by A. L. Katz and Gilbert Adler
Directed by Ken Wiederhorn
Aired: October 16, 2006
A yuppie couple relocate to Springwood and suffer a bad case of "moving day blues" when their belongings are inadvertently switched with those of someone with a very gruesome hobby. Meanwhile, a young couple discovers a secret cache of Victorian love letters in her new apartment and becomes intertwined in a mysterious and murderous love triangle.



2.04     Photo Finish
Written by Johnathan Glassner
Directed by Tom DeSimone
Aired: October 23, 2006
A once renowned photographer, anxious to make a comeback, goes to deadly extremes to produce the "cutting edge" photos she needs to put her back on top, as she finds herself pitted against less-then-photogenic Freddy Krueger. When a crack team of FBI investigators are called in to solve a bizarre murder case, one of them recreates the heinous crime a little too realistically and comes face-to-face with Freddy.



2.05     Memory Overload
Written by Michael Kirschenbaum
Directed by Don Weis
Aired: October 30, 1989
A college professor living in a haze of alcoholic delusion harbors a student from his overbearing military father and finds himself in the middle of a bizarre "Family Feud". When a credit administrator lets the power of her position go to her head, her computer comes to life to take its revenge.



2.06     Lucky Stiff
Written by David Braff
Directed by William Malone
Aired: November 6, 1989
When a hapless nerd finally wins the lottery, his unfaithful wife, Greta, faces freedom and guilt when she learns of his good fortune after his death. After bumping off her second husband to avoid sharing her deceased first husband's lottery winnings, the greedy Greta finally gets what's coming to her.



2.07     Silence Is Golden
Written by Johnathan Glassner
Directed by Chuck Braverman
Aired: November 13, 1989
An obnoxious and insulting radio disc jockey meets a formidable and unlikely foe in a street mime, who has revenge on his mind. Later, the mime, moonlighting as a cat burglar, becomes the victim of a warped plot designed to frame him for a murder he didn't commit.



2.08     Bloodlines
Written by Gilbert Adler and A.L. Katz
Directed by James Quinn
Aired: November 20, 1989
After many years in prison, a convict breaks out and returns home to retrieve his stolen money, only to find a wife deluded with dreams of how their lives have been, and a grown son filled with contempt for the man who shattered his mother's dreams. Meanwhile, an adoptive mother concerned over the child's true lineage sees her worst fears become reality as the child's uncontrollable behavior leads to deadly consequences.



2.09     Monkey Dreams
Written by Michael Kirschenbaum
Directed by Robert Englund
Aired: November 27, 1989
A research scientist on the threshold of a major discovery is in a race against time to make his break through before the mob shows up to collect 'once and for all' on his delinquent gambling debts. When a chimpanzee becomes the subject of 'cruel and painful' experimentation, the tables are turned on an unfeeling research scientist who becomes the victim of his own deadly experiment.



2.10     Do You Know Where Your Kids Are?
Written by Wayne Rice
Directed by Bill Froelich
Aired: December 4, 1989
A routine babysitting assignment turns into an evening of terror for a teenager whose curiosity regarding what's behind a locked basement door gets the better of her. Later, a distraught a mother, unable to accept the recent car accident death of her daughter, deludes herself with fantasies of the girl's return until a bizarre twist shatters the woman's world.



2.11     Dreams That Kill
Written by Tom Blumquist
Directed by Tom De Simone
Aired: December 11, 1989
When Charlie Michaels, the host of tabloid television's "Springwood Confidential", openly explores the harrowing deaths of people who are fatal victims of their own nightmares, he faces the formidable, and deadly, Freddy Krueger, Springwood's own dream master. The young brain-dead victim of a motorcycle accident gets a new lease on life when he receives a highly experimental brain cell transplant, only to find out that he has inherited not only the personality traits of the donor, but Freddy Krueger's murderous vendetta as well.




2.12     What You Don't Know Can Kill You
Written by Jonathan Glassner
Directed by Ken Wiederhorn
Aired: January 1, 1990
An unscrupulous hypnotherapist, who uses his healing talent to induce patients to perform nefarious deeds for him, is challenged when a colleague threatens to expose his despicable behavior. A fugitive from justice jumps from the frying pan and into the fire when his plastic surgery leaves him looking exactly like a well-known hitman for the mob.



2.13     Easy Come, Easy Go
Written by David Braff
Directed by William Malone
Aired: January 8, 1990
Greta, who has already murdered twice to avoid sharing her first husband's lottery winnings, faces a new challenge when a witness to her crimes blackmails her into marriage. Later, single again, Greta finds out a deep dark family secret when her sister Peggy and Peggy's husband Sonny drop in for a surprise visit. It isn't long before Greta winds up "easy come, easy go" to her homicidal sister.



2.14     Prime Cut
Written by Michael Kirschenbaum
Directed by David Calloway
Aired: January 15, 1990
Three buddies set out on a weekend hunting trip to find their sexy guide, who has been flirting with each of them, and plans to make one of them a partner in her evil subculture. Cannibalism is the order of the day as a corporate executive and his pilot struggle to stay alive after their plane crashes in a deserted ravine.



2.15     Interior Loft
Written by David Braff
Directed by Ken Wiederhorn
Aired: January 22, 1990
A middle-aged artist, frustrated with the lack of recognition his work receives, plots his own demise to generate greater value for his creations. When a young couple goes into the 'telephone fantasy' business, their plan backfires as a serial killer incorporates elements of their erotic messages into his brutal murders.



2.16     Interior Loft - Later
Written by Jonathan Glassner
Directed by Ken Wiederhorn
Aired: January 29, 1990
A young novelist, attempting to recover from the harrowing events of the recent past, steps over the line of separating fantasy from reality as she plots the destruction of the men who have done her wrong. Two college coeds reluctantly agree to take in a male roommate, whose zeal to bed them both leads to his bizarre demise.



2.17     Funhouse
Written by Al Katz and Gilbert Adler
Directed by Gilbert Adler
Aired: February 5, 1990
After a yuppie couple finds out that the old Victorian house into which they have just moved may be haunted, the wife's sexual indiscretions lead to jealousy and murder, both in her dreams and in reality. When a sexy young woman and her aging invalid husband take up residence in the old Victorian later, the woman's sexual dalliances with a younger man set in motion a deadly game of make-believe.



2.18     A Family Affair
Written by David Braff
Directed by Keith Samples
Aired: February 12, 1990
The ideal American family becomes the target of unspeakable evil when the father's illicit relationship with 'another woman' haunts him night and day, until his once-happy family is destroyed. Two years later, Paul Woodman, an empty shell of a man, attempts a reconciliation with his son, only to find out the boy's addiction to evil is stronger then his father's ability to make amends.



2.19     Dust to Dust
Written by Bill Froehlich, David Braff, and Jonathan Glassner
Directed by Jonathan Glassner
Aired: February 19, 1990
A typical weekly meeting of the Springwood chapter of 'Cannibals Anonymous' takes a turn toward the bizarre when a trio decide to "fall off the wagon" together, only to discover later that their meal was contaminated by an unknown substance which results in a strange series of personality changes leading up to an explosive death. Later, only two members of the trio remain, and are subjected to a series of cruel and unusual experiments by a team of evil scientists.



2.20     Prisoner of Love
Written by Richard BeBan
Directed by Richard T. Schor
Aired: February 26, 1990
A minister, torn between his calling and his physical desire for a beautiful and sensual young woman on death row, becomes embroiled in a strange plot to save her from the electric chair; and the second half-hour, when the minister's plan to save his lover is discovered by another inmate, the minister takes some heinous steps to prevent the other inmate from revealing his evil deeds.



2.21     Life Sentence
Written by David Zuckerman
Directed by Anita Addison
Aired: March 5, 1990
When a convicted murderer becomes eligible for parole, he finds himself trapped between an attractive young psychiatric counselor bent on keeping him behind bars, and the ruthless thug he sent to death row with his testimony. In order to boost his sagging campaign for public office, the warden of Springwood Prison, determined to solve a longstanding crime, uses a highly-experimental, and very dangerous, truth serum on a prisoner - leading to disaster for his campaign



2.22     It's My Party and You'll Die If I Want You To
Written by Jonathon Glassner & David Braff
Directed by Tom De Simone
Aired: March 12, 1990
In the final episode of the series, Freddy Krueger throws himself a going away party that Springwood will never forget. In the first half-hour, a bogus psychic gets into more trouble than she bargained for when she goes into a trance only to discover that the 'man of her dreams' is none other than Freddy himself. In the second half-hour, a Springwood High School reunion is visited by the class' most nefarious member, Freddy Krueger. He's particularly eager to renew his acquaintance with Denise, a girl who stood him up for the Senior Prom as a joke; Freddy wants the last laugh. By killing Denise and her writer husband, Freddy ensures that his life story will make it to Hollywood.