The Best Episodes Written By Gilbert Adler

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1. #1 Fan Favorite
   

   8.4/10(5 votes)

   #1 - Yellow

   S3:E128/28/1991

   The general is ashamed when he learns that the rumors of the Lt. (who is also his son) being a coward are true. He offers his son a way out of the army if he can take part in one last mission. The Lt. panics and leaves while his comrades are killed by the enemy. His father sentences him to die by firing squad. Fortunately the guns are loaded with blanks, or so he says.

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   8.3/10(6 votes)

   #2 - What's Cookin'

   S4:E47/22/1992

   Fred and Erma are workers at a squid cafe who find themselves in trouble because their business is failing and their landlord will kick them out. That is until one of the employees encourages them to serve meat. Suddenly business is getting better. Gaston decides to double cross Fred and Erma but he ends getting invited for dinner ... but not in the way he expects. (with optional commentary by John Kassir in character as the Cryptkeeper, the episode's writer Alan Katz, and Tales From the Crypt chronicler Digby Diehl).

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   7.4/10(5 votes)

   #3 - Let the Punishment Fit the Crime / Only Skin Deep / Whirlpool

   S6:E110/31/1994

   An ambulance-chasing lawyer finds herself in a nightmare court when she is hauled in for having too many digits on her license plate. She finds her self going through the court several times and they have a way of throwing the book at her. At a costume party, a young man falls in love with a sexy woman. They have a great time. He promises to keep quiet but the next day he spills the beans. The woman tells him not to be around while she's awake. He finds out that she's wearing that same mask. He tries to remove it only to learn that it's her horrible face. A comic artist for Tales From The Crypt finds herself trapped inside a repetitious nightmare world. Everyday she lives through the same horrible episodes. First her boss rejects her latest idea then fires her. She goes to her boss and shoots him only to be caught by the police and shot to death.

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   6.6/10(10 votes)

   #4 - Fatal Caper

   S7:E14/19/1996

   Two adult brothers come to blows over the the fortune of their wealthy father, whose interests are protected by a lovely young woman with questionable loyalties.

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   6.5/10(6 votes)

   #5 - None But the Lonely Heart / This'll Kill Ya / On a Deadman's Chest

   S4:E16/27/1992

   A sneaky man is obsessed with wedding rich older women then killing them. His business partner fears that he'll be caught soon. He finds himself in hot water when he starts getting threatening notes. He kills off those he suspects and soon he realizes the meaning of the saying revenge is sweet. Sophie and Pack are workers at a medicine company. They are furious when their boss tells the papers that they are ready to test their new drug on humans. One day, while he is taking his shots they accidently inject him with the serum. George has only a few hours to live. He starts to have delusions and learns he's been set up and kills Pack. A rocker fights with his manager. His groupie girlfriend shows him a special tattoo and convinces him to get one from where she got it. The tattoo has a picture of a dragon but a cartoon face that looks like Scarlett. He tries to remove the tattoo but no matter how hard he tries it keeps coming back.

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   6.4/10(7 votes)

   #6 - Death of Some Salesmen / As Ye Sow / Forever Ambergris

   S5:E110/2/1993

   A sneaky con man has a talent for killing people after he sells them phony tombstones. He soon learns that some for his new victims have a fortune buried in their cellar. He marries their daughter and kills the parents but when he goes down in the basement he gets a big surprise. A husband hires a detective to spy on his wife whom he believes is cheating on him with a priest. When he learns that he's been conned, he decides to kill him himself. That day he learns that they're was nothing going on between them and he is relieved. But he is mistaken for his wife's so called boyfriend and killed by the detective he hired. Dalton is a seasoned combat photographer who finds himself falling for a beautiful women who just happens to be the wife of his friend. One day Ike sends Dalton into a disease warfare area. Dalton returns, but not the way he used to be. He soon writes a letter about how he was set up and his wife and friend also contract the same disease.

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   6.0/10(8 votes)

   #7 - Escape

   S7:E45/17/1996

   A traitor in the second World War is restricted to a prison camp and one of the men he betrayed is transported to the camp and promises to reveal his identity.

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   6.0/10(2 votes)

   #8 - Welcome to Springwood

   S2:E310/22/1989

   A Couple move to Springwood. Right away the wife of the couple begins to suspect that a serial killer has targeted the house that they have moved into. This has a surprising ending. The second half of the episode is about a woman who finds an old stack of love letters from the nineteeth century. She begins to obsess over their relationship, and begins to see their ghosts.

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   6.0/10(1 votes)

   #9 - Freddy's Tricks and Treats

   S1:E410/30/1988

   It's Halloween and the students are having a blast at the costume party over at Springwood College. Marsha would rather study than party however. Someone wants to be her study friend and soon Marsha starts to have nightmares. Her dead crazy grandmother comes back to life, Marsha's boyfriend is killed and soon she finds herself in the hands of Freddy Krueger. She tries to escape by going to a dream clinic where dreams are recorded only to find out that there is no escape from Freddy.

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    6.0/10(1 votes)

    #10 - Bloodlines

    S2:E811/26/1989

    An escaped convict goes on a search for the money he stole before he went to jail but his wife and his offspring aren't ready to forgive him. Meanwhile, Jack adopts a young girl but his wife believes that she is possessed by the devil.

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    6.0/10(1 votes)

    #11 - Funhouse

    S2:E182/11/1990

    This is a sequel to Welcome To Springwood, because of the character Turk. A Couple moves into a supposedly haunted house where a murder once took place. Someone is indeed in the house, but whether or not it's a ghost is another story. The second half of the episode is centered on the mover, and how he is roped back into the ""House of a Hundred Secrets"". Where the story ends with a twist.

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    5.6/10(9 votes)

    #12 - Two for the Show

    S5:E410/20/1993

    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.

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    5.6/10(9 votes)

    #13 - You, Murderer

    S6:E131/25/1995

    Lou Spinielli is an ex-criminal who wants to escape from his past. He hires Oscar, a plastic surgeon to sculpt his face in the form of Humphrey Bogart's. When his wife gets the pictures of his past in the mail, Oscar suggests that he kill Vivian. The plan backfires and when Lou returns home and he gets a surprise. Vivian and Oscar have been partners all along. They bump Lou off and take him far into the woods to bury him. Lou's mistress, Erika, shows up and the couple become some murder victims themselves.

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    5.4/10(7 votes)

    #14 - Dead Wait

    S3:E47/3/1991

    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.

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    5.1/10(11 votes)

    #15 - About Face

    S7:E106/28/1996

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

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