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COLLECTION · Series · 1995

Strange Luck

Strange Luck is an American television series, starring D. 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.

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* 7.8 (6)DramaMystery
Studios
FOX
Runtime
60 min/ep
Release
15/09/1995
Score
7.8 / 10 (6)
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Seasons and episodes
Season 1
Season 1
17 episodes · 1995
Soul Survivor
Episode 1. Soul Survivor
1995-09-15 · 60 min

As a child, Chance Harper miraculously walked away from a plane crash that killed his entire family (and everyone else aboard). Now an adult, he's a cavalier freelance photographer who uses his mysterious relationship with Lady Luck to…

Over Exposure
Episode 2. Over Exposure
1995-09-22 · 60 min

When Chance recovers the camera that was stolen along with his car, he finds a series of photos he didn't shoot, and his auto-theft case develops into one involving a kidnapping.

Last Chance
Episode 3. Last Chance
1995-09-29 · 60 min

An auto mechanic confesses to Chance that he murdered someone years before and another man is scheduled to be executed for the crime.

She Was
Episode 4. She Was
1995-10-06 · 60 min

Chance helps a Hollywood movie star who's in town to film his latest blockbuster-and is apparently being stalked by a woman who claims to be his wife.

Blind Man's Bluff
Episode 5. Blind Man's Bluff
1995-10-13 · 60 min

Mistaken for hired hitman, Chance is drawn into a plot to have somebody killed and once the mistake is found out, Chance most both stop the plot and keep himself from being a second victim. Anne asks for Chance's help talking to one of…

Angie's Turn
Episode 6. Angie's Turn
1995-10-20 · 60 min

Some of Chance's luck rubs off on Angie, and she'll need it-after witnessing a shooting by a street gang of teenage girls, as the renegades target her for execution.

Hat Trick
Episode 7. Hat Trick
1995-11-03 · 60 min

An up-and-coming hockey player about to sign with a professional team crosses paths with Chance, who helps the young star realize that sinister forces are using him.

The Liver Wild
Episode 8. The Liver Wild
1995-11-10 · 60 min

While away on a restful camping trip, Chance and Angie watch in horror and can't resist getting involved after a man falls from the sky and dies in front of them.

Episode 9. Walk Away
1995-11-17 · 60 min

Chance spends a day trying desperately not to get involved, but when he learns that the mysterious woman he keeps running into is a flight attendant, he fears for the lives of a plane-load of passengers.

Episode 10. The Box
1995-12-01 · 60 min

Chance is entrusted with a mysterious black box that seems to have strange effects on those that come into contact with it. And when he finds that it triggers hes childhood memories, Chance thinks it could lead him to his brother.

Episode 11. Brothers Grim
1995-12-08 · 60 min

Chance comes face to face with his missing brother, Eric, but there's little time for solving the mysteries of the family's past-and barely time for mourning the wife Eric is about to bury.

Episode 12. Trial Period
1995-12-15 · 60 min

Chance develops a not-so-friendly rivalry with thrill-seeking photographer Steve Medavoy, especially after Chance befriends a young boy whose family tragedy becomes Medavoy's photo opportunity.

Episode 13. Healing Hands
1996-01-05 · 60 min

Chance is caught between a rock and a hard place when he takes under his wing a young faith healer who seems to be on the run.

Episode 14. Wrong Number
1996-01-19 · 60 min

Chance can't turn his back on an ex-girlfriend who needs help leaving her abusive husband, but he may be in too deep when the husband turns up dead-just like the woman's first spouse did.

Episode 15. In Sickness and in Wealth
1996-02-02 · 60 min

Wedding bells are breaking up that old gang of Chance's, but he and Westin decide the engagement needs to be broken up when they start learning things about thier colleague's seemingly impetuous fiancee.

Episode 16. Blinded by the Son
1996-02-09 · 60 min

What kind of person finds $10,000,000 in their bank account...and gives it away. Chance meets Angie's long lost son, a member in a rock and roll band and first seen in jail.

Episode 17. Lightning Strikes
1996-02-23 · 60 min

When Chance is struck by lightning, it sets off a chain reaction that reunites him with his brother and his father, who was presumed dead. He later discovers that the plane crash that killed his mother and sister was not an accident, but…

Cast by season
D. B. Sweeney
D. B. Sweeney
Chance Harper
Pamela Gidley
Pamela Gidley
Audrey Westin
Cynthia Martells
Cynthia Martells
Anne Richter
Frances Fisher
Frances Fisher
Angie
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GenerationofSwine
★ 10.0 / 10
Another review here compared this to Eerie Indiana, and honestly that is apt, the best possible description for a TV show that few people know actually existed. And that's a shame, Sweeney is a John Cusack clone that has a Fox Mulder under-acted style, which transfers nicely to a show that is kind of comically out there and still skeptical. Another reviewer called it Quirky, which is another apt review given that the writers found the time to add in little throw away instances of luck and coincidence as mundane as finding a penny while still focusing on the bigger story in the episode. It makes for quirky, tongue-in-cheek fun. Unfortunately it was short lived, obscure, and darn near impossible to find today.
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