Pilot Zone - Freddy's Nightmares

I might change the title from Pilot Zone but that's what I'm going to call it for now, this is where I talk about the pilots - the good, the bad and the ugly... some of these will be unaired or for shows that never took off, some for successful shows and some that flamed out quickly. Some will be for shows I've seen a dozen times over while overs maybe successful I just never have seen any of it's run.

The first pilot up is from when the genre anthology show seem to come back in fashion for a while in the mid 80's, which also included the revivals of The Twilight Zone and Alfred Hitchcock Presents, as well as Amazing Stories, as well as Tales From The Crypt towards the end of it's decade...

None of these to the best of my knowledge however where hosted by a child killer - even by the premier of Freddy's Nightmares in 1988 just four short years since the first appearence of Freddy Krueger and he had already turned into that loveable, wise-cracking child killer with an whole bunch of tie-in merchandise to his name, it's no surprise that he would become the host of his own show.

With the exception of this pilot episode - No More Mr. Nice Guy - Freddy Krueger was not the focus of any other episode, I mean he would occasionally help the plot along and dreams would often play a part in some fashion - but he he was strictly like Rod or Hitch and just remained doing the introducing.

No More Mr. Nice Guy is a prequel to the Elm Street movies, the story of a real world Freddy Krueger (of course played by the immortal and iconic Robert Englund) on trial and getting off on a technicality - the arresting officer whose daughters Freddy was going to kill - didn't read him his rights, a bunch of parents (which was referenced in the first movie) get together and set alight Freddy which ends up being led by that arresting officer, the rest of the plot involves him having nightmares.

The weakest element of this episode is actually it's production values, it just all feels so cheap, the plot really isn't half bad and there is particularly memorable scene towards the end of the cop being on the gas at the dentist and him slipping into the dream state. I am not going to pretend this is something of Freddy at it's best, but for what it is

I actually watched some of the other episodes what was on the disc - It's A Miserable Life was particularly enjoyable - I kind of want to see some more of this series offering since it's been so long since I had seen any.