1.01    The Inheritance
First Aired: 9/28/87
Director: William Fruet
Writer: William Taub
Micki and Ryan inherit the store and meet Jack. Interested in returning to their lives, they sell everything in the store and later find out that everything in the store was cursed. The first cursed item that they recover is a cursed doll which has the ability to fulfill the evil desires of a little girl by encouraging her toward evil.



1.02    The Poison Pen
First Aired: 10/5/87
Director: Timothy Bond
Writer: Durnford King
This episode has Micki and Ryan in a monastery. Micki has to try hard to look like a man (boy). They are in search of an antique pen that allows the owner to write prophecies at the expense of another's life, of course.



1.03    Cupid's Quiver
First Aired: 10/12/87
Director: Atom Egoyan
Writer: Stephen Katz
This episode centers on an extremely ugly cupid statue, the Cupid of Malek. It makes the owner irresistible to women, but forces him to later kill his new girlfriend.



1.04    A Cup of Time
First Aired: 10/19/87
Director: F. Harvey Frost
Writer: Barbara Turner Sachs
A cursed teacup is the center of this murder mystery. The teacup strangles the victim who drinks from it, but bestows youth, and possibly fame, on the owner. The youth must be replenished, though.



1.05     Hellowe'en
First Aired: 10/26/87
Director: Timothy Bond
Writer: William Taub
The ghost of uncle Lewis discovers a way to return from the dead using the Amulet of Zohar. He tricks Micki and Ryan into giving the amulet to him and then locks them in a secret room in the store. Lewis must transfer his soul into a freshly dead body before sunrise for the "resurrection" to remain permanent.



1.06     The Great Montarro
First Aired: 11/2/87
Director: Richard Friedman
Writer: Durnford King
The cursed item is a magic cabinet capable of allowing the magician to perform the "Coffin of Blood" magic act where a dozen razor-sharp swords are plunged into the coffin. There must be a sacrificial victim in the cabinet or the magician suffers the actual wounds.



1.07     Dr. Jack
First Aired: 11/9/87
Director: Richard Friedman
Writer: Marc Scott Zicree
Jack the Ripper is alive thanks to a cursed scalpel. The owner must murder with the scalpel, but then is able to cure hopeless cases and perform miracle surgeries. The scalpel has the additional power of cutting through anything.



1.08     Shadow Boxer
First Aired: 11/21/87
Director: Timothy Bond
Writer: Joshua Daniel Miller
While boxing, the owner of the cursed boxing gloves is invincible. During the match, though, the boxer's shadow takes on a physical existence and kills a person chosen by the owner.



1.09     The Root of All Evil
First Aired: 11/28/87
Director: Allen King
Writer: Rob Hedden
This episode involves the only cursed garden tool, unless you count the scarecrow. A cursed, portable garden mulcher spits out money when a person is shredded by it. The catch is that the denomination is proportional to the wealth that the victim has (had). DiMauro in the hit sitcom Just Shoot Me.



1.10     Tales of the Undead
First Aired: 1/25/88
Director: Lyndon Chubbuck
Writers: William Taub, Marc Scott Zicree, Alfred Sole, Paul Monette
Thanks to a cursed comic book, Ferris the Invincible, a robot, begins terrorizing the city. Ray Walston, Mr. Hand from Fast Times at Ridgemont High and Judge Henry Bone from Picket Fences, plays the artist of the comic book who becomes Ferris in this episode.



1.11     Scarecrow
First Aired: 2/1/88
Director: William Fruet
Writers: Marc Scott Zicree, Larry B. Williams
Hold on to your head in this episode. A cursed scarecrow is using a scythe to take heads and ensure a good "crop".



1.12     Faith Healer
First Aired: 2/8/88
Director: David Cronenberg
Writer: Christine Cornish
A faith healing fraud accidentally finds a cursed glove that allows him to actually perform the healing by absorbing the diseases, etc. This must then be transferred to another or the owner dies of the affliction. Micki, Ryan, and Jack enlist the aid of a faith healer debunker to retrieve the glove. Unfortunately, the debunker is terminally ill and will stop at nothing to be cured.



1.13     The Baron's Bride
First Aired: 2/15/88
Director: Bradford May
Writer: Larry Gaynor
While attempting to retrieve a cursed broach and vampire cape, Micki and Ryan are transported back to 19th century London. (The episode becomes black & white here.) To make matters worse, the person wearing the items was transported as well and is drinking the blood of helpless Londoners.



1.14     Bedazzled
First Aired: 2/22/88
Director: Alexander Singer
Writers: Paul Monette, Alfred Sole
Micki undergoes a night of terror when she is terrorized by two men who enter the antique store seeking to regain possession of a magic lantern.



1.15     Vanity's Mirror
First Aired: 2/29/88
Director: William Fruet
Writer: Roy Sallows
An old compact gives the bearer the ability to become extremely beautiful to her victim. A simple reflected flash of light from the compact renders the victim helpless to her commands. The girl chooses to use this item to seek revenge against all her bullies at her high school.



1.16     Tattoo
First Aired: 3/7/88
Director: Lyndon Chubbuck
Writer: Dan DiStefano, Stephen Katz
A compulsive gambler acquires a set of cursed tattoo needles that make the tattoo come to life and kill the victim. The benefit is greatly increased luck while gambling. The addiction of the curse was severely compounded by the gambling addiction, as well. It demonstrates the "slippery slope" of all addictions.



1.17     The Electrocutioner
First Aired: 4/18/88
Director: Rob Hedden
Writer: Rob Hedden
An electrocution gone awry is the catalyst for this cursed antique. When a death row inmate survives the chair, he surfaces years later as a dentist. He uses the cursed chair to fry juvenile delinquents and charge himself to take revenge on the people who fried him.



1.18     Brain Drain
First Aired: 4/25/88
Director: Lyndon Chubbuck
Writer: Joshua Daniel Miller
This is one of those touching episodes that the series has every now and then. The curse centers around a device called the trephinator. A mentally challenged man uses it to transfer intelligence from a victim to himself. He begins doing research with a doctor, who it turns out had an old relationship with Jack. They rekindle their romance, but can it last with Jack's "odd job"?



1.19 & 1.20     Quilt of Hathor: Part I & Part II
First Aired: 5/2/88 & 5/9/88
Director: Timothy Bond
Writer: Janet MacLean
In this two part episode, Ryan falls for a girl who is a Penitite while Micki and him are searching for a cursed quilt. When the women who are betrothed to the leader start dying one by one under suspicious circumstances, they realize they are on the right track.



1.21     Double Exposure
First Aired: 5/16/88
Director: Neill Fearnley
Writer: Durnford King
We go from one Ryan love interest episode to another. This episode centers around a news anchor who continuously gets tipped about the activity of a serial killer. The object that provides this information is a cursed camera that creates a doppleganger of the owner. Thus, instant serial killer.



1.22     The Pirate's Promise
First Aired: 6/27/88
Director: Bill Corcoran
Writer: Carl Binder
Micki and Ryan are in search of a cursed foghorn when they arrive in a town that is allegedly haunted by an 18th century pirate named Angus McBride. All the descendants of the crew that mutinied against McBride are disappearing, but our heroes can't figure out who is calling the ghost back.



1.23     The Badge of Honor
First Aired: 7/5/88
Director: Michelle Manning
Writer: Roy Sallows and Jim Henshaw
The cop starts using the badge to take out the local mob boss and, of course, the trio gets caught up in the mess. This time it's Micki's turn to lose the romantic guest star.



1.24     Pipe Dream
First Aired: 7/11/88
Director: Zale Dalen
Writer: Marc Scott Zicree
We finally meet Ryan's father in this episode. Unfortunately, Ryan's father isn't quite as resistant to the forces of evil as Ryan is. He uses a cursed pipe to create deadly smoke and steal an invention and call it his own.



1.25     What a Mother Wouldn't Do
First Aired: 7/18/88
Director: Neill Fearnley
Writer: Bruce Martin
A cursed child's cradle helps an expectant couple keep their child alive because the child has severe health problems. It is only kept alive by the "sacrifices" that the parents make. The unique twist to the curse is that the murders must take place in water.



1.26     Bottle of Dreams
First Aired: 7/25/88
Director: Mac Bradden
Writer: Roy Sallows
A package is delivered to Curious Goods containing a Canopic Jar. While Micki and Ryan are putting it in the vault they become trapped and a poisonous gas flows from the jar. It forces the cousins to relive the horrific episodes of the season. It is up to Jack, and new friend Rashid, to save them.





2nd SEASON





2.01     Doorway to Hell
First Aired: 9/26/88
Director: William Fruet
Writer: Jim Henshaw
Well, if Ryan, Micki, and Jack were ever told to "go to hell", it finally happened. This season premiere started with Uncle Lewis once again making a nuisance of himself.



2.02     Voodoo Mambo
First Aired: 10/3/88
Director: Timothy Bond
Writer: Agy Polly
No, the trio haven't moved to the Caribbean. They are on the trail of a ceremonial voodoo mask that turns out to have an evil priestess inside it. She coaxes the mask bearer into killing in order to seek her revenge.



2.03     And Now the News
First Aired: 10/10/88
Director: Bruce Pittman
Writer: Dick Benner
A not-so-friendly rivalry gets out of hand. One psychiatrist miraculously cures her patients while her rival's patients are scared to death... literally. She uses an antique radio that broadcasts newscasts about how to cure mental patients with radical treatments. When the radio is placed in the room with the rival's patients, it broadcasts stories that pray on their worst fears and brings them to life.



2.04     Tails I Live, Heads You Die
First Aired: 10/17/88
Director: Mark Sobel
Writer: Marilyn Anderson, Billy Riback
The coin of Ziacles is used by a group of devil worshippers to raise dead Satanists back to life. Of course, the coin has to take a life first. Unfortunately, Micki gets in the way of the coin and meets her demise. Take heart though, Jack and Ryan have a plan.



2.05     Symphony in B#
First Aired: 10/31/88
Director: Francis Delia
Writer: Carl Binder
This episode is almost an updated version of The Phantom of the Opera. This time the cursed item is a violin with a particularly deadly bow. When the "Phantom" kills with it he is given more magical music to add to his symphonic masterpiece. Oh, by the way, if you are keeping track it's Ryan's turn to lose the love of his life.



2.06     Master of Disguise
First Aired: 11/7/88
Director: Tom McLoughlin
Writer: Bruce Martin
This episode helps answer the question, "Just how do Jack, Micki, and Ryan afford to travel around the world chasing down artifacts?” They are supplying antique props to a movie studio when Micki falls for an actor who just happens to have a cursed make-up kit. It turns out that this guy is severely disfigured and the make-up kit, by way of a death, gives him temporary good looks. There is a pretty sexy scene between Micki and William Pratt that highlights this episode.



2.07     Wax Magic
First Aired: 11/14/88
Director: William Fruet
Writer: Carl Binder
"Lizzy Borden took an axe..." This was a well done episode with a pretty good twist at the end. It's almost cliché now, but it worked well for me at the time. Ryan falls for the wife of a wax sculptor at a traveling carnival. The cursed object, a handkerchief, brings a wax figure of Lizzy Borden to life. She then kills to relieve the headaches of the sculptor’s wife.



2.08     Read My Lips
First Aired: 11/21/88
Director: Francis Delia
Writer: Angelo Stea & Peter Lauterman
Micki has a friend that is marrying a ventriloquist so she decides to check out his show. The groom-to-be is acting VERY strange, even for a guy with his hand up a dummy. They discover a trail of death following the ventriloquist's tour. It turns out that a boutonnière brings the dummy to life and he has a mind of his own. When the ventriloquist loses his marbles, the dummy falls into the hands of another ventriloquist who thinks he's in control.



2.09     13 O'Clock
First Aired: 1/2/89
Director: Rob Hedden
Writer: Rob Hedden
Have you ever wished that you could stop time for just a little while? Well, this episode explores this premise through the use of cursed pocket watch. If someone is killed in a specific subway station before midnight, then an extra hour is added for the owner of the watch. Unfortunately, everyone else is frozen in time.



2.10     Night Hunger
First Aired: 1/9/89
Director: Martin Lavut
Writer: Jim Henshaw
In this case it's a cursed silver keychain. It allows the owner to win drag races at the bully's expense, of course. Thrown into the mix is an unhappy father-son relationship. The father always compares the son to the hot-rod king. These two are in desperate need of a psychologist.



2.11     The Sweetest Sting
First Aired: 1/16/89
Director: David Winning
Writer: Rick Butler
Allow me to introduce the vampire bees. Ouch! They suck the blood (and life) out of victims and transfer a willing participant into the recently departed.




2.12     The Playhouse
First Aired: 1/23/89
Director: Tom McLaughlin
Writer: Tom McLaughlin
Welcome to the only episode where nobody dies! The cursed item is a children’s playhouse that is much bigger on the inside than it is on the outside. It takes care of all the needs for two neglected children. But, the children must "feed" the playhouse with other children. Fortunately, the children are only absorbed by the playhouse and not ripped to shreds. They are all returned unharmed in the end. Now... how are they going to get that playhouse into the vault.



2.13     Eye of Death
First Aired: 1/30/89
Director: Timothy Bond
Writer: Peter Jobin, Timothy Bond, and Roy Sallows
This one centers on a cursed old-time projector that transports the user to the time and scene of the slide being projected. Of course, someone has to die before the time travel is activated and even then it only works for three hours. Tom McCamus plays an antique collector/trader that somehow obtains mint condition Civil War relics that he sells... for a mint.



2.14     Face of Evil
First Aired: 2/6/89
Director: William Fruet
Writer: Jim Henshaw
The compact from the 1st season episode "Vanity's Mirror" makes a return in this episode. This time the compact provides a fountain of youth to an aging model. She has to kill in order to keep her actual face from showing.



2.15     Better Off Dead
First Aired: 2/13/89
Director: Armand Mastroianni
Writer: Bruce Martin
The cursed item is a syringe that allows a scientist to draw brain fluid from an unwilling "donor" and come closer to a cure for his daughter. His daughter has become super violent because he accidentally infected her with a disease.



2.16     Scarlet Cinema
First Aired: 2/20/89
Director: David Winning
Writer: Rob Hedden
The cursed item is a camera. When a person is photographed by it, they are killed by a werewolf.



2.17     The Mephisto Ring
First Aired: 4/10/89
Director: Bruce Pittman
Writer: Peter Largo
This episode is reminiscent of "Tattoo" in that it involves a gambling addiction mixed with a cursed World Series ring that allows him to see the outcome of sporting events.



2.18     A Friend to the End
First Aired: 4/17/89
Director: David Morse
Writer: David Morse, Scott J. Schneid, and Tony Michelman
Ryan and Micki are trying to retrieve the Shard of Medusa, a cursed object that a female sculptor uses to turn people into statues: her latest works of art. When they succeed at retrieving the shard, the sculptor hunts them back to Curious Goods and is holding Micki's nephew, J. B., as a hostage. She takes off with the shard. Since J. B. was dumped on Micki by her sister, he ends up playing with the neighborhood boys who challenge him to enter a haunted house. While inside, he meets Ricky, who turns out to be a child who was abused and murdered about 100 years ago. He was brought back to life with a cursed coffin provided by... Lewis Vendredi. The catch is that he must kill adults to stay alive. When Micki tries to rescue J. B. in the house, Ricky tries make Micki his latest victim. J. B. convinces Ricky that Micki is a good, loving, and caring adult. He becomes convinced. So, Ricky lets them go and dies... again.



2.19     The Butcher
First Aired: 4/24/89
Director: Francis Delia
Writer: Francis Delia and Ron Magid
It turns out that Jack was imprisoned in a Nazi concentration camp during WWII. He begins to have recurring nightmares about that time and the leader of the camp, a man called "the butcher". This man would kill his victims by strangling them with barbed-wire. This man has been brought back to life by a swastika amulet and an old doctor. The butcher begins to kill off Jack's regiment one by one, until he gets to Jack.



2.20     The Secret Agenda of Mesmer's Bauble
First Aired: 5/1/89
Director: Armand Mastroianni
Writer: Joe Gannon
Imagine being such a fan of a celebrity that you wanted to be that person. I don't just mean having the fortune and fame of that particular celebrity... you actually want to BE that person; exist as that individual. Mesmer's Bauble helps that dream come true for an over-zealous fan of the pop singer Angelica.



2.21     Wedding in Black
First Aired: 5/8/89
Director: Rodney Charters
Writer: Angelo Stea and Peter Lauterman
Everyone meets someone special from their past and they each go their own ways in this episode... at least they thought they did. A mysterious snow globe is central to this episode. It's not clear whether or not it is a cursed object, but they all somehow end up inside of it, having been led their by their friends. None of the trio realize that their friends have been dead since they sold their souls to the devil. He has brought them back to help in his latest fiendish plan. It turns out that guys aren't the only ones that think Micki is sexy: Satan does too. So much that he wants Micki to have his child.



2.22     Wedding Bell Blues
First Aired: 5/15/89
Director: Jorge Montesi
Writer: Nancy Ann Miller
In this episode, a cursed pool stick is used to kill providing its owner with incredible pool skills, albeit temporarily. We get to see how naive Johnny is about cursed objects, as well as how stressed out a wedding can make a person.



2.23     The Maestro
First Aired: 5/22/89
Director: Timothy Bond
Writer: Karen J. Janigan
Music can be deadly... when played by a cursed Symphonia. Colm Feore stars in this episode as a dance instructor choreographing the "perfect cheer". Oops! I mean "perfect dance". You may remember him from his appearance in Stephen King's "Storm of the Century" and as a thick-headed Naval Commander in "Pearl Harbor". His dance students unwittingly sacrifice themselves for a few sequences of choreography for this perfect dance. Ultimately, he has to sacrifice himself during the performance to finish the dance. Unfortunately, he takes the daughter one of Jack's friends with him in the process.



2.24     The Shaman's Apprentice
First Aired: 5/29/89
Director: William Fruet
Writer: Michael Michaelian
A Native-American becomes a doctor who does not believe in the tribal healing methods used by his witch-doctor father. He finds a cursed ritual rattle that has been in his family for generations. As with other cursed medical objects, a life must be taken before someone can be healed. This episode has the distinction of being the one that contains the only retrieved cursed object that is not kept in the vault. Jack, Micki, and Ryan agree to let the tribe keep it safe.



2.25     The Prisoner
First Aired: 6/5/89
Director: Armand Mastroianni
Writer: Jim Henshaw
We get to meet Johnny's father in this episode (remember his face for later). When Johnny is accused of murdering his father, he gets to become someone's prison darling. He finds that one inmate is using a cursed WWII Kamikaze jacket to turn invisible and leave the prison to extract revenge from his gang of thugs.



2.26     Coven of Darkness
First Aired: 6/12/89
Director: George Blomfield
Writer: Wendy Rodriguez
We find out that Micki has some mystical powers.









3rd SEASON





3.01 & 3.02     The Prophecies: Part I & Part II
First Aired: 9/25/89
Director: Tom McLaughlin
Writer: Tom McLaughlin
These episodes take place in a French healing village. One of the devil's minions, Asteroth, is trying to bring about certain prophecies from a satanic book that will pave the way for Satan to rule Earth. Standing in his way are Jack, Micki, Ryan, Johnny, and a special little girl.



3.03     Demonhunter
First Aired: 10/2/89
Director: Armand Mastroianni
Writer: Jim Henshaw
A very close family of demon hunters is chasing a demon that has been summoned by someone. Meanwhile back at the store, the gang discovers a cavernous room below the store. It is loaded with demonic elements. Guess who is trying to find his way back there?



3.04     Crippled Inside
First Aired: 10/9/89
Director: Timothy Bond
Writer: Brian Helgeland
A group of high school boys attempt to rape a young girl who, in her escape, is run over by a car. She can no longer walk and is confined to a wheelchair. But this is no ordinary wheelchair. The chair gives her a small amount of time to go take her revenge on the group.



3.05     Stick It In Your Ear
First Aired: 10/16/89
Director: Doug Jackson
Writer: Jon Ezrine
A cursed hearing aid allows a duo of scam artists to actually read minds. Similar to "Faith Healer", the thoughts build up and must be transferred to a victim before the owner's head explodes.



3.06     Bad Penny
First Aired: 10/30/89
Director: William Fruet
Writer: Marilyn Anderson and Billy Riback
The return of the coin of Ziacles... Micki is terrified that the coin is back for her. Johnny uses it to resurrect his father. Jack is pissed at Johnny. What a family!



3.07     Hate On Your Dial
First Aired: 11/6/89
Director: Allan Eastman
Writer: Nancy Ann Miller
This is another stylized episode along the lines of "The Baron's Bride". An old 1954 Chevy radio allows a racist to travel back to 1954 when blacks were treated quite differently. He finds out that his father was extremely racist, as well.



3.08     Night Prey
First Aired:11/25/1989
A deranged vampire hunter gains a cursed cross that can incinerate vampires. He uses it in his efforts to regain his girlfriend, who was transformed into a vampire years ago.



3.09     Femme Fatale
First Aired:12/2/1989
A director of film noir with an invalid wife becomes obsessed with a cursed reel of film of one of his movies. He discovers he can substitute a young woman for the character in the movie that his wife played, so that "Lili" can emerge into real life. Micki becomes trapped in the film.



3.10     Mightier Than The Sword
First Aired:1/20/1990
A writer of crime biographies enhances his reputation by using a cursed fountain pen to turn innocent people into serial killers, controlling their exploits by writing his stories. Micki is his next target...



3.11     Year of the Monkey
First Aired:1/27/1990
The trio must make a deal with a retired samurai: in return for an antique tea set, they must recover a set of three Monkey statues from the Tanaka clan. The statues are used by the father to test his children. The one who passes his test gains all of his wealth, and immortality until he or she finds a worthy successor in turn.



3.12     Epitaph For a Lonely Soul
First Aired: 3 Feb 90
A mortician (the title's "lonely soul") finds an antique aspirator that lets him do the old "Kill Person A, resurrect Person B" shtick. With the added bonus that they (initially) don't recall much of their previous lives, and accept anything he tells them.



3.13     Midnight Riders
First Aired:10 Feb 90
While visiting a small town, our trio become involved when a motorcycle gang rolls into town - a gang of ghosts, that is. Jack's father also mysteriously shows up, after having disappeared years ago.



3.14     Repetition
First Aired:17 Feb 90
A newspaper columnist runs over a little girl...and her voice emanates from her locket to tell him to kill someone else to bring her back to life. He does so, except the next victim does the same thing. Repeatedly. Just like the title. At the end, the guy kills himself from the stress.



3.15     The Long Road
Home First Aired: 24 Feb 90
After recovering an amulet that allows the transference of souls, Johnny and Micki head back, but run into two wacko brothers who have their eyes set on Micki. When Johnny is wounded, he must transfer his soul into one of the brothers to stop the other.



3.16     My Wife as a Dog
First Aired: 3 Mar 90
A fireman's only friend is his dog, which is dying of old age. His wife has divorced him rather than tolerate his obsession. But the fireman discovers an aboriginal leash that will grant him his fondest animal-related wish: to heal his dog and make her his only companion.



3.17     Jack-in-the-Box
First Aired: 5 May 90
A young girl uses a antique to kill those responsible for her father's death, in return for being able to summon his spirit. Eventually, she decides she has to join him.



3.18     The Spirit of Television
First Aired: 12 May 90
A would-be psychic uses a cursed television to show her clients the ghosts of who they want to see. Unfortunately, the ghosts must then turn vengeful, killing the one who wanted to see them. The psychic gains a few more weeks of life in return.



3.19     The Tree of Life
First Aired: 19 May 90
A cult of female druids uses a womens' hospital in a bizarre set up. Infertile couples come to them, and the druids use a cursed fertility statue to sacrifice the father so the wife gives birth to a twin boy and girl. They then claim only one child was born, give the boy to the mother, and keep the girl to raise in the druid way. Our trio stumble into the situation.



3.20     The Charnel Pit
First Aired: 26 May 90
A two-sided painting has magical powers. When fueled by blood from a dead body, it acts as a portal back to the time of the painter, the Marquis de Sade. A 20th century scholar gets hold of it, and uses it to supply de Sade with victims in return for the Marquis' personal diaries, which he then uses to bolster his own reputation as a de Sade expert. Things take a turn for the worse when, while investigating, Micki accidentally passes through the portal and must masquerade as a Duchess.