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”Season 5 Episode 10
A woman can’t get past the thought that her husband is unfaithful, and it begins to rule her life.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, July 28, 1989: “The Hitchhiker” episode “Together Forever” premiered”Season 5 Episode 9
Cheryl and Bruno are con artists who believe the world owes them something. When they face homelessness because the building they live in is about to be torn down, they find a new mark, Emilie Langlois, an old woman with a failing memory. Their goal is to take over Mrs. Langlois’ home, but they soon realize that some memories are best left forgotten.
Read more “Horror History: Saturday, July 22, 1989: “The Hitchhiker” episode “Her Finest Hour” premiered”Season 5 Episode 8
A jealous husband finds himself at the mercy of a computer answering service.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, July 21, 1989: “The Hitchhiker” episode “Code-Liz” premiered”Season 5 Episode 7
A bogus preacher who has been making a living out of fake miracles and the young girls he forces into prostitution finds his livelihood threatened when a real miracle takes place and one of his girls develops the stigmata.
Read more “Horror History: Saturday, July 15, 1989: “The Hitchhiker” episode “The Miracle of Alice Ames” premiered”Season 5 Episode 6
When the Paris underworld finds their livelihoods threatened by a developer’s plans, they take action of their own to stop it.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, July 14, 1989: “The Hitchhiker” episode “Renaissance” premiered”Season 5 Episode 5
A psychologist with a twisted bent takes the wrong track with a disturbed patient and learns that sometimes it’s dangerous to play games.
Read more “Horror History: Saturday, July 8, 1989: “The Hitchhiker” episode “Shadow Puppets” was released in theaters”Season 5 Episode 4
A politician finds his life and his career in jeopardy when people start to find out about the dins in his past.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, July 7, 1989: “The Hitchhiker” episode “Garter Belt” premiered”Season 5 Episode 3
A mentally disturbed nurse concocts an elaborate plan to poison a woman so that she can steal her husband from her.
Read more “Horror History: Saturday, July 1, 1989: “The Hitchhiker” episode “Dark Wishes” premiered”Season 1 Episode 6
An uptight elderly man (M. Emmet Walsh) retires and soon discovers his wife’s (Audra Lindley) obsession with adopting animals into their home, leading him to use the animals for a hobby of his own.
Read more “Horror History: Wednesday, June 28, 1989: “Tales From The Crypt” episode “Collection Completed” premiered”Season 1 Episode 5
A newlywed couple (Amanda Plummer and Stephen Shellen) retreats to the mansion of the wife’s aunt in which the husband plans to kill her for her inheritance, but he soon learns that his wife’s family has a dark past and that the wife herself is not who she seems to be.
Read more “Horror History: Wednesday, June 21, 1989: “Tales From The Crypt” episode “Lover Come Hack to Me” premiered”
