3rd Season 1989
3- 1
7 Oct 89
The Prophecies (1)
3- 2
7 Oct 89
The Prophecies (2)
3- 3
14 Oct 89
Demonhunter
Friday the 13th (The Series) [Season 3, Episode 4]
Crippled Inside
Shown 21 Oct 89
Rachel (
Stephanie Morgenstern
) is assaulted by a gang of High School boys -
by Peter (Dean McDermott), Ed (Andrew Simms),
Marcus (Greg Spottiswood) and Richard (Richard Chevolleau -
Earth: Final Conflict
). She gets hit by a car and she ends up crippled as a result.
But then she gets an old vintage wheelchair,
and it allows her to astrally project.
If she takes revenge by murdering the horny teenage idiots,
she will get the use of her legs back.
Johnny the newbie is on a solo mission.
He tracks the wheelchair down,
but he has to make a judgement.
Is it better to retrieve the evil artefact,
or to let the girl keep it until she gets her mobility back?
All she has to do is to complete the human sacrifices ...
3- 5
28 Oct 89
Stick It In Your Ear
3- 6
11 Nov 89
Bad Penny
3- 7
18 Nov 89
Hate On Your Dial
Friday the 13th (The Series) [Season 3, Episode 8]
Night Prey
Shown 25 Nov 89
A vampire attacks a couple, stealing the woman away.
Her husband becomes a vamp hunter,
but after almost getting killed by a vampire woman (
Jill Hennessy
) he decides he needs a more powerful weapon.
He steals an artifact from a church -
a cross that acts as a magical flamethrower to kill vamps.
The team previously hunted a Vampire in Season 1, episode 13 - The Baron’s Bride.
In that case, the vampirism was linked to a black cape.
This is one of the more controversial episodes for its mature sexual themes, including a lesbian kiss.
The cursed object corrupts the person who wields it,
and he becomes worse than the vampires themselves.
Friday the 13th (The Series) [Season 3, Episode 9]
Femme Fatale
Shown 2 Dec 89
Friday the 13th (The Series) [Season 3, Episode 10]
Mightier Than the Sword
Shown 20 Jan 90
The artefact of the week is a cursed pen that compells people to act out whatever it writes.
It ends up in the hands of Colm Feore (
Chronicles of Riddick
), a pulp crime novelist obsessed with violence.
He uses it to turn people into murderers.
Micki (
Robey
) falls victim to the curse.
This kind of phony jeopardy is still standard in shows of this genre,
but anyone who understands TV shows will know that a regular character is
very unlikely to suffer any consequences that last until the next episode!
Friday the 13th (The Series) [Season 3, Episode 11]
Year of the Monkey
Shown 27 Jan 90
The team want to retrieve a cursed Japanese tea-set from a samurai.
But to prove they are morally trustworthy,
they must retrieve a set of
Hear No Evil, See No Evil, Speak No Evil
statues from a Japanese Billionaire.
He has sent them to his three children, to test their honour.
Hear No Evil goes to his slacker son in the New York office.
Jill Hennessy
has recovered from being a dead vamp a couple of episodes ago,
and is now his secretary.
See No Evil is given to Von Flores (
Earth: Final conflict
), his greedy corporate exec son in the Hong Kong office.
Unhappy with only making big bucks in trade and industry,
he also gets hands-on with the illegal ivory trade.
Speak No Evil goes to
Tia Carrere
in the Los Angeles Office.
Friday the 13th (The Series) [Season 3, Episode 12]
Epitaph For a Lonely Soul
Shown 3 Feb 90
Friday the 13th (The Series) [Season 3, Episode 13]
Midnight Riders
Shown 10 Feb 90
A Biker gang got lynched for a raping a woman.
Now they are back from the grave, and they want revenge.
Not unlike the Headless Horseman ep of
Night Stalker
- but with much better SPFX.
Jack's dad is back from the dead too.
It's always good to have friendly ghosts mixed with the murderous ones,
as it deepens the plot and makes the story more nuanced and interesting.
Friday the 13th (The Series) [Season 3, Episode 14]
Repetition
Shown 17 Feb 90
A driver accidentally hits and kills a little girl.
She is wearing a cursed amulet,
which means that he can revive her from death by killing another person.
He decides to trade her soul for that of his aging, nagging mother.
After all, she is dying anyway.
But he forgets that the amulet's curse will make her nag him from beyond the grave.
So he decides to bring his mother back, by sacrificing a homeless man ...
The regular cast members barely get a look in.
Micki (
Robey
) gets a scene at the start, mentioning that the two men were out of town.
She does not even search for the amulet herself -
she introduces the missing girl's mother to the lady who runs the homeless shelter.
Friday the 13th (The Series) [Season 3, Episode 15]
The Long Road Home
Shown 24 Feb 90
Micki (
Robey
) and Johnny retrieve a yin-and-yang symbol that allows the user
to put their soul into a dead body.
By incredible coincidence,
on the drive home they fall foul of a couple of murderous rednecks.
Yes, coincidences abound this episode.
For example, this time the cursed object is not the cause of the danger,
and in fact turns out to be a useful tool for our heroes.
This seems to be the one episode where Johnny is an actual tough guy.
Except when he actually needs it, that is.
He breaks his leg - will this be mentioned next episode?
Friday the 13th (The Series) [Season 3, Episode 16]
My Wife as a Dog
Shown 3 Mar 90
A firefighter is having a nervous breakdown -
his wife is divorcing him, and his dog is dying.
Luckily, he finds a magical artefact that will replace one with the other.
Unfortunately, for it to keep working
he has to kill people on a regular basis.
By typical coincidence,
the Fire Marshall just happens to be inspecting the Cursed Object Shop.
He gives the heroes all the clues they need to save the day.
Well, not until the killer har racked up an impressive body count.
Friday the 13th (The Series) [Season 3, Episode 17]
Jack-in-the-Box
Shown 5 May 90
Jill Hennessy
is a lifeguard at an indoor swimming pool.
This is her third form of employment this Season!
It is probably not the same swimming pool from two episodes previously,
which was apparently in another town,
but they certainly look alike.
The pool boss gets manslaughtered by a rowdy customer.
The dead man's whiny teenage daughter uses a magic jack-in-the-box to take a murderous revenge.
She doesn't go after the killer's gang,
instead targeting witnesses and anyone who annoys her.
Micki (
Robey
) sleeps alone in a skimpy negligee,
but with her 1980s-style Big Hair (tm).
And when she wakes up, the ghost can talk directly to her.
Yes, he knew her when he was alive
(typical coincidence - she has as many Friends of the week as there are Freaks of the week)
but there is no way he could know that she retrieves cursed objects!
Friday the 13th (The Series) [Season 3, Episode 18]
The Spirit of Television
Shown 12 May 90
The team investigate a Psychic Medium.
The celebrities who attend her seances
soon end up in high-profile fatal accidents.
Of course, they do not discover the curse through their detective work,
but through a story in the newspapers!
The offending artefact is her cursed 1950s TV set.
The item gives her extra days of life,
in exchange for the sacrifice of her customers
(who all seem to have wronged the ghosts at their seance).
The item also has a mind of its own,
and gives the Medium an incentive to target the team.
Friday the 13th (The Series) [Season 3, Episode 19]
The Tree of Life
Shown 19 May 90
The team sell a crib to a couple who are getting fertility treatment from a special clinic.
By incredible coincidence, Johnny befriends a crazy homeless woman
who was the clinic's first patient, and claims the OBGYN stole her daughter.
Yet again, rather than use detective work the team just stumble into the curse.
The OBGYN bought a cursed object, an idol of Carnunnos (the Horned God of Pagan mythology).
By incredible coincidence, she is member of a 2000-year-old secret Druidic cult.
She and her all-female staff sacrifice men to a giant oak tree,
and in return the patients are granted fertility.
The Druidic priestesses keep the girl-children
and raise them in a secret creche as the next generation of the Cult.
Friday the 13th (The Series) [Season 3, Episode 20]
The Charnel Pit
Shown 26 May 90
A local college Professor teaches a course on the Marquis de Sade.
Young women are going missing, including one from his course,
and bodies with marks of De Sade's torture are being pulled out of the river.
Nobody in the Police Department can see a link!
Micki (
Robey
) tracks down the cursed painting.
Does she do this by tracking down the address from the list?
No, she sees some suspicious activity and decides to investigate.
Instead of calling the cops,
she ends up getting transported to De Sade's Dungeon!
Being brighter than the average damsel in distress,
she disguises herself as a Countess and becomes the Maquis' house-guest.
