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You may notice that I have the “Strange Luck” logo on top of the banner. It’s one of my favorite shows that never got any real chance, and starred the always excellent D.B. Sweeney as Chance Harper.

People say I’m… lucky. It all began in a plane crash thirty years ago. One hundred and six lives ending in a single heartbeat. No one survived… except me. A photojournalist who, as a child, was the sole survivor of an airplane crash, finds himself in the wrong place at the right time. Saving other lives while risking his own, he has incredibly good,incredibly bad, incredibly Strange Luck.

The show was basically about Chance, a photographer, who went around getting into trouble, and who kept getting help from a metaphysical “good luck” that kept him from getting killed. Sometimes luck would occur when he really needed it, or when he needed something to happen, like when he was trying to stop an execution, but because he couldn’t get to the prison in time, he runs off the road, hits a light pole that crashes the powerlines and stops the execution (no electricity and all). Stuff like that.

Pamela Gidley played Chance’s editor (or something, it was a long time ago), but I don’t think they were ever lovers in the show. I distinctively remember one great episode, when Chance goes into a diner and buys some scratch off tickets, scratches, and wins a few bucks. The waiter (or maybe the store clerk? — Like I said, it was a long time ago, and I don’t really remember the show all that well) asks him why he doesn’t “go for it” (or something to that effect), and he replies that he never wants to push his luck.

Anyways, it was a really good show, and too bad it never had a chance. One of these days I’ll find some old episodes and do a proper review on it.