From June 7 to July 23, 1997, HBO attempted something similar to Tales from the Crypt, adapting the science fiction books of EC Comics for pay cable. But where the Crypt Keeper had bad puns about horror and death, sexy robot Chrome (Maureen Teefy) seems DTF years before we knew what that meant, constantly hitting us with sexual innuendo.

In “Dream of Doom,” Arthur Bristol (Robert Carradine) is trapped in a dream that turns into another dream, an art film like way of kicking off a dirty science fiction anthology TV show. Lolita Davidovich appears as a doctor, Adam Arkin is a therapist, Lin Shaye is a nurse, and Peter Jason is a priest.

Descartes gets name dropped and this gets weird. It’s a good start, directed by one of the shows producers, Walter Hill, and written by David S. Goyer.

This story is based on “Dream of Doom” from Weird Science #12, which was written by William Gaines and Al Feldstein and drawn by Wally Wood. In that story, just like this one,  Aman experiences a sequence of dreams occurring after dream after dream. He’s also a comic book artist who works for Gill Baines. What’s the company, CE Comics?

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