Gary (Miguel Ferrer) is a disc jockey who gets sent to graveyard shift for bad ratings by the owner of the station, his sister Rita (Wendie Malick). His show Gary’s Drive-Time Desires also chases away advertisers, so she gives him one last chance. Well, more like she wants to keep him under contract and not going anywhere else. He rebounds when he gets a new partner, Valerie Cordoza (Linda Doucett), and renames his show Grover’s Graveyard. Soon, people are staying up late and Gary is having sex on the air.

“Oh hello, kiddies. You’re just in time for your driving lesson. Today we’ll be learning about scare-allel parking and the right way to look behind when hacking up. But first, I thought we’d go over a few common hand signals. This of course, means you’re turning right. And this means you’re turning left. And this means…Oh. Slow down, it’s time to watch Tales From the Crypt. Tonight’s moving violation concerns a disk jockey who’s so cutting edge, he may lose his chap. I call it “In the Groove.””

This being Tales from the Crypt, we know there’s a twist. When Rita keeps messing with the show, she pushes Gary to want to murder her. But what if his latest partner wasn’t on his side?

Directed by Vincent Spano (who mainly is an actor) and written by Jack Temchin and Colman deKay, this is Ferrer’s third appearance on this series (he’s also in “The Thing from the Grave” and “As Ye Sow“) and has a small part for Slash.

“In the Groove” is based on “In the Groove” from Crime SuspenStories #21, which was written by William Gaines and Al Feldstein with art by Johnny Craig. That story is, as nearly always, different. A DJ plans to kill his wife and use his show as his alibi by setting up enough songs that it will appear he is playing records at the time of his wife’s murder. Then, the needle skips and the song keeps repeating, proving that he isn’t there.