Tales from the Crypt

24min

Comedy

Mystery

Crime

Sci-Fi & Fantasy

Cadaverous scream legend the Crypt Keeper is your macabre host for these forays of fright and fun based on the classic E.C. Comics tales from back in the day. So shamble up to the bar and pick your poison. Will it be an insane Santa on a personal slay ride? Honeymooners out to fulfill the "til death do we part" vow ASAP?

Production Companies

Tales From The Crypt Holdings

EC Comics

HBO

Geffen Pictures

Episodes

Cast

The Man Who Was Death / And All Through the House / Dig That Cat... He's Real Gone

1. The Man Who Was Death / And All Through the House / Dig That Cat... He's Real Gone

1h 16min

10th Jun 1989

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. 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. 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.

Only Sin Deep

2. Only Sin Deep

28min

14th Jun 1989

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.

Lover Come Hack to Me

3. Lover Come Hack to Me

29min

21st Jun 1989

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.

Collection Completed

4. Collection Completed

28min

28th Jun 1989

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.

First air date

10th Jun 1989

Last air date

19th Jul 1996

Status

Ended

Type

Scripted

Original language

en

Networks