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Tales from the Crypt Season 3 Episodes
Season 3 Episode Guide
14 Episodes 1991 - 1991
Episode 1
The Trap
Sat, Jun 15, 1991 30 mins
A loser (Bruce McGill) devises an insurance swindle involving his wife and his brother. Teri Garr, Bruno Kirby. Directed by Michael J. Fox, who also appears.
Episode 2
Loved to Death
Sat, Jun 15, 1991 30 mins
A screenwriter (Andrew McCarthy) resorts to magic to attract his aspiring-actress neighbor, but the plan backfires when a love potion makes her overly devoted to him. Mariel Hemingway.
Episode 3
Carrion Death
Sat, Jun 15, 1991 30 mins
A killer (Kyle MacLachlan) makes a run for the border, with a diligent lawman and a buzzard in hot pursuit. George Deloy. John Kassir provides the voice of the Cryptkeeper.
Episode 4
Abra Cadaver
Wed, Jun 19, 1991 30 mins
A doctor (Beau Bridges) invents a serum to restore life after death---and uses it on the brother who accidentally disabled him years earlier. Tony Goldwyn.
Episode 5
Top Billing
Wed, Jun 26, 1991 30 mins
An actor (Jon Lovitz) brings down the curtain on a more successful competitor after losing too many roles. Bruce Boxleitner, John Astin, Sandra Bernhard, Louise Fletcher, Paul Benedict.
Episode 6
Dead Wait
Wed, Jul 3, 1991 30 mins
The allure of an exotic pearl could spell doom for a con man (James Remar) on a tropical island where voodoo is practiced. Whoopi Goldberg, John Rhys-Davies, Vanity.
Episode 7
The Reluctant Vampire
Wed, Jul 10, 1991 30 mins
Supplies run low at a blood bank, where a vampire (Malcolm McDowell) moonlights as a graveyard-shift watchman. George Wendt, Sandra Searles Dickinson, Michael Berryman, Paul Gleason.
Episode 8
Easel Kill 'Ya
Wed, Jul 17, 1991 30 mins
A struggling artist (Tim Roth) gets drawn into a macabre form of portraiture---his subjects are dead. William Atherton, Roya Megnot.
Episode 9
The Undertaking Parlor
Wed, Jul 24, 1991 30 mins
An undertaker and a pharmacist make a killing by disposing of wealthy citizens---until four boys stumble onto their plot. John Glover, Graham Jarvis. Directed by Michael Thau. Written by Ron Finley.
Episode 10
Mournin' Mess
Wed, Jul 31, 1991 30 mins
A journalist (Steven Weber) learns a new meaning for "deadline" when his attempts to dig up a headline unearth a ghoulish plot. Richard Libertini.
Episode 11
Split Second
Wed, Aug 7, 1991 30 mins
A jealous lumberjack has an ax to grind after his bride (Michelle Johnson) seduces one of his employees, a naive logger whose career is cut short by an "accident." Billy Wirth.
Episode 12
Deadline
Wed, Aug 14, 1991 30 mins
A washed-up reporter's second chance at fame may become his last. Richard Jordan, Marg Helgenberger, John Capodice. Directed by Walter Hill.
Episode 13
Spoiled
Wed, Aug 21, 1991 30 mins
A surgeon (Alan Rachins) vows to take revenge when he learns of his wife's affair with a smooth operator. Faye Grant, Anthony LaPaglia, Anita Morris, Annabelle Gurwitch.
Episode 14
Yellow
Wed, Aug 28, 1991 60 mins
A WWI lieutenant (Eric Douglas) stands trial for cowardice, and risks facing a firing squad---headed by his father (Kirk Douglas). Dan Aykroyd, Lance Henriksen. Directed by Robert Zemeckis ("Back to the Future").