Horror History: Wednesday, June 26, 1991: “Tales From The Crypt” episode “Top Billing” premiered

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Season 3 Episode 5

A struggling actor (Jon Lovitz) kills off his competition (Bruce Boxleitner) in order to secure a part in a strange production of Hamlet, only to discover that the actors are escaped mental patients (and criminals) and that instead he’s to play the part of the long-deceased Yorick — for real.

Also starring John Astin, Paul Benedict, Kimmy Robertson, Louise Fletcher, and Sandra Bernhard.

Horror History: Wednesday, June 19, 1991: “Tales From The Crypt” episode “Abra Cadaver” premiered

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Season 3 Episode 4

A doctor (Tony Goldwyn) who plays too many pranks soon finds out that revenge can be a harrowing event when his brother (Beau Bridges) (also a doctor) makes him the guinea pig of a new serum that mimics death.

Note: Based on the story “Dead Right!” renamed for television

Horror History: Saturday, June 15, 1991: “Tales From The Crypt” episode “The Trap” premiered

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Season 3 Episode 3

A scheming jerk (Bruce McGill) who cannot hold down a job and is verbally and physically abusive to his wife (Teri Garr) hatches a plan to fake his own death and collect his life insurance money, unaware that both his long-suffering wife and brother (Bruno Kirby) are planning to double-cross him.

Michael J. Fox, who directed this episode, plays the prosecutor, and James Tolkan plays a policeman investigating the “murder scene”.

Horror History: Saturday, June 15, 1991: “Tales From The Crypt” episode “Carrion Death” premiered

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Season 3 Episode 2

An escaped con (Kyle MacLachlan) who is running for the Mexican border ends up killing a state trooper (George Del Hoyo), but in the process is cuffed to him (after he has swallowed the key) and has to drag the heavy corpse across the desert to freedom whilst being stalked by a hungry vulture.

Horror History: Saturday, June 15, 1991: “Tales From The Crypt” episode “Loved to Death” premiered

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Season 3 Episode 1

A writer (Andrew McCarthy) has a neighbor (Mariel Hemingway) who is his own object of personal desire. He is aided by his landlord (David Hemmings) who gives him a love potion. He finally gains over the woman’s affections, only to regret his choice after the woman’s obsessive love and their torrid affair becomes too much for him to take and handle.

Also starring Kathleen Freeman as the next door neighbor.

Horror History: Friday, February 22, 1991: “The Hitchhiker” final episode “New Blood” premiered

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Season 6 Episode 20

An actress proves that she is willing to do anything for a shot at the big time.

Horror History: Friday, February 15, 1991: “The Hitchhiker” episode “Secrets” premiered

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Season 6 Episode 19

A cuckolded husband is the victim of a murder-for-insurance-money scheme at the hands of his wife and her lover.

Horror History: Friday, February 8, 1991: “The Hitchhiker” episode “Offspring” premiered

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Season 6 Episode 18

A meek and mild-mannered young man allows his mother to dictate life to him and embarrass him, until he finally snaps.

Horror History: Friday, February 1, 1991: “The Hitchhiker” episode “A Whole New You” premiered

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Season 6 Episode 17

A man in Witness Protection becomes more and more paranoid that he’ll be found, and goes to a plastic surgeon to change his face.

Horror History: Friday, January 25, 1991: “The Hitchhiker” episode “Made In Paris” premiered

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Season 6 Episode 16

A boss who does nothing for his employees soon finds himself the victim of their black magic.

Horror History: Friday, January 18, 1991: “The Hitchhiker” episode “Living a Lie” premiered

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Season 6 Episode 15

When a bartender takes a stolen shopping card on a shopping spree he realises that sometimes the best life to live … is one’s own.

Horror History: Friday, January 11, 1991: “The Hitchhiker” episode “Homecoming” premiered

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Season 6 Episode 14

A neo-fascist cannot relax because he cannot forget about his past.

Horror History: Friday, December 14, 1990: “The Hitchhiker” episode “Tourist Trap” premiered

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Season 6 Episode 13

A Parisien con artist meets his match and learns that there is no such thing as the perfect con.

Horror History: Friday, December 7, 1990: “The Hitchhiker” episode “White Slaves” premiered

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Season 6 Episode 12

Two men kidnap a young woman for a night out in Paris.

Horror History: Friday, November 30, 1990: “The Hitchhiker” episode “Working Girl” premiered

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Season 6 Episode 11

After a housewife shoots her philandering husband, she goes after the other woman.

Horror History: Friday, November 23, 1990: “The Hitchhiker” episode “Windows” premiered

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Season 6 Episode 10

After spending all of his time with his paintings, an artist begins to believe that his art and life are melding together.

Horror History: Sunday, November 18, 1990: Stephen King’s It debuted on television

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A fanged monster that won’t stay on the movie screen. Something ominous lurking in the basement. No matter what your biggest fear is, no one knows It better than Stephen King.

Horror History: Friday, November 16, 1990: “The Hitchhiker” episode “Trust Me” premiered

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Season 6 Episode 9

A con man who preys on wealthy, older women soon learns that one day everyone must pay the piper.

Horror History: Friday, November 9, 1990: “The Hitchhiker” episode “A Function of Control” premiered

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Season 6 Episode 8

After an office manager accidentally kills the boss’s wife, she has to find a way to cover up the murder and keep herself out of jail.

Horror History: Friday, November 2, 1990: “The Hitchhiker” episode “New Dawn” premiered

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Season 6 Episode 7

An adulterer faces a murder frame-up when his wife becomes tired of his catting around.

Horror History: Friday, October 26, 1990: “The Hitchhiker” episode “Toxic Shock” premiered

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Season 6 Episode 6

After years of illegal dumping, the poison’s in the land start to leech into the mind.

Horror History: Friday, October 19, 1990: “The Hitchhiker” episode “Hard Rhyme” premiered

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Season 6 Episode 5

A teacher steals the writings of an inmate in a class he’s teaching at prison, but he’ll soon learn that all criminals have to pay the price.

Horror History: Friday, October 12, 1990: “The Hitchhiker” episode “Strate Shooter” premiered

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Season 6 Episode 4

Johnny Mattel thinks only about himself. He keeps himself busy stealing, sleeping around, and generally doing whatever he wants to do. After meeting a beautiful young woman at a bar, he becomes obsessed with a television show, “Strate Shooter”, and is determined to ‘rescue’ the young woman. Nothing is as it seems though, which Johnny soon learns after he manages to get the young woman out of the house and back to his father’s home.

Horror History: Friday, October 5, 1990: “The Hitchhiker” episode “Riding the Nightmare” premiered

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Season 6 Episode 3

A woman obsessed with climbing the professional ladder eliminates her romantic rival much the same way she would eliminate a business rival.

Horror History: Friday, September 28, 1990: “The Hitchhiker” episode “Tough Guys Don’t Whine” premiered

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Season 6 Episode 2

Mickey Black is a film director with everything going for him until he seduces a woman away from her gangster boyfriend. He promises her all the glory in the world, but things take a dangerous turn when her boyfriend refuses to give her up.

Horror History: Friday, September 21, 1990: “The Hitchhiker” episode “Fading Away” premiered

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Season 6 Episode 1

When an ex-marine realises he is all on his own, he becomes convinced that he’s on a dangerous mission and has been abandoned by his commanding officers.

Horror History: Tuesday, July 31, 1990: “Tales From The Crypt” episode “The Secret” premiered

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Season 2 Episode 18

A 12-year-old young orphan (Mike Simmrin) is adopted by a rich childless couple (William Frankfather and Grace Zabriskie) who harbor a dark secret. However, the couple themselves do not realize that the young orphan too has a dark secret of his own. Also stars Larry Drake, Georgann Johnson, Stella Hall, and Gary Schwartz as the voice of the werewolf.

Horror History: Tuesday, July 24, 1990: “Tales From The Crypt” episode “My Brother’s Keeper” premiered

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Season 2 Episode 17

The relationship between Siamese twin brothers (Timothy Stack and Jonathan Stark) becomes strained when the good twin doesn’t want to be separated from the bad twin. When the later resorts to murder, the former finally changes his mind. Also starring Jessica Harper.

Horror History: Tuesday, July 17, 1990: “Tales From The Crypt” episode “Television Terror” premiered

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Season 2 Episode 16

A tabloid news show host (Morton Downey, Jr.) and his camera crew investigate an abandoned house which is allegedly haunted by the ghost of a woman who had killed seven men. The host and the crew get more than they bargained for when a chain of supernatural happenings indeed begin taunting and haunting them. All of this is aired on live TV.

Horror History: Tuesday, July 10, 1990: “Tales From The Crypt” episode “Mute Witness to Murder” premiered

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Season 2 Episode 15

After witnessing a brutal murder, a woman (Patricia Clarkson) goes mute and is cared for by a psychiatrist (Richard Thomas) who had committed the murder himself and soon finds out that this woman had witnessed the murder (and wants the woman to be silenced forever).