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.
Read more “Horror History: Tuesday, July 3, 1990: “Tales From The Crypt” episode “Lower Berth” premiered”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.
Read more “Horror History: Tuesday, June 26, 1990: “Tales From The Crypt” episode “Korman’s Kalamity” premiered”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.
Read more “Horror History: Tuesday, June 19, 1990: “Tales From The Crypt” episode “Fitting Punishment” premiered”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.
Read more “Horror History: Tuesday, June 12, 1990: “Tales From The Crypt” episode “Judy, You’re Not Yourself Today” premiered”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.
Read more “Horror History: Tuesday, June 5, 1990: “Tales From The Crypt” episode “The Ventriloquist’s Dummy” premiered”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.
Read more “Horror History: Tuesday, May 29, 1990: “Tales From The Crypt” episode “Four-Sided Triangle” premiered”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.
Read more “Horror History: Tuesday, May 22, 1990: “Tales From The Crypt” episode “For Cryin’ Out Loud” premiered”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.
Read more “Horror History: Tuesday, May 15, 1990: “Tales From The Crypt” episode “The Sacrifice” premiered”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.
Read more “Horror History: Tuesday, May 8, 1990: “Tales From The Crypt” episode “The Thing From the Grave” premiered”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.
Read more “Horror History: Tuesday, May 1, 1990: “Tales From The Crypt” episode “Three’s a Crowd” premiered”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.
Read more “Horror History: Tuesday, April 24, 1990: “Tales From The Crypt” episode “‘Til Death” premiered”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.
Read more “Horror History: Saturday, April 21, 1990: “Tales From The Crypt” episode “Cutting Cards” premiered”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.
Read more “Horror History: Saturday, April 21, 1990: “Tales From The Crypt” episode “The Switch” premiered”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.
Read more “Horror History: Saturday, April 21, 1990: “Tales From The Crypt” episode “Dead Right” premiered”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.
Read more “Horror History: Saturday, December 16, 1989: “The Hitchhiker” episode “Pawns” premiered”Season 5 Episode 25
A producer’s assistant meets his match when he agrees to housesit for his boss and falls for the sexy young woman who is supposed to be helping him out.
Read more “Horror History: Saturday, December 9, 1989: “The Hitchhiker” episode “Power Play” premiered”Season 5 Episode 24
Hollywood actress Jane Ambergris is so desperate to escape what her life has become she creates a new identity for herself, but it isn’t long before she finds out that the person she tries to become is far worse than the person she is leaving behind.
Read more “Horror History: Saturday, November 25, 1989: “The Hitchhiker” episode “My Enemy” premiered”Season 5 Episode 23
After the suicide of their friend Katie, Adam Ross and Stephanie Duvall are faced with their own mortality. They learn from a friend, Brian, that he believes Katie was murdered, and that it had something to do with a fortune teller she had gone to see. Adam and Stephanie visit the same fortune teller, a woman who has let herself become so bitter she taints the life of everyone she comes in contact with.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, November 24, 1989: “The Hitchhiker” episode “Dying Generation” premiered”Season 5 Episode 22
Men in the city are being knifed by a prostitute who wears all black. Sterling Jenkins is a hard-hearted prostitute who, despite herself, is intrigued when an attractive man named Jason asks for help in fixing his car. Although she tries to rebuff the sensitive man, Sterling allows herself to believe Jason when he tells her that he’s fallen for her. It is only afterward that she realises appearances can be deceiving.
Read more “Horror History: Saturday, November 18, 1989: “The Hitchhiker” episode “Cruelest Cut” premiered”Season 5 Episode 21
Two loners encounter each other and each believes they have found their soulmate.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, November 17, 1989: “The Hitchhiker” episode “Striptease” premiered”Season 5 Episode 20
When a television journalist’s private fantasies start appearing in pornographic videos, there is a fine line between fantasy and reality.
Read more “Horror History: Saturday, November 11, 1989: “The Hitchhiker” episode “Studio 3X” premiered”Season 5 Episode 19
A pedestrian dies in a hit and run and his killer can’t put it out of his mind.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, November 10, 1989: “The Hitchhiker” episode “Hit & Run” premiered”Season 5 Episode 18
If Jennifer can convict Manuel Ortega in the drive-by shooting deaths of five people, she will have thirty-six convictions in a row. Unfortunately, there is little to no evidence against Manuel, and Jennifer is willing to do anything necessary, even break the law, to put him behind bars.
Read more “Horror History: Saturday, November 4, 1989: “The Hitchhiker” episode “The Verdict” premiered”Season 5 Episode 17
A coach’s players learn more about his track record with other teams when his sadistic tendencies make themselves known.
Read more “Horror History: Saturday, September 30, 1989: “The Hitchhiker” episode “Coach” premiered”Season 5 Episode 16
Things start to go wrong when a greedy woman decides to kick out her brother, a Vietnam war veteran.
Read more “Horror History: Saturday, September 16, 1989: “The Hitchhiker” episode “Hootch” was released in theaters”Season 5 Episode 15
A designer struggles to maintain control after the suicide of one of his models.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, August 18, 1989: “The Hitchhiker” episode “Fashion Exchange” premiered”Season 5 Episode 14
All isn’t well in the hamburger world when a restauranteur learns that not everything is easy.
Read more “Horror History: Saturday, August 12, 1989: “The Hitchhiker” episode “Part of Me” premiered”Season 5 Episode 13
A con artist finds out that sometimes there are limits as to how far one can go.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, August 11, 1989: “The Hitchhiker” episode “Square Deal” premiered”Season 5 Episode 12
A young performance artists tries to move forward, but is consumed with a series of disturbing nightmares.
Read more “Horror History: Saturday, August 5, 1989: “The Hitchhiker” episode “Spinning Wheel” premiered”Season 5 Episode 11
A secret involving a long ago scandal with his friends causes trouble for a recent university graduate as he prepares to marry the woman of his dreams.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, August 4, 1989: “The Hitchhiker” episode “Phantom Zone” premiered”
