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Tales from the Crypt Episode Guide

Season 5

#53 Death of Some Salesman (Originally aired on 10/2/93)

Starring:
Tim Curry, Ed Begley Jr. and Yvonne DeCarlo

A sleezy conman passing himself off as a cemetary plot salesman tries to dupe the wrong people at a secluded country home. He is taken prisoner by Ma and Pa Brackett and their deformed daughter Winona. His only chance at survival is to con Winona into marrying him, but in doing so, he ends up inadvertantly digging his own grave.

#54 As Ye Sow (Originally aired on 10/2/93)

Starring:
Hector Elizondo, Patsy Kensit, John Shea, Sam Waterston and Adam West

A jealous husband is convinced that his young wife is cheating on him with the priest at her church. He hires a sleezy private dick to put a hot out on the priest. After heading to the church to take care of the priest himself, he spies his wife and ducks into the confessional to hear her confession. It turns out she isn't having an affair, but the hired hitman mistakes the husband for the priest and kills him.

#55 Forever Ambergris (Originally aired on 10/2/93)

Starring:
Roger Daltrey, Steve Buscemi, Paul Dooley, Marshall Bell and Lysette Anthony

An aging combat photographer finds himself being constantly upstaged by his sidekick, Ike. Ike gets all of the best pictures, and gets himself a beautiful young girlfriend to boot. The seasoned photographer gives Ike an assignment in a native village that has been contaminated by germ warefare. The young man gets a deadly virus that rots away his body and kills him, and the older photographer steals the photos and claims them and the lovely girlfriend for his own. Sadly, Ike had sent his lady a letter along with some weeds from the contaminated village, which she infects the photographer and herself with.

#56 Food For Thought (Originally aired on 10/6/93)

Starring:
Ernie Hudson, Joan Chen, John Laughlin, Phil Fondacaro, Kathryn Howell and Margaret Howell

An abusive sideshow clown wants his psychic wife to teach him how to read minds. When she tries to run off with a handsome young "fire eater", the clown murders the man. It looks like a tragic accident, and the only witness is the sideshow's giant gorilla. The wife runs away from her husband, but he still tries to perfect his mind-reading ability. He thinks he's actually done it, but it is really the gorilla playing a trick on him, and the beast kills him and feasts on his brains.

#57 People Who Live in Brass Hearses (Originally aired on 10/13/93)

Starring:
Bill Paxton, Lainie Kazan, Brad Dourif and Michael Lerner

An ex-con and his dopey brother hatch a scam to rob an ice cream factory and take revenge on the ice cream man who sent the older brother to prison. The robbery gets botched though when the dumb brother slaughters the manager, and before dying, she closes the safe. The two brothers head to the ice cream man's house to find money, and the dumb one shoots the ice cream man in the head. They find a ton of cash, but get more than they bargained for when they find that the ice cream man has a shocking secret of his own.

#58 Two For the Show (Originally aired on 10/20/93)

Starring:
David Paymer, Vincent Spano and Traci Lords

In a fit of rage, a man murders his adulterous wife and is almost busted by a nosy cop. The man chops up his wife, puts her in a trunk, and lugs her to the train station, where he plans to put the trunk on a train and send it away. The cop shows up and they both end up getting on the train. The cop confides in the man that he is after a drug lord who is on the train, and all of the luggage on the train will be searched. The man sneaks to the cargo hold, tosses his trunk off the train, and puts his tags on an identical trunk. When they search the trunk, they find the cop's wife chopped up inside. The man is then arrested for killing the cop's wife; the cop planned it all along.

#59 House of Horror (Originally aired on 10/27/93)

Starring:
Keith Coogan, Michael DeLuise, Courtney Gains, Brian Krause, Jason London, Meredith Salinger, Wil Wheaton and Kevin Dillon

Three fraternity pledges are dared by the sadistic pledgemaster to enter a "haunted" house and wait in the attic for him to call them down. One by one they enter and stumble upon horrors that the fraternity brothers rigged up for them. When the third pledge enters, he finds a real goblin that turns out to be a pledge that had a nervous breakdown from the taunting of the pledgemaster. The pledgemaster then has to find the other two boys who won't respond to him when called. He makes a ghoulish discovery in the attic: sorority sisters from Delta Omega Alpha (D.O.A. for short) with a chainsaw and a taste for human flesh.

#60 Well-Cooked Hams (Originally aired on 11/3/93)

Starring:
Martin Sheen, Billy Zane and Maryam D'Abo

A young magician who has murdered his main competition, Zorbin the Magnificent, is in desperate need of something to spice up his act. He comes upon another elderly magician with a trick called "The Box of Death" which is a large coffin-like box that apparently dumps acid on the magician's head and has blades that stab into the sides. The young man kills the elderly magician and steals the box to use in his own show. Things go awry though, when he can't control the box and actually does get acid dumped on his head and blades in his sides. Before he dies, the young man discovers that the elderly magician is still alive, and was actually Zorbin in disguise.

#61 Creep Course (Originally aired on 11/10/93)

Starring:
Jeffrey Jones, Anthony Michael Hall and Nina Siemaszko

A college jock lures a brainy, virginal co-ed to the basement dungeon of their Eygptology professor. The jock and the teacher lock her in a room with a mummy who was once a pharoh. The mummy comes to life to kill the girl, but she tricks the mummy into believing that she is his long lost love, and it lets her live. Meanwhile, the teacher has murdered the jock, and goes into the basement expecting to find the young girl's corpse. Instead, the mummy kills him after some coaxing from the girl.

#62 Came the Dawn (Originally aired on 11/17/93)

Starring:
Brooke Shields, Perry King, Michael J. Pollard and Valerie Wildman

A stranded woman is picked up hitch hiking by a wealthy man, who takes her back to his secluded vacation home. He attempts to seduce the girl, even though she finds out that he has a girlfriend. While preparing to get it on, the man runs out of the room, and the girl hears him arguing with the girlfriend who had shown up. The girl tries to sneak out of the house (while stashing some of the man's belongings in her bag), but she is caught by the girlfriend. She is shocked to see that the man actually has a split personality and it is he who has been the "girlfriend" all the time. The psycho then kills the girl, claiming that the man will always be "hers".

#63 Oil's Well That Ends Well (Originally aired on 11/24/93)

Starring:
Lou Diamond Phillips, Priscilla Presley, Noble Willingham, Alan Ruck, John Kassir, Steve Kahan and Rory Calhoun

A conman and conwoman plan to bilk the members of a small redneck town out of money by convincing them that there is oil underneath their graveyard. The plan is to get them to advance them the money and they will finance the drilling. The conwoman pretends to murder the conman in front of the group of men who fronted the money, and he is buried in the graveyard. While digging him up, she finds that she has been tricked, and the conman was really in cohoots with the townsfolk who fronted them the cash. The plan was really to rob her instead. While standing in a freshly dug grave, the woman finds that she really has struck oil, and her cigarette causes them all to go up in flames.

#64 Half-Way Horrible (Originally aired on 12/1/93)

Starring:
Clancy Brown, Martin Kove, Costas Mandylor, Charles Martin Smith, Jon Tenney, Brian Wimmer and Cheech Marin

The bad side of a ruthless man is taking on a life of its own. He starts having blackouts, and people end up dead. It seems that the man once offered a native tribe his best friend as a sacrifice in exchange for a secret chemical used as a preservative. The man turns to a witch doctor for help, who claims he can kill the man's evil side and leave the good side in tact. Sadly for the man, the evil side really does die, and one half of his body begins to decay and the other doesn't.

#65 Till Death Do We Part (Originally aired on 12/8/93)

Starring:
Kate Vernon, John Stamos, Robert Picardo, Frank Stallone, Johnny Williams and Eileen Brennan

A pretty waitress has an affair with the boyfriend of an elderly mob boss called Ruthless Ruth. When Ruth finds out about it, she orders her boyfriend to kill the girl. The boyfriend aims the gun at the girl's head, but at the last second, opens fire on Ruth's cronies and takes off after Ruth. After gunning down the entire mob family, the boyfriend and waitress come face to face with Ruth and kill her. While the man is taking all of Ruth's money from the safe, the waitress aims the gun at his head and tells him that she just wanted a chance to get at the money. Then, BOOM, we see a closeup of the girl's face as she is shot in the head by the boyfriend. The whole part about them shooting up the mob was a fantasy that the boyfriend was having as he waited to kill the waitress. The boyfriend then winds up driving off with Ruthless Ruth.