Tales from the Crypt Episode Guide
Season 4
#39   None But the Lonely Heart   (Originally aired on 6/27/92)
Starring:
Treat Williams, Frances Sternhagen, Henry Gibson, Tom Hanks and Sugar Ray Leonard
A conman gets rich by marrying rich old ladies then killing them to inherit their fortunes.  When someone catches on to his plan and starts sending him cryptic messages, he goes on a rampage, killing almost everyone he knows.  Finally, he is lured to a graveyard, where he discovers that the blackmail was a trick to lure him there where he could be reunited with the old ladies he killed who have returned from the grave to claim their husband.
#40   This'll Kill Ya   (Originally aired on 6/27/92)
Starring:
Sonia Braga, Dylan McDermott and Cleavon Little
Two scientists working on an experimental drug keep getting harassed by their sleezy boss.  While administering the boss's daily injection of insulin, the scientist discovers that she accidentally gave him the new drug instead and that he now has only hours to live.  After breaking into one of the scientist's homes, he overhears an answering machine message from the other scientist about how they "got" their boss.  The boss ends up killing the male scientist and dragging his corpse to the police station.  Shortly thereafter, the female scientist shows up  and tells him that he isn't going to die after all, it was just a joke.
#41   On A Dead Man's Chest  (Originally aired on 6/27/92)
Starring:
Yul Vazquez, Paul Hipp, Tia Carrere, Sherrie Rose, Heavy D and Gregg Allman
A sleezy rockstar hates his lead guitarist's new wife, believing that she is trying to break up the band.  The rocker gets a tatoo on his chest by a voodoo tatoo artist who says he can see what's underneath a person's skin. The tatoo ends up being a picture of the new wife that he hates so much, and he goes crazy and murders her.  He then goes really nuts and see the tatoo come to life to torment him.  He ends up cutting the skin off his chest to get rid of it.
#42   Seance  (Originally aired on 7/4/92)
Starring:
Cathy Moriarty, Ben Cross, Ellen Crawford and John Vernon
A pair of conartists cook up a scheme to swindle an old man out of money. When he finds out about the dirty deeds, he takes his suitcase full of cash and splits.  Sadly for him, the elevator in the building isn't working, and he falls to his death down the elevator shaft.  The two conartists then try to bilk his blind widow out of the money by pretending to hold a seance to contact the deceased in the great beyond.  They actually do contact him, and he returns to take revenge.
#43   What's Cookin'?   (Originally aired on 7/11/92)
Starring:
Christopher Reeve, Bess Armstrong, Art LaFleur, Meat Loaf and Judd Nelson
Much to the horror of the owner, a drifter turns a run down restaurant into a hit by killing people and cutting the bodies up into steaks.  The owner starts to get used to the idea when the profits start rolling in, but unfortunately the cops are closing in, and the drifter has made the owner of the restaurant look like the murderer.  The owner and his wife decide that the best way to take care of the problem is to put the drifter on the menu.
#44   The New Arrival   (Originally aired on 7/22/92)
Starring:
David Warner, Joan Severance, Zelda Rubenstein, Twiggy Lawson and Robert Patrick
A pompous radio child psychologist drags his producer and station manager along to the home of a single mother with the ultimate problem child.  The mother turns out to be a bit nuts, and the shrink deduces that she has a split personality and is both the mother and the daughter.  As the three wander the house looking for the child, the station manager and producer are killed, leaving the shrink alone with the child - who always wears a mask.  Turns out the child is a zombie child who died years ago, and the mother's love keeps her alive.
#45  Beauty Rest   (Originally aired on 7/25/92)
Starring:
Mimi Rogers, Jennifer Rubin, Kathy Ireland and Buck Henry
An out of work actress goes berzerk after her roommate lands a job that she had wanted.  The roomie also has a note from a man that she's been seeing that would make her the winner of a beauty pageant.  The actress slips sleeping pills into her roomie's drink so that she can steal the note and hence be the pageant winner, but she gives her roomie too many pills and the roomie dies.  The actress makes the death look like suicide and heads to the pageant.  After murdering another contestant, she wins the pageant.  The bad news: it's the Miss Autopsy 1992 pageant, and the winner must be deceased.
#46   Showdown   (Originally aired on 8/1/92)
Starring:
David Morse, Neil Gray Giuntoli, Roderick Cook and Thomas F. Duffy
In the Old West, a gunman kills the sheriff in a showdown.  Afterwords, he finds himself seeing the ghosts of all of the people that he's killed.  By speaking with them, he discovers that after killing the sheriff, he himself was gunned down by the sheriff's men and is also a ghost.  He joins ranks with the other ghosts and becomes a legend.
#47   King of the Road   (Originally aired on 8/8/92)
Starring:
Raymond J. Barry, Brad Pitt, Michelle Bronson and Jack Keeler
An aging drag racer turned cop is challenged to one last race by a young hoodlum.  The villain kidnaps the cop's daughter to force him into it.  The cop and the hoodlum race, but the cop tricks the hoodlum by changing the track at the last minute before the race, and the hoodlum is killed in a firey accident.
#48   Maniac At Large   (Originally aired on 8/19/92)
Starring:
Blythe Danner, Salome Jens, Clarence Williams III, Obba Babatunde and Adam Ant
In a city with a serial killer on the loose, a woman has to work late at her new job at the public library.  There, she meets many people who she believes could be the killer.  She grows more convinced that she is to be the killer's next victim, and that insanity drivers her over the edge.  While alone with her boss, the woman kills the boss, sure that the boss was the killer.  It turns out, the paranoid woman was the serial killer the whole time, believing that each of her victims was out to kill her.
#49   Split Personality   (Originally aired on 8/26/92)
Starring:
Joe Pesci, Jaqueline Alexandra, Kristen Amber and Burt Young
A sleezy conman tried to get his hands on a pair of naive young twins.  He tells them that he too has a twin brother, and that they have a business out of the country so only one of them can be in the U.S. at a time.  The girls believe it and he marries them both.  When they discover his deception, they decide that they don't want to share him anymore.  And with the help of a chainsaw, they each take their own share.
#50   Strung Along   (Originally aired on 9/2/92)
Starring:
Donald O'Connor, Patricia Charbonneau and Zach Galligan
An elderly puppeteer with a much younger wife suspects his wife of cheating.  He forgets about that temporarily though as he receives an offer to appear on a tv show with his puppet Koko the Clown.  His wife convinces him to hire an assistant to help out.  He finds more clues about her unfaithfulness while growing closer to his handsome young apprentice. One night he hears his wife scream, and rushes into the room to find Koko stabbing her.  The old man drops dead of a heart attack.  It turns out that the wife and the apprentice were having an affair and rigged a robotic Koko to pretend to stab her.  Their plans go awry however, when the real Koko does come to life and kills them.
#51   Werewolf Concerto   (Originally aired on 9/9/92)
Starring:
Timothy Dalton, Dennis Farina, Walter Gotell, Charles Fleischer, Reginald VelJohnson, Lela Rochon, Beverly D'Angelo and Wolfgang Puck
The guests at a secluded resort are being killed by a werewolf.  The mystery to be solved is which of the guests is the beast.  That is up to the werewolf hunter, Mr. Lokai.  He does his best to figure out the mystery, even killing a man who he thought was the monster, but who really turned out not to be.  He narrows it down to a beautiful concert pianist who is rarely seen during the daylight hours, and he plans to dispose of her.  When the moon comes up though, we find that Lokai IS the werewolf, and the pianist is the hunter, who also happens to be a vampire.
#52   Curiosity Killed   (Originally aired on 9/16/92)
Starring:
Margot Kidder, Kevin McCarthy, J.A. Preston and Madge Sinclair
An elderly couple go camping in the woods with some friends.  The bitchy wife is miserable about the whole thing, but the husband and friends convince her that it is in her best interest to stay.  The wife of the friend has a secret voodoo recipe for a youth potion, and they all plan to be young again.  However, the old man decides to exclude his rotten wife and let her wither.  The wife secretly dumps vodka in the potion, turning it into poison and killing her husband and the two friends.  She takes the potion herself and becomes young, but unknown to her, the family dog also took the potion, and it makes the dog young and strong and HUNGRY.
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