Tales from the Crypt (1989)
TV Show

Based on the legendary and gruesome EC Comics from publisher William Gaines, this horror anthology featured stories of murder, the super natural, gore and humor and always had a twist ending of sorts. Some of Hollywood's biggest names took part, either working in front or behind the camera. Hosting duties fell to everyone's favorite decaying corpse, the Crypt Keeper. The success of this series spawned a Saturday morning cartoon series (Tales From the Cryptkeeper), a short lived Saturday morning gameshow on CBS (Secrets of the Cryptkeeper's Haunted House) and lots of merchandise. Two feature films (Demon Knight and Bordello of Blood) were also produced. Two other movies based on the EC Comics (Tales From the Crypt and The Vault of Horror) were released back in 1972 and 1973 respectively. But they are not connected to this series and will not be listed here! Tales from the Crypt has aired on HBO, Fox, in syndication and the Sci-Fi Channel. Most recently, the series has bee

Genre: Comedy | Fantasy

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Seasons: 7

Seasons episode list: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7

Season 1 - Episode list

1. The Man Who Was Death

Airdate: 1989-06-10 | TheTVDB Rating: 6.9/10

Niles Talbot moved from the country to the big city to get a job as an electrian but ended up as an executioner. His trouble begins when he's suddenly uemployed and decides to take the law into his own hands.

2. And All Through the House

Airdate: 1989-06-10 | TheTVDB Rating: 6.6/10

On Christmas Eve a woman slaughters her husband and learns that she's on Santa's naughty list when an escaped maniac dressed as Santa Claus shows up at her doorstep with a special present for her.

3. Dig That Cat...He's Real Gone

Airdate: 1989-06-10 | TheTVDB Rating: 6.7/10

A bum named Ulric is given the chance of a lifetime when a scientist puts the gland of a cat inside his body. Soon Ulric becomes the main attraction at a sideshow.

4. Only Sin Deep

Airdate: 1989-06-14 | TheTVDB Rating: 6.8/10

A call girl goes to a pawnshop to rob him of his jewelry. Instead the owner offers her 10,000 dollars for her beauty. She sells her beauty and lands a new job but discovers she is aging very fast.

5. Lover Come Hack to Me

Airdate: 1989-06-21 | TheTVDB Rating: 6.7/10

Charles marries Peggy but only for her money planning to kill her and make it look like an accident. One night things change when her dead mother pays a visit and Peggy shows Charles her own family tradition.

6. Collection Completed

Airdate: 1989-06-28 | TheTVDB Rating: 6.3/10

After 47 year of tool sales, Jonas has finally found some time to relax and take a break. Or so he thinks. After he returns from his work, he finds out that his wife has been taking in stray animals. He decides to take up a new hobby ... taxidermy.

Season 2 - Episode list

1. Dead Right

Airdate: 1990-04-21 | TheTVDB Rating: 7.0/10

A gold digging waitress goes to a fortune teller who predicts that by the end of the day her boss will fire her and she will land a new job. When the prediction becomes reality, she goes back for more. The fortune teller predicts that she will marry a man who will inherit a fortune then die. She gets the money first and when she tells her husband to kiss off, he stabs her to death and ends up in the hot seat.

2. The Switch

Airdate: 1990-04-21 | TheTVDB Rating: 7.0/10

An elderly millionaire asks a plastic surgeon to give him the body of a younger man to win the girl of his dreams.

3. Cutting Cards

Airdate: 1990-04-21 | TheTVDB Rating: 7.7/10

Two rival long time gamblers meet up in a small town to have one last duel.

4. 'Til Death

Airdate: 1990-04-24 | TheTVDB Rating: 7.3/10

A wealthy plantation owner discovers that his new land that he is supposed to build his new future on is nothing more than a quicksand swamp. He plans to tempt a wealthy woman for her fortune but it doesn't work. A voodoo priestess gives him a potion to make her his, but it has some deadly side effects. The priestess resurrects her but at the most horrible cost.

5. Three's a Crowd

Airdate: 1990-05-01 | TheTVDB Rating: 7.8/10

For their tenth anniversary a couple heads down to a cabin owned by their friend. When she and her friend start sneaking around the husband gets jealous and assumes that they are having an affair.

6. The Thing from the Grave

Airdate: 1990-05-08 | TheTVDB Rating: 8.0/10

A young photographer falls in love with a super model who is being mistreated by her boyfriend. When the lover finds out about them he kills the photographer and plans to kill her but he finds out that you can't destroy love even when it's dead.

7. The Sacrifice

Airdate: 1990-05-15 | TheTVDB Rating: 7.3/10

Reed is a hotshot insurance agent who decides to kill his stubborn boss and marry his wife. The plan works until Reed's boss who happens to be Gloria's ex-husband arrives with pictures he has taken of the murder and blackmails Reed.

8. For Cryin' Out Loud

Airdate: 1990-05-22 | TheTVDB Rating: 6.3/10

A rock promoter has been hearing voices inside his head for the past years. His doctor explains it to be too much time in the music biz. But when he tries to steal money at an Iggy Pop concert he learns the voices to be none other than his conscience. His banker shows up one night trying to blackmail him but he bumps her off. His conscience gets on his back so much that he blurts out her murder and goes to the hot seat to shut his conscience up for good.

9. Four-Sided Triangle

Airdate: 1990-05-29 | TheTVDB Rating: 6.5/10

Mary Jo is a young slave girl on a farm. One day while escaping to the fields she has a vision that a scarecrow comes to save her from the cruel couple. When her master discovers the identity of her new boyfriend, he decides to disguise himself as the man in straw. His jealous wife appears and kills the scarecrow to prove that it's a fake only to discover that she's killed her husband. Mary Jo kills her mistress and steals the keys to the tractor from her mistress's pockets setting herself free.

10. The Ventriloquist's Dummy

Airdate: 1990-06-05 | TheTVDB Rating: 8.5/10

A ventriloquist seeks out his old hero, Ingels, who he always admired. He soon meets up with his ventriloquist dummy Morty and discovers a shocking secret.

11. Judy, You're Not Yourself Today

Airdate: 1990-06-12 | TheTVDB Rating: 6.7/10

Donald and Judy are a couple who find themselves in a game of witchcraft. When a mysterious woman convinces Judy to try on a magical necklace, the old woman switches their souls. Soon Donald realizes that something is wrong. He tricks the witch into thinking that Judy has cancer and they switch back. Then Donald kills the witch and buries her. Years later, she comes back and this time she's got a special surprise for him.

12. Fitting Punishment

Airdate: 1990-06-19 | TheTVDB Rating: 7.3/10

Bobby is an orphaned teenager who goes to live with his uncle Ezra. Ezra is a mortuary director who is very grumpy. One day he decides to fill his new casket by killing Bobby. Bobby is too tall to fit in it so he cuts off his feet but he soon regrets it.

13. Korman's Kalamity

Airdate: 1990-06-26 | TheTVDB Rating: 6.5/10

Jim Korman is a cartoonist for Tales From The Crypt. He has talent for creating horrible creatures - they are all inspired by his harassing wife. Little does he know that his creations are coming to life and creating havoc. A female detective pursues the creator and suddenly falls for him. Korman decides to finally take his wife out of the picture.

14. Lower Berth

Airdate: 1990-07-03 | TheTVDB Rating: 6.5/10

Enouch is a two-faced man at a sideshow carnival. One day a new attraction arrives - a 4 century old mummy. When the owner learns that the mummy is not only ripped off but cursed, he swipes the jewels off the mummy but soon he regrets it.
This episode also features the birth of The Cryptkeeper.

15. Mute Witness to Murder

Airdate: 1990-07-10 | TheTVDB Rating: 6.5/10

A woman witnesses a man slaughter his wife. The man lives across the street from her. When her husband calls their doctor, she's even more horrorfied to learn that the doctor is also the killer.

16. Television Terror

Airdate: 1990-07-17 | TheTVDB Rating: 8.0/10

Horton Rivers is an arrogant television tabloid host. He is trying to get big ratings and decides to take his crew through a haunted house. The house is rumored to be haunted by an old woman who killed a number of men. Soon strange things start happening. Someone or something is stalking Horton and his camera crew. The ratings could take him to the top or to the bottom.

17. My Brother's Keeper

Airdate: 1990-07-24 | TheTVDB Rating: 6.0/10

Frank and his brother Eddie are Siamese twins. Frank refuses to sign a contract for an operation that will separate them, but Eddie doesn't want to be with Frank all the time. One day Frank falls in love with a gorgeous woman who then drops him. Eddie is happy that Frank will finally sign the contract, but then Marie realizes that she does love Eddie. Frank goes in a terrible rage and kills her knowing that he and Eddie will both go to prison. Frank finally signs the contract and has a great time as the cops put Eddie in the slammer.

18. The Secret

Airdate: 1990-07-31 | TheTVDB Rating: 7.0/10

Theodore is a 12 year old orphan who gets adopted by an unusual couple who lock him up in the attic. They are always working and he never gets to go and have some fun. Little does he know that his new parents harbor a dark secret. Little do they know he harbors a secret of his own.

Season 3 - Episode list

1. Loved to Death

Airdate: 1991-06-15 | TheTVDB Rating: 6.3/10

A writer finds himself falling for his next door neighbor even though she won't take him seriously. When his mysterious landlord gives him a potion to make her fall in love with him, it works well all too well. She becomes obsessed with him and won't leave him alone. Unfortunately there is no way to get her to come to her senses, so his landlord offers him some potion to get rid of her. He puts the poison in a one of her drinks but he drinks the wrong one and he dies. Well at least she's still back on earth ... or so he thinks.

2. Carrion Death

Airdate: 1991-06-15 | TheTVDB Rating: 7.7/10

Digs is a thief who is on his way to the Mexican border. He ends up being captured by a cop. Digs kills the officer but learns that he is up a creek without a paddle when the cop swallows the key the cuffs that connect them. Now Digs has to carry the corpse all the way to the Mexican border.

3. The Trap

Airdate: 1991-06-15 | TheTVDB Rating: 6.5/10

Lou is a financial loser who finds a way out his problems. He decides to fake his own death he gets his wife and his brother in on the scheme. Later he goes on a vacation and returns only to find something else. Irene and Billy don't recognize him and Lou is put to death for his own murder.

4. Abra Cadaver

Airdate: 1991-06-19 | TheTVDB Rating: 8.0/10

Carl and Marty are siblings who work at a hospital. Carl shows Marty his new way of proving that the brain lives after the body dies. The whole thing turns out to be a prank but the shock of the joke gives Marty a heart attack. Years later Marty hasn't forgiven Carl and plans a deadly revenge. Marty then reveals that it was an act of revenge on Carl and the whole thing was a joke ... or was it?

5. Top Billing

Airdate: 1991-06-26 | TheTVDB Rating: 6.0/10

Barry Blye is a frustrated actor who will do anything to get a part. He's been rejected by every acting company because he doesn't have the right look. Bad luck follows him all over. First his girlfriend breaks up with him. Then he's kicked out of his apartment. Then his old rival Winton Robins, who has ""the look"", gets a part in a weird theater's production of Hamlet. Barry goes into a frustrated rage and strangles him to death to take the part. He is shocked when he learns that the theater is really a mental hospital.

6. Dead Wait

Airdate: 1991-07-03 | TheTVDB Rating: 7.0/10

Red is a low life crook who is looking for a black pearl. He finds that it's on a island belonging to an ailing millionaire. He plans with the millionaire's mistress to steal the pearl but she turns on him. Fortunately a voodoo priestess comes to the rescue but she has something special for him that he'll never forget.

7. The Reluctant Vampire

Airdate: 1991-07-10 | TheTVDB Rating: 7.0/10

A vampire is working at a blood bank as a night watchman. However, when the blood seems to be running low the vampire returns to getting blood the old fashion way. When the owner arrives at the vampire's lair he tries to black mail him, but as fate as would have it, the vampire's sexy secretary shows up and knocks him into the vampire's coffin. Some vampire hunters mistake him for the vampire and he gets a wonderful juicy stake.

8. Easel Kill Ya

Airdate: 1991-07-17 | TheTVDB Rating: 7.0/10

Jack is an artist who has a strange talent for painting pictures of corpses. One day he falls for a beautiful girl who tempts him into painting more. Jack turns over a new leaf for his love. One day she is the victim of a hit and run. Jack kills a man outside the hospital to pay for her operation but she dies because the man he killed was the man who was going to perform her operation.

9. Undertaking Palor

Airdate: 1991-07-24 | TheTVDB Rating: 7.5/10

Four boys who have a talent for video taping uncover some weird things at the undertaker's. Soon revenge comes when one the boy's father becomes a victim. They begin video taping the undertaker's evil deeds which he soon discovers in horror.

10. Mournin' Mess

Airdate: 1991-07-31 | TheTVDB Rating: 7.5/10

A regretful reporter is investigating some murders of homeless people. He meets up with a man who is the prime suspect in the murders but when he fails to deliver a story his boss fires him. He then discovers that the new cemetery by a group called Ghouls is the cause for all the deaths in the neighborhood and guess who's the next victim.

11. Split Second

Airdate: 1991-08-07 | TheTVDB Rating: 7.5/10

Dixon is a lumberjack who marries a sexy barmaid named Liz Kelly. Soon after, he turns from sweet Dr. Jekyll into cruel Mr. Hyde. He is jealous of her when the boys find her attractive. One day a new lumberjack comes to town and Liz finds Ted attractive. When he catches them in the bed together, Dixon goes in a jealous rage and whacks him blinding him. The boys help him seek revenge on Dixon and Liz.

12. Deadline

Airdate: 1991-08-14 | TheTVDB Rating: 7.0/10

Charlie Mackenzie is an out of work reporter who wants his life back. One night while at his favorite bar hang out, Charlie meets a beautiful women who seems to turn his life around. He gets his job back, but his boss agrees to rehire him only if Charlie can bring in a murder story soon. One night while at Greek diner he overhears the owner strangle his girlfriend. Charlie interviews him and goes to where the body is, but she is not dead. Charlie discovers that it's his girlfriend Vicky. To make sure the paper's got enough evidence, he strangles her to death but the shock of the murder lands him in a mental hospital inside a padded cell.

13. Spoiled

Airdate: 1991-08-21 | TheTVDB Rating: 6.5/10

Janet is a soap opera loving woman. She likes to watch soaps everyday. She even imitates them. One day she misses the end of her favorite soap opera when the TV goes on the fritz. She decides to get cable soon. Janet finds her self falling for the attractive cable installer. When her Surgeon husband discovers what's going on, he decides to make them part of his experiment.

14. Yellow

Airdate: 1991-08-28 | TheTVDB Rating: 8.5/10

The general is ashamed when he learns that the rumors of the Lt. (who is also his son) being a coward are true. He offers his son a way out of the army if he can take part in one last mission. The Lt. panics and leaves while his comrades are killed by the enemy. His father sentences him to die by firing squad. Fortunately the guns are loaded with blanks, or so he says.

Season 4 - Episode list

1. None But the Lonely Heart

Airdate: 1992-06-27 | TheTVDB Rating: 7.0/10

A sneaky man is obsessed with wedding rich older women then killing them. His business partner fears that he'll be caught soon. He finds himself in hot water when he starts getting threatening notes. He kills off those he suspects and soon he realizes the meaning of the saying revenge is sweet.

2. This'll Kill Ya

Airdate: 1992-06-27 | TheTVDB Rating: 6.5/10

Sophie and Pack are workers at a medicine company. They are furious when their boss tells the papers that they are ready to test their new drug on humans. One day, while he is taking his shots they accidently inject him with the serum. George has only a few hours to live. He starts to have delusions and learns he's been set up and kills Pack. Sophie bursts in and tells him that the whole thing was just a joke.

3. On a Deadman's Chest

Airdate: 1992-06-27 | TheTVDB Rating: 7.0/10

A rocker fights with his manager. His groupie girlfriend shows him a special tattoo and convinces him to get one from where she got it. The tattoo has a picture of a dragon but a cartoon face that looks like Scarlett. He tries to remove the tattoo but no matter how hard he tries it keeps coming back. Eventually it drives him to murder Scarlett. The tattoo comes back to haunt him despite his guilt.

4. Seance

Airdate: 1992-07-04 | TheTVDB Rating: 7.0/10

Con artists posing as mediums decide to use a man named Chalmers as their next victim. The woman hits on Chalmers and her male partner takes pictures of them in bed. One day Chalmers is killed in an accident. The con artists discover something else - Chalmers' wife is blind. They decide to pull a fake seance on his wife. The plan works but not in the way they expect.

5. Beauty Rest

Airdate: 1992-07-11 | TheTVDB Rating: 7.5/10

An obsessed wannabe model grows bloody red with envy when her roommate lands a part she thought she was going to get. She forces her roommate to overdose and steps in to take her place. She becomes the next victim of another jealous model and kills her rival. Now there's no one standing in her way and she is crowned, but she soon discovers something shocking about the talent show.

6. What's Cookin'

Airdate: 1992-07-22 | TheTVDB Rating: 7.5/10

Fred and Erma are workers at a squid cafe who find themselves in trouble because their business is failing and their landlord will kick them out. That is until one of the employees encourages them to serve meat. Suddenly business is getting better. Gaston decides to double cross Fred and Erma but he ends getting invited for dinner ... but not in the way he expects. (with optional commentary by John Kassir in character as the Cryptkeeper, the episode's writer Alan Katz, and Tales From the Crypt chronicler Digby Diehl).

7. The New Arrival

Airdate: 1992-07-25 | TheTVDB Rating: 8.0/10

An arrogant radio child psychologist is obsessed with proving to his manager that he is the best. He gets a new patient, a woman and her daughter. When he goes to her room, he assumes that the daughter is the woman's imaginary friend. He learns that her daughter died years ago but her mother's love keeps her alive.

8. Showdown

Airdate: 1992-08-01 | TheTVDB Rating: 7.0/10

A gunman being is chased down by another quickdrawing gunslinger in an old abandoned western town. The gunman wins the duel but he soon learns a new meaning to the phrase ""ghost town"" as the spirits of all his victims come back to haunt him.

9. King of the Road

Airdate: 1992-08-08 | TheTVDB Rating: 7.0/10

A courageous drag racer challenges a cop who used to be a racer. When the cop refuses, the racer decides to make him change his mind and kidnaps his teenage daughter. Iceman proves that he hasn't lost his talent by tricking the racer into changing the course sending him to his doom.

10. Maniac at Large

Airdate: 1992-08-19 | TheTVDB Rating: 7.0/10

A shy library clerk is obsessed with a serial killer fearing that she will be his next victim. She thinks that her boss, the security guard and a patron are they killer. One night, while she is working late, it turns out that she is really the killer and her victims were ones she thought were after her.

11. Split Personality

Airdate: 1992-08-26 | TheTVDB Rating: 7.0/10

Stetson is a con man who likes to date twins. He finds himself in the arms of twin sisters and creates a twin of his own. He weds both of them and decides to knock them off. Little does he know these twins share alike.

12. Strung Along

Airdate: 1992-09-02 | TheTVDB Rating: 7.5/10

An aging puppeteer gets a new assistant. When he learns that his wife has a boyfriend, the assistant promises he'll do something about it.
The puppeteer spends most of his time with is favorite puppet Koko. When he discovers that his assistant is his wife's lover, the two make him think that Koko has gone on a murderous rampage. Little do they know that Pinocchio isn't the only one with-out strings.

13. Werewolf Concerto

Airdate: 1992-09-09 | TheTVDB Rating: 7.0/10

A man is killed outside the woods of a hotel. His death is suspected to be the work of a werewolf. The manager says that there is a werewolf hunter who will deal with the problem. Among the guests is a smooth talking man and an attractive female guest. It turns out that Lokai is the werewolf but much to his surprise he discovers that Janice is also a creature of darkness.

14. Curiosity Killed

Airdate: 1992-09-16 | TheTVDB Rating: 7.0/10

A man asks his friend to keep a youth potion away from his wife. When she suspects that they are trying to kill her, she kills them first and drinks the potion which she had switched. But she soon regrets it.

Season 5 - Episode list

1. Death of Some Salesmen

Airdate: 1993-10-02 | TheTVDB Rating: 8.0/10

A sneaky con man has a talent for killing people after he sells them phony tombstones. He soon learns that some for his new victims have a fortune buried in their cellar. He marries their daughter and kills the parents but when he goes down in the basement he gets a big surprise.

2. As Ye Sow

Airdate: 1993-10-02 | TheTVDB Rating: 7.5/10

A husband hires a detective to spy on his wife whom he believes is cheating on him with a priest. When he learns that he's been conned, he decides to kill him himself. That day he learns that they're was nothing going on between them and he is relieved. But he is mistaken for his wife's so called boyfriend and killed by the detective he hired.

3. Forever Ambergris

Airdate: 1993-10-02 | TheTVDB Rating: 8.5/10

Dalton is a seasoned combat photographer who finds himself falling for a beautiful women who just happens to be the wife of his friend. One day Ike sends Dalton into a disease warfare area. Dalton returns, but not the way he used to be. He soon writes a letter about how he was set up and his wife and friend also contract the same disease.

4. Food for Thought

Airdate: 1993-10-06 | TheTVDB Rating: 6.0/10

Zambini is a circus mind-controlling psychic who controls his beautiful helper with his telepathic powers. One day he learns that she has a crush on the fire eater. Zambini goes into a terrible rage and kills him. Connie flees in terror never to return. Zambini uses his powers to call her back but it contacts the pet gorilla instead.

5. People Who Live in Brass Hearses

Airdate: 1993-10-13 | TheTVDB Rating: 6.7/10

Billy is a smalltime criminal who is bloody red for vengeance. Years ago, his boss at an icecream warehouse double crossed him by sending him to prison. Now he plans to frame his boss with the help of his disabled brother.

6. Two for the Show

Airdate: 1993-10-20 | TheTVDB Rating: 7.0/10

A man slaughters his wife who he believes is having an affair. He drags her body and puts it in the bathtub. The police arrive and he refuses to let them near the bathtub. He chops up the corpse and hops a train with a trunk containing his wife's corpse. The detective follows him. The man switches trunks but when he opens the other one he gets a big surprise.

7. House of Horror

Airdate: 1993-10-27 | TheTVDB Rating: 8.0/10

Les Whilton is the president of a college fraternity. He decides to scare three pledges by daring them to spend a night in a haunted house. He and some of his friends have set up the place to look like it's haunted. Along for the ride is a group of sorority sisters. When everyone else turns up missing, everyone turns to Whilton. Whilton goes into the house alone and he gets a big surprise.

8. Well Cooked Hams

Airdate: 1993-11-03 | TheTVDB Rating: 7.0/10

A frustrated magician comes across a true genius. He decides to kill him and steal his magic, but he finds himself in big trouble and it's going to be the last magic trick he will ever perform.

9. Creep Course

Airdate: 1993-11-10 | TheTVDB Rating: 7.0/10

Reggie is a college jock who is trying to pass a history test. He asks the class bookworm Stella Bishop to help tutor him. She goes to Finely's house to to get the answer sheet, but when she gets there, Finely and Reggie lock her in a mummy's tomb. Finely double crosses Reggie by poisoning him. Finely goes back to check his work, and gets a big surprise. Stella is not dead. She has been charming the mummy by impersonating his dead girlfriend making the mummy jealous and Reggie and Finely really take the wraps.

10. Came the Dawn

Airdate: 1993-11-17 | TheTVDB Rating: 5.0/10

In this version of Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho, a young woman who is also a thief is picked up by a man driving by. He takes her up to his place. There she hears a message from his wife, but also learns that there is a killer nearby. When she goes to his room she gets a big surprise.

11. Oil's Well That Ends Well

Airdate: 1993-11-24 | TheTVDB Rating: 7.5/10

A con artist and his girlfriend plan their next caper by tricking some southern boys into thinking there is oil underneath a cemetery. Their plans work. She makes them think she has gotten jealous and killed her boyfriend, but when she goes to dig him up, she gets a big surprise. He and the boys have been partners all along. The last laugh is on her when it turns out that there really is oil and she blows them all to kingdom come.

12. Half-Way Horrible

Airdate: 1993-12-01 | TheTVDB Rating: 7.3/10

Roger Lassen is a manufacturer who kills his friend by burying him alive in the South American jungle to finish the development of a chemical preservative. He's haunted by the memories of the incident. The earnings will make him rich but he can't get it past the FDA regulations. Soon his past returns and he starts seeing his dead friend everywhere he looks. A voodoo priestess offers to help exorcise his dark side. The spell works but at the most horrible cost.

13. Till Death Do We Part

Airdate: 1993-12-08 | TheTVDB Rating: 6.0/10

A male escort is engaged to an aging woman. One day she discovers him flirting with a younger woman. She forces him to kill her in front of her. Instead he kills off her bodyguards, but he is even more surprised when the young lady turns against him. It turns out he's been fantasizing the whole thing and bumps her off himself.

Season 6 - Episode list

1. Let the Punishment Fit the Crime

Airdate: 1994-10-31 | TheTVDB Rating: 7.3/10

An ambulance-chasing lawyer finds herself in a nightmare court when she is hauled in for having too many digits on her license plate. She finds her self going through the court several times and they have a way of throwing the book at her. Little does she know, that her lawyer has been dismissed for being stuck in the court too long. He treats himself with the chair of doom but she must stay to take his place.

2. Only Skin Deep

Airdate: 1994-10-31 | TheTVDB Rating: 7.7/10

At a costume party, a young man falls in love with a sexy woman. They have a great time. He promises to keep quiet but the next day he spills the beans. The woman tells him not to be around while she's awake. He finds out that she's wearing that same mask. He tries to remove it only to learn that it's her horrible face. She gives him the most shocking punishment.

3. Whirlpool

Airdate: 1994-10-31 | TheTVDB Rating: 5.7/10

A comic artist for Tales From The Crypt finds herself trapped inside a repetitious nightmare world. Everyday she lives through the same horrible episodes. First her boss rejects her latest idea then fires her. She goes to her boss and shoots him only to be caught by the police and shot to death. In reality the whole thing turns out to be a comic and she really is his boss and he is her employee.

4. Operation Friendship

Airdate: 1994-11-09 | TheTVDB Rating: 7.0/10

Nelson is a computer genius who is letting his boss take credit for his ideas. Meanwhile his childhood imaginary pal Eddie tries to get Nelson to stand up to his bullying coworker. That is, until Nelson falls in love with a beautiful next door neighbor. Eddie thinks that she will ruin their friendship, but Nelson tosses Eddies' good side out the window leaving Eddie to come back cold-hearted.

5. Revenge Is the Nuts

Airdate: 1994-11-16 | TheTVDB Rating: 6.3/10

A run-down shelter for the blind is owned by a cruel man. He abuses the patients there and won't give them respect. A new blind girl, Shelly, arrives the owner promises to lighten up if she agrees to sleep with him. Benny and the other patients give the owner from hell a taste of his own medicine.

6. The Bribe

Airdate: 1994-11-23 | TheTVDB Rating: 6.5/10

Zoeller is a fire marshal who wants a strip club closed down. He wants to get revenge on it's sneaky owner and his pal for letting his offspring dance there. Zoeller bribes an arsonist to burn the place but after he does it, he discovers that she was also in there. Little does he know that his daughter wasn't in the club when the fire happened. She left early to get married with her boyfriend.

7. The Pit

Airdate: 1994-11-30 | TheTVDB Rating: 6.7/10

Two men who are longtime rivals go head to head in a grudge match. But, the real fight isn't between them, it's between their feuding wives. When the two men realize they don't hate each other, they decide to put their wives in the ring. With the help of a Las Vegas showman, they set them up as they watch them in a boxing match on live television.

8. The Assassin

Airdate: 1994-12-07 | TheTVDB Rating: 8.0/10

Janet is a suburban wife of an ex-CIA assassin. When a group of operatives invade her home, they seem to think her husband is up to his old tricks again. The leader tempts one of her men then kills him, then kills the other guy, then plans to do the same with Janet. But Janet has a nasty surprise for her that she will never forget.

9. Staired in Horror

Airdate: 1994-12-14 | TheTVDB Rating: 7.5/10

Clyde is a fugitive who holes up in a house occupied by an elderly woman. One night he finds an attractive woman upstairs, but he discovers it's the same woman. She tells him that a long time ago her spouse caught her having an affair and put a curse on the house. She must stay up stairs if she wants to be young forever. The same thing will happen to the man if he comes upstairs. The cops arrive and he goes upstairs to change his image but he finds himself getting weak and the woman turns back into a helpless infant unable to do anything but crawl.

10. In the Groove

Airdate: 1994-12-21 | TheTVDB Rating: 7.0/10

Gary Grover is a frustrated talk radio DJ. His boss, who is also his sister, hired a sexy looker with a talent for talking dirty. One day Gary goes ballistic and his boss fires him. Val suggests that he take matters into his own hands, but he's been set up.

11. Surprise Party

Airdate: 1994-12-28 | TheTVDB Rating: 6.5/10

A young man kills his father to inherit an old burned down house. When he arrives, he gets a very unusual surprise. He discovers that there's a party there waiting for him and he is the guest of honor. When one the sexy dancer's boyfriends gets jealous, the man kills him and tries to burn the evidence. The guests stop him and he realizes it's the same place his father burned down years ago and history has a nasty way of repeating it self.

12. Doctor of Horror

Airdate: 1995-01-04 | TheTVDB Rating: 6.7/10

Richard and Charlie are security guards working in a morgue. They are offered five hundred dollars by a doctor who is trying to capture the soul of each dying person before it goes to heaven. When their boss figures out what's happening Richard is forced to kill him but he kills Charlie too. The doctor succeeds in capturing Charlie's soul. Charlie comes back out for revenge.

13. Comes the Dawn

Airdate: 1995-01-11 | TheTVDB Rating: 5.0/10

Two poachers are out hunting bear in Alaska. They seek the help of a woman who leads them into a dorm. The men decide that they don't need her anymore but the Colonel double crosses his partner. She's been leading them to a lair full of hibernating vampires. Luckily it's dawn but there's one problem. Alaska is locked in cold darkness.

14. 99 & 44/100% Pure Horror

Airdate: 1995-01-18 | TheTVDB Rating: 4.3/10

Willa is a married artist who is pushed around by her ad campaign husband. When his company decides to drop her idea, Willa plans to come up with a new idea but nobody's interested. Willa wants revenge when a graffiti artist comes up with an idea and everyone is interested. Willa kills her husband and turns his body into soaps. She decides to shower with them but soon she regrets it.

15. You, Murderer

Airdate: 1995-01-25 | TheTVDB Rating: 6.0/10

Lou Spinielli is an ex-criminal who wants to escape from his past. He hires Oscar, a plastic surgeon to sculpt his face in the form of Humphrey Bogart's. When his wife gets the pictures of his past in the mail, Oscar suggests that he kill Vivian. The plan backfires and when Lou returns home and he gets a surprise. Vivian and Oscar have been partners all along. They bump Lou off and take him far into the woods to bury him. Lou's mistress, Erika, shows up and the couple become some murder victims themselves.

Season 7 - Episode list

1. Fatal Caper

Airdate: 1996-04-19 | TheTVDB Rating: 6.5/10

A dying elderly man decides to not leave his estate to his greedy sons. His lawyer convinces him to change his will so that unless they find their long lost brother Frank, the money goes to charity. Evelyn plots with her to double cross Justin but he get a big surprise. Their father is alive. His lawyer also has a surprise for him that he'll never forget.

2. Last Respects

Airdate: 1996-04-26 | TheTVDB Rating: 6.3/10

Dorles, Marlys and Lavone are three sisters who think they have found a way out of their troubles. They discover a monkey's paw that grants them their wishes. Soon they learn the penalty of the wishes they make.

3. A Slight Case of Murder

Airdate: 1996-05-03 | TheTVDB Rating: 6.5/10

Sharon is a mystery novelist who just can't stand her nosy neighbor. One day her envious ex shows up. She tries to throw him out but he makes the first move. Mrs Trask sends her son to dig her up. As her son plans to do away with Sharon's ex, she comes alive and everyone kills each other. The whole thing was plotted by Trask to get some research for her next book.

4. Escape

Airdate: 1996-05-17 | TheTVDB Rating: 6.7/10

A traitor in the second World War is restricted to a prison camp. One of the men he betrayed is transported to the camp. Badly scarred, he promises to reveal the traitor's identity. When he recovers, the traitor kills the patient then stows away in the back of a truck but he finds himself ambushed.

5. Horror in the Night

Airdate: 1996-05-24 | TheTVDB Rating: 7.5/10

Jewel thief Nick double-crosses his partner then holes up inside a hotel. But, he maybe going out of his mind when he starts to see visions of a mysterious woman. It turns out that she's his ex-girlfriend. Along with his presumed dead partner they give him a taste of his own medicine.

6. Cold War

Airdate: 1996-05-31 | TheTVDB Rating: 6.3/10

Cammy is fed up with her boyfriend's robbery plans always backfiring. One day, she walks out on him and meets an attractive black man at a bar. Jimmy happens to be a vampire, but he discovers something else: Cammy and Ford are also among the living dead.

7. Kidnapper

Airdate: 1996-06-07 | TheTVDB Rating: 6.0/10

A pawnbroker falls in love with a pregnant girl. After the child is born, he gets jealous. He plans to kidnap the child, but after the abduction, his girlfriend becomes worse than with the child. He tries to buy the child back from the people he hired but it's no use. He tries to steal another woman's child only to learn that it was his ex-girlfriend's child.

8. Report from the Grave

Airdate: 1996-06-14 | TheTVDB Rating: 5.3/10

Elliot thinks he has the talent for collecting thoughts from the dead. He decides to create a killer with his girlfriend but something goes terrible wrong. Elliot is now obsessed with resurrecting her which works but at the most horrible cost.

9. Smoke Wrings

Airdate: 1996-06-21 | TheTVDB Rating: 6.0/10

An ad executive hires Barry and she's pleased to find out that she's got her opponent Frank running scared. Barry doesn't know anything about advertising until an ex-employee comes to help him with subliminal advertising. Jacqueline gives Barry Frank's position but Alistair has some nasty tricks up his sleeve.

10. About Face

Airdate: 1996-06-28 | TheTVDB Rating: 8.0/10

Jonathan is a priest who discovers that he has two long lost daughters: beautiful Angelica and ugly Leah. Leah fears that because of her ugliness their father will leave them again. Jonathan plans to abandon them again but he is forced to kill Leah and gets a big surprise.

11. Confession

Airdate: 1996-07-05 | TheTVDB Rating: 6.3/10

A terrible killer is the rampage slicing off every women's head in the city. A screenwriter finds himself as the prime suspect.

12. Ear Today... Gone Tomorrow

Airdate: 1996-07-12 | TheTVDB Rating: 7.0/10

A safecracker hires a specialist to fix his hearing so he can return to his old days of safecracking for his boss. However, he soon discovers something shocking about the surgery.

13. The Third Pig

Airdate: 1996-07-19 | TheTVDB Rating: 7.3/10

In this cartoon version of the Three Little Pigs story, Dudly, the smart pig, is framed for the murders of his brothers and sentenced to death. But, his brothers' spirits help him seek revenge on the wolf.