Season 4 Episode 7
A psychologist (David Warner) attempts to boost his sagging radio show ratings by doing a series of episodes from the home of a strange woman (Zelda Rubenstein) who wants help for her deeply disturbed child. Also starring Joan Severance, Twiggy, and Robert Patrick.
Read more “Horror History: Saturday, July 25, 1992: “Tales From The Crypt” episode “The New Arrival” premiered”Season 4 Episode 6
A couple’s (Christopher Reeve and Bess Armstrong) failing restaurant soon gets a huge boost in both sales and popularity when a mysterious drifter (Judd Nelson) gives them a steak recipe that’s made of human flesh. Also starring Meat Loaf.
Read more “Horror History: Wednesday, July 22, 1992: “Tales From The Crypt” episode “What’s Cookin’” premiered”Season 4 Episode 5
An aging model (Mimi Rogers) resorts to murdering her younger rivals (Kathy Ireland and Jennifer Rubin) in order to revive her own modeling career. She soon gets her big break as a contestant in a rather macabre “autopsy” beauty pageant.
Also starring Buck Henry.
Read more “Horror History: Saturday, July 11, 1992: “Tales From The Crypt” episode “Beauty Rest” premiered”Season 4 Episode 4
Two con artists (Ben Cross and Cathy Moriarty) attempt to swindle a rich tycoon (John Vernon), but when they end up accidentally killing him, they turn to tricking his blind wife (Ellen Crawford) by acting as her medium and holding a mock séance.
Read more “Horror History: Saturday, July 4, 1992: “Tales From The Crypt” episode “Seance” premiered”Season 4 Episode 3
A rock star (Yul Vazquez) gets an unwanted chest tattoo from a mysterious artist (Heavy D) of his guitarist’s wife that he hates (Tia Carrere), which seems to have a life of its own and won’t go away even after he murders the object of his hatred.
Also starring Sherrie Rose as the rock star’s groupie, with special appearances by musicians Gregg Allman(as the club owner), Rudy Sarzo (uncredited as Exorcist’s bass player), and Steve Jones (as Exorcist’s roadie).
Read more “Horror History: Saturday, June 27, 1992: “Tales From The Crypt” episode “On a Deadman’s Chest” premiered”Season 4 Episode 2
A scientist (Dylan McDermott) decides to get revenge when he suspects that his own lab partners (Sonia Braga and Cleavon Little) have double-crossed him by purposely injecting him with a deadly experimental virus cell with no antidote.
Note: This was Cleavon Little’s final acting performance. He died four months after this episode aired.
Read more “Horror History: Saturday, June 27, 1992: “Tales From The Crypt” episode “This’ll Kill Ya” premiered”Season 4 Episode 1
A con man (Treat Williams) finds a new wealthy widow (Frances Sternhagen) excited to have his company, but it seems that someone is on to him as he soon gets a series of notes warning him to stop on what he’s doing or else risk facing the dire consequences. Boxing legend Sugar Ray Leonard makes a cameo appearance as the gravedigger.
Tom Hanks, who directed this episode, also makes a cameo appearance as the video dating service owner.
Read more “Horror History: Saturday, June 27, 1992: “Tales From The Crypt” episode “None but the Lonely Heart” premiered”Season 3 Episode 14
Set in 1918, the final year of World War I, a general’s (Kirk Douglas) son (Eric Douglas) is branded yellow for causing the death of a platoon under his command because he had failed to do his job of warning them in case of an enemy sneak attack and is sentenced to death by firing squad. From within the night before the execution, the general tells the son that he has swapped the bullets with blanks, so that the son can survive the planned execution.
Also starring Dan Aykroyd and Lance Henriksen.
Read more “Horror History: Wednesday, August 28, 1991: “Tales From The Crypt” episode “Yellow” premiered”Season 3 Episode 13
A housewife (Faye Grant) who is quite very obsessed with soap operas (especially with the concepts of both passion and romance) and watches them religiously is personally annoyed that her own husband (Alan Rachins) (a doctor obsessed with experimenting on a rabbit) doesn’t spend much time with her, so she begins a steamy affair with a cable guy (Anthony LaPaglia). The doctor soon wonders if maybe he could try his experiment on human subjects.
Read more “Horror History: Wednesday, August 21, 1991: “Tales From The Crypt” episode “Spoiled” premiered”Season 3 Episode 11
A beautiful but loose barmaid (Michelle Johnson) marries a rich lumberjack (Brion James) who offers her a comfortable lifestyle. When the marriage soon turns sour, especially in the bedroom due to her husband’s violent jealous streak, she brings him over the edge when she begins seducing another lumberjack (Billy Wirth) in order to relieve her boredom. Also starring Rita Wilson, Ally Walker, and Vincent Schiavelli.
Read more “Horror History: Wednesday, August 7, 1991: “Tales From The Crypt” episode “Split Second” premiered”Season 3 Episode 10
A down-on-his-luck reporter (Steven Weber), who is currently investigating several bizarre homeless murders, soon discovers that the murders themselves may in fact be related to an organization called the Grateful Homeless Outcasts and Unwanted Layaway Society (G.H.O.U.L.S.), whose charitable façade hides a horrific secret. Also starring Rita Wilson, Ally Walker, and Vincent Schiavelli.
Read more “Horror History: Wednesday, July 31, 1991: “Tales From The Crypt” episode “Mournin’ Mess” premiered”Season 3 Episode 9
A group of young local kids (Jason Marsden, Scott Fults, Aron Eisenberg, and Jonathan Ke Quan), aspiring to be horror filmmakers, break into the local mortuary in order to see a real dead body. However, they soon stumble upon a sinister conspiracy of murder and greed involving the town’s pharmacist (Graham Jarvis) and a local mortician (John Glover), in which the boys themselves plan to expose by taking the law into their own hands and film evidence of the mortician’s murderous dealings, all whilst the situation itself becomes quite very personal for one of the boys as he seeks to avenge his late father, who had died in the past from poisoned asthma medicine.
Read more “Horror History: Wednesday, July 24, 1991: “Tales From The Crypt” episode “Undertaking Palor” premiered”Season 3 Episode 8
An artist (Tim Roth) who can’t seem to sell any of his work soon encounters a mysterious collector of morbid artwork (William Atherton), but he has to keep producing ghoulish artworks in order to satisfy his new customer, which soon leads him down a dark and dangerous path.
Read more “Horror History: Wednesday, July 17, 1991: “Tales From The Crypt” episode “Easel Kill Ya” premiered”Season 3 Episode 7
A vampire (Malcolm McDowell) eschews the tradition of attacking mortals, satiating his need for blood by working as a night watchman at a blood bank, but the owner (George Wendt) soon realizes that his own business is being sucked dry and warns of bankruptcy. The vampire must return to his old ways in order to replete his “embezzlement”, so he tries to solve his quandary by attacking dangerous criminals, all whilst struggling with the romantic advances of a cute secretary (Sandra Dickinson).
Also starring Michael Berryman and Paul Gleason.
Read more “Horror History: Wednesday, July 10, 1991: “Tales From The Crypt” episode “The Reluctant Vampire” premiered”Season 3 Episode 6
A thug (James Remar) who’s working for a plantation owner (John Rhys-Davies) teams up with the owner’s mistress (Vanity) in order to steal a highly valuable black pearl. He later double-crosses the mistress only to be double-crossed himself by a mysterious priestess.
Also starring Whoopi Goldberg as the mysterious priestess who also appears as herself in the outro being interviewed by the Crypt Keeper.
Read more “Horror History: Wednesday, July 3, 1991: “Tales From The Crypt” episode “Dead Wait” premiered”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.
Read more “Horror History: Wednesday, June 26, 1991: “Tales From The Crypt” episode “Top Billing” premiered”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
Read more “Horror History: Wednesday, June 19, 1991: “Tales From The Crypt” episode “Abra Cadaver” premiered”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”.
Read more “Horror History: Saturday, June 15, 1991: “Tales From The Crypt” episode “The Trap” premiered”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.
Read more “Horror History: Saturday, June 15, 1991: “Tales From The Crypt” episode “Carrion Death” premiered”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.
Read more “Horror History: Saturday, June 15, 1991: “Tales From The Crypt” episode “Loved to Death” premiered”Season 6 Episode 20
An actress proves that she is willing to do anything for a shot at the big time.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, February 22, 1991: “The Hitchhiker” final episode “New Blood” premiered”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.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, February 15, 1991: “The Hitchhiker” episode “Secrets” premiered”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.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, February 8, 1991: “The Hitchhiker” episode “Offspring” premiered”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.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, February 1, 1991: “The Hitchhiker” episode “A Whole New You” premiered”Season 6 Episode 16
A boss who does nothing for his employees soon finds himself the victim of their black magic.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, January 25, 1991: “The Hitchhiker” episode “Made In Paris” premiered”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.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, January 18, 1991: “The Hitchhiker” episode “Living a Lie” premiered”Season 6 Episode 14
A neo-fascist cannot relax because he cannot forget about his past.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, January 11, 1991: “The Hitchhiker” episode “Homecoming” premiered”Season 6 Episode 13
A Parisien con artist meets his match and learns that there is no such thing as the perfect con.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, December 14, 1990: “The Hitchhiker” episode “Tourist Trap” premiered”Season 6 Episode 12
Two men kidnap a young woman for a night out in Paris.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, December 7, 1990: “The Hitchhiker” episode “White Slaves” premiered”Season 6 Episode 11
After a housewife shoots her philandering husband, she goes after the other woman.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, November 30, 1990: “The Hitchhiker” episode “Working Girl” premiered”
