This was my favorite show in seventh grade, and I only have one friend who shares my enthusiasm - and has a handful of tapes that we've watched to death. Anybody? Robey? Johnny Thunder? Anybody?

I loved this show. Of course, I seem to have had relatively little discernment back when I was a mere lad. It was a pretty neat concept, though. And it even had a role for an old guy, which you don't see that much anymore in today's youth-driven frenzy.

I was all set to start this topic (the show's being discussed a little bit over in the "Shows No One Remembers But Me" thread) but I see there already is one! Cool.

So how about the time that Mickey accidentally got sent back in time (fell through a cursed double-sided painting) to 18th Century France and met the Marquis de Sade? And he, like, fell in love with her? Heh. Robey looked really hot in those old-fashioned outfits, but then I always thought she was really hot anyway.

I still can't shake the memory of the episode with the cursed compact (apparently there were two, but I only saw the first one) that made people fall in love with you if you flash some reflected light from the mirror in their faces. Not exactly creepy in and of itself, but the resulting obsession makes you kill the attentive lover.

I really wish this show would come out on DVD, I haven't seen it in years but I'd still shell out for it. I saw an article somewhere that hinted that a DVD set might possibly get put in the works, but it was really vague.

Wow, did I adore this show. John D. Lemay is now frequently on US TV doing commercials (Enterprise Car Rentals come to mind). I believe Robey married someone of a royal lineage and bailed out of acting for a while, and I still see Chris Wiggins here and there.

Biggest giggle in hindsight was looking back at an old first- or second-season episode years later in a Sci-Fi rerun and spotting a pre-Law and Order Jill Hennessy.

I really enjoyed this show -- it was my original late-night syndicated guilty pleasure show back in high school and college.

Me too! I watched it every Saturday afternoon before the affiliate switched it to late-night.

Those two compact eps never failed to freak me out. *shudder* And I must admit that the ep Ernos mentioned:

was one of my fave eps. Yeah, I'm secure enough in my womanhood to admit that Robey was hot, especially in those 18th century outfits. :-)

One of my favorites, and the first episode I ever saw, was the one with the cursed wheelchair which allows the paralyzed girl to go after the guys who caused her accident.

I also loved the show's creepy opening music.

I loved this show as well. In a way it was cheesey, but it was entertaining. Am I correct in remembering there being some contreversy about the violent nature of the show, and while I'm asking, why was the actress who played Mickey called "Robey"? Did she sing once?

Yeah Robey did a cover of One Night in Bangkok.

I loved this show.

Here's her IMDb entry; apparently her royalty husband is the Earl of Burford, but they're separated. And she's only done one movie since Friday the 13th. Hmm.

I've spent the last little while reading the episode descriptions over at TV Tome, and wishing even harder that they'd release this show on DVD. Do they ever show this on the Sci-Fi channel? It seems like their kind of thing.

They used to show it on Sci-Fi all the time, especially on (natch) Friday the 13th. Then, we'd get an all day marathon of the show. I don't know if they're still doing it, though.

I've got fond memories of this show. One year in high school my family hosted an exchange student from Thailand. His English wasn't very good, so he always wanted me to watch movies with him to explain the dialogue, and all he ever wanted to watch were horror movies. Like, shlocky, gorefest horror. Which I was not into at all. But at some point watching tv we stumbled onto Friday the 13th: The Series, and it was a perfect combination -- enough horror to satisfy him, but not enough to gross/freak me out.

My memories of the series itself are pretty vague. There was an episode with a piece of cursed embalming equipment, right? And I remember being incredibly confused by the sudden disappearance of one of the main characters. I think I had missed the episode that explained it, because suddenly he was just gone, and nobody else was mentioning it. I remember an episode where Robey got trapped in a noir film by a cursed film projector or film reel, and I think I remember the one with the compact (did the younger sister steal the older sister's prom date, and leave the older sister teetering on a stool with a noose around her neck, saved at the last second by Jack?).

I hope there's a dvd set eventually, it would be a definite guilty pleasure. I've voted for it on TVShowsOnDVD but they haven't got any solid news yet.

I also loved this show as I mentioned in the "Shows You Remember But Nobody Else Does" thread.

I had a total crush on Ryan Dallion. When he left the show because he got turned back into a kid(how dumb!), I only watched the show every now and then. I couldn't stand Johnny.

I also remember the compact episode. That was pretty freaky when the younger sister left her older sis hanging in her room.

I always remember the episode where these kids' mother's boyfriend bought this play house from someone. The kids spent all day in there because the play house was magical and gave them whatever they wanted. Of course, there was a price. The kids had to bring other kids there so the house could eat them. Then, Ryan and Micki get kidnapped by the house and some really freaky stuff happens.

I still have that episode on tape. :)

I also remember the previously mentioned Micki time travel episodes. That one where she was in the movie was really scary.

And Jack Marshak rocked. :)

You must have missed the two-parter in France. I don't remember what the cursed item was, but I think it involved a nun possessed by Satan and resulted in Ryan being turned into a child again. I lost interest in the show shortly afterwards. The replacement guy was just weak.

So Robey formed the rock group, "Louise and the Creeps"? I kinda remember them.

Mmmm, me too. I only watched the show after he left out of loyalty.

And let us not forget Robey's cameo in The Money Pit (hot '80s-clad chick who hooks up with Alexander Gudonov's character at the end). :-)

I read somewhere that the episode with the playhouse and the kids is the only episode in the whole series where no one actually dies. I felt bad for those kids, their mother was an abusive bitch. The mother gave her boyfriend breakfast while saving none for the kids, and when the son protested, she slapped him. Obviously accustomed to it, the son sort of smirks at her and says, "Didn't hurt." Then someone calls offering to buy the playhouse or something like that, and the mother happily agrees, and she gives the son a vicious smile: "Did that hurt?"

I don't have any episodes on tape, but some, like that one, I remember really vividly.

The thing that shocked me about Ryan becoming a kid was that they didn't have a magic cure to fix it. At the time, I believed in the TV formula of "everything's back to normal by the end," and the show really threw me for a loop when they didn't follow that formula. Of course, at the time I didn't know about actors wanting to leave a show, contract disputes, or any of that stuff, which I assume is why they had to get rid of Ryan in some permanent way.

"Your name's Micki? That's funny, I have a cousin named Micki..."

I wonder if they made Ryan a kid, instead of killing him off, so they could leave open the possibility of adult-Ryan coming back.

He could always come back as a ghost!

(Sorry, I used to spend a lot of time lurking on the Buffy forums.)

We used to call the Ryan Replacement the Son of Satan. But I don't know why. I have a vague recollection that he spent his first few episodes badly fouling up and causing the deaths of bystanders and stuff, so maybe that's why.

Did kid-Ryan have adult-Ryan memories? Or was he completely reverted and going "Hi, I'm Ryan, who are all you people and why am I in France instead of school? And why is it the 1980s?"

Yeah I've seen an occasional rerun on Sci-Fi, I think it's okay. My question is there any connection between this show and the Friday the 13th movies?

Kid-Ryan was reverted to completely Kid-Ryan, no adult memories. This was a blessing for the kid in a way, since his feelings of guilt over his younger brother's death were erased. (I don't remember what, if anything, he actually had reason to feel guilty about.) He probably still had to go to therapy, regardless.

There wasn't any connection between the show and the movies, apart from the name. I don't think they ever even had a "cursed hockey mask" episode, which woulda been funny.

And his poor mom had to raise him all over again. Wouldn't it seem weird that his mom is so old now?

Midnight Creeper, I'm with you on that. I could not stand watching Johnny. I understand that it was kind of a weird situation to be brought into, but he was a total screwup. I would have rather had just Micki and Jack left.

I always wanted Micki and Ryan to hook up and it seemed like he was blatantly in love with her. I can't remember if I knew they were cousins back then. My favorite one was the haunted wheelchair too! I think that was the 2nd ep. I loved the china doll one, he compact (I only saw the one with the model), and the one with the record player that choreographed dances but killed the dancers.
Robey was so boobyful and big haired! I wonder what she looks like now.

Robey was a sexy, sexy woman. So the show had that critical element that a scifi or horror show needs for success...it could have used a more interesting storyline though. It was plenty creepy, anyway. The wheelchair ep was a scary one, or so I thought seeing it by myself late at night many years ago. It was certainly vastly superior to the short-lived and unbelievably tasteless Nightmare on Elm St series.

Yeah, imagine how lame it would have been if Jason himself had introduced each new episode of this show, like Freddy on "Freddy's Nightmares." Okay, it's making me laugh to think about it, but it still would have ruined the atmosphere of the show. Hee. Jason.

Did Jason ever actually speak?

Jason hosting the show would have been a delightful albeit ridiculous touch. I don't believe Jason ever spoke in the Friday the 13th movies, but I've only seen, what, maybe nine of them ("Oh, I've wasted my life.") I specifically remember once reading an interview with the actor who played Jason in most of the movies (really a stuntman, not an actor), and all he really had to do was practice a "menacing" walk. The series was better than the movies I would say, though we are probably comparing rotten apples to blighted oranges.

I think one of the creepiest eps for me was the one with the child's coffin that could bring a child to life.
And some people that really wanted a kid brought back one who had been horsewhipped to death by his father & the only way for him to continue to live was to kill grownups. If he went too long with out killing...whip welts would start appearing on his body.
It freaked me.
But I loved the show.

Boy, it really was a wildly morbid and creepy show, wasn't it? But I liked it, probably just for those reasons. And Robey. Again I will damn it with faint praise: it was way better than "Kolchak: the Night Stalker." (apologies to Darren McGavin)

Stephen King totally ripped this show off to write Needful Things. I'm just saying.

Robey has her own webpagehere.

Boqueisha, that was a pretty creepy one. I don't know why they wanted to bring that kid back either.

Has anyone seen John D. LeMay in anything recently?

Alright, I cheated. I checked out the IMDB. John Lemay guest starred in a couple of episodes of Sisters, and appeared in one of the later Friday the 13th movies (Jason goes to Hell). He is in his forties, now, too! Hard to believe--but I watched the show religiously when I was a freshman in college, in 88-89, if memory serves, which it rarely does these days, because I'm old.

Sudden flashback (don't know which episode, but it was during the final minutes after the cursed object had been found and they were in their "reflective" poses): Micki puts her hands on one of those laser globes with the electricity that snakes through it? And the camera pulls back to reveal all of her (glorious, gorgeous, droooool) hair sticking straight out of her head, supposedly due to the static electricity (and she's all "oooohhhh, that feels gooood"). Wah-wah-wah wacky little ending music takes us to the end credits.

Why do stupid things like this stick in my head, but I can barely remember my relatives' birthdays? Someone please redeem me by telling me which episode that happened in. Someone?

I loved, loved, loved this show! As others have mentioned, it was a guilty pleasure for me when I was in college.



I also think Ryan was blatantly in love with Micki, and I very much wanted them to hook up even though I was fully aware that they were cousins! I mean, it isn't as if they were first cousins or anything...at least I don't think so.

Because it was inevitable that someone would write fan fiction for this series...This site also has links to episode guides. Virtual Season 4, anyone?

How appropriate that this is the first forum I post in. This show was the first genre show I followed religiously, long before The X-Files, Buffy, or Angel.

I started watching during the first season. Years later, during my fourth year of college, the cable company added the Sci-Fi Channel, which said that they were going to be adding Ft13 to the lineup. Eventually I managed to get the whole series on tape, sans commercials. (I admit, I'm still a bit of a geek. How was I to know that in ten years they'd be releasing entire seasons or shows on DVD?)

The show started off relying on special effects and gore, but as it progressed, the writing got better, focusing more on the characters. Okay, not at the level of The West Wing, but better than a syndicated horror show filmed in Canada was supposed to be, y'know?

I thought this show had a good combination of horror and cheese. Like the ep with the cursed teacup that could transfer youth from one person to another -- an elderly lady uses the cup to become a hot rock star, and her first hit is a heavy metal version of "I'm a Little Teacup." Or the two-parter with the cursed cloak that turns a guy into a vampire, coincidentally gelling the holy bejeezus out of his hair in the process. Or the ep where Mickey goes undercover as a monk. Or the two-parter with the "Penetites," an Amish-style sect that likes to settle disputes by having the two parties battle each other on a raised triangular platform over a blazing fire. Really, most of the episodes were ripe for a MSTing. That's why I liked 'em!

Funny how everyone seems to remember the compact episode(s). It's absolutely the first one that comes to my mind, although I don't think it was my favorite. I liked the episode with the insane asylum and the doctor with the radio (although it had a really awful near-rape scene at the end). I also loved the episode with the watch (I think?) that stopped time briefly. There's a scene where Ryan falls onto the tracks at a subway station that always stressed me out. And the bees! That one was so scary, the way people had to have their hands locked in that contraption.

I totally got vibes that Ryan liked Micki, especially in the early eps. Which is just ew. I had such a big crush on him though.

For once I'm in a forum where I actually feel like a youngster. I used to watch this show in the eighth grade. My best friend and I would sleep over at her house every Saturday night and stay up super late to watch it. I don't think we missed a single episode until Ryan left. After that, I couldn't bear to watch the new guy.

I wonder why that is. Maybe it was the actress, in the first episode, who played the girl. You felt sorry for her but hated her at the same time.

My mother usually doesn't like genre television. (I had to promise her there was no "weird stuff" in THE PRETENDER just to get her to watch it once. Then, she got hooked, of course.) But as weird and cheesy as FRI THE 13TH could get, she loved it. And she adored Ryan, and would shake her head and cluck her tongue fondly whenever he got into trouble again. He was always getting knocked out by one bad guy or another.

The episode I remember most was about the guy who was crushing on the pop singer, and he had this necklace he could use to make people do whatever he wanted. (I never quite understood how he was able to use it to make himself more attractive, but whatever. You gotta go with the flow.) In one scene, he used the necklace to make a guy cut his own throat with a straight razor. That was pretty gruesome. I can still hear the sounds of gurgling, and I haven't seen it since it aired on the Sci Fi Channel ages ago.

That was Mesmer's Bauble and the guy obsessed with that singer (played by Vanity) eventually became her. That was one of the grodiest scenes I think I ever saw on that show. I think he literally shed his skin when he became her and then when he turned back, he looked like a freaky drag queen.

Wasn't there an ep involving a cursed camera which made a shadow double of the owner?

Ew! And Word. Even as a child it took a lot to gross me out, but that scene right there was one of them.


I think I remember this ep. I freaked out my young cousin after we saw this ep by asking her to pose for a picture, smiling fiendishly as I revealed my aunt's ancient circa-1950s camera. My cousin screamed and ran. Yeah, I was bad. :-)

Yeah. Someone melted is all I remember. I think it was the singer.

What's interesting about that episode is that it's actually kinda deep. Experts say some people who stalk celebrites aren't really doing it because they love that star so much, but because they hate their own lives, and hate themselves, and wish they could be that celebrity. (Beautiful, rich, talented, adored by millions of fans.) And, since they can't really assume that person't identity (because Mesmer's Baubles don't grow on trees) they instead try to get as close to the celebrity as possible by stalking them.

Anyway, this is one of the few episodes I remember in any kind of detail. I wish the show would start airing regularly again.

Remember when SciFi used to air Friday the 13th: The Series marathons on Friday the 13th? Yeah, I'd like to see the show again too.

I remember most of the ones you guys are talking about! One of my favs is the watch that stopped time too. And I liked how sometimes they would do a couple of shows about a single object (not necessarily a two-parter) or an object would come back to bite them in the ass again. The eps with Louis were kind of intersting, I thought, though I can't remember a specific one at this time.

One of the more shocking ones that I remember were the Coin of Death / Life episodes. Even though they pressed the re-set button near the end, it was still kind of shocking to see Micki die from one of the objects and see that Ram's head or whatever it was seared into her forehead!

Johnny was a complete screw up (though I guess it seems he started learning a little bit towards the end). Remember the ep where he actually took a cursed item (I don't remember what it was) OUT of the vault to use it to help someone? Disaster ensues of course.

They really should either come out with a DVD of the show or keep running it somewhere!

I would so totally buy the series on DVD. I have such fond memories of watching this show late at night with my sister and then again when it aired on the weekends on the Sci Fi channel. Good times, they were.

Somewhat OT, but, I think this e-bay item history is a good read for any fan of Friday the 13th Cursed Wine Cabinet

I've copied the page to my desktop, so I can post the highlights if needed. (I'm a complete skeptic; but even made-up it's a creepy little tale)

Yikes, never read that story late at night. Read it last night and it creeped me out. Left all the lights on and sat up an extra hour reading a lighthearted book to erase it from my mind right before going to bed. *shudder* The murdered children painting story gave me the same reaction.

I'm a huge wimp, BTW. But only at night after reading creepy stories.

That was "Thirteen O'Clock"! That was an awesome one.

Remember when SciFi used to air Friday the 13th: The Series marathons on Friday the 13th? Yeah, I'd like to see the show again too.

It is needed, Mara, the ebay item has been taken off their site. I'd be interested to read it.