Episodes cast for
"Tales from the Crypt" (1989) More at IMDbPro »

Season: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7
Year: 1989 | 1990 | 1991 | 1992 | 1993 | 1994 | 1995 | 1996

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Season 1

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Season 1, Episode 1: The Man Who Was Death

10 June 1989
After the death penalty is abolished, an executioner continues his former job through freelancing...

Season 1, Episode 2: And All Through the House

10 June 1989
A greedy woman makes the mistake of murdering her husband while an escaped mental patient dressed in a Santa Claus outfit is on the loose.

Season 1, Episode 3: Dig That Cat... He's Real Gone

10 June 1989
A bum displays his ability to resurrect himself.

Season 1, Episode 4: Only Sin Deep

14 June 1989
A hooker learns that beauty is only skin deep.

Season 1, Episode 5: Lover Come Hack to Me

21 June 1989
Peggy wants to make sure her honeymoon turns out perfect.

Season 1, Episode 6: Collection Completed

28 June 1989
Jonas has been forced into mandatory retirement. He can't relax, though, because Anita's friends are driving him crazy.

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Season 2

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Season 2, Episode 1: Dead Right

21 April 1990
Cathy wants a rich and successful life, and fast. She visits a medium who tells her she will meet a man who will inherit a lot of money, and die in a violent way soon after. When she meets grossly overweight Charlie who informs her of his rich relatives, she promptly marries him. As it turns out, the medium is always right.

Season 2, Episode 2: The Switch

21 April 1990
Linda is a sexy young woman looking for a handsome young stud or so she thinks. She soon learns that she has the undying attraction of a rich elderly man (William Hickey) who would do just about anything to win her heart. He soon meets a doctor (Roy Brocksmith) and his associate Hans (Rick Rossovich), who are more than willing to grant him his wishes, for a very costly price.

Season 2, Episode 3: Cutting Cards

21 April 1990
Reno and Sam are a pair of hardcore gamblers who don't play for fun, who challenge each other in a sample game of cards and the end result could be deadlier then they could've ever bargained for.

Season 2, Episode 4: 'Til Death

24 April 1990
Logan is an unscrupulous gold digger who would do anything to catch the right woman with lots of money, including dabble into voodoo. When he meets Margaret, a sexy and rich widow on vacation, he immediately asks his partner, a voodoo priestess to conjure up a love potion for him which she takes unknowingly, she falls in love with him. How long will she love him for is the question?

Season 2, Episode 5: Three's a Crowd

1 May 1990
A married couple is trying to enjoy their anniversary. However, the husband is sure his wife is cheating on him.

Season 2, Episode 6: The Thing from the Grave

8 May 1990
Stacy is a really sexy model with a very abusive agent/boyfriend named Mitch. When her photographer friend Cates offers her refuge in his home from his terror, they ultimately fall in love and gives her a special necklace as symbol of love and also promises her that he'd protect her no matter what. When Mitch learns of this, he goes into a deadly rage and question is, will Cates' promise be kept?

Season 2, Episode 7: The Sacrifice

15 May 1990
Hotshot insurance salesman James becomes involved with the beautiful and seductive Gloria Fleming, who's the wife of crude tycoon Sebastian Fleming. James and Gloria decide to bump Sebastian off for his considerable money. They succeed with killing Sebastian, but things go awry when the meddlesome Jerry enters the picture claiming he has photographic evidence of the murder.

Season 2, Episode 8: For Cryin' Out Loud

22 May 1990
A greedy rock promoter tries to steal the money raised at a benefit concert when his conscience intervenes.

Season 2, Episode 9: Four-Sided Triangle

29 May 1990
Farmer George is attracted to Mary Jo, the nubile young woman who helps out with the chores. The problem is... she's in love with a scarecrow.

Season 2, Episode 10: The Ventriloquist's Dummy

5 June 1990
Wanting to improve his craft, a ventriloquist seeks out his long retired idol and discovers a shocking secret.

Season 2, Episode 11: Judy, You're Not Yourself Today

12 June 1990
A housewife stressed out by her husbands reckless behavior welcomes an elderly cosmetics saleswoman in to her home. Only to discover that the old hag has another more devious motive.

Season 2, Episode 12: Fitting Punishment

19 June 1990
Mean and stingy cheapskate funeral home director Ezra Thornberry treats his deceased clients with an appalling lack of respect. Following the death of his mother, Ezra's naive teenage nephew Bobby is forced to live with the nasty old coot. Complications arise when Bobby disapproves of Ezra's unscrupulous business practices.

Season 2, Episode 13: Korman's Kalamity

26 June 1990
Jim Korman (Anderson) is a comic book artist for the popular comic, "Tales From the Crypt." His overbearing and ruthlessly mean wife (Camp) is constantly nagging him and bothering him at work. While taking some experimental fertility pills, the side effects start to take hold. Strange things begin to happen all over the city, strange creatures start to appear... creatures that Jim has drawn.

Season 2, Episode 14: Lower Berth

3 July 1990
Enoch, the two-faced man, an attraction at a sideshow, falls in love with a 2,000 year old mummy, eventually leading up to the conception of their bastard child, The Crypt Keeper.

Season 2, Episode 15: Mute Witness to Murder

10 July 1990
Young woman Suzy looks out of the window of her apartment and witnesses a man murdering a woman in the apartment directly across from hers. Suzy is so traumatized by what she sees that she's rendered mute. Suzy is placed in the care of Dr. Trask, who alas turns out to be the man who committed the murder she witnessed.

Season 2, Episode 16: Television Terror

17 July 1990
A TV shock journalist gives an on-air tour of an eerie haunted house.

Season 2, Episode 17: My Brother's Keeper

24 July 1990
The reckless Eddie and the correct Frank are Siamese brothers connected by their waists. Eddie wants to convince Frank to be submitted to a surgery with 50% of chances of success, but Frank is afraid. When Frank meets Marie in a bar, he falls in love for her and decides to risk. But a secret is disclosed with fatal consequences, affecting the relationship of the brothers.

Season 2, Episode 18: The Secret

31 July 1990
Orphan boy Theodore is adopted by the Colbys, who are an eccentric rich couple with a very dark secret.

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Season 3

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Season 3, Episode 1: Loved to Death

15 June 1991
A classic "boy wants girl, girl is unresponsive to his attentions" storyline gets the Tales from the Crypt treatment, as a young man gets a Love Potion by his mysterious landlord, in an attempt to win over the girl of his dreams. But things soon get out of hand...

Season 3, Episode 2: Carrion Death

15 June 1991
A sadistic serial killer has unforeseen complications when pursued by a determined motorcycle cop in a barren desert.

Season 3, Episode 3: The Trap

15 June 1991
An abrasive husband comes home to tell his wife that he has lost his job again. She reminds him that they are behind on their bills and suggests she get a job. He refuses. Instead, he comes up with a scheme to make a lot of money quick. Calling his coroner brother over, he tells them his plan to fake his own death and collect his half a million dollar life insurance policy. Making it look like a burglar has murdered him, all he has left to do is fly to Brazil, have plastic surgery to change his appearance, and wait for his wife to meet him. How could anything go wrong?

Season 3, Episode 4: Abra Cadaver

19 June 1991
A former potential surgeon sets out to wreak revenge on the brother who's cruel practical joke prevented him from realizing his dream.

Season 3, Episode 5: Top Billing

26 June 1991
An unattractive and unlucky actor can't get a role because of his looks. His agent and girlfriend leave him. But he doesn't intend to give up - he wants the role of Hamlet.

Season 3, Episode 6: Dead Wait

3 July 1991
Red Buckley is a natural red head in search of a one-of-a-kind black pearl. He gets a job on a plantation owned by Mr. Duval where the pearl is said to be. Shown to his room in Duvall's home by Peligre, he finds a ram head behind the door. She says it is there for his protection but he demands it be removed. After spending a night with Duvall's girlfriend, Kathrine, they decide to become partners in stealing the pearl. Waking up to find a dying chicken in his bed, Peligre warns him that Kathrine is dangerous. Is she or is Peligre the dangerous one? Will he get the pearl?

Season 3, Episode 7: The Reluctant Vampire

10 July 1991
A good natured vampire takes a more novel approach to satisfying his blood lust with his chosen undercover employment.

Season 3, Episode 8: Easel Kill Ya

17 July 1991
Painter Jack Craig gains himself a wealthy patron when he sells a morbid painting. He soon finds that in order to please his patron, he must continue to paint pictures of death - and this leads him down a murderous path.

Season 3, Episode 9: Undertaking Palor

24 July 1991
Four boys find out that the local undertaker and a pharmacist are in cahoots to murder rich locals and profit from their funerals.

Season 3, Episode 10: Mournin' Mess

31 July 1991
There's a killer on the loose who preys on the homeless. Dale Sweeney is a recently fired reporter. He's approached by a homeless man named Robert who is accused of committing these murders. He tells Dale that he will give him the whole story with names to help prove his innocence if Dale will go the Grateful Homeless Cemetery and hang out until sunset then meet him after. Dale gets sidetracked by Jess Gilchrist, the spokesperson for the Grateful Homeless Society. By the time he meets up with Robert, he finds he has become the latest victim of the homeless killer. Dale is on his own to uncover the identity of the killer.

Season 3, Episode 11: Split Second

7 August 1991
Liz is a beautiful, but loose, bar waitress who marries Steve Dixon, the rich owner of a lumber camp. It Isn't a difficult decision as he's able to offer her a fairly comfortable life. But Steve has a violent jealous streak, not liking the attention she get's from his 'salt of the earth' employees. Things begin to turn sour, particularly in the bedroom, and Liz get's bored very quickly. But when the handsome young Ted turns up at their door looking for a job, the promiscuous seductress sets her sights on relieving her boredom.

Season 3, Episode 12: Deadline

14 August 1991
Charles McKenzie is a drunk out of work reporter who would do anything for a story. He meets Vicki in a bar who makes him feel like he can turn his life around. He quits drinking and can get his old job back as long as he can stay on the wagon and prove he can still bring in a good murder story. While reading a newspaper in Niko's Grill, he hears the owner kill his wife in the back. This is just the story he needs...

Season 3, Episode 13: Spoiled

21 August 1991
Janet is married to a doctor who's married to his work. She wants to live her life with passion, danger, and romance like Fuchsia Monroe, a soap opera character she watches religiously. When her television goes haywire, her friend Louise convinces her to get cable. With her husband unresponsive to her "needs," she begins a steamy affair with the cable guy.

Season 3, Episode 14: Yellow

28 August 1991
The year is 1918. During World War I, somewhere in France, it's the 49th day of continuous battle on the front lines. Lieutenant Martin Kalthrob doesn't want to be in the army anymore and asks his father, General Kalthrob, for a discharge. His father refuses but says he will transfer him to the rear if he leads a patrol to the German lines and fix the broken communication line. When he proves himself to be a coward, his father orders a court martial with penalty of death by firing squad.

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Season 4

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Season 4, Episode 1: None But the Lonely Heart

27 June 1992
A con-man who meets and marries rich old widows through a dating service, then murders them and takes the inheritance, finally gets the date of his dreams - the very worst of them.

Season 4, Episode 2: This'll Kill Ya

27 June 1992
Sophie Wagner and Pack Brightman are a couple of scientists who work at a research center with their sleazy and sadistic diabetic boss George Gatlin. Sophie and Pack decide to teach George a lesson by lacing his insulin with an unstable experimental serum that they have been working on.

Season 4, Episode 3: On a Deadman's Chest

27 June 1992
Arrogant and decadent singer Danny Darwin fronts the popular hard rock group Exorcist. Danny fears that guitarist Nick Bosch's marriage to the disapproving Scarlett will cause the band to break up. Groupie Vendetta sets Danny up with mysterious tattoo artist Farouche in an attempt to calm him down, but things go awry when Farouche's tattoo for Danny proves to be anything but comforting.

Season 4, Episode 4: Seance

4 July 1992
A pair of con artists, Benny Polosky and Alison Peters, want to swindle a rich man, Presco Chalmers, and make up this story: Benny is the lawyer of Chalmers' dead uncle Albert Peters, Alison is his daughter. Albert robbed $200,000 from the Wilmington bank in 1901, opened an illegal account where he put all the money, got arrested, spent 20 years in jail, then began a new life in Chicago, started a business, married, raised a family, and died last year. The amount of the money in the bank has reached almost $3 million. Chalmers and Alison will get the money if they pay 10% to Benny for not telling authorities that the investment was illegal in the first place. Chalmers buys the made-up story. But Benny spoils everything at the last moment, when Chalmers is about to pay the money...

Season 4, Episode 5: Beauty Rest

11 July 1992
Life hasn't been easy for model Helen. She is getting older and her dreams of hitting the big time are drying out. So when she finally gets the chance to take part in a beauty contest, she is determined to do ANYTHING in her hands to win.

Season 4, Episode 6: What's Cookin'

22 July 1992
Married couple Fred and Erma's restaurant has seen better days. But things change once a stranger walks in, with a rather unique steak recipe...

Season 4, Episode 7: The New Arrival

25 July 1992
An abnormally difficult child tests a psychologist.

Season 4, Episode 8: Showdown

1 August 1992
A gunfighter confronts his past.

Season 4, Episode 9: King of the Road

8 August 1992
A life on the edge hot rodder named Billy comes to town run by Sheriff Garrett, he immediately dates and romances his daughter with ulterior motives linked to Garrett's past, for which he was once a champion of the hot rodding. Will Garrett accept Billy's challenge to the death?

Season 4, Episode 10: Maniac at Large

19 August 1992
A mousy librarian over-react reports of a serial killer.

Season 4, Episode 11: Split Personality

26 August 1992
A swindler, Jack loves money and... twins. One day he meets rich twins that show interest in him.

Season 4, Episode 12: Strung Along

2 September 1992
An aging puppeteer suspects his much younger wife has a lover.

Season 4, Episode 13: Werewolf Concerto

9 September 1992
An Agatha Christie-style mystery sees the inhabitants of a remote hotel terrorized by rumors of a werewolf prowling the area. Not to fear, as a self-appointed werewolf hunter is amongst them. But might he have a dark secret of his own?

Season 4, Episode 14: Curiosity Killed

16 September 1992
Two radically contrasting elderly couples -- the bitter and bickering Jack and Cynthia and the more content and laid-back Harry and Lucille -- spend a weekend together in the woods. Lucille and Harry produce a magical voodoo potion that restores one's youth and beauty, but the shrewish Cynthia puts a damper on everyone's plans to become young again.

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Season 5

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Season 5, Episode 1: Death of Some Salesmen

2 October 1993
A conniving con-man posing as a salesman gets more than he bargained for when he comes knocks at the door of the wrong family.

Season 5, Episode 2: As Ye Sow

2 October 1993
Wealthy and successful middle-aged businessman Leo Burns suspects that his much younger wife Bridget is having an extramarital affair. Leo hires sleazy private investigator G.G. Devoe to find out the identity of Bridget's lover.

Season 5, Episode 3: Forever Ambergris

2 October 1993
A jaded, has-been photographer plots the demise of his younger, talented protégé when they go on assignment in Central America.

Season 5, Episode 4: Food for Thought

6 October 1993
The great Zambini is an old carnival psychic who performs his act of mind reading with the aid of his young assistant Connie. She however is a slave to her cruel master who often beats her. But when she and a handsome fire eater called Johnny become secret lovers, things look set to change. Sadly Zambini has the advantage of being able to read his desperate assistant's mind.

Season 5, Episode 5: People Who Live in Brass Hearses

13 October 1993
Hot-tempered convict Billy DeLuca gets out of prison after serving a two year sentence. Billy convinces his dim-witted brother Virgil to help him rob a warehouse as a means of getting revenge on kindly ice cream vendor Mr. Byrd, who's responsible for sending Billy to jail. However, the plan goes seriously awry.

Season 5, Episode 6: Two for the Show

20 October 1993
A man murders his beautiful younger wife when she threatens to leave him. He then packs her body in a big suitcase and boards a train, where he is stalked by an inquisitive detective.

Season 5, Episode 7: House of Horror

27 October 1993
Three pledges for a fraternity on probation run by a soft-spoken leader and his two sidekicks are visited by a beautiful young sorority gal, who is looking for a frat to pledge her own sorority ends up tagging along with the pledges to an abandoned house where an "urban legend" murder took place years before. Led by the obnoxious head pledge master, the three pledges must enter the house and past each test given to them. The question is will they survive to join the frat?

Season 5, Episode 8: Well Cooked Hams

3 November 1993
Inept struggling magician Miles Federman murders rival master magician Kraygen so he can steal Kraygen's Box of Death trick and finally achieve the success he's been striving for. However, events from Federman's past come back to haunt him on the night he premieres his new act.

Season 5, Episode 9: Creep Course

10 November 1993
Stella Bishop is a full blown geek taking a course on Egyptian mythology led by the pompous Professor Finley, who also happens to be a collector of Egyptian antiquity and one undead, horny mummy! Little does Stella know that she's intended to be the target [sacrifice] for his undead living collectible and is soon wooed by the charismatic Reggie, who has his own sinister plans. In the end, who will be the one to survive this Creep Course?

Season 5, Episode 10: Came the Dawn

17 November 1993
A lecherous millionaire offers a lift to a beautiful seductress in the middle of nowhere with horrific consequences.

Season 5, Episode 11: Oil's Well That Ends Well

24 November 1993
A gold digger who believes no one can top her in extortion gets the ultimate prize. Gina teams with Jerry or is it Carl to plant her husband Larry and resurrect him for a payoff. Gina and Jerry/Carl devise a plot to bilk some hoped for investors at the Legion bar of money in return for delaying notification of an oil strike. Gina is unaware that the guys are all in cahoots. When Gina learns her plans are turned upside down by the guys revelations. Gina lights up the stage with another discarded flame.

Season 5, Episode 12: Half-Way Horrible

1 December 1993
The owner of a chemical company's sinister past dealings come back to haunt him when he identifies the body of a business associate.

Season 5, Episode 13: Till Death Do We Part

8 December 1993
Smooth young gigolo Johnny Canaparo makes a living as the kept boy of dangerous mob-connected older woman Ruth Sanderson. Johnny incurs Ruth's lethal jealous wrath after Ruth finds out that Johnny has been romancing attractive young waitress Lucy Chadwick on the side.

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Season 6

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Season 6, Episode 1: Let the Punishment Fit the Crime

31 October 1994
Predatory, shameless, and obnoxious ambulance chasing lawyer Geraldine Ferrett gets busted in the remote small town of Stuecksville for a moving violation. Ferrett initially thinks that she can simply resolve the situation by paying a fine, but soon discovers that the folks in Stuecksville have a very odd and strict concept of justice.

Season 6, Episode 2: Only Skin Deep

31 October 1994
Carl, a brutish, violent, and hot-tempered man with a history of abusive relationships, crashes a Halloween party held by his ex-wife Linda. Carl meets a masked and mysterious, yet attractive and alluring young woman named Molly at said party. Carl returns to Molly's decrepit abode for a passionate one night stand. However, Carl discovers too late that Molly is harboring a very dark secret of her own.

Season 6, Episode 3: Whirlpool

31 October 1994
Struggling comic book artist Rolanda gets fired from her job by her mean and demanding boss Vern. However, Rolanda finds herself experiencing the events of this one fateful day over and over again with some changes, but the same dismal results.

Season 6, Episode 4: Operation Friendship

9 November 1994
Put upon computer programmer Nelson DeMears doesn't have an easy time at work. He doesn't have the respect of his co-workers or his boss. He doesn't have any friends either. That is except for his imaginary friend Eddie. One day a beautiful young psychologist moves in to the apartment building where the meek Nelson lives. Threatened by the fact that she is a psychologist. Eddie is none to please by the growing attraction and fed up of taking a back seat to Neslon's wimpy personae. He sets about resolving the situation.

Season 6, Episode 5: Revenge Is the Nuts

16 November 1994
Residents at a shelter for the blind turn the tables on their cruel overseer.

Season 6, Episode 6: The Bribe

23 November 1994
Newly appointed fire marshal Inspector Martin Zeller aims to shut down the strip club that his daughter Hilery works as a dancer at. However, Zeller finds out Hilery isn't getting a scholarship for college, so he takes a bribe from sleazy club owner Puck to pay for her tuition. Nonetheless, Zeller still decides to go through with his plan to close down the club.

Season 6, Episode 7: The Pit

30 November 1994
Felix Johnson and Aaron Scott are two of the top martial arts fighters in their game. Their last fight was a draw, and for the most part, they can accept that. Its their wives who are a different story. Their hatred for one another has gotten the two fighters into a no holds barred death match. However, the wives are in for a shock on fight night.

Season 6, Episode 8: The Assassin

7 December 1994
A happy housewife is pitted against three CIA agents, who have come to kill her husband, a supposed rogue agent.

Season 6, Episode 9: Staired in Horror

14 December 1994
Fugitive Clyde is on the lam from an angry mob. He seeks refuge in a decrepit old mansion owned by an elderly woman. Unbeknownst to Clyde, said creepy abode has an unusual curse attached to it.

Season 6, Episode 10: In the Groove

21 December 1994
Abrasive shock jock Gary gets demoted to the graveyard shift by his bitchy radio station owner sister Rita because of poor ratings. Gary manages to regain his stride thanks to his eager new partner Valerie. Gary and Valerie plot together to murder Rita, but things don't go according to plan.

Season 6, Episode 11: Surprise Party

28 December 1994
No-count Ray Wells kills his dying father so he can inherit an old ruined farmhouse. Unbeknownst to Ray, said farmhouse has a nightmarish legacy attached to it.

Season 6, Episode 12: Doctor of Horror

4 January 1995
A Mad Doctor enlists the help of two security guards in a morgue in an attempt to unlock the secrets of the human soul.

Season 6, Episode 13: Comes the Dawn

11 January 1995
Colonel Parker and Sergeant Burrows are two ex-soldiers with a murky past. They head in to the Alaskan wilderness to do some illegal hunting. Bringing a local girl called Jeri Drumbeater to act as a scout. Unknown to the two army men they are going to be made to face the consequences of their evil past actions in the dark, cold region.

Season 6, Episode 14: 99 & 44/100 Pure Horror

18 January 1995
Luden Sandelton is the meek president of a company that manufactures bars of soap. When the advertising campaign for the latest line of soap is deemed a failure, Luden has no choice but to fire his artist wife Willa who designed the artwork for said campaign. However, the greedy and unfaithful Willa has her own deadly ideas about rectifying the situation.

Season 6, Episode 15: You, Murderer

25 January 1995
Plastic surgery makes a criminal look like Humphrey Bogart.

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Season 7

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Season 7, Episode 1: Fatal Caper

19 April 1996

Season 7, Episode 2: Last Respects

26 April 1996

Season 7, Episode 3: A Slight Case of Murder

3 May 1996

Season 7, Episode 4: Escape

17 May 1996

Season 7, Episode 5: Horror in the Night

24 May 1996

Season 7, Episode 6: Cold War

31 May 1996

Season 7, Episode 7: The Kidnapper

7 June 1996

Season 7, Episode 8: Report from the Grave

14 June 1996
A scientist named Elliot invents a way to read memories of the dead. To test the device, Elliot and his girlfriend Arianne break into the crypt of a dead serial killer.

Season 7, Episode 9: Smoke Wrings

21 June 1996

Season 7, Episode 10: About Face

28 June 1996
A sleazy minister in Victorian England gets a nasty surprise when he discovers he previously fathered twin daughters.

Season 7, Episode 11: Confession

5 July 1996
A man suspected in a series of murders is questioned by a hard case detective.

Season 7, Episode 12: Ear Today... Gone Tomorrow

12 July 1996

Season 7, Episode 13: The Third Pig

19 July 1996
An animated horror version of the Three Little Pigs story. When the third pig is tried and convicted for the murder of his two brothers by a wolf jury, he builds a zombie Frankenpig to take out his revenge on the actual murderer.