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Tales from the Crypt Episode Guide

Season 6

#66 Let the Punishment Fit the Crime (Originally aired on 10/31/94

Starring:
Catherine O'Hara, Peter MacNicol and Joseph Maher

An ambulance-chasing lawyer finds herself in purgatory after getting busted for having too few digits on her license plate in small town. The judge in this town believes in brutal punishments such as lashes and dismemberment. She thinks she's gotten off easy when the judge sentences her to community service, but she's devastated to learn that the service is to replace the public defender in this hellish town.

#67 Only Skin Deep (Originally aired on 10/31/94)

Starring:
Peter Onorati, Sherrie Rose, Stephen Liska and Diane Dilascio

An abusive man picks up a masked beauty at a costume party. They go back to her place and decide to have anonymous sex by not removing their masks. After they are finished, and after she has served him a drink, he realizes that he is in love with her and wants to know more about her. She refuses to tell him, so he ransacks her place but is unable to find any information. That is, until he enters one of the rooms and finds a collection of human men's cut off faces in a trophy case! He attempts to tear off her mask, only to find that the hideous mask is her real face, and the drink she gave him was poisoned. She adds his face to her collection.

#68 Whirlpool (Originally aired on 10/31/94)

Starring:
Rita Rudner, Richard Lewis, A L Katz and Corin Nemec

A mousy comic book writer finds herself living the same day over and over. In this day, no matter what she does, she ends up murdering her boss and then being killed herself by the police. This goes on and on until we finally discover that this story was actually a comic book story, and in real life, the woman is the boss, and the boss is the comic book writer.

#69 Operation Friendship (Originally aired on 11/9/94)

Starring:
Tate Donovan, Michelle Rene Thomas, John Caponera, Peter Dobson and Ethan Suplee

A wimpy man whose only friend is his obnoxious imaginery friend, finds the girl of his dreams living across the hall. When he discovers that this girl is a shrink, the imaginary friend goes berserk and tries to make the wimp murder the girl. The wimp refuses, and he goes to battle with the imaginery friend. The imaginery friend wins out in the end and takes over the wimp's body and life.

#70 Revenge Is The Nuts (Originally aired on 11/16/94)

Starring:
Anthony Zerbe, Teri Polo, John Savage, Bibi Besch and Issac Hayes

A cruel man, who is in charge of running a home for the blind, torments his residents beyond belief. When a young girl is brought to the home, the man attempts to blackmail her into sleeping with him by promising to lighten up on the other residents. With the help of the mean man's handyman brother, the residents get the drop on him and lock him in a room for days. In the room next door, they lock his pet pitbull until the dog is starving. When the mean man's cell is opened, he finds himself in a thin wooden hallway lined with razor blades. There is no way for him to advance down the corridor without cutting himself. When the starving dog is released, it attacks and kills the cruel man.

#71 The Bribe (Originally aired on 11/23/94)

Starring:
Terry O'Quinn, Kimberly Williams, Benicio Del Toro, Hal Williams, Max Grodenchik and Esai Morales

When a fire inspector finds out that his daughter has been dancing at a local strip club and dating one of its owners, he does everything in his power to close the place down. When he fails going through all of the legal channels, he gets a crazed pyromaniac to burn the place to the ground. Afterwords, he finds out that his daughter had been partying in the club with her boyfriend. The fire inspector commits suicide, but then we discover that his daughter had ditched the party early and is still alive and running off with the club's owner to get married.

#72 The Pit (Originally aired on 11/30/94)

Starring:
Mark Dacascos, Debbe Dunning, Marjean Holden, Stoney Jackson and Wayne Newton

A pair of rival martial artists are duped into the ultimate no holds barred fight by their bitchy wives. The wives are both competitive and dispise each other, while their husbands actually like each other. With the help of a Las Vegas fight promoter, the stage is set for a Malaysian rules deathmatch. When the wives visit the cage where the fight is to take place, they are locked inside and find they they are the ones who are to fight to the death, while their husbands sit back and enjoy.

#73 The Assassin (Originally aired on 12/7/94)

Starring:
Shelley Hack, Chelsea Field, Jonathan Banks, Marshall Teague, Corey Feldman and William Sadler

A waifish housewife finds her home under siege when three CIA agents show up claiming that her husband is an AWOL assassin. They plan on setting a trap for him, and killing him when he gets home from work. Of course they have a "no witnesses" policy, and the wife must die too. One by one, the wife outsmarts and kills the assassins, and before killing the third one, she reveals a secret: she is really the AWOL assassin, who had a sex change, and is now posing as a suburban housewife.

#74 Staired In Horror (Originally aired on 12/14/94)

Starring:
D.B. Sweeney, Rachel Ticotin and R. Lee Ermey

A young criminal on the run from the law, hides out in an old mansion with an old woman. When the woman isn't around, he spies a young, beautiful woman at the top of a long staircase in the foyer. She explains that a long time ago, a curse was put on her that when she is upstairs, she will be young and beautiful. But when she's downstairs, she's old and hideous. The same rules apply to the criminal, except in the opposite order: when he's downstairs, he's young, but if he goes upstairs, he gets old. When the police search the place, the fugitive decides to go upstairs, then up even further to the attic. In the attic, he turns so old that he cannot move. When the woman comes up to help him, she turns into a baby and is unalbe to do anything but crawl.

#75 In The Groove (Originally aired on 12/21/94)

Starring:
Miguel Ferrer, Linda Doucett, Wendy Malick and Slash

A radio dj with a failing show takes on a sexy partner in the radio station run by his sister. With this partner, the ratings go through the roof, and the man and woman fall in love. After the man has a nasty outburst on the air, his sister cancels the show, but holds his contract so he can't take another job. The man and his partner plan to kill the sister, and leave a pre-recorded segment playing on the radio as an alibi. When the man breaks into his sister's house to kill her, he finds her waiting with a loaded gun. Before she shoots him, she tells him that she was in cohoots with his partner, and the two ladies planned the whole thing to get him out of the way.

#76 Surprise Party (Originally aired on 12/28/94)

Starring:
Adam Storke, Clare Hoak, Jake Busey and Rance Howard

A man murders his terminally ill father in order to inherit a house that had a large fire years ago. When he goes to the house, he finds it filled with a group of young people having a costume party. Here, he meets a pretty girl and the two head upstairs to be alone. Their passion is interrupted by the girl's boyfriend who begins to beat on the man. The man shoots the boyfriend, then suffocates the girl to stop her screaming. He pours gas all over and is preparing to light a match, when the girl appears and stops him. All of the party guests surround him, and now they are all covered with horrible burns. It turns out that they are the ghosts of people who died in a fire there many years ago. The man's father started the fire, and the ghosts take their revenge on the son.

#77 Doctor of Horror (Originally aired on 1/4/95)

Starring:
Hank Azaria, Travis Tritt, Ben Stein and Austin Pendleton

Richard and Charlie, two moronic morgue security guards, are bribed into helping a crazed doctor steal corpes to perform experiments upon. The doctor believes that the human soul can be found in a gland along the base of the spine. Unfortunately, the souls are already gone from the dead bodies he works on. The doctor is proven right when Richard kills Charlie, and the demented doc finds his soul and removes it. Richard chops Charlie up and disposes of the corpse. Charlies doesn't stay gone for long though - he returns from the dead, now evil without is soul, and kills Richard and the doctor.

#78 Comes The Dawn (Originally aired on 1/11/95)

Starring:
Bruce Payne, Vivian Wu, Susan Tyrrell and Michael Ironside

An ex Army Colonel and his Sargeant friend travel deep into the Alaskan wilderness to poach grizzly bears. They hire a beautiful woman to be their guide, and she leads them to an abandoned weather station in search of the bears. Once there, she attempts to turn the two men against each other but fails. When they prepare to harm her, she disappears, leaving them alone. After hearing strange noises, the men search the place and find a little girl. The little girl turns out to be a vampire, in fact, the building is full of them. The Colonel is killed by them, but the Sargeant escapes back to the hotel and believes that he can keep them at bay until sunrise. Sadly for him, the beautiful guide informs him that since they're in Alaska, the sun won't be rising for another two months, and the vampires take him.

#79 99 And 44/100% Pure Horror (Originally aired on 1/18/95)

A beautiful young artist, married to the owner of a soap company, gets upset when he refuses to let her design the company's soap packages anymore. She threatens to leave him, but he has photos of her in bed with another man, so she won't be able to take him for a dime in court. The woman bludgeons him to death with a large bar of soap and sneaks his corpse to the soap factory, where she dumps it into a large vat of chemicals. She ends up mixing him into bars of soap and takes all of the bars home to dispose of them. When the woman takes a shower, she finds that she has no soap, so she uses one of the ones that her husband is now a part of. Sadly for her, after lathering up her whole body, she remembers that a human body contains many various types of acids and her skin melts away.

Starring:
Bruce Davison, Cristi Conaway, Darin Heames, Kelly Coffield and Ricky Dean Logan

#80 You, Murderer (Originally aired on 1/25/95)

The tale is told from the point of view of a criminal who was murdered by his unfaithful wife and her lover. The two try to make the murder look like a suicide, but the criminal won't play into it, and she beats him to death with a statue. They decide to bury the body on a remote piece of land, but are followed by the criminal's pretty young mistress. The wife shoots the mistress, and the bullet passes through the girl and into the criminal's corpse, causing the body to fall onto the emergency brake of the car that it has been sitting in. The car plunges down a hill and crushes the wife and her lover.
* Note - Humphrey Bogart and Alfred Hitchcock were spiced into this episode using footage from their old movies and special effects.

Starring:
Humphrey Bogart, John Lithgow, Isabella Rossellini, Sherilyn Fenn, Robert Sacchi and Alfred Hitchcock

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