The BEST episodes of Tales From the Cryptkeeper
Every episode of Tales From the Cryptkeeper ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Tales From the Cryptkeeper!
To capitalize on the merchandising craze brought forth by HBO's series "Tales from the Crypt", they invented this Saturday morning cartoon. Much like the series (and EC comics) that the cartoon was based on, the show featured different child characters weekly who ended up in twisted situations, but with a little more morality play than the HBO series. Still hosting was The Cryptkeeper, and in the second season, The Vaultkeeper and The Old Witch (both narrators from the comic series) had come in to upstage The Cryptkeeper. After two seasons, the show disappeared from ABC's lineup, but resurfaced on CBS in 1999 with new episodes, under the title "New Tales from the Cryptkeeper." The Vaultkeeper and the Old Witch were now absent as hosts, and the Cryptkeeper kept popping up within the context of the story more than in the previous seasons. In 2000, CBS dropped their entire Saturday morning children's show schedule. Since then, the show has aired in Canada and elsewhere in the world.
#1 - Unpopular Mechanics
Season 3 - Episode 4 - Aired 9/30/1999
Randall, who loves to invent destructive mechanical gadgets, gets his comeuppance as his appliances suddenly turn on him.
#2 - Growing Pains
Season 2 - Episode 8 - Aired 10/29/1994
The Old Witch takes over telling this episode's story after turning the Cryptkeeper into a scarecrow. In this installment, a plant enthusiast named Wendell (from "Hyde and Go Shriek") falls for Rose, a new girl at school with a rather "weedy" family secret.
#3 - The Brothers Gruff
Season 2 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/5/1994
A boy named Eddie is followed home by a troll after crossing a bridge. Now it's up to him and his friend Sheldon, who knows almost everything about monsters, to defeat the troll when it kidnaps Eddie's older brother.
#4 - Uncle Harry's Horrible House of Horrors
Season 2 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/12/1994
During a trip to the carnival, a boy's birthday is being spoiled by his skeptical uncle, but the latter of whom soon has his views of the supernatural challenged when they take a ride through a frighteningly realistic haunted house.
#5 - Hunted
Season 2 - Episode 11 - Aired 11/19/1994
A heartless hunter in the Amazon is soon the hunted when a shapeshifting monster named Onnaya starts pursuing him after freeing the captured animals.
#6 - Chuck (and Melvin) and the Beanstalker
Season 2 - Episode 12 - Aired 12/3/1994
Chuck and Melvin (the narcissistic prince and his brother from "The Sleeping Beauty") return; this time in a horrifying retelling of "Jack and the Beanstalk" where they must steal the treasure of a giant Cyclops named Beanstalker.
#7 - Transylvania Express
Season 2 - Episode 13 - Aired 12/10/1994
Two surfer dudes, none other than Mike and Ben, accidentally get on a train headed for Transylvania, where they must fight back against vampires.
#8 - Sharon Sharalike
Season 3 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/9/1999
Selfish Shauna, unwlling to share even her most neglected toys with he younger sister Katie, spitefully hides Sharon Sharalike, the new doll that they've just recieved. But Shauna learns a lesson when she hears Sharon crying in the dead of night and comes to disover that the doll has mysteriously come to life.
#9 - Imaginary Friend
Season 3 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/16/1999
To relieve boredom while awaiting the grande opening of Laserland, teens Leo and Jamie decide to play ""welcome wagon"" by taunting the new neighbor, 9-year-old Mary Anne. But Mary Anne's new, ghostly ""imaginary friend"" turns the table on the bullies, escalating when Leo snatches the girl's beloved kitten, Boo.
#10 - Waste Not, Haunt Not
Season 3 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/23/1999
When brothers Richard and Stephen improperly dispose of the toxic waste from their failed Science Fair Project in a nearby bog, it comes back to haunt them in the form of a Bog Blob.
#11 - The Haunted Mine
Season 2 - Episode 7 - Aired 10/22/1994
A boy goes to visit his aunt, which leads to a trip inside an abandoned mine filled with unusual shapes and a dark secret.
#12 - Competitive Spirit
Season 3 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/7/1999
Vincent tells Tom a ghost story about a Mountain Spirit In order to spook out his main competitor before the big ski race, but the spirit really exists and comes to torment Vincent for his deceptive ways.
#13 - Trouble in Store
Season 3 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/14/1999
Derek and Rob, trying to steal from Rodman's Department Store, get locked in the store overnight as the mannequins come to life.
#14 - So Very Attractive
Season 3 - Episode 7 - Aired 10/21/1999
Julia, obsessed with the idea of being more beautiful, puts on a miracle cream that fulfills her wish but causes her to attract the unwanted attention of all sorts of creatures.
#15 - Drawn and Quartered
Season 3 - Episode 8 - Aired 10/28/1999
Aspiring artist Ralph finds a magic pencil that allows him to put life into his drawings and take revenge on the bullies who have been harassing him, but revenge isn't as sweet as he thought.
#16 - All Booked Up
Season 3 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/4/1999
Book-hater Greg is forced by a mysterious librarian to endlessly relive a bunch of classic stories.
#17 - Town Gathering
Season 3 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/11/1999
Erin, who has a reputation for making up stories, discovers that no one will believe her when she discovers that the people proposing a new business deal to her mother are actually aliens planning to make a meal out of the townsfolk.
#18 - It's for You
Season 3 - Episode 11 - Aired 11/18/1999
For Christmas, Gary recieves a phone line for his bedroom with the proviso that he doesn't ""abuse the privilege."" Naturally, Gary immediately begins making prank calls, but he soon finds the tables turned when one of the people he called begins stalking him via telephone. Gary pays the caller a visit and discovers Mrs. Emma Needham, an old lady who soon proves that she's not as nice she initially appeared...
#19 - Monsters Ate My Homework
Season 3 - Episode 12 - Aired 11/25/1999
After Evan gets away with telling his teacher the ultimate lie that a monster ate his homework, he gets a visit from some monsters inquiring after the missing homework, and about having him for dinner.
#21 - This Wraps It Up
Season 1 - Episode 11 - Aired 12/4/1993
A girl becomes the object of her classmates' never-ending ridiculing because of her tallness. But when a mummy unleashes a curse on everyone, the kids turn to her to defeat the mummy and break the spell.
#22 - Nature
Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/25/1993
After two brothers torment ants at a picnic, they are shrunk by a mysterious ray and are forced to face the trials and tribulations of the insect world.
#23 - Pleasant Screams
Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/2/1993
A teacher and one of his students find themselves trapped in the fantasies of another student whom they have tormented.
#24 - Gone Fishin’ / A Little Body of Work
Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/9/1993
In “Gone Fishin’,” Randy seems to find his uncle's fishing hobby distasteful, but Uncle Ned claims that “if you take the bait, you pay the price” — a lesson that Ned’s soon to learn from the fish. In “A Little Body of Work,” Eddie and Herman challenge Kevin to a race in the Mustang he’s rebuilding. The hoodlums go to great lengths to win the race, only to have their devious plan revealed by Kevin’s Mustang.
#25 - The Works...in Wax
Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/16/1993
A boy discovers that statues in his favourite wax museum come to life.