# What anthology series was this? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 25, 2009, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-anthology-series-was-this/515105 "2009-10-25T23:04:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2009, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-anthology-series-was-this/515105/1 "2009-10-25T23:04:27Z")
I think all of these were episodes of the same 80s or 90s horror anthology. I don’t think it was Tales From The Crypt: - a cartoonist with a domineering wife draws her as a cartoon beast, which makes things worse for him…until he destroys the cartoon (I think this inspired a scene in one of Snoop Dogg’s horror movies) - a young newspaper reporter starts having dreams of disasters, all of which come true. One of the disasters was Krackatoa erupting. - a child psychologist is called in to deal with a woman’s “little monster” after no one else can help make the kid behave. The kid tries to hurt him several times, all while staying out of sight. I think there was something with traps set up with a record player and a toy train set. Eventually he finds out that the child is literally a monster, who has killed a lot of doctors previously - they show the mummified doctors in the attic. Any idea what show this was? ---
**Author:** ![kasuo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/8c91f0/32.png) [@kasuo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kasuo)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2009, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-anthology-series-was-this/515105/2 "2009-10-25T23:25:35Z")
Sounds like Tales from the Darkside ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2009, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-anthology-series-was-this/515105/3 "2009-10-25T23:53:21Z")
> [@kasuo](#): > > Sounds like Tales from the Darkside I read through the [list of episodes](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Tales_from_the_Darkside_episodes#Season_1_.281983.2F1984-1985.29), and it doesn’t seem to be this show. Thanks, though. ---
**Author:** ![Lightray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lightray/32/391_2.png) [@Lightray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightray)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2009, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-anthology-series-was-this/515105/4 "2009-10-26T00:17:04Z")
> [@elfkin477](#): > > I think all of these were episodes of the same 80s or 90s horror anthology. I don’t think it was Tales From The Crypt: > > - a cartoonist with a domineering wife draws her as a cartoon beast, which makes things worse for him…until he destroys the cartoon (I think this inspired a scene in one of Snoop Dogg’s horror movies) It’s Tales from the Crypt. This one specifically is [this episode](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0716858/plotsummary), starring Harry Anderson. ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2009, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-anthology-series-was-this/515105/5 "2009-10-27T14:34:08Z")
I think #3 is [The New Arrival](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0716891/) from TFTC. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2009, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-anthology-series-was-this/515105/6 "2009-11-05T02:48:42Z")
Thanks! I’m a little confused, though: did Tales From The Crypt air in syndication during the early 90s, when it still would have be in production? We didn’t have HBO when I was a kid, and I thought it was an HBO show so I’m no sure how I ended up seeing two episodes of it. I think I’ve figured out what the middle one was - one of those Fact or Fiction/Beyond Belief shows they used to run on the scifi channel, where you had to figure out which one was based on a “true” story. ---
**Author:** ![LurkMeister](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3da27b/32.png) [@LurkMeister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LurkMeister)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2009, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-anthology-series-was-this/515105/7 "2009-11-05T04:17:48Z")
Yes, _Tales from the Crypt_ was originally aired on HBO starting in 1989. I know it was later syndicated (edited, of course, because many of the episodes had nudity) but I can’t remember when or where. _Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction_ did have an episode where a reporter dreamed about the Krakatoa explosion before it happened and wrote it up as fiction, only to have it accidentally printed in his paper as a news story before anyone else in the US had heard about it. ---
**Author:** ![Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eyebrows_0f_doom/32/3119_2.png) [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eyebrows_0f_Doom)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2009, 7:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-anthology-series-was-this/515105/8 "2009-11-05T07:29:02Z")
> [@elfkin477](#): > > Thanks! I’m a little confused, though: did Tales From The Crypt air in syndication during the early 90s, when it still would have be in production? We didn’t have HBO when I was a kid, and I thought it was an HBO show so I’m no sure how I ended up seeing two episodes of it. Yup. I didn’t have cable until around 2000 but I watched tons of Tales From the Crypt episodes during the 1990s. I think it was shown on FOX late night at like 11pm. I always liked the episodes “And All Through the House” about an escaped mental patient in a Santa Claus suit, and “Revenge is the Nuts” for a memorable scene involving a corridor of razor blades… ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2009, 9:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-anthology-series-was-this/515105/9 "2009-11-05T09:48:57Z")
> [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](#): > > Yup. I didn’t have cable until around 2000 but I watched tons of Tales From the Crypt episodes during the 1990s. I think it was shown on FOX late night at like 11pm. > > I always liked the episodes “And All Through the House” about an escaped mental patient in a Santa Claus suit, and “Revenge is the Nuts” for a memorable scene involving a corridor of razor blades… Both stories also were used in the 1970’s Amicus movie TALES FROM THE CRYPT.