Tales from the Crypt — Season 1
Dead-on humor and horror.
About this season
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?
Episodes (4)
1. The Man Who Was Death / And All Through the House / Dig That Cat... He's Real Gone
7.0Aired 10 June 1989 • 26 min
A prison executioner loses his vocation when the state abolishes the death penalty. Unable to transition to civilian life, he begins hunting acquitted criminals to administer his own brand of high voltage street justice in the shadows.
2. Only Sin Deep
6.2Aired 14 June 1989 • 28 min
After killing her husband on Christmas eve, an adulterous woman is attacked by an escaped ax-wielding maniac in a santa suit looking for someone naughty or nice.
3. Lover Come Hack to Me
5.7Aired 21 June 1989 • 29 min
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.
4. Collection Completed
6.7Aired 28 June 1989 • 28 min
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.