Secrets of the Cryptkeeper's Haunted House

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Secrets of the Cryptkeeper's Haunted House
Genre Children's television
Game show
Created byEytan Keller
Jack Wohl
Directed byEytan Keller
Presented bySteve Saunders
Narrated by John Kassir as The CryptKeeper
Theme music composer Robert J. Walsh
Danny Elfman
Country of originUnited States
Production
Executive producers Richard Donner
David Giler
Walter Hill
Joel Silver
Robert Zemeckis
Eytan Keller
Jack Wohl
ProducerJulia Gilbert
Running time30 minutes
Production companiesKeller Productions
The Wohl Company
Tales from the Crypt Productions
Goldwyn Entertainment Company
Original release
Network CBS
ReleaseSeptember 14, 1996 (1996-09-14) 
August 23, 1997 (1997-08-23)

Secrets of the Cryptkeeper's Haunted House was a children's Saturday-morning game show that ran on CBS. It premiered on September 14, 1996, and lasted until August 23, 1997. It featured the Cryptkeeper of Tales from the Crypt (with John Kassir as the voice) now serving as an announcer. It is the last TV series in the Tales From the Crypt franchise. The series was taped at Universal Studios Florida.

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Secrets of the Cryptkeeper's Haunted House received a Daytime Emmy nomination for Outstanding Game Show in 1997, losing to fellow CBS program The Price Is Right . The series is one of only two children's game shows to be nominated in this category, to be followed by BrainSurge in 2012. The series was replaced 3 weeks later by Wheel 2000 , a kids version of Wheel of Fortune.

Game summary

Two teams of kids (one team wearing red shirts; the other team, black shirts, and both teams usually named for a creature commonly perceived as scary, for example Beasts vs. Vermin) competed in five events. Four of the events were a constant, with the fifth event varying from one week to the next.

Fourth-round games

Final round