Nightmare Cafe (TV Series)

"Touch that remote and you die! Now that I've got your attention, here's the deal. See those two people? That's Frank, and that's Fay. Strangers when they met, turns out they've got a lot in common. Both died on the same night, both ended up in the same body of water, and both took refuge in the same all-night cafe. Me, I run the place. Name's Blackie."

―Blackie

Nightmare Cafe
Statistics
Title	Nightmare Cafe
Format	Live-action
Running Time	60 min.
Country	USA
Network	NBC
Seasons	1
Number of Episodes	6
Production
Production Company	MGM Television; Wes Craven Films
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Executive Producers	Wes Craven; Thomas Baum
Producers	Marianne Maddalena; Bruce A. Pobjoy; John Leekley
Principal Cast	Robert Englund; Jack Coleman; Lindsay Frost
Air Dates
First Aired	January 29th, 1992
Last Aired	April 3rd, 1992

Nightmare Café was a short-lived American television series that aired on NBC from January to April of 1992 spanning a total of only six episodes. The series was produced by Wes Craven and starred horror film icon Robert Englund as the proprietor of an establishment known as the Nightmare Café. As the central setting of the series, the Nightmare Café was of supernatural and otherworldly origin, moving from locale to locale where customers would interact with the establishment's staff which included Englund's Blackie, a cook named Frank Nolan, played by Jack Coleman and a waitress named Fay Peronivic, played by Lindsay Frost. The series was ultimately discontinued due to poor ratings, but has been re-aired on the Sci-Fi Channel and on NBC's horror-themed cable channel, Chiller.

Episodes

Episode	Title	Airdate
1x1	Nightmare Cafe	January 29th, 1992
1x2	Dying Well Is the Best Revenge	March 6th, 1992
1x3	Fay & Ivy	March 13th, 1992
1x4	The Heart of the Mystery	March 20th, 1992
1x5	Sanctuary for a Child	March 27th, 1992
1x6	Aliens Ate My Lunch	April 3rd, 1992

Notes & Trivia

• Series was created by Thomas Baum.

• Producer Wes Craven is also responsible for creating the A Nightmare on Elm Street and Scream film franchises.

• Lead actor Robert Englund is best known for playing the role of wisecracking dream demon Freddy Krueger in the A Nightmare on Elm Street film series.

• The official soundtrack to Nightmare Cafe was released by Varese Sarabande on January 29th, 1992 on audio cassette. The compact disc was released on March 31st.

External Links

• Nightmare Cafe at AMG
• Nightmare Cafe at IMDB
• Nightmare Cafe at Wikipedia
• Nightmare Cafe at Epguides.com
• Nightmare Cafe at TV.com Episode Guide
• Nightmare Cafe at TV Rage.com Episode Guide
• Nightmare Cafe at the Nightmare Cafe Web Page

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