Chance Harper has the strangest way of being in the wrong place at the right time. Everyday of his life.
Original title
Strange Luck
Released
9/15/1995
Origin country
US
Genre
Drama, Mystery
Status
Ended
Number of seasons
1
Number of episodes
17
Strange Luck is an American television series, starring D. B. Sweeney in the role of Chance Harper, a freelance photographer afflicted with a bizarre tendency to always be in the wrong place at the right time. As Chance himself says, "If I go to a restaurant, somebody chokes. If I walk into a bank, it gets robbed." Harper's strange luck began when, as a small child, he was the sole survivor of a plane crash that killed everyone else aboard, including both of his parents.
As a child, Chance Harper miraculously walked away from a plane crash that killed his entire family (and everyone else aboard). Now an adult, he's a cavalier freelance photographer who uses his mysterious relationship with Lady Luck to help others. In the opener, Chance winds up charged with murder after he saves a suicidal woman.
When Chance recovers the camera that was stolen along with his car, he finds a series of photos he didn't shoot, and his auto-theft case develops into one involving a kidnapping.
An auto mechanic confesses to Chance that he murdered someone years before and another man is scheduled to be executed for the crime.
Chance helps a Hollywood movie star who's in town to film his latest blockbuster-and is apparently being stalked by a woman who claims to be his wife.
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.
Some of Chance's luck rubs off on Angie, and she'll need it-after witnessing a shooting by a street gang of teenage girls, as the renegades target her for execution.
An up-and-coming hockey player about to sign with a professional team crosses paths with Chance, who helps the young star realize that sinister forces are using him.
While away on a restful camping trip, Chance and Angie watch in horror and can't resist getting involved after a man falls from the sky and dies in front of them.
Chance spends a day trying desperately not to get involved, but when he learns that the mysterious woman he keeps running into is a flight attendant, he fears for the lives of a plane-load of passengers.
Chance is entrusted with a mysterious black box that seems to have strange effects on those that come into contact with it. And when he finds that it triggers hes childhood memories, Chance thinks it could lead him to his brother.
Chance comes face to face with his missing brother, Eric, but there's little time for solving the mysteries of the family's past-and barely time for mourning the wife Eric is about to bury.
Chance develops a not-so-friendly rivalry with thrill-seeking photographer Steve Medavoy, especially after Chance befriends a young boy whose family tragedy becomes Medavoy's photo opportunity.
Chance is caught between a rock and a hard place when he takes under his wing a young faith healer who seems to be on the run.
Chance can't turn his back on an ex-girlfriend who needs help leaving her abusive husband, but he may be in too deep when the husband turns up dead-just like the woman's first spouse did.
Wedding bells are breaking up that old gang of Chance's, but he and Westin decide the engagement needs to be broken up when they start learning things about thier colleague's seemingly impetuous fiancee.
What kind of person finds $10,000,000 in their bank account...and gives it away. Chance meets Angie's long lost son, a member in a rock and roll band and first seen in jail.
When Chance is struck by lightning, it sets off a chain reaction that reunites him with his brother and his father, who was presumed dead. He later discovers that the plane crash that killed his mother and sister was not an accident, but rather a deliberate act of revenge by a long-time nemesis of his father, who is now intent on killing the remaining family members.
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