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

November 23, 1990September 7, 2025 4 Evil Eyes

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

November 18, 1990November 17, 2023 4 Evil Eyes

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

November 16, 1990September 8, 2025 4 Evil Eyes

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

October 26, 1990October 10, 2023 4 Evil Eyes

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).

Horror History: Tuesday, July 3, 1990: “Tales From The Crypt” episode “Lower Berth” premiered

July 3, 1990June 2, 2023 4 Evil Eyes

Season 2 Episode 14

A two-faced circus sideshow freak (Jeff Yagher) falls in love with a 4000-year-old mummy which is said to be cursed.

Also starring Lewis Arquette, Stefan Gierasch, and Mark Rolston as his abusive captors.

Horror History: Tuesday, June 26, 1990: “Tales From The Crypt” episode “Korman’s Kalamity” premiered

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Season 2 Episode 13

An employee of the Tales from the Crypt comic (Harry Anderson) is put-upon by his shrewish wife (Colleen Camp) to take potent fertility pills. After a series of weird and bizarre monster attacks, an attractive policewoman (Cynthia Gibb) saved from a rapist (Richard Schiff) from a monster that emerged from a washing machine interrogates the cartoonist, believing that he is somehow making his stories come true. The cartoonist must figure out the cause of the threat while also struggling with his own personal feelings for the policewoman.

Tom Woodruff Jr. performs the utility monsters.

The Cryptkeeper makes a reference to Tales from the Crypt starting out as a magazine at the beginning of the episode.

Horror History: Tuesday, June 19, 1990: “Tales From The Crypt” episode “Fitting Punishment” premiered

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Season 2 Episode 12

A funeral home director (Moses Gunn) cuts corners when it comes to his own line of work. Following a tragic car crash, he is made the legal guardian of his teenage nephew (Jon Clair). The nephew is eventually made as an apprentice mortician in order to earn his room and board and soon comes to resent the mean-spirited behavior and stinginess of his uncle. For the uncle, it may come full circle when he quotes the Bible often.

Horror History: Tuesday, June 12, 1990: “Tales From The Crypt” episode “Judy, You’re Not Yourself Today” premiered

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Season 2 Episode 11

An elderly witch (Frances Bay) posing as a cosmetic salesman visits the home of a young vain and eccentric couple (Brian Kerwin and Carol Kane) and convinces the wife to try on a magic necklace that switches the wife’s body with hers.

Horror History: Tuesday, June 5, 1990: “Tales From The Crypt” episode “The Ventriloquist’s Dummy” premiered

June 5, 1990May 23, 2023 4 Evil Eyes

Season 2 Episode 10

A young ventriloquist (Bobcat Goldthwait) wants to improve his craft and seeks out help from his old hero (Don Rickles), but he soon finds out about his own hidden secret.

Horror History: Tuesday, May 29, 1990: “Tales From The Crypt” episode “Four-Sided Triangle” premiered

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Season 2 Episode 9

A young farmhand (Patricia Arquette) suffers a head injury and soon believes in a delusional state that a scarecrow is her lover.

Also starring Chelcie Ross and Susan Blommaert as her abusive employers, one of whom also tries to have an affair with the pretty farmhand.

Horror History: Tuesday, May 22, 1990: “Tales From The Crypt” episode “For Cryin’ Out Loud” premiered

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Season 2 Episode 8

A greedy rock promoter (Lee Arenberg) plans to run off with all of the donation money that was raised and accumulated from within a series of “Save the Amazon Rainforest” charity benefit concerts, but things unexpectedly get complicated when it turns out that his hearing problems were nothing more than his own hidden conscience (voiced by Sam Kinison). To make matters worse, a greedy banker (Katey Sagal) soon blackmails the promoter. He has to get rid of her and then confesses his mistakes to a cop.

Also starring Iggy Pop as himself.

Horror History: Tuesday, May 15, 1990: “Tales From The Crypt” episode “The Sacrifice” premiered

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Season 2 Episode 7

An insurance agent (Kevin Kilner) kills his obnoxious client (Don Hood) in a plot to take his money and his wife (Kim Delaney). He soon finds out however that this will be quite very difficult for him when someone (Michael Ironside) shows up to blackmail him for the murder.

Horror History: Tuesday, May 8, 1990: “Tales From The Crypt” episode “The Thing From the Grave” premiered

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Season 2 Episode 6

A supermodel (Teri Hatcher) and her photographer (Kyle Secor) fall in love. When the model’s abusive boyfriend (Miguel Ferrer) learns of their affair, he sets out to kill the two of them. However, he soon gets a nasty surprise as love proves to be quite very strong, even in death itself.

Horror History: Tuesday, May 1, 1990: “Tales From The Crypt” episode “Three’s a Crowd” premiered

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Season 2 Episode 5

A down-on-their-luck couple (Gavan O’Herlihy and Ruth de Sosa) are invited to a cabin owned by their wealthy former best man (Paul Lieber), but the unstable husband is convinced that his wife is having an affair. He finds that he was wrong about many things, towards the end of the show.

Horror History: Tuesday, April 24, 1990: “Tales From The Crypt” episode “‘Til Death” premiered

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Season 2 Episode 4

A land owner (D. W. Moffett) woos a haughty rich woman (Pamela Gien) with a potion from a voodoo priestess (Janet Hubert) that contains a deadly warning. Things go awry when he does not listen to the warnings.

Also starring Aubrey Morris.

Horror History: Saturday, April 21, 1990: “Tales From The Crypt” episode “Cutting Cards” premiered

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Season 2 Episode 3

Two rival gamblers (Lance Henriksen and Kevin Tighe) face off in a series of gruesome games in order to see on who’ll leave town when all is said and done.

Also starring Roy Brocksmith.

Horror History: Saturday, April 21, 1990: “Tales From The Crypt” episode “The Switch” premiered

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Season 2 Episode 2

A rich elderly bachelor (William Hickey) wants to impress a young woman (Kelly Preston) and meets up with a doctor who helps him switch his body with a younger man (Rick Rossovich). He realizes his mistake at the very end.

Also starring Ian Abercrombie, Mark Pellegrino and Roy Brocksmith. Arnold Schwarzenegger, who directed this episode, appears in the cold open with the Cryptkeeper introducing the story.

Horror History: Saturday, April 21, 1990: “Tales From The Crypt” episode “Dead Right” premiered

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Season 2 Episode 1

A gold-digging secretary (Demi Moore) follows the advice of a fortune teller (Natalia Nogulich) and marries a slob of a man (Jeffrey Tambor) after being told that he will die shortly after inheriting a large sum of money, but the fortune teller’s prediction comes true in a way that the gold-digger herself does not see coming.

Also starring Kate Hodge and Linda Cohn.

Horror History: Saturday, December 16, 1989: “The Hitchhiker” episode “Pawns” premiered

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Season 5 Episode 26

A has-been musician who is down on his luck finally decides to pawn the only thing that means anything to him to make a few bucks, but realizes that what he’s sold is worth a lot more than he ever realized.