Friday the 13th: The Series title, the series has no story connections to the film series of the same title, as Jason Voorhees does not make an appearance, nor does any character connected to the films. In the United Kingdom it was allegedly listed on TV schedules as "Friday's Curse" though when going to advertisement breaks on ITV it was titled "Friday the 13th: The Series". The series and the films have several cast and crew ties, however. The show's producer, Frank Mancuso, Jr., was producer of the film series from "Friday the 13th Part 2" (1981) until the final installment distributed by Paramount (""
Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives prefiguring Kevin Williamson's "Scream" series and other similar . As of 2003's "Freddy vs. Jason", "Jason Lives" was a fan favorite of the series, in addition to receiving positive notice from horror film historians. It is followed by "". In July 1990, A Year after , Tommy Jarvis, who killed mass murderer Jason Voorhees, returns to Crystal Lake, now renamed Forest Green. Tommy, still suffering from hallucinations ever since with Jason, arrives with his friend Allen Hawes, hoping to cremate Jason's body and finally end his hallucinations once and for all. At the cemetery, they exhume Jason's corpse but seeing