Favorite Episode - Friday the 13th: The Series (1987) Discussion

[–] Maverick84 15 years ago

If I had to choose my favorite episode, I would say "Symphony In B#." It's a very moody episode with a great music score by Fred Mollin. Love the classic 'Phantom Of The Opera' backstory as well. "Eye Of Death" comes in a close 2nd place though :)

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[–] Diamond97 15 years ago

I have a lot of favorite episodes, but if I had to choose just one favorite, it would be "A Cup of Time." That was a really fun and adventurous episode. It was about a teacup that gave its owner youth.

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[–] allexand 15 years ago

I liked "The Quilt of Hathor" for its villian. Kate Trotter gives such a masterful performance as Effie Stokes that you can feel the bitterness and hatred oozing from her every pore. I loved the dichotomy of watching her play along with the charade of being a humble and peaceful Amish woman but actually being just as conniving and greedy as anyone in the outside world. I also had to admire her determination and she was clearly willing to kill every last single woman on the planet just to get her man. She was so much fun to watch that I was actually SAD that she died early in the 2nd part.

A close second would have to be "13 o' clock."

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[–] hbrackett 15 years ago

Big fan of Jack-In-The-Box. Little kid vengeance trails are always fun, and Marsha Moreau was pretty convincing. Car wash death scene was the best!

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[–] jmann_2007 15 years ago

I agree completely, and Quilt of Hathor is my favourite episode as well... I guess more for the fact that it was the first episode I saw of the series that got me into the rest. I also like the drama created(even though you know that he comes back) when Ryan decides to leave Mickey and Jack and join the Penatites(thats probably not the right spelling). This is usually one of the episodes I show to people that havnt ever seen the series before.

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[–] HerWickedWays 15 years ago

One of my favs is Mesmer's Bauble with Vanity.

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[–] mike_the_bloody 15 years ago

Better Off Dead followed by Wax Magic & Hellowe’en

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[–] bobbie_alex 15 years ago

Quilt of Hathor followed by Wedding Bell Blues, all because I'm really big into playing pool.

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[–] kurtpijanowski 12 years ago

The Electrocutioner was one of my favorite episodes. A person wrongly executed who becomes a dentist after surviving execution and kills all the people behind his execution

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[–] aimsusie 11 years ago

My favorite episodes were, and still are: Hate on Your Dial, also The Quilt of Hathor, 13 o'clock, Vanity's Mirror (and the follow up Face of Evil), A Cup of Time and Eye of Death.

I think I was most scared by Better Off Dead. Yikes!

I also thought My Wife as a Dog was pretty funny, if you can ignore the inherent sexism of the episode's plot.

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[–] stayhooper67 15 years ago

Mine is a toss up between 'The Playhouse' and 'And Now The News.' Great episodes, and great objects.

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[–] MonteCarloMan 15 years ago

"Night Hunger" love the soundtrack/story, very topnotch -

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[–] troypasquale-1 15 years ago

I'm glad to see "The Playhouse" get some love because that's one of my favorite episodes as well.

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[–] Blondfashionisto 15 years ago

'Quilt of Hathor' was one of my favourites - But it's been years since I watched the series. But, my interest has been re-kindled so I think I'll buy the DVDs.

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[–] LadyCynderella 14 years ago

The one with the scarecrow is genuinely chilling.

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[–] Boorboy1 14 years ago

Vanity's Mirror, because the girl Helen in that episode actually repulses me, like proper makes me sick.

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[–] teabash 14 years ago

My favorites:

Quilt of Hathor
Pirates Promise
Hellowe'en
Bottle of Dreams
Vanity Mirror
Scarecrow
The Prophecy
And Now the News
The Baron's Bride
Doorway to Hell
The Playhouse
Face of Evil
Coven of Darkness

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[–] theapayne 14 years ago

My favorite is 13 O'Clock.

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[–] Jpebony123 14 years ago

I like the one with the scarecrow, the quilt, the cradle, and especially the makeup box/actor with scarred face one. I like most of the episodes, until they started repeating the devil cult/coven theme in almost every episode. (I like the ones with average people. It really shows the lengths people will go to to reach a goal or save a loved one if given the chance -- no matter how dangerous or deadly.)

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[–] skinny6003 14 years ago

Ya know, I've just recently started really paying attention to this series thanks to SyFy's nightly airings this month and I think the episode that I've enjoyed the most so far was 'Brain Drain.' I look forward to seeing more of these episodes and possibly picking the series up on DVD in the near future.

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[–] hereminton 14 years ago

My favorite episode is The Playhouse, my second favorite is Hellowe'en, and my third favorite is A Friend to the End.

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[–] jarth-2 14 years ago

My favorite is The 13th Hour.

There was no episode called "The 13th Hour," genius.

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[–] DTgringo 14 years ago

My favorite is The Playhouse. My second favorite is the beehive one. Not because it's a particularly good episode, but for nostalgic reasons. I used to watch this show late night as a kid on one of the cheap off networks. It came on after Monsters and Tales From the Darkside. I always watched those, this, and the Addam's Family on I think Saturday nights. That beehive episode was the only one, besides the playhouse one, that I could specifically remember when I decided to rewatch the show a year or two ago.

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