About this episode
🎄It’s 1989, and a killer in a Santa suit is making it really hard to hide my dead husband’s body. You better watch out as we 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. **** 🎙 Guests: Jamie Ray ( Fave Five From Fans , Complete Disarray with Jamie Ray ) **** 💬 Topics & Tangents: 1. Mike on Fave Five From Fans with my Fave Five Christmas TV Specials (already covered them all here). 2. Fave Five Christmas Horror Movies . 3. The Vault of Horror No. 35 , from 1954. 4. “And All Through the House” segment of the 1972 “Tales from the Crypt” movie . 5. HBO Feature Presentation opening, 1983. 6. John Kassir (The Crypt-Keeper) in a commercial for The Legend of Zelda , 1987. 7. Mary Ellen Trainor (Elizabeth) and Lyndsey Whitney Barry (Carrie Ann) in “Back to the Future Part II.” 8. Today’s TV Trope: Tempting Fate . 9. Elizabeth calls the operator because 9-1-1 was only available in about half the U.S. by 1989. **** 📼 Commercial Break: The Crypt-Keeper’s Ghoulish Guide to the Howlidays on Kids’ WB, 2001. Holidays After Dark , exploring the strange, unusual, and dark sides of the holidays. **** “Tales From the Crypt” and “And All Through the House” © 1989 Tales From the Crypt Venture. Theme song by Bronwen’s Ghost . Full show notes and social links at adventcalendar.house .