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: Comedy, Crime, Horror

Cast:John Kassir , Roy Brocksmith , Miguel Ferrer , Cam Clarke , Larry Drake , Bobcat Goldthwait , Lance Henriksen , Sherrie Rose , William Sadler , Marshall Bell , Michael Ironside , Marshall R. Teague , Peter Van Norden , Steve Kahan , Troy Evans , Cindy Riegel , Constance Wiggins , Tim 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.

1Season 3

S3.E1 ∙ Loved to Death

Sat, Jun 15, 1991

In Los Angeles, aspiring screenwriter Edward Foster from Indiana has a crush on his neighbor Miranda Singer. However, bimbo Miranda is a gold digger who does not give Edward any attention. His unrequited love is noticed by his creepy landlord, Mr. Stronham, who offers Edward a love potion in order to seduce Miranda. Will the potion work?

2Season 3

S3.E2 ∙ Carrion Death

Sat, Jun 15, 1991

A sadistic serial killer has unforeseen complications when pursued by a determined motorcycle cop in a barren desert.

3Season 3

S3.E3 ∙ The Trap

Sat, Jun 15, 1991

Indebted unhappy married couple, Lou and Irene, commit a life insurance fraud. Lou's brother Billy helps him fake his death and leave for Mexico. But Irene and Billy fall in love and when Lou returns, they claim they don't know him.

4Season 3

S3.E4 ∙ Abra Cadaver

Wed, Jun 19, 1991

A former potential surgeon sets out to wreak revenge on the brother whose cruel practical joke prevented him from realizing his dream.

5Season 3

S3.E5 ∙ Top Billing

Wed, Jun 26, 1991

An unattractive and unlucky actor can't get a role because of his looks. His agent and girlfriend leave him. But he doesn't intend to give up - he wants the role of Hamlet.

6Season 3

S3.E6 ∙ Dead Wait

Wed, Jul 3, 1991

Red Buckley is a natural red head in search of a one-of-a-kind black pearl. He gets a job on a plantation owned by Mr. Duval where the pearl is said to be. Shown to his room in Duvall's home by Peligre, he finds a ram head behind the door. She says it is there for his protection but he demands it be removed. After spending a night with Duvall's girlfriend, Kathrine, they decide to become partners in stealing the pearl. Waking up to find a dying chicken in his bed, Peligre warns him that Kathrine is dangerous. Is she or is Peligre the dangerous one? Will he get the pearl?

7Season 3

S3.E7 ∙ The Reluctant Vampire

Wed, Jul 10, 1991

A good natured vampire takes a more novel approach to satisfying his blood lust with his chosen undercover employment.

8Season 3

S3.E8 ∙ Easel Kill Ya

Wed, Jul 17, 1991

Painter Jack Craig gains himself a wealthy patron when he sells a morbid painting. He soon finds that in order to please his patron, he must continue to paint pictures of death - and this leads him down a murderous path.

9Season 3

S3.E9 ∙ Undertaking Palor

Wed, Jul 24, 1991

Four boys find out that the local undertaker and a pharmacist are in cahoots to murder rich locals and profit from their funerals.

10Season 3

S3.E10 ∙ Mournin' Mess

Wed, Jul 31, 1991

A journalist tries to solve the case of a mysterious serial killer who's been killing homeless people all across the city. What he doesn't realize is how deep the conspiracy behind the murders goes.

11Season 3

S3.E11 ∙ Split Second

Wed, Aug 7, 1991

A beautiful waitress marries the owner of a lumber camp and then quickly starts to realize that he is not what she really wants.

12Season 3

S3.E12 ∙ Deadline

Wed, Aug 14, 1991

An alcoholic reporter is inspired by a beautiful woman to find a good murder case no matter what.

13Season 3

S3.E13 ∙ Spoiled

Wed, Aug 21, 1991

Janet is married to a doctor who's married to his work. She wants to live her life with passion, danger, and romance like Fuchsia Monroe, a soap opera character she watches religiously. When her television goes haywire, her friend Louise convinces her to get cable. With her husband unresponsive to her "needs," she begins a steamy affair with the cable guy.

14Season 3

S3.E14 ∙ Yellow

Wed, Aug 28, 1991

The year is 1918. During World War I, somewhere in France, it's the 49th day of continuous battle on the front lines. Lieutenant Martin Kalthrob doesn't want to be in the army anymore and asks his father, General Kalthrob, for a discharge. His father refuses but says he will transfer him to the rear if he leads a patrol to the German lines and fix the broken communication line. When he proves himself to be a coward, his father orders a court martial with penalty of death by firing squad.

1Season 4

S4.E1 ∙ None But the Lonely Heart

Sat, Jun 27, 1992

A con artist meets and weds a wealthy old widows through a dating service, then murders them and takes the inheritance, finally gets the date of his dreams - the very worst of them.

2Season 4

S4.E2 ∙ This'll Kill Ya

Sat, Jun 27, 1992

In a research lab, when two colleagues accidentally inject an experimental virus into their sleazy boss that will eventually kill him, he tries to get revenge on them, believing it was no accident.

3Season 4

S4.E3 ∙ On a Deadman's Chest

Sat, Jun 27, 1992

Danny Darwin learns that his new tattoo might be more than just a tattoo.

4Season 4

S4.E4 ∙ Seance

Sat, Jul 4, 1992

Two con artist attempt to steal the fortune of a rich man they accidentally killed by creating a fake seance for his blind wife, but not everything goes to plan.

5Season 4

S4.E5 ∙ Beauty Rest

Sat, Jul 11, 1992

Lie's not been easy for actress, Helen. She's getting older and her dreams of hitting the big time are disappearing. When she gets a chance to take part in a beauty contest, she's determined to do ANYTHING to win.

6Season 4

S4.E6 ∙ What's Cookin'

Wed, Jul 22, 1992

Married couple Fred and Erma's restaurant has seen better days. But things change once a stranger walks in, with a rather unique steak recipe...

7Season 4

S4.E7 ∙ The New Arrival

Sat, Jul 25, 1992

An abnormally difficult child tests a psychologist.

8Season 4

S4.E8 ∙ Showdown

Sat, Aug 1, 1992

A gunfighter confronts his past.

9Season 4

S4.E9 ∙ King of the Road

Sat, Aug 8, 1992

A life on the edge hot rodder named Billy comes to town run by Sheriff Garrett, he immediately dates and romances his daughter with ulterior motives linked to Garrett's past, for which he was once a champion of the hot rodding. Will Garrett accept Billy's challenge to the death?

10Season 4

S4.E10 ∙ Maniac at Large

Wed, Aug 19, 1992

A mousy librarian over-react reports of a serial killer.

11Season 4

S4.E11 ∙ Split Personality

Wed, Aug 26, 1992

A swindler, Jack loves money and... twins. One day he meets rich twins that show interest in him.

12Season 4

S4.E12 ∙ Strung Along

Wed, Sep 2, 1992

An aging puppeteer suspects his much younger wife has a lover.

13Season 4

S4.E13 ∙ Werewolf Concerto

Wed, Sep 9, 1992

An Agatha Christie-style mystery sees the inhabitants of a remote hotel terrorized by rumors of a werewolf prowling the area. Not to fear, as a self-appointed werewolf hunter is amongst them. But might he have a dark secret of his own?

14Season 4

S4.E14 ∙ Curiosity Killed

Wed, Sep 16, 1992

A bitter elderly woman learns that her husband and a laid-back couple are hiding a youth potion from her while camping in the wilderness.

1Season 5

S5.E1 ∙ Death of Some Salesmen

Sat, Oct 2, 1993

A conniving con-man posing as a salesman gets more than he bargained for when he comes knocks at the door of the wrong family.

2Season 5

S5.E2 ∙ As Ye Sow

Sat, Oct 2, 1993

Wealthy and successful middle-aged businessman Leo Burns suspects that his much younger wife Bridget is having an extramarital affair. Leo hires sleazy private investigator G.G. Devoe to find out the identity of Bridget's lover.

3Season 5

S5.E3 ∙ Forever Ambergris

Sat, Oct 2, 1993

A jaded, has-been photographer plots the demise of his younger, talented protégé when they go on assignment in Central America.

4Season 5

S5.E4 ∙ Food for Thought

Wed, Oct 6, 1993

A psychic clown and part-time cook who abuses his assistant and wife learns that she is having an affair with a fire eater and plans to runs off with him.

5Season 5

S5.E5 ∙ People Who Live in Brass Hearses

Wed, Oct 13, 1993

A hot-tempered convict with a butter addiction tries to get revenge, with the help of his mentally challenged brother, on the ice cream trucker who was responsible for his arrest, unaware the driver also has a dark secret too.

6Season 5

S5.E6 ∙ Two for the Show

Wed, Oct 20, 1993

A man murders his beautiful younger wife when she threatens to leave him. He then packs her body in a big suitcase and boards a train, where he is stalked by an inquisitive detective.

7Season 5

S5.E7 ∙ House of Horror

Wed, Oct 27, 1993

Three pledges for a fraternity on probation run by a soft-spoken leader and his 2 sidekicks are visited by a beautiful young sorority gal, who's looking for a frat to pledge her own sorority ends up tagging along with the pledges to an abandoned house where an urban legend murder took place years before. Led by the obnoxious pledge master, the trio of pledges must enter the house and pass each test given to them. The question is ; will they survive?

8Season 5

S5.E8 ∙ Well Cooked Hams

Wed, Nov 3, 1993

A ruthless young magician kills an elderly rival magician for his grand prop: the box of death.

9Season 5

S5.E9 ∙ Creep Course

Wed, Nov 10, 1993

A bookworm is tricked by a jock and her devious Egyptology professor to be the virgin sacrifice to an ancient mummy in the teachers basment.

10Season 5

S5.E10 ∙ Came the Dawn

Wed, Nov 17, 1993

A lecherous millionaire offers a lift to a beautiful seductress in the middle of nowhere with horrific consequences.

11Season 5

S5.E11 ∙ Oil's Well That Ends Well

Wed, Nov 24, 1993

A duo of con artists try to take the jackpot when tricking a group of southern investors into thinking there's a large amount of oil under an isolated cemetery.

12Season 5

S5.E12 ∙ Half-Way Horrible

Wed, Dec 1, 1993

The owner of a chemical company's sinister past dealings come back to haunt him when he identifies the body of a business associate.

13Season 5

S5.E13 ∙ Till Death Do We Part

Wed, Dec 8, 1993

A young gigolo and husband of a female mobster begins an affair with a night club waitress and the two plots to overthrow the gangster.

1Season 6

S6.E1 ∙ Let the Punishment Fit the Crime

Mon, Oct 31, 1994

An unscrupulous ambulance-chasing lawyer gets stuck in a strange town for moving violations, and soon learns that the punishment for even petty crimes in the town comes with a gruesome result.

2Season 6

S6.E2 ∙ Only Skin Deep

Mon, Oct 31, 1994

A violent, hot-tempered man goes to a Halloween party hosted by his ex-wife, where he meets a mysterious but beautiful masked woman who needs more help than he does.

3Season 6

S6.E3 ∙ Whirlpool

Mon, Oct 31, 1994

Struggling comic book artist Rolanda gets fired from her job by her mean and demanding boss Vern. However, Rolanda finds herself experiencing the events of this one fateful day over and over again with some changes, but the same dismal results.

4Season 6

S6.E4 ∙ Operation Friendship

Wed, Nov 9, 1994

When a talented but meek computer programmer hits it off with his cute female neighbor, his cocky imaginary friend insidiously turns on him fearing that he won't be needed anymore.

5Season 6

S6.E5 ∙ Revenge Is the Nuts

Wed, Nov 16, 1994

Residents at a shelter for the blind turn the tables on their cruel overseer.

6Season 6

S6.E6 ∙ The Bribe

Wed, Nov 23, 1994

A fire inspector is forced to take a bribe from a sleazy strip club owner in order to buy a scholarship for his daughter.

7Season 6

S6.E7 ∙ The Pit

Wed, Nov 30, 1994

Felix Johnson and Aaron Scott are two of the top martial arts fighters in their game. Their last fight was a draw, and for the most part, they can accept that. Its their wives who are a different story. Their hatred for one another has gotten the two fighters into a no holds barred death match. However, the wives are in for a shock on fight night.

8Season 6

S6.E8 ∙ The Assassin

Wed, Dec 7, 1994

A happy housewife is pitted against three CIA agents, who have come to kill her husband, a supposed rogue agent.

9Season 6

S6.E9 ∙ Staired in Horror

Wed, Dec 14, 1994

Fugitive Clyde's on the lam from an angry mob. He seeks refuge in a decrepit old mansion owned by an elderly woman. Unbeknownst to Clyde, the house has a curse attached.

10Season 6

S6.E10 ∙ In the Groove

Wed, Dec 21, 1994

Abrasive shock jock Gary gets demoted to the graveyard shift by his bitchy radio station owner sister Rita because of poor ratings. Gary manages to regain his stride thanks to his eager new partner Valerie. Gary and Valerie plot together to murder Rita, but things don't go according to plan.

11Season 6

S6.E11 ∙ Surprise Party

Wed, Dec 28, 1994

No-count Ray Wells kills his dying father so he can inherit an old ruined farmhouse. Unbeknownst to Ray, said farmhouse has a nightmarish legacy attached to it.

12Season 6

S6.E12 ∙ Doctor of Horror

Wed, Jan 4, 1995

A crazed doctor enlists the help of 2 security guards in a morgue in an attempt to unlock the secrets of the human soul.

13Season 6

S6.E13 ∙ Comes the Dawn

Wed, Jan 11, 1995

Colonel Parker and Sergeant Burrows, two ex-soldiers with a murky past, arrive in the Alaskan wilderness to do some illegal hunting. They get a local girl called Jeri Drumbeater, Parker's subordinate during Desert Storm, to be their scout. Unknown to the two army men, they are about to face consequences for their evil past actions in this dark, cold region.

14Season 6

S6.E14 ∙ 99 & 44/100% Pure Horror

Wed, Jan 18, 1995

Luden Sandelton is the meek president of a company that manufactures bars of soap. When the advertising campaign for the latest line of soap is deemed a failure, Luden has no choice but to fire his artist wife Willa who designed the artwork for said campaign. However, the greedy and unfaithful Willa has her own deadly ideas about rectifying the situation.

15Season 6

S6.E15 ∙ You, Murderer

Wed, Jan 25, 1995

Plastic surgery makes a criminal look like Humphrey Bogart. Years later, he's a successful businessman. His angry wife finds out about his past and threatens him. He asks his plastic surgeon friend to end her. Twist after twist ensues.

1Season 7

S7.E1 ∙ Fatal Caper

Fri, Apr 19, 1996

Two adult brothers come to blows over the fortune of their wealthy father, whose interests are protected by a lovely young woman with questionable loyalties.

2Season 7

S7.E2 ∙ Last Respects

Fri, Apr 26, 1996

Three bickering sisters left in charge of their late father's struggling curiosity shop come into possession of a cursed monkey's paw, and try to use it to their advantage - with deadly results.

3Season 7

S7.E3 ∙ A Slight Case of Murder

Fri, May 3, 1996

A game of cat and mouse ensues between a female mystery novelist and her jealous former husband when he accuses her of having a love affair with her nosy neighbor's son.

4Season 7

S7.E4 ∙ Escape

Fri, May 17, 1996

A traitor in the second World War is restricted to a prison camp and one of the men he betrayed is transported to the camp and promises to reveal his identity.

5Season 7

S7.E5 ∙ Horror in the Night

Fri, May 24, 1996

A double-crossing jewel thief is shot and hides out in a hotel where he starts to hallucinate about a mysterious beautiful woman.

6Season 7

S7.E6 ∙ Cold War

Fri, May 31, 1996

After losing their friend Cutter in a botched robbery, Ford and Cammy, a wild young Londoner crime couple, split up and Cammy finds a new lover, Jimmy. Jealous, Ford shoots him and the trio discovers something shocking about one another.

7Season 7

S7.E7 ∙ The Kidnapper

Fri, Jun 7, 1996

A young man takes in a pregnant woman and falls in love with her but becomes jealous when her baby is born so he sets out to get rid of the kid forever.

8Season 7

S7.E8 ∙ Report from the Grave

Fri, Jun 14, 1996

A scientist named Elliot invents a way to read memories of the dead. To test the device, Elliot and his girlfriend Arianne break into the crypt of a dead serial killer.

9Season 7

S7.E9 ∙ Smoke Wrings

Fri, Jun 21, 1996

A young man with a strange device is hired onto an advertising company by an esteemed executive--but what the exec doesn't know is that the young man is in cahoots with her enraged ex-partner who is out for revenge.

10Season 7

S7.E10 ∙ About Face

Fri, Jun 28, 1996

A sleazy minister in Victorian England gets a nasty surprise when he discovers he previously fathered twin daughters.

11Season 7

S7.E11 ∙ Confession

Fri, Jul 5, 1996

Evans, a sly horror screenwriter suspected in a series of grisly murders of women whose heads were taken by the killer as trophies, is interrogated by Jack Lynch, a clever hardboiled homicide detective whom every cop idolizes.

12Season 7

S7.E12 ∙ Ear Today... Gone Tomorrow

Fri, Jul 12, 1996

A greedy safe cracker with a slight hearing loss gets entangled in a game between a mobster and his beautiful, exotic wife and ends up getting the auditory system he could only dream of. But there's a price.

13Season 7

S7.E13 ∙ The Third Pig

Fri, Jul 19, 1996

An animated horror version of the Three Little Pigs story. When the third pig is tried and convicted for the murder of his two brothers by a wolf jury, he builds a zombie Frankenpig to take out his revenge on the actual murderer.