📺On October 8, 1988 the series “Freddy’s Nightmares” aired! Created by Wes Craven. A spin-off from the A Nightmare on Elm Street film series, each episode is introduced by Freddy Krueger (played, as in the films, by Robert Englund ), and features two different stories, with eight of them throughout the series actually having Freddy as the main antagonist. The pilot episode was directed by Tobe Hooper, and begins with Krueger’s prosecution on child-murdering charges. Similar to the Crypt Keeper