Vendredi Antiques Sign

Episode # 53
Air Date: 9\25\89
The Prophecies, Pt. 1
Cursed Antique: Book of Lucifer

Book of Lucifer

Astaroth1, disciple of Satan, plans to bring the Antichrist into the world with a series of murders and events. Jack travels to France, to visit visionary Sister Adelle, who is endangered by the Prophesies of Satan. By the time Micki and Ryan arrive on a later flight, Jack is in a coma, and unable to share what he learned.

1 The spelling Astaroth is corrected from the earlier version of this page, and is confirmed via the script for The Prophesies


Episode # 54
Air Date: 9\25\89
The Prophecies, Pt. 2
Cursed Antique: Book of Lucifer

Ryan's strange behavior becomes worse as he murders Sister Adelle and kidnaps a young child, who is to become the vessel for the Antichrist. Johnny is called on to help when Micki is left alone to cope with the dark situation developing around her.


Episode # 55
Air Date: 10\2\89
Demon Hunter
Cursed Antique: Dagger

Ceremonial Dagger

In the first episode after Ryan (John D. LeMay) left the show, strange powers manifest themselves under Curious Goods, and more of Lewis Vendredi's legacy is made apparent. A dagger used to raise demons from the Pit of Hell is returned to the shop, and Johnny is again called on for help. Meanwhile, self-appointed hunters of Satanists track down a demon, and end up where they started their quest, in a chamber under The Vault.


Episode # 56
Air Date: 10\9\89
Crippled Inside
Cursed Antique: Wheelchair

Wicker Wheelchair

An old man helps a crippled girl get a cursed wheelchair that will eventually allow her to walk and get revenge on the boys who raped her and caused her to become handicapped. Johnny solves this one pretty much on his own.


Episode # 57
Air Date: 10\16\89
Stick It In Your Ear
Cursed Antique: Hearing Aid

Hearing Aid

A mind-reader finds himself hard-of-hearing, and steals an antique hearing-aid from the otolaryngologist. This hearing aid not only helps his hearing, but gives him the ability to read minds. However, the hearing aid builds up the energy of thoughts, and must be discharged regularly, causing death to the victim.


Episode # 58
Air Date: 10\30\89
Bad Penny
Cursed Antique: Coin of Ziocles; same coin from Episode # 30 (Tails I Live, Heads You Die)

Coin of Ziocles

Micki is terrified when she learns that the Coin of Ziocles is being used again. Johnny is able to recover it, but his emotions get the better of him, and he decides to take his dad for one last fishing trip.


Episode # 59
Air Date: 11\6\89
Hate On Your Dial
Cursed Antique: 1954 Chevy Car Radio

Car Radio

Johnny makes an extremely easy recovery, but sells the item without checking the manifest first. The radio ends up in the hands of a racist murderer, who uses it to go back in time to visit his now- deceased father. Jack and Ryan make a trip to the past and prevent a hate-crime.


Episode # 60
Air Date: 11\13\89
Night Prey
Cursed Antique: Cross of Fire

Cross of Fire

A vampire-hunter (Van Hellier) bent on getting revenge for his wife's kidnapping (by a vampire) obtains a cursed Cross with the ability to kill. Lot of introspection into Jack's character in this episode.


Episode # 61
Air Date: 11\20\89
Femme Fatale
Cursed Antique: Film Reel

Film Reel

An old time, film noir director becomes obsessed with a cursed reel of film (one of his films) when he discovers that he can give a victim to the film in order to get a young version of his wife back...until the victim dies. Then the young version of his wife returns to the black and white film. Micki then becomes trapped in the gangster film reel.


Episode # 62
Air Date: 1\8\90
Mightier Than the Sword
Cursed Antique: Fountain Pen

Fountain Pen

A crime biographer punches up his writing and gains fame by using a fountain pen to transform innocent people into serial killers. He does it by writing his stories in the victim's blood, controlling their every though and move. Micki is his next target.


Episode # 63
Air Date: 1\15\90
Year of the Monkey
Cursed Antique: Tea Set/3 Monkey Statues

Monkeys: Hear No Evil, See No Evil, Speak No Evil

A samurai offers easy return of a cursed tea set in exchange for help with a quest of his own, the retrieval of three monkey statues, currently held by the Tanaka empire. The monkeys' curse is a strange one, and sees the Curious Goods staff to the other side of the globe in their attempt to recover them.


Episode # 64
Air Date: 1\22\90
Epitaph for a Lonely Soul
Cursed Antique: Mortician's Aspirator

Aspirator

A mortician find that he can revive the dead, who then fall under his influence.


Episode # 65
Air Date: 1\29\90
Midnight Riders
Cursed Antique: None

A visit to a seaside town in the middle of a storm puts Micki and Jack in the wrong place at the wrong time. They become involved in the town's struggle for survival in the face of ghosts who have returned for vengeance.


Episode # 66
Air Date: 2\5\90
Repetition
Cursed Antique: Cameo Locket

Cameo Locket

A newspaper journalist's successful career is destroyed by an accident, when he runs over a little girl. After frantically hiding her body, her cameo locket speaks to him, telling him that he can return her to life in exchange for another victim. After he makes that exchange, that victim, through the locket, prompts him to take another victim for her life. Repeat (hence the name).


Episode # 67
Air Date: 2\12\90 The Long Road Home
Cursed Antique: Yin-Yang Amulet

Tin/Yang Amulet

Micki and Johnny recover an antique that lets a person trade bodies with another. On their way home, their car breaks down, and they go to a run-down farm-house for help. Unfortunately, the house is owned by two psychotic brothers who take an interest in Micki, and have a grudge against Johnny.


Episode # 68
Air Date: 2\19\90
My Wife as a Dog
Cursed Antique: Leash

Dog Leash

A firefighter in denial over his divorce finds a leash during a rescue, and kills one of his team-mates. Going home to his dying dog, he is thrilled when the leash is able to restore some of her health.


Episode # 69
Air Date: 4\23\90
Jack-In-The-Box
Cursed Antique: Jack-in-the-Box

Sailor's Jack-In-The-Box

A little girl uses an antique Jack-In-The-Box to take revenge on the men who killed her father, in return for the chance to see him again.


Episode # 70
Air Date: 4\30\90
Spirit of Television
Cursed Antique: Television Set

Television

A psychic uses a television instead of the trite crystal ball to show her clients their departed loved ones. In return for the deaths of the clients, the psychic, who is in failing health, is given more time to live her life.


Episode # 71
Air Date: 5\7\90
Tree of Life
Cursed Antique: Druid Fertility Figurine

Druidic Fertility Figurine

A cult of Druids running a fertility clinic are able to deliver sons to their expectant mothers, while keeping the daughters to be raised at the facility and learn the ancient rites of the Druids.


Episode # 72
Air Date: 5\14\90 The Charnal Pit
Cursed Antique: Painting

Painting

Micki travels back in time while investigating a number of disappearances of young women. She quickly learns that the young women are being sent back in time to the Marquis de Sade, and he, in exchange, sends back the bodies of his victims, along with pages from his diary.