🎄It’s 1989, and a killer in a Santa suit is making it really hard to hide my dead husband’s body. 

🎙 Jamie Ray from Fave Five From Fans joins us to dig up the first filmed episode of “Tales From the Crypt,” a cozy Christmas nightmare directed by Robert Zemeckis and starring his then-wife and talented screamer, Mary Ellen Trainor, and the kid who gets her hoverboard stolen by Marty McFly. 

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💬 Topics & Tangents: 

Mike on Fave Five From Fans with my Fave Five Christmas TV Specials (already covered them all here). 

Fave Five Christmas Horror Movies. 

The Vault of Horror No. 35 (1954)

“And All Through the House” segment of the 1972 “Tales from the Crypt” movie. 

HBO Feature Presentation opening (1983) 

John Kassir (The Crypt-Keeper) in a commercial for The Legend of Zelda (1987) 

Mary Ellen Trainor (Elizabeth) and Lyndsey Whitney Barry (Carrie Ann) in “Back to the Future Part II.” 

Today’s TV Trope: Tempting Fate. 

Elizabeth calls the operator because 9-1-1 was only available in about half the U.S. by 1989. 

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📼 Commercials: 

The Crypt-Keeper’s Ghoulish Guide to the Howlidays on Kids’ WB (2001) 

Holidays After Dark. 

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“Tales From the Crypt” and “And All Through the House” © 1989 Tales From the Crypt Venture. 

Theme song by Bronwen’s Ghost. 
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