Tales from the Cryptkeeper

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Tales from the Cryptkeeper was an animated series aimed at children made by Nelvana Television Studios and Warner Brothers Pictures. It was shown on TVO, ABC, YTV and is still shown near Halloween on Teletoon. It was based on the live-action television show, Tales from the Crypt, which aired concurrently on HBO. Being directed at children, Tales From the Cryptkeeper was significantly milder than the live-action HBO version.

The series was canceled on December 10, 1994. In 1999 the show returned to the air as New Tales from the Cryptkeeper. The animation was different from the that of the previous episodes.

Contents 1 Cast 2 List of Episodes 2.1 Season One (1993) 2.2 Season Two (1994) 2.3 Season 3 ("New Tales From The Cryptkeeper") (1999) 3 DVD releases 4 References

[edit] Cast

• John Kassir played the voice of The Crypt Keeper.
• Elizabeth Hanna as the Old Witch.
• Dan Hennessey as the Vault Keeper.

[edit] List of Episodes

[edit] Season One (1993)

• While The Cat's Away - two boys (Dwight and Stan) plan a robbery at an abandoned mansion, where The Cryptkeeper has set up a monstrous security system to get rid of intruders.
• Nature - two brothers (Rick and Teddy) torment ants at a picnic -- and find themselves shrunken by a mysterious ray and forced to realize the trials and tribulations of the insect world.
• Pleasant Screams - a Latin teacher (Mr. Perdy) and one of his students (Jenny) are trapped in the twisted nightmares of a bored student.
• Gone Fishing/A Little Body of Work - a boy tries to warn his abusive uncle of the fish wreaking their vengeance on fishermen/two hoodlums (Eddie and Herman) challenge nerdy Kevin to a race on the Mustang he's renovating, but the Mustang helps Kevin win when the hoodlums try to sabotage it.
• The Works, In Wax - a boy named Craig discovers a machine called The Fright Chamber that turns wax figures to life.
• The Sleeping Beauty - A narcissistic prince and his put-upon sidekick star in a terrifying retelling of Sleeping Beauty where the slumbering princess is really a vampire.
• Cave Man - Peter, the son of a scientist, befriends a caveman that has been encased in ice for millions of years, but the friendship turns sour when the caveman can't adapt to the modern world.
• Hyde and Go Shriek - A group of bullies fear for their lives when the nerd they pick on creates a potion that turns him into a monster.
• Fare Tonight - Best friends Mildred and Camille create a homemade vampire detector and use it to hunt for bloodsuckers...only to learn that one of them is right under their nose.
• Gorilla's Paw - an unpopular kid named Walter steals a gorilla's paw in order to be a part of a secret club -- and discovers that the gorilla's paw can make wishes with twisted results.
• This Wraps It Up - On a field trip to the pyramids, a girl named Naomi becomes the object of her classmates' neverending ridiculing because she is the only female there. But when a mummy unleashes a curse on everyone, the kids turn to Naomi to defeat the mummy and break the spell.
• Grounds for Horror - Summer campers befriend an invisible being named Hoser who plays pranks on a no-nonsense counselor.
• Ghost Ship - With the help of his friend, Mike, Ben steals his father's yacht and sinks it, leaving the two stranded in the ocean...until a ship haunted by pirates comes to their rescue.

[edit] Season Two (1994)

• Game Over - two boys pay for skipping school to play video games when the characters come to life.
• Cold Blood, Warm Heart / The Spider and the Flies - The Cryptkeeper and an old witch meet at the beach to swap stories: in "Cold Blood, Warm Heart", monsters haunt a lake that goes after campers; in "The Spider and the Flies", citizens do everything they can to appease a giant spider that's wrecking the city.
• The Avenging Phantom / Myth Conceptions - In "The Avenging Phantom," a young boy named Jimmy wishes he can get revenge on his tormentors like his comic book hero, 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.
• All the Gory Details - A school newspaper writer's outrageous stories soon come to life.
• The Weeping Woman - Camille and Mildred from "Fare Tonight" return, this time, to investigate the sightings of a woman's ghost who haunts a local inn.
• Dead Men Don't Jump - The Witch, The Cryptkeeper, and The Vault Guard 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.
• The Haunted Mine - a boy's aunt visits, which leads to a trip inside an abandoned mine filled with unusual shapes and a dark secret.
• Growing Pains - 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 falls for Rose, a new girl at school with a family secret.
• The Brothers Gruff - a boy named Eddie is followed home by a troll after crossing a bridge. Now it's up to him and Sheldon (Eddie's friend who knows everything about monsters) to defeat the troll when he kidnaps Eddie's older brother.
• Uncle Harry's Horrible House of Horrors - The Vault Guard tells the story of a boy who inherits his uncles haunted house -- and the spirits that live within.
• Hunted - A heartless hunter in the Amazon is soon the hunted when an invisible monster named Onnaya goes after him after freeing the captured animals.
• Chuck (and Melvin) and the Beanstalker - Chuck and Melvin (the narcissistic prince and his sidekick 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.
• Transylvania Express - Two surfer dudes get on a train headed for Transylvania, where they must fight back against vampires.

[edit] Season 3 ("New Tales From The Cryptkeeper") (1999)

• Sharon Sharalike - Shauna, a teenage girl known for her selfishness, steals her little sister's doll, Sharon Sharalike -- and soon learns that the doll doesn't like it when its owners don't share.
• Imaginary Friend - two teen boys (Leo and Jamie) torment a nine-year-old named Mary Anne who has an imaginary friend who gets back at the boys for their actions.
• Waste Not, Haunt Not - two boys (Richard and Stephen) improperly dispose of toxic waste from their science project into a bog, which creates a bog monster.
• Unpopular Mechanics - a boy named Randall gets his comeuppance for building destructive appliances when his inventions turn on him
• Competitive Spirit - A boy named Victor tricks his rival into thinking a ghost exists in the mountains, but a real mountain spirit comes after Victor for his deceptive ways.
• Trouble In Store - two boys (Derek and Rob), who plan on robbing a department store, get locked in the store during closing hours and discover that the mannequins don't take kindly to those who steal from their "home".
• So Very Atttractive - an insecure girl named Julia buys a beauty cream from an abandoned drugstore that makes her an irresistible force to people, magnets, plants, animals, insects, and the dead.
• Drawn And Quartered - an aspiring artist named Ralph finds a magic pencil that brings his drawings to life to get back at the bullies who torment him.
• All Booked Up - a boy who hates to read gets trapped in a library where he goes inside the dark world of classic literature.
• Town Gathering - Erin, a girl known for making up stories, must convince her mother that a group of businessmen are actually aliens bent on eating the townspeople.
• It's For You - A boy named Gary gets his own phone line for Christmas and abuses his privilege by making crank calls -- until he makes one to a mysterious old woman who begins to stalk him over the phone.
• Monsters Ate My Homework - a boy named Evan tells his teacher that monsters ate his homework as an excuse as to why he doesn't have it. All goes well until real monsters come after Evan for his homework.
• Too Cool For School -- Two girls mess around with the objects in the school science lab -- and create dinosaur-frogs after refusing to clean up frog eggs and a serum containing dinosaur DNA off the floor.

[edit] DVD releases

Season Releases

In 2007, kaBOOM! Entertainment of Toronto, Canada, released the Complete First Season on DVD.^[1]

DVD Name	Region	Release Date	# of Episodes	Bonus Features
Tales From the Cryptkeeper: Pleasant Screams: The Complete First Season	1	2007	14

[edit] References