Strange Luck
Having survived a plane crash as a child in which all aboard, including his mother, perished, Chance Harper's every decision leads to incredible displays of luck, both good and bad. Chance tries to cope with the everyday results of his 'luck' with the help of his close circle of friends and the hope that someday he will find his long-lost brother, mysteriously taken away from his family shortly before the fatal accident.
- 1995-1996
- 1 season
- New World Entertainment Films
- Suspense, Drama, Fantasy
Having survived a plane crash as a child in which all aboard, including his mother, perished, Chance Harper's every decision leads to incredible displays of luck, both good and bad. Chance tries to cope with the everyday results of his 'luck' with the help of his close circle of friends and the hope that someday he will find his long-lost brother, mysteriously taken away from his family shortly before the fatal accident.
Season 1 Episode Guide
17 Episodes 1995 - 1996
Episode 1
Soul Survivor
Fri, Sep 15, 1995
After being arrested for suspicion of murdering two cops, freelance photographer Chance Harper is hypnotized and learns he has a brother. Meanwhile, the man who killed the officers is free with Chance's wallet, car, and apartment keys.
Episode 2
Over Exposure
Fri, Sep 22, 1995
After his car is stolen, Chance recovers it but is missing a camera, but the remaining camera has pictures taken by the thief, including one that looks like a young woman with a gun to her head. Investigating it and trying to recover his other camera which contains illegal waste dumping, Chance is caught up in a dangerous kidnapping situation. During the whole ordeal, chance must try again and again to pass a driving test to get his license back.
Episode 3
Last Chance
Fri, Sep 29, 1995
Chance helps a man on death row.
Episode 4
She Was
Fri, Oct 6, 1995
Chance has a chance encounter at a movie set with a woman claiming to be married to the star of the picture, whom is supposedly hiding their marriage and has had her children taken away from her, but questions of her sanity coming into play. Chance visits his adopted parents to hopefully clear up the mystery of his missing brother, Eric.
Episode 5
Blind Man's Bluff
Fri, Oct 13, 1995
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 two suspected White Supremacy Militia members after desecrating a Jewish cemetery and beating a man up, believing one of them is hiding more information.
Episode 6
Angie's Turn
Fri, Oct 20, 1995
After chance brings a woman into the diner who gives birth, Angie decides she wants to ride along with him to experience one of his exciting days where anything could happen, so at a house to photograph a potato that looks like Elvis, the Elvis potato is stolen. During the theft where Angie held the potato, somehow Chance's luck is transfered to her and a series of weird and dangerous events transpire beginning with a murder.
Episode 7
Hat Trick
Fri, Nov 3, 1995
Chance accidentally befriends a young hockey player who's on the verge of a multi million dollar professional career, but is too wild and uncaring to keep it together. When his behavior endangers the contract, his father and an associate force him to stay in line.
Episode 8
The Liver Wild
Fri, Nov 10, 1995
During a camping trip with Angie, a man falls from the sky and dies, followed by another man with a parachute. The second man claims plane problems caused them to bail. After being given the wrong medication from and infection received during a camping trip, Chance flatlines, but his brain remains active. During this time his mind takes him to the firing scenes of the plan crash that killed family, and while there he talks with his mother. While in the hospital Chance sees a doctor whom is the same man whom parachuted down and whose ethics are in question.
Episode 9
Walk Away
Fri, Nov 17, 1995
In an attempt to lead a normal life, Chance takes some advice and anytime he sees something, instead of getting involved, he walks away. But a bad dream and a woman he keeps running into are too much for Chance to ignore.
Episode 10
The Box
Fri, Dec 1, 1995
Chance is asked to hold onto a mysterious black cube by a man in an accident. Nobody knows what it is, but everybody is out to steal it from Chance. During this all, Chance finds the house he grew up in, and a box that contains leads to his past and well and potentially his brother.
Episode 11
Brothers Grim
Fri, Dec 8, 1995
Chance finds his long-lost brother, Eric. But just as Chance's life seems to get better, his brother's goes bad, with his wife apparently murdered, his house bombed, and her employer after him, Chance helps his brother find out what is really going on.
Episode 12
Trial Period
Fri, Dec 15, 1995
Chance is annoyed at a competitive photographer Audrey has hired. But things moved toward suspicion once Chance finds out a warehouse fire was not caused the way it was believed to be.
Episode 13
Healing Hands
Fri, Jan 5, 1996
Chance encounters the daughter of a church minister whom can apparently cure people just by touching them and praying. A rich dying man whom believes she has a gift, despite her father telling him God works through her, sends his men out to find her so that she might heal him, but she remains on the run.
Episode 14
Wrong Number
Fri, Jan 19, 1996
An old girlfriend from Chance's past, once accused of murdering her husband, calls Chance out of the blue late at night. After she rekindles her feelings for Chance, her new supposedly abusive husband suddenly meats an untimely fate. Chance trades in his old beat-up car for a car a guy died in, in hopes of having a better vehicle.
Episode 15
In Sickness and in Wealth
Fri, Feb 2, 1996
An old friend of Chance's falls in love with a girl Chance save's the life of. But during a bachelor party which winds up having Chance and his friend arrested, Chance learns his friend won't be released because of drug trafficking charges. His friend Dave announces he's getting married to the woman after knowing her briefly. While this is going on, Chance and Audrey are finding out Dave and his wife-to-be, are not exactly who they appear to be.
Episode 16
Blinded by the Son
Fri, Feb 9, 1996
Chance learns for the first time Angie has a son, when she tells Chance her son has been arrested for murder. After two million dollars is deposited into Chance's bank account without his knowledge and a warning message on the ATM machine computer screen, bad things start happening in chance's life.
Episode 17
Lightning Strikes
Fri, Feb 23, 1996
Chance is struck by lightening and slips into a coma. His brother, Eric, visits him in the hospital after receiving an e-mail from an unknown person. Eric's discovers that the flight their family died on, was no accident, and that their father, Robert Saunders, was a government spy with a conscious whom may have not died on the flight.
