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🎄It’s 1989, and a killer in a Santa suit is making it really hard to hide my dead husband’s body. Â
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. Â
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🎙 Guests: ÂJamie Ray (Fave Five From Fans, Complete Disarray with Jamie Ray) Â
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đź’¬ Topics & Tangents: Â1. Mike on Fave Five From Fans with my Fave Five Christmas TV Specials (already covered them all here). Â
2. Fave Five Christmas Horror Movies. Â
3. The Vault of Horror No. 35, from 1954. Â
4. “And All Through the House” segment of the 1972 “Tales from the Crypt” movie. Â
5. HBO Feature Presentation opening, 1983. Â
6. John Kassir (The Crypt-Keeper) in a commercial for The Legend of Zelda, 1987. Â
7. Mary Ellen Trainor (Elizabeth) and Lyndsey Whitney Barry (Carrie Ann) in “Back to the Future Part II.” Â
8. Today’s TV Trope: Tempting Fate. Â
9. Elizabeth calls the operator because 9-1-1 was only available in about half the U.S. by 1989. Â
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đź“Ľ Commercial Break: ÂThe Crypt-Keeper’s Ghoulish Guide to the Howlidays on Kids’ WB, 2001. Â
Holidays After Dark, exploring the strange, unusual, and dark sides of the holidays. Â
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“Tales From the Crypt” and “And All Through the House” © 1989 Tales From the Crypt Venture. Â
Theme song by Bronwen’s Ghost.
Full show notes and social links at adventcalendar.house.
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