Strange Luck

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Strange Luck was an American television series on The Fox Network, created by Karl Schaefer and 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.

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.

1 Cast
2 Episode list
3 Trivia
4 External links

[edit] Cast

D.B. Sweeney as Chance Harper.
Pamela Gidley as Audrey Westin.
Cynthia Martells as Dr. Richter.
Frances Fisher as Angie.

[edit] 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"

[edit] 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.

The show's final episode featured a reference to the character Fox Mulder from the Fox television series The X-Files, establishing that the two shows are set in the same fictional universe.