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  1. #1 Worst Episode
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    Tales from the Crypt Season 6 Episode 2 - Operation Friendship
    4.0/10(904 votes)

    #1 - Operation Friendship

    S6:E2

    Nelson is a computer genius who is letting his boss take credit for his ideas. Meanwhile his childhood imaginary pal Eddie tries to get Nelson to stand up to his bullying coworker. That is, until Nelson falls in love with a beautiful next door neighbor. Eddie thinks that she will ruin their friendship, but Nelson tosses Eddies' good side out the window leaving Eddie to come back cold-hearted.

    Director:Roland Mesa
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. Tales from the Crypt Season 3 Episode 10 - Deadline
    4.1/10(1087 votes)

    #2 - Deadline

    S3:E10

    Charlie Mackenzie is an out of work reporter who wants his life back. One night while at his favorite bar hang out, Charlie meets a beautiful women who seems to turn his life around. He gets his job back, but his boss agrees to rehire him only if Charlie can bring in a murder story soon. One night while at Greek diner he overhears the owner strangle his girlfriend. Charlie interviews him and goes to where the body is, but she is not dead. Charlie discovers that it's his girlfriend Vicky. To make sure the paper's got enough evidence, he strangles her to death but the shock of the murder lands him in a mental hospital inside a padded cell.

    Director:Walter Hill
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. Tales from the Crypt Season 4 Episode 12 - Curiosity Killed
    4.3/10(922 votes)

    #3 - Curiosity Killed

    S4:E12

    A man asks his friend to keep a youth potion away from his wife. When she suspects that they are trying to kill her, she kills them first and drinks the potion which she had switched. But she soon regrets it.

    Director:Elliot Silverstein
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. Tales from the Crypt Season 3 Episode 11 - Spoiled
    4.5/10(1255 votes)

    #4 - Spoiled

    S3:E11

    Janet is a soap opera loving woman. She likes to watch soaps everyday. She even imitates them. One day she misses the end of her favorite soap opera when the TV goes on the fritz. She decides to get cable soon. Janet finds her self falling for the attractive cable installer. When her Surgeon husband discovers what's going on, he decides to make them part of his experiment.

    Director:Andy Wolk
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. Tales from the Crypt Season 4 Episode 10 - Strung Along
    4.6/10(949 votes)

    #5 - Strung Along

    S4:E10

    An aging puppeteer gets a new assistant. When he learns that his wife has a boyfriend, the assistant promises he'll do something about it. The puppeteer spends most of his time with is favorite puppet Koko. When he discovers that his assistant is his wife's lover, the two make him think that Koko has gone on a murderous rampage. Little do they know that Pinocchio isn't the only one with-out strings.

    Director:Kevin Yagher
    Writers:Kevin Yagher, Yale Udoff

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  6. Tales from the Crypt Season 4 Episode 7 - King of the Road
    4.7/10(1144 votes)

    #6 - King of the Road

    S4:E7

    A courageous drag racer challenges a cop who used to be a racer. When the cop refuses, the racer decides to make him change his mind and kidnaps his teenage daughter. Iceman proves that he hasn't lost his talent by tricking the racer into changing the course sending him to his doom.

    Director:Tom Holland
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. Tales from the Crypt Season 7 Episode 13 - The Third Pig
    4.7/10(672 votes)

    #7 - The Third Pig

    S7:E13

    In this cartoon version of the Three Little Pigs story, Dudly, the smart pig, is framed for the murders of his brothers and sentenced to death. But, his brothers' spirits help him seek revenge on the wolf.

    Directors:Patrick A. Ventura, Bill Kopp
    Writer:Bill Kopp

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  8. Tales from the Crypt Season 4 Episode 8 - Maniac At Large
    4.8/10(874 votes)

    #8 - Maniac At Large

    S4:E8

    A shy library clerk is obsessed with a serial killer fearing that she will be his next victim. She thinks that her boss, the security guard and a patron are the killer. One night, while she is working late, it turns out that she is really the killer and her victims were ones she thought were after her.

    Director:John Frankenheimer
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. Tales from the Crypt Season 6 Episode 4 - The Bribe
    4.8/10(698 votes)

    #9 - The Bribe

    S6:E4

    Zoeller is a fire marshal who wants a strip club closed down. He wants to get revenge on it's sneaky owner and his pal for letting his offspring dance there. Zoeller bribes an arsonist to burn the place but after he does it, he discovers that she was also in there. Little does he know that his daughter wasn't in the club when the fire happened. She left early to get married with her boyfriend.

    Director:Ramón Menéndez
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. Tales from the Crypt Season 6 Episode 8 - In the Groove
    4.8/10(786 votes)

    #10 - In the Groove

    S6:E8

    Gary Grover is a frustrated talk radio DJ. His boss, who is also his sister, hired a sexy looker with a talent for talking dirty. One day Gary goes ballistic and his boss fires him. Val suggests that he take matters into his own hands, but he's been set up.

    Director:Vincent Spano
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. Tales from the Crypt Season 7 Episode 10 - About Face
    4.9/10(562 votes)

    #11 - About Face

    S7:E10

    A sleazy minister in Victorian England gets a nasty surprise when he discovers he previously fathered twin daughters.

    Director:Thomas E. Sanders
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. Tales from the Crypt Season 7 Episode 12 - Ear Today... Gone Tomorrow
    4.9/10(541 votes)

    #12 - Ear Today... Gone Tomorrow

    S7:E12

    A greedy safe cracker with a slight hearing loss gets entangled in a game between a mobster and his beautiful, exotic wife and ends up getting the auditory system he could only dream of. But there's a price.

    Director:Christopher Hart
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. Tales from the Crypt Season 3 Episode 1 - Loved to Death / Carrion Death / The Trap
    5.0/10(1218 votes)

    #13 - Loved to Death / Carrion Death / The Trap

    S3:E1

    In Los Angeles, the aspirant screenwriter Edward Foster from Indiana has a crush on his neighbor Miranda Singer. However, the bimbo Miranda is an aspirant actress and gold digger and does not give attention to Edward. His unrequited love calls the attention of his creepy landlord Mr. Stronham that offers Edward a love potion to seduce Miranda. Will the potion work? A sadistic serial killer has unforeseen complications when pursued by a determined motorcycle cop in a barren desert. Indebted unhappy married couple, Lou and Irene, commit a life insurance fraud. Lou's brother Billy helps him fake his death and leave for Mexico. But Irene and Billy fall in love and when Lou returns, they claim they don't know him.

    Directors:Tom Mankiewicz, Steven E. de Souza, Michael J. Fox
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. Tales from the Crypt Season 4 Episode 2 - Seance
    5.0/10(948 votes)

    #14 - Seance

    S4:E2

    Con artists posing as mediums decide to use a man named Chalmers as their next victim. The woman hits on Chalmers and her male partner takes pictures of them in bed. One day Chalmers is killed in an accident. The con artists discover something else - Chalmers' wife is blind. They decide to pull a fake seance on his wife. The plan works but not in the way they expect.

    Director:Gary Fleder
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. Tales from the Crypt Season 6 Episode 5 - The Pit
    5.0/10(694 votes)

    #15 - The Pit

    S6:E5

    Two men who are longtime rivals go head to head in a grudge match. But, the real fight isn't between them, it's between their feuding wives. When the two men realize they don't hate each other, they decide to put their wives in the ring. With the help of a Las Vegas showman, they set them up as they watch them in a boxing match on live television.

    Director:John Harrison
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. Tales from the Crypt Season 7 Episode 7 - The Kidnapper
    5.0/10(628 votes)

    #16 - The Kidnapper

    S7:E7

    A young man takes in a pregnant woman and falls in love with her but becomes jealous when her baby is born so he sets out to get rid of the kid forever.

    Director:James H. Spencer
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. Tales from the Crypt Season 5 Episode 10 - Half-Way Horrible
    5.1/10(853 votes)

    #17 - Half-Way Horrible

    S5:E10

    Roger Lassen is a manufacturer who kills his friend by burying him alive in the South American jungle to finish the development of a chemical preservative. He's haunted by the memories of the incident. The earnings will make him rich but he can't get it past the FDA regulations. Soon his past returns and he starts seeing his dead friend everywhere he looks. A voodoo priestess offers to help exorcise his dark side. The spell works but at the most horrible cost.

    Director:Gregory Widen
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. Tales from the Crypt Season 6 Episode 11 - Comes the Dawn
    5.1/10(655 votes)

    #18 - Comes the Dawn

    S6:E11

    Two poachers are out hunting bear in Alaska. They seek the help of a woman who leads them into a dorm. The men decide that they don't need her anymore but the Colonel double crosses his partner. She's been leading them to a lair full of hibernating vampires. Luckily it's dawn but there's one problem. Alaska is locked in cold darkness.

    Director:John Herzfeld
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. Tales from the Crypt Season 5 Episode 2 - Food for Thought
    5.2/10(868 votes)

    #19 - Food for Thought

    S5:E2

    Zambini is a circus mind-controlling psychic who controls his beautiful helper with his telepathic powers. One day he learns that she has a crush on the fire eater. Zambini goes into a terrible rage and kills him. Connie flees in terror never to return. Zambini uses his powers to call her back but it contacts the pet gorilla instead.

    Director:Rodman Flender
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. Tales from the Crypt Season 3 Episode 4 - Dead Wait
    5.3/10(1347 votes)

    #20 - Dead Wait

    S3:E4

    Red is a low life crook who is looking for a black pearl. He finds that it's on a island belonging to an ailing millionaire. He plans with the millionaire's mistress to steal the pearl but she turns on him. Fortunately a voodoo priestess comes to the rescue but she has something special for him that he'll never forget.

    Director:Tobe Hooper
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. Tales from the Crypt Season 4 Episode 9 - Split Personality
    5.3/10(1014 votes)

    #21 - Split Personality

    S4:E9

    Stetson is a con man who likes to date twins. He finds himself in the arms of twin sisters and creates a twin of his own. He weds both of them and decides to knock them off. Little does he know these twins share alike.

    Director:Joel Silver
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. Tales from the Crypt Season 7 Episode 8 - Report from the Grave
    5.3/10(574 votes)

    #22 - Report from the Grave

    S7:E8

    A scientist named Elliot invents a way to read memories of the dead. To test the device, Elliot and his girlfriend Arianne break into the crypt of a dead serial killer.

    Director:William Malone
    Writer:William Malone

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  23. Tales from the Crypt Season 2 Episode 4 - The Thing From The Grave
    5.4/10(1465 votes)

    #23 - The Thing From The Grave

    S2:E4

    A young photographer falls in love with a supermodel who is being mistreated by her boyfriend. When the lover finds out about them, he kills the photographer and plans to kill her but he finds out that you can't destroy love even when it's dead.

    Director:Fred Dekker
    Writer:Fred Dekker

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  24. Tales from the Crypt Season 5 Episode 4 - Two for the Show
    5.4/10(784 votes)

    #24 - Two for the Show

    S5:E4

    A man slaughters his wife who he believes is having an affair. He drags her body and puts it in the bathtub. The police arrive and he refuses to let them near the bathtub. He chops up the corpse and hops a train with a trunk containing his wife's corpse. The detective follows him. The man switches trunks but when he opens the other one he gets a big surprise.

    Director:Kevin Hooks
    Writer:Unknown

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  25. Tales from the Crypt Season 5 Episode 11 - Till Death Do We Part
    5.4/10(793 votes)

    #25 - Till Death Do We Part

    S5:E11

    A male escort is engaged to an aging woman. One day she discovers him flirting with a younger woman. She forces him to kill her in front of her. Instead he kills off her bodyguards, but he is even more surprised when the young lady turns against him. It turns out he's been fantasizing the whole thing and bumps her off himself.

    Director:W. Peter Iliff
    Writer:Unknown

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Worst Episodes Summary

"Operation Friendship" is the worst rated episode of "Tales from the Crypt". It scored 4/10 based on 904 votes. Directed by Roland Mesa and written by Unknown, it aired on 11/9/1994. This episode scored 0.1 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Deadline".