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1.01 |
The Inheritance |
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First Aired: 9/28/87
Director: William Fruet
Writer: William Taub
This is the first episode. It explains how 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.
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1.02 |
The Poison Pen |
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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.
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1.03 |
Cupid's Quiver |
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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 irresistable
to women, but forces him to later kill his new girlfriend.
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1.04 |
A Cup of Time |
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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.
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1.05 |
Hellowe'en |
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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.
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1.06 |
The Great Montarro |
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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.
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1.07 |
Dr. Jack |
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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. You may recognize the
writer from such other Sci-Fi dramas as Star
Trek: The Next Generation and Sliders.
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1.08 |
Shadow Boxer |
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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.
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1.09 |
The Root of All Evil |
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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). This is also the episode where Micki finally
splits with her fiance and chooses the "cursed"
life. The main guest star in this episode, Enrico
Colantoni, went on to play Elliot
DiMauro in the hit sitcom Just
Shoot Me.
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1.10 |
Tales of the Undead |
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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.
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1.11 |
Scarecrow |
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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". This episode marked what
I consider to be the point where the series started
togel. The writing started to use the characters
well. Unfortunately, Jack was not in much of this
episode.
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1.12 |
Faith Healer |
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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
transfered 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. This episode won a silver medal
in the International Film and TV Festival in New
York in 1988.
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1.13 |
The Baron's Bride |
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First Aired: 2/15/88
Director: Bradford May
Writer: Larry Gaynor
This is my personal favorite episode. 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. The ending is so good I won't
spoil it here. This episode also won a silver medal
in the International Film and TV Festival in New
York in 1988.
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1.14 |
Bedazzled |
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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 possesion of a magic lantern.
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1.15 |
Vanity's Mirror |
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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.
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1.16 |
Tattoo |
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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 severly compounded by the gambling addiction,
as well. It demonstrates the "slippery slope"
of all addictions. This episode showed what was
probably the best special effects of the first season
each time the tattoo came to life.
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1.17 |
The Electrocutioner |
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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.
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1.18 |
Brain Drain |
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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
(brain fluid) 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"?
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1.19
& 1.20 |
Quilt of Hathor:
Part I & Part II |
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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 (kind of like the Amish) while
he and Micki 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.
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1.21 |
Double Exposure |
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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.
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1.22 |
The Pirate's Promise |
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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.
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1.23 |
The Badge of Honor |
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First Aired: 7/5/88
Director: Michelle Manning
Writer: Roy Sallows and Jim Henshaw
When I first saw this episode, I thought the cop
that has the cursed sheriffs badge was Wilford Brimly.
;^) 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.
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1.24 |
Pipe Dream |
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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. Sounds like some people I work
with. ;^)
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1.25 |
What a Mother Wouldn't
Do |
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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.
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1.26 |
Bottle of Dreams |
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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.
This is the obligatory "flashback" episode
that every series has. They show snippets of previous
episodes loosely coupled by a thin plot. It was
still better than anything else on tv (except Star
Trek: The Next Generation). ;^)
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