- Strange Luck
Infobox television
show_name = Strange Luck
caption =
format =Drama /Mystery
runtime = 60 minutes per episode
creator =
starring =D.B. Sweeney Pamela Gidley Cynthia Martells Frances Fisher
country = USA
network = FOX
first_aired = September 15, 1995
last_aired = February 23, 1996
num_episodes = 17
imdb_id = 0338465"Strange Luck" was an American
television series on The Fox Network, created by Karl Schaefer and starringD.B. Sweeney in the role of Chance Harper, a freelance photographer afflicted with a bizarre tendency to always be in the wrong place at the right time. As Chance himself says, "If I go to a restaurant, somebody chokes. If I walk into a bank, it gets robbed." Harper's strange luck began when, as a small child, he was the sole survivor of a plane crash that killed everyone else aboard, including both of his parents.The series aired on Fox from 1995 to 1996. A total of seventeen episodes were produced before the show was canceled due to low ratings. Reruns were shown briefly on the Sci Fi Channel in 1997.
Cast
*
D.B. Sweeney as Chance Harper.
*Pamela Gidley as Audrey Westin.
*Cynthia Martells as Dr. Richter.
*Frances Fisher as Angie.Episode list
* 09/15/95 "Soul Survivor"
* 09/22/95 "Over Exposure"
* 09/29/95 "Last Chance"
* 10/06/95 "She Was"
* 10/13/95 "Blind Man's Bluff"
* 10/20/95 "Angie's Turn"
* 11/03/95 "Hat Trick"
* 11/10/95 "The Liver Wild"
* 11/17/95 "Walk Away"
* 12/01/95 "The Box"
* 12/08/95 "Brothers Grim"
* 12/15/95 "Trial Period"
* 12/22/95 "Last Chance"
* 12/29/95 "Soul Survivor"
* 01/05/96 "Healing Hands"
* 01/12/96 "Angie's Turn"
* 01/19/96 "Wrong Number"
* 02/02/96 "In Sickness and in Wealth"
* 02/09/96 "Blinded by the Son"
* 02/23/96 "Struck by Lightning"Trivia
The song "Lightning Crashes", performed by the band Live, was used to great effect in the episode "Last Chance". As Chance attempts to save an innocent man from the electric chair by rushing the real killer (who has confessed, and is remorseful) to the prison in time to stop the execution, his car crashes into a utility pole, cutting off electricity to the prison and saving the condemned man, while simultaneously resulting in the electrocution of the real killer when he comes in contact with the downed power lines.
Episode 11, "Brothers Grim," featured a reference to the character
Fox Mulder from the Fox television seriesThe X-Files , establishing that the two shows may have been set in the same fictional "universe". Chance's brother makes the reference in a letter wherein he asks Chance to contact an FBI agent by the name of "Muldur" in the event of anything suspicious happening to him. "X-Files" producers, however, claimed to be unaware of any connection, and it may also have been an homage to a successful show by the producers of "Strange Luck", after the series' own cancellation.External links
* [http://www.swcp.com/~jamii/StrangeLuck/ The Unofficial Strange Luck Home Page]
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