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List of Tales from the Crypt episodes

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 11, 2026
Entity authorityQ1145564 ↗
Source-derived summary

The following is a list of episodes for the television series Tales from the Crypt, which aired for seven seasons on HBO from 1989 to 1996. A total of 93 episodes and three feature-length films were produced.

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Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1989, 1996—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, List, Tales and Crypt is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “List of Tales from the Crypt episodes” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.