The WORST episodes of Tales From the Cryptkeeper

Every episode of Tales From the Cryptkeeper ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst 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.

Last Updated: 9/24/2024Network: ABC (US)Status: Ended
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5.00
2 votes

#1 - Too Cool for School

Season 3 - Episode 13 - Aired 12/31/1999

Unaired

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The Avenging Phantom / Myth Conceptions
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5.00
6 votes

#2 - The Avenging Phantom / Myth Conceptions

Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/24/1994

In “The Avenging Phantom,” a young boy named Jimmy wishes he can get revenge on his tormentors like his comic book superhero, The Avenging Phantom, and gets his wish, but with dire consequences. In “Myth Conceptions,” an archaeologist discovers the tomb of Medusa and learns the hard way why others before him have died trying to find it.

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5.33
3 votes

#3 - 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.

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2 votes

#4 - 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.

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2 votes

#5 - 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...

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2 votes

#6 - 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.

Directors: Rick Marshall
Writer: Peter Sauder
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The Weeping Woman
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4 votes

#7 - The Weeping Woman

Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/8/1994

Camille and Mildred from "Fare Tonight" return, this time, to investigate the sightings of a woman's ghost who haunts a local inn.

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Cold Blood, Warm Hearts / The Spider and the Flies
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6 votes

#8 - Cold Blood, Warm Hearts / The Spider and the Flies

Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/17/1994

The Vaultkeeper and the Old Witch meet at the beach and swap stories. In “Cold Blood, Warm Hearts,” the Old Witch tells the tales of two lakes that are haunted by monsters. In “The Spider and the Flies,” the Vaultkeeper tells the story of a city that is haunted by a spider.

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Dead Men Don't Jump!
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5.60
5 votes

#9 - Dead Men Don't Jump!

Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/15/1994

The Witch, The Cryptkeeper, and The Vaultkeeper return to tell the tale of a boy who challenges a monster to a basketball game that could mean the end of his life if he loses.

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3 votes

#10 - 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.

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Growing Pains
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5.67
3 votes

#11 - 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.

Directors: Laura Shepherd
Writer: Libby Hinson
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5.75
4 votes

#12 - 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.

Directors: Rick Marshall
Writer: J.D. Smith
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2 votes

#13 - 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.

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#14 - 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.

Directors: Rick Marshall
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3 votes

#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.

Directors: Rick Marshall
Writer: J.D. Smith
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6.00
3 votes

#16 - 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.

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3 votes

#17 - 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.

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6.00
4 votes

#18 - 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.

Directors: Mike Crunyescha
Writer: Kim Thompson
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All the Gory Details!
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6.20
5 votes

#19 - All the Gory Details!

Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/1/1994

A pair of newspaper reporters try to track down an old mad scientist.

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Pleasant Screams
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6.33
15 votes

#20 - 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.

Directors: Laura Shepherd
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Grounds for Horror
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6.38
8 votes

#21 - Grounds for Horror

Season 1 - Episode 12 - Aired 12/11/1993

Summer campers befriend an invisible being who plays pranks on a strict no-nonsense counselor.

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The Haunted Mine
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6.40
5 votes

#22 - 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.

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Chuck (and Melvin) and the Beanstalker
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6.67
3 votes

#23 - 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.

Directors: Laura Shepherd
Writer: David Finley
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Hunted
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6.67
3 votes

#24 - 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.

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While the Cat's Away
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6.85
48 votes

#25 - While the Cat's Away

Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/18/1993

Two brothers plan to rob an abandoned mansion, where The Cryptkeeper has set up a monstrous security system to get rid of intruders.

Directors: Laura Shepherd
Writer: Manny Coto
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