Tales from the Crypt (TV series)

Tales from the Crypt
Genre	Anthology Black comedy Dark fantasy Horror
Created by	William Gaines Steven Dodd
Based on	Tales from the Crypt by William Gaines Al Feldstein
Voices of	John Kassir
Theme music composer	Danny Elfman
Composers	Steve Bartek Frank Becker Bruce Broughton Michel Colombier Bill Conti Ry Cooder Cliff Eidelman Christopher Franke Jay Ferguson Jan Hammer James Horner Vladimir Horunzhy Michael Kamen David Mansfield David Newman Nicholas Pike J. Peter Robinson Michel Rubini Alan Silvestri Jimmy Webb Walter Werzowa
Country of origin	United States
Original languages	English French Spanish for Latin America
No. of seasons	7
No. of episodes	93 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producers	Richard Donner David Giler Walter Hill Joel Silver Robert Zemeckis
Running time	22–39 minutes
Production companies	Tales from the Crypt Holdings Geffen Television
Original release
Network	HBO[1]
Release	June 10, 1989 (1989-06-10) – July 19, 1996 (1996-07-19)
Related
Tales from the Cryptkeeper Secrets of the Cryptkeeper's Haunted House
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Tales from the Crypt, sometimes titled HBO's Tales from the Crypt, is an American horror anthology television series created by William Gaines and Steven Dodd that ran for seven seasons on the premium cable channel HBO, from June 10, 1989, to July 19, 1996, with a total of 93 episodes. The show's title is based on the 1950s EC Comics series of the same name, published by William Gaines and edited by Al Feldstein. Most of the program's episodes are based on stories that originally appeared in that comic or other EC Comics of the time, The Haunt of Fear, The Vault of Horror, Crime SuspenStories, Shock SuspenStories, and Two-Fisted Tales.

The series is hosted by the Cryptkeeper, a wisecracking corpse performed by several puppeteers and voiced by John Kassir. Filmmakers Richard Donner, David Giler, Walter Hill, Joel Silver, and Robert Zemeckis formed the show's team of executive producers.

Because it was aired on HBO, a premium cable television channel, Tales from the Crypt did not have to be censored by the standards and practices of most networks. As a result, HBO allowed the series to include content that had not appeared in most television series up to that time, such as graphic violence, profanity, sexual activity, and nudity. Reruns of the series were edited for basic cable, broadcast syndication, and when the broadcast networks Fox and CBS re-aired episodes in the late 1990s. While the series began production in the United States, the final season was primarily filmed in the UK, resulting in episodes revolving around British characters.