Episode
Tales from the Cryptkeeper: Dead Men Don't Jump
Overview
Seventeen year old Nathan is a star athlete who would do anything to play pro basketball. When Nathan's fast talking Manager Marvin sets up a big time match with an unknown challenger who promises to put Nathan on Easy Street, younger brother Erin knows it's too good to be true.
Details
- Series
- Tales from the Cryptkeeper
- Season
- Season 2
- Episode
- Episode 6
- Air date
- 1994-10-15
- Runtime
- 22 min
Episode context
Dead Men Don't Jump is Episode 6 in Season 2 of Tales from the Cryptkeeper. It aired on 1994-10-15. The runtime is 22 min.
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Episode 5: The Weeping Woman
After a sleepless night at a creepy Victorian Inn, and a spine chilling visit from a real ghost; the girls soon find themselves caught up in the middle of an eerie puzzle that involves a ship that sunk at sea, a tattered teddy bear at the town's Curio Shop, and a century old mystery of The Weeping Woman.
Episode 7: The Haunted Mine
Convinced that his Aunt Melva is too old and helpless to live on her own, a young city boy named Dale drives out to the "sticks" to retrieve her. He soon finds himself in the middle of a bizarre turn of events when his Aunt, her dog Buster, and everyone else in the town goes missing.
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Episode 3: The Avenging Phantom/Myth Conceptions
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Episode 9: The Brothers Gruff
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Episode 2: Cold Blood, Warm Hearts/The Spider and the Flies
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In "The Spider and the Flies," the Vaultkeeper tells the story of a city that is haunted by a spider.
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