Season 5 Breakdown

Normal Episodes: 13
TV Specials: 0
TV Movies: 0

Tales from the Crypt Season 5 (1993)

Tales from the Crypt Death of Some Salesmen 5x01 Death of Some Salesmen
A sneaky con man passing himself off as a cemetery plot salesman who kills off the people after selling them phony tombstones. He is taken prisoner by Ma and Pa Brackett and their deformed ...
Oct. 02, 1993
Tales from the Crypt As Ye Sow 5x02 As Ye Sow
A jealous husband hires a detective to spy on his wife whom he believes is cheating on him with the priest at her church. After heading to the church to kill the priest himself, he ...
Oct. 02, 1993
Tales from the Crypt Forever Ambergris 5x03 Forever Ambergris
Dalton is an aging photographer who is being upstaged by his sidekick, Ike. Dalton sends Ike to a disease warfare area. The young man gets a deadly virus that rots away his body and ...
Oct. 02, 1993
Tales from the Crypt Food for Thought 5x04 Food for Thought
Zambini is a circus mind-controlling psychic who controls his beautiful helper with his telepathic powers. When she tries to run off with a handsome young "fire eater", the clown murders ...
Oct. 06, 1993
Tales from the Crypt People Who Live in Brass Hearses 5x05 People Who Live in Brass Hearses
Billy and his dumb witted brother hatch a plan to take revenge on the ice cream man who sent the Billy to prison.
Oct. 13, 1993
Tales from the Crypt Two for the Show 5x06 Two for the Show
In a fit of rage, a man murders his adulterous wife and is almost busted by a cop. The man chops up his wife, puts her in a trunk, and lugs her to the train station, the cop follows. ...
Oct. 20, 1993
Tales from the Crypt House of Horror 5x07 House of Horror
Three fraternity pledges are dared by their pledge master to spend a night in a haunted house. One by one they enter and stumble upon horrors that the fraternity brothers rigged up ...
Oct. 27, 1993
Tales from the Crypt Well Cooked Hams 5x08 Well Cooked Hams
A young magician who has murdered his main competition, Zorbin the Magnificent, in desperate need of something to spice up his act. He meets an old magician with a new trick called ...
Nov. 03, 1993
Tales from the Crypt Creep Course 5x09 Creep Course
Reggie is a college jock who is trying to pass a history test. He asks a brainy co-ed, Stella, to tutor him. She ends getting locked up in a mummy's tomb by Finley and Reggie. Finley ...
Nov. 10, 1993
Tales from the Crypt Came the Dawn 5x10 Came the Dawn
A stranded woman is picked up hitch hiking by a wealthy man, who takes her back to his vacation home. He attempts to seduce the girl, but the man leaves and begins arguing with his ...
Nov. 17, 1993
Tales from the Crypt Oil's Well That Ends Well 5x11 Oil's Well That Ends Well
A con artist and his girlfriend plan their next caper by tricking some southern boys into thinking there is oil underneath a cemetery. The con woman pretends to murder the conman in ...
Nov. 24, 1993
Tales from the Crypt Half-Way Horrible 5x12 Half-Way Horrible
A manufacturer kills his friend by sacrificing him in exchange for a secret chemical used as a preservative. The man turns to a witch doctor for help when he is haunted by the memories ...
Dec. 01, 1993
Tales from the Crypt Till Death Do We Part 5x13 Till Death Do We Part
A pretty waitress has an affair with the boyfriend of an elderly mob boss called Ruthless Ruth. She forces him to kill her in front of her, but at the last second he opens fire on Ruth's ...
Dec. 08, 1993
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Season 5 Characters

Crypt Keeper voiced by John Kassir
Jerry played by Lou Diamond Phillips
Zorbin the Magnificent played by Martin Sheen
Norma played by Brooke Shields
Zambini played by Ernie Hudson
Dalton played by Roger Daltrey
Kraygen played by Martin Sheen
Ma Brackett played by Tim Curry
Lucy Chadwick played by Kate Vernon
Pa Brackett played by Tim Curry
Prof. Finley played by Jeffrey Jones
Leo Burns played by Hector Elizondo
Andy Conway played by David Paymer
Winona Brackett played by Tim Curry
Waters played by Keith Coogan
Billy DeLuca played by Bill Paxton
Thomas Miller played by Martin Sheen
Roger Lassen played by Clancy Brown
Judd Campbell played by Ed Begley Jr.
Ike played by Steve Buscemi
Johnny Canaparo played by John Stamos
Officer Fine played by Vincent Spano
Miles Federman played by Billy Zane

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Season 5 Videos

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Season 5 Quotes

05x10 - Came the Dawn Season 5 / Episode 10: - Came the Dawn

Roger: You'd stick your dick in a shrub if you thought there were a rodent in it!
05x06 - Two for the Show Season 5 / Episode 6: - Two for the Show

Officer Fine: Long time no see see.
Andy Conway: You going to Chicago?
Officer Fine: yep Case I'm working on, i cant really talk about it.
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Season 5 Trivia

  • Episode 11 - Final appearance of Rory Calhoun.
  • Episode 13 - In the Crypt Keeper's introduction, the baseball diamond diagram lists "Gaines" on the pitcher's mound and "Feldstein" on the home plate. This is a reference to William M. Gaines and Al Feldstein, who were, respectively, the publisher and prominent wr
  • Episode 05 - The title is based on the proverb, "People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones."
  • Episode 06 - The title comes from the expression used to start an event, "One for the money, two for the show, three to get ready and four to go".
  • Episode 13 - The title is a line from the Christian wedding ceremony that implies that the marriage that one is about to enter is a life long commitment.

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