Tales from the Crypt

Tales from the Crypt

Tales of horror based on the gruesome E.C. comic books of the 1950s presented by the legendary Crypt Keeper, a sinister ghoul obsessed with gallows humor and horrific puns.

Genre: ComedyCrimeHorror

Cast:John KassirRoy BrocksmithMiguel FerrerCam ClarkeLarry DrakeBobcat GoldthwaitLance HenriksenSherrie RoseWilliam SadlerMarshall BellMichael IronsideMarshall R. TeaguePeter Van NordenSteve KahanTroy EvansCindy RiegelConstance WigginsTim Ahern


1Season 2

S2.E1 ∙ Dead Right

Sat, Apr 21, 1990

Cathy wants a rich and successful life, and fast. She visits a medium who tells her she will meet a man who will inherit a lot of money, and die in a violent way soon after. When she meets grossly overweight Charlie who informs her of his rich relatives, she promptly marries him. As it turns out, the medium is always right.

2Season 2

S2.E2 ∙ The Switch

Sat, Apr 21, 1990

A wealthy and elderly man subjects himself to a revolutionary new treatment in order to please his gold-digger girlfriend. Unfortunately becoming young again turns out to be very expensive.

3Season 2

S2.E3 ∙ Cutting Cards

Sat, Apr 21, 1990

Reno and Sam are a pair of hardcore gamblers who don't play for fun. They challenge each other in a simple game of cards, and the end result could be deadlier then they could've ever bargained for.

4Season 2

S2.E4 ∙ 'Til Death

Tue, Apr 24, 1990

The gold-digging landowner of a Caribbean villa attempts to woo a haughty rich young woman with the aid of a potion made by his ex-lover; a voodoo priestess. But trouble ensues when he ignores the warnings about the potion.

5Season 2

S2.E5 ∙ Three's a Crowd

Tue, May 1, 1990

A married couple is trying to enjoy their anniversary. However, the husband is sure his wife is cheating on him.

6Season 2

S2.E6 ∙ The Thing from the Grave

Tue, May 8, 1990

When an abusive agent learns that his sexy model of a girlfriend is cheating on him with a photographer, he kills him and later kidnaps his girlfriend, but soon learns the love is more powerful in death

7Season 2

S2.E7 ∙ The Sacrifice

Tue, May 15, 1990

An insurance salesman murders an obnoxious tycoon to get his seductive wife and his fortune, but later is blackmailed by a rival.

8Season 2

S2.E8 ∙ For Cryin' Out Loud

Tue, May 22, 1990

A greedy rock promoter tries to steal the money raised at a benefit concert when his conscience intervenes.

9Season 2

S2.E9 ∙ Four-Sided Triangle

Tue, May 29, 1990

Farmer George is attracted to Mary Jo, the nubile young woman who helps out with the chores. The problem is... she's in love with a scarecrow.

10Season 2

S2.E10 ∙ The Ventriloquist's Dummy

Tue, Jun 5, 1990

Amateur ventriloquist Billy Goldman learns that being a ventriloquist might not be the best career for him.

11Season 2

S2.E11 ∙ Judy, You're Not Yourself Today

Tue, Jun 12, 1990

A housewife stressed out by her husbands reckless behavior welcomes an elderly cosmetics saleswoman in to her home. Only to discover that the old hag has another more devious motive.

12Season 2

S2.E12 ∙ Fitting Punishment

Tue, Jun 19, 1990

When funeral director Ezra Thornberry gets his very polite young nephew Bobby as a roommate, he eventually learns his rude harsh behavior towards him could be fatal.

13Season 2

S2.E13 ∙ Korman's Kalamity

Tue, Jun 26, 1990

A cop learns that an illustrator of "Tales from the Crypt" might have the power to make his monstrous creations come to life due to his shrewish wife.

14Season 2

S2.E14 ∙ Lower Berth

Tue, Jul 3, 1990

Enoch, the two-faced man, an attraction at a sideshow, falls in love with a 4,000 year old mummy, eventually leading up to the conception of their bastard child, The Crypt Keeper.

15Season 2

S2.E15 ∙ Mute Witness to Murder

Tue, Jul 10, 1990

Young woman Suzy looks out of the window of her apartment and witnesses a man murdering a woman in the apartment directly across from hers. Suzy is so traumatized by what she sees that she's rendered mute. Suzy is placed in the care of Dr. Trask, who alas turns out to be the man who committed the murder she witnessed.

16Season 2

S2.E16 ∙ Television Terror

Tue, Jul 17, 1990

A TV shock journalist gives an on-air tour of an eerie haunted house.

17Season 2

S2.E17 ∙ My Brother's Keeper

Tue, Jul 24, 1990

Siamese twins, one timid and kind-hearted and the other reckless and sadistic, must make a decision on whether or not to allow an experimental surgery to have them separated even though one of them doesn't want to be split from the other.

18Season 2

S2.E18 ∙ The Secret

Tue, Jul 31, 1990

A young orphan, named Theodore's adopted by the odd and well-off Colberts, with a dark secret. They're not the only ones.