Tales from the Crypt
tv show

81 total episodes
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7 seasons
Dead-On Humor and Horror.
First Aired June 10, 1989
Overview
Cadaverous scream legend the Crypt Keeper is your macabre host for these forays of fright and fun based on the classic E.C. Comics tales from back in the day. So shamble up to the bar and pick your poison. Will it be an insane Santa on a personal slay ride? Honeymooners out to fulfill the "til death do we part" vow ASAP?

Death of Some Salesmen / As Ye Sow / Forever Ambergris
Season 5 - Episode 1 - 1h 24m
Air Date
October 02, 1993
Overview
A sneaky con man has a talent for killing people after he sells them phony tombstones. He soon learns that some for his new victims have a fortune buried in their cellar. He marries their daughter and kills the parents but when he goes down in the basement he gets a big surprise. A husband hires a detective to spy on his wife whom he believes is cheating on him with a priest. When he learns that he's been conned, he decides to kill him himself. That day he learns that they're was nothing going on between them and he is relieved. But he is mistaken for his wife's so called boyfriend and killed by the detective he hired. Dalton is a seasoned combat photographer who finds himself falling for a beautiful women who just happens to be the wife of his friend. One day Ike sends Dalton into a disease warfare area. Dalton returns, but not the way he used to be. He soon writes a letter about how he was set up and his wife and friend also contract the same disease.
Crew
Gilbert Adler
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Director
Gary Fleder
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Director
Kyle MacLachlan
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Director
John R. Leonetti
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Director of Photography
Jay Ferguson
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Music
Victoria Burrows
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Casting
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Stanley Wohlberg
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Editor
Gilbert Adler
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Screenplay
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Lou Angelo
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Editor
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A L Katz
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Screenplay
Rick Bota
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Director of Photography
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Ron Finley
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Screenplay
Guest Stars
Marshall Bell
as
Rock (segment "Forever Ambergris")
Yvonne De Carlo
as
Mrs. Jones (segment "Death of Some Salesmen")
Sam Waterston
as
G.G. Devoe (segment "As Ye Sow")
Steve Buscemi
as
Ike (segment "Forever Ambergris")
Patsy Kensit
as
Bridget (segment "As Ye Sow")
Tim Curry
as
Pa Brackett / Ma Brackett / Winona Brackett (segment "Death of Some Salesmen")
Adam West
as
Chapman (segment "As Ye Sow")
Ed Begley Jr.
as
Judd Campbell (segment "Death of Some Salesmen")
Lysette Anthony
as
Bobbi (segment "Forever Ambergris")
Paul Dooley
as
Randolph (segment "Forever Ambergris")
John Shea
as
Father John Sejac (segment "As Ye Sow")
Héctor Elizondo
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Leo Burns (segment "As Ye Sow")