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Tales from the Crypt Episode Guide

Season 7

#81 Fatal Caper (Originally aired on 4/19/96)

Starring:
Leslie Philips, Bob Hoskins, Natasha Richardson, Greg Wise and James Saxon

An old man hires a beautiful lawyer to help him write up his will. He wants to leave it all to the youngest of his three sons, a man who he threw out years ago for being gay and hasn't seen since. The other sons are greedy, and he doesn't want them to inherit a thing. During a fight with the sons, the old man dies of a heart attack, and the sons each try to strike a deal with the lawyer. Through a series of elaborate backstabbings, both sons end up dead, and the old man turns out to be alive after all. He seduces the lawyer, but when she strips, he is shocked to find that she is really a he, and is in fact the youngest son who's in the process of having a sex change. The lawyer kills the old man and inherits the money.

#82 Last Respects (Originally aired on 4/26/96)

Starring:
Emma Samms, Kerry Fox, Julie Cox, Michael Denison and Dulcie Gray

Three crazy sisters get their hands on a magical monkey's paw that can grant three wishes to its owner. The bad thing is, the wishes all turn out to be fatally bad, so they have to try to outsmart it by wording the wishes carefully. When one sister wishes for a million dollars, the youngest sister ends up dying in a car crash. The sister who is in charge of the paw, wishes that the dead sibling was back to the way she was before the accident. She rushes to the hospital, only to find that her sister is still dead. It appears that she was murdered by the third sister before the accident. The sister with the paw then makes a final wish, and the dead sister returns as a zombie to take revenge on her murderer.

#83 A Slight Case of Murder (Originally aired on 5/3/96)

Starring:
Francesca Annis, Chris Cazenove, Elizabeth Spriggs and Patrick Barlow

After being irritated by her nosy neighbor, a bitchy mystery book writer finds herself being stalked by her jealous ex. He accuses her of cheating on him with the nosy neighbor's son, and he wants to kill her. After the two of them play cat and mouse for a while, the neighbor's son bursts in. All of them come face to face, and all of them have weapons which they use to bump each other off. Before the writer dies, the nosy neighbor comes in and tells her that it was she who set the whole thing up as research for a book.

#84 Escape (Originally aired on 5/17/96)

Starring:
Martin Kemp, Nickolas Grace, Nick Redding and Roy Dotrice

An English WWII traitor finds himself confined to a prison camp. When one of the people that he betrayed shows up, the traitor kills him before he can rat him out. Along with another prisoner, the traitor plans an escape - they will hide in a coffin and be taken out to the graveyard where they can make their escape. Sadly for the traitor, it was all a setup, and he is killed and tossed onto the pile of corpses.

#85 Horror In The Night (Originally aired on 5/24/96)

Starring:
Elizabeth McGovern, James Wilby, Roman Vibert, Edward Tudor Pole and Peter Guinness

After being shot by a mobster whom he doubled crossed, a criminal staggers into a hotel to hide out. There, he meets a beautiful woman who seduces him. Throughout the night, he experiences horrifying hallucinations that all seem to stem from thsi woman. Finally, she reveals to him that she is the ghost of a woman who he killed many years before in a mob hit. After seeing the killing reenacted before him, the mobster who the criminal wronged busts in and blows him away.

#86 Cold War (Originally aired on 6/7/96)

Starring:
Ewan McGregor, John Salthouse, Jane Horrocks, Colin Salmon and Willie Ross

After bungling a robbery, a young woman decides to leave her partner-in-crime boyfriend. She meets up with a handsome man and invites him home to seduce him and make her boyfriend jealous. The boyfriend rushes in and attempts to kill the man, but the man reveals that he is a vampire and cannot be killed that easily. The two criminals also have a secret: they are zombies and also cannot be killed. After a scuffle, all three of them fall out a high window, and the vampire turns into a bat and flies away, while the other two hit the ground. The zombies live on, but sadly for them, they are a bit mangled from the fall and can't be seen in public.

#87 The Kidnapper (Originally aired on 6/7/96)

Starring:
Steve Coogan, Julia Sawalha, Tim Stern and Serena Gordon

A slightly unbalanced shop-keeper falls in love with a pregnant young woman who enters his shop one night. She moves in with him, but only as a friend. He doesn't seem to comprehend that she doesn't want to be his girlfriend and tries to make her change her mind. When she has the baby, he can't stand how much attention the infant requires, so he has the baby kidnapped by a sleezy baby broker. The young woman goes insane due to the loss of the baby, and the man decides that the only way to help her is to kidnap another baby. He snatches a baby from a woman in a public park, and gets caught by an angry mob. Just before he is beaten to death by the mob, he discovers that the baby he tried to steal was really his lady friend's baby all along.

#88 Report From The Grave (Originally aired on 6/14/96)

Starring:
James Frain, Siobhan Flynn, Jonathan Firth, Gordon Peters, Julian Kerridge and Roger Ashon-Griffiths

A young man invents a machine that can harness the thoughts of the dead. He decides to try it out on an infamous serial killer named Tymrak. During the experiment, the man's girlfriend is killed, and in the afterlife, she becomes Tymrak's slave. The man finds that he can bring her back using his invention, but Tymrak comes too, so it is apparent that she cannot stay. The man kills himself and heads off to the afterlife to help rescue her.

#89 Smoke Wrings (Originally aired on 6/21/96)

Starring:
Ute Lemper, Chris Staunton, Tres Hanley, Daniel Craig, Gayle Hunnicutt, Denis Lawson and Paul Freeman

An uppity ad exec hires a man who knows nothing about advertising to work for her firm. But the man she hires is really working for the ad company's founder who was kicked out years ago. The founder gives the man a device that can alter people's thoughts and make them want to buy certain products. Unfortunately for the man, he was under control of the machine, and the ad company, the whole time and was really just the lab rat in a pitch to sell the machine.

#90 About Face (Originally aired on 6/28/96)

Starring:
Anthony Andrews, Imelda Staunton, Anna Friel, Paddy Navin, Finty Williams, Emma Bird, Pip Torens and Lane Vidal

A lecherous priest finds that he has twin daughters from a fling many years ago. The girls come to live with him and his current wife. One of the twins is a beautiful young woman, while the other is hideously deformed and violent. When the priest has an affair with a younger woman, the ugly twin murders the young lady. The priest believes that his wife did it, so he strangles her. When he goes upstairs, the ugly twin attacks him with a knife, and the pretty one is nowhere to be seen. The priest kills the ugly twin, but is devastated to learn that the ugly one and the pretty one were siamese twins, and he's killed the pretty one too.

#91 Confession (Originally aired on 7/5/96)

Starring:
Eddie Izzard, Ciaran Hinds, Ashly Artus, Alun Armstrong, John Benfield and Mark Spaulding

A young screenwriter is accused by the police of being a serial killer who decapitates women. He gets interrogated by a hard-nosed cop, who tries to badger a confession out of him. The police find incriminating evidence against the screenwriter, and he ends up confessing to the crime because he knows he's been trapped. The hard-nosed cop goes home, and when he opens his refridgerator, there are heads on the shelves: he is the serial killer.

#92 Ear Today...Gone Tomorrow (Originally aired on 7/12/96)

An aging safecracker finds that his hearing isn't what it used to be, and he can't crack safes anymore. A mobster wants him dead, but the mobster's pretty wife persuades him to give the safecracker another chance. While the mobster is away, the woman gets the safecracker to have an experimental surgery to give him the hearing of an owl. With this good hearing, they can open the mobster's safe and make off with all his money. Sadly for the safecracker, it was all a setup, and with the hearing comes other traits of the owl. The man is then killed by the mobster and the sureon who gave him the hearing.

Starring:
Robert Lindsay, Phil Davis, Richard Johnson, Gretchen Palmer and David Gant

#93 The Third Pig (Originally aired on 7/19/96)

This twisted take on the "Three Little Pigs" was the series' only animated episode. The first and second of the three pigs are slovenly drunks, while the third pig, Dudley, is the good one. When Dudley's brothers are slaughtered by the big bad wolf, Dudley is accused of the crime and sentenced to death. Dudley builds a giant Franken-Pig to kill the wolf and avenge his brothers' deaths. The creature devours the wolf, but the wolf escapes from its belly and eats Dudley.

Starring the voices of:
Bobcat Goldthwait, Cam Clarke, Brad Garrett, Jim Cummings, Charlie Adler, Jess Harnell and Cory Burton

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