80's Television

With Halloween right around the corner, The Excellent 80's is featuring this television show that originated in 1989, so I'm classifying it as a product of the 80's. It was a HBO series that ran for seven seasons and was based on the 1950's EC Comics series of the same name. Yes, I'm talking about that cackling zombie known as the Crypt Keeper and "Tales from the Crypt"...

the intro...



the Crypt Keeper was always pretty entertaining. Here he is running for office...



the Crypt Keeper talking about your brain and your brain on drugs...



Tales from the Crypt

Genre Horror
Created by William Gaines (original concept)
Starring Van Snowden
Voices of John Kassir
Theme music composer Danny Elfman
Composer(s) 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 Kitay
David Mansfield
David Newman
Nicholas Pike
J. Peter Robinson
Michel Rubini
Alan Silvestri
Jimmy Webb
Walter Werzowa
Country of origin United States
No. of seasons 7
No. of episodes 93 (List of episodes)
Production
Executive producer(s) Richard Donner
David Giler
Walter Hill
Joel Silver
David Geffen
Robert Zemeckis
Running time approx. 22-29 minutes.
Production company(s) HBO
Broadcast
Original channel HBO[1]
Audio format Dolby Surround 2.0
Original run June 10, 1989 – July 19, 1996