Episodes The Man Who Was Death June 10, 1989 And All Through the House June 10, 1989 Dig That Cat... He's Real Gone June 10, 1989 Only Sin Deep June 14, 1989 Lover Come Hack to Me June 21, 1989 Collection Completed June 28, 1989 Directed by Walter Hill   Robert Zemeckis   Richard Donner   Howard Deutch   Tom Holland   Mary Lambert   Written by Steven Dodd   Walter Hill   Robert Reneau   Fred Dekker   Terry Black   Michael McDowell   A. Whitney Brown   Battle Davis   Randolph Davis   Cast John Kassir ... Crypt Keeper (6 episodes) William Sadler ... Niles Talbot (as Bill Sadler) J.W. Smith ... Charley Ledbetter Roy Brocksmith ... Vic David Wohl ... Warden Havers Gerrit Graham ... Theodore Carne Dani Minnick ... Cynthia Baldwin Tony Abatemarco ... Detective Mimi Kennedy ... Distraught Woman Robert Winley ... Jimmy Flood Eve Brent ... Judge #1 Edgar Small ... Judge #2 Mark Lowenthal ... District Attorney F.J. O'Neil ... Priest Raymond O'Connor ... Jury Foreman (as Raymond O'Conner) Jennifer Evans ... Newscaster #1 (as M. Jennifer Evans) Patti Yasutake ... Newscaster #2 Al Allen ... Attorney (as 'Al' M. Allen) Kate Benton ... Waitress Julie Ann Lucas ... Second Waitress Ed DeFusco ... New Executioner Laura Albert ... Go-Go Dancer Mary Ellen Trainor ... Wife Larry Drake ... Santa Marshall Bell ... Husband Lindsey Whitney Barry ... Carrie Ann Joe Pantoliano ... Ulric Robert Wuhl ... Barker Kathleen York ... Coralee Gustav Vintas ... Dr. Emil Manfred Steve Kahan ... Father (as Stephen Kahan) Michael Bower ... Junior (as Michael Ray Bower) Dorothy Neumann ... Old Lady Jack O'Leary ... Archer Paul Tuerpe ... Policeman Rick Zumwalt ... Workman #1 Al Maines ... Workman #2 Lea Thompson ... Sylvia Vane Britt Leach ... Pawnbroker Brett Cullen ... Ronnie Price Pamella D'Pella ... Raven G. Smokey Campbell ... Smitty Burke Byrnes ... Cop Matthew Faison ... Doctor Pamela Gordon ... Old Crone Pamela West ... Date Barry Thompson ... Doorman Amanda Plummer ... Peggy Stephen Shellen ... Charles Lisa Figus ... Aunt Edith Richard Eden ... Allen M. Emmet Walsh ... Jonas Audra Lindley ... Anita Martin Garner ... Roy Uncredited Cast Johnnie Johnson III ... John D. David Morin ... FBI Detective John E. Coates ... Police Officer (voice) Richard Donner ... Audience Member Larry Hankin ... Mortician Cathi Perez ... Circus Audience Member Simon Baker ... Party Guest Fred Moon ... Courtroom Spectator Produced by Richard Donner   David Giler   Walter Hill   Michael Hirsh   Dennis Stuart Murphy   Joel Silver   William Teitler   Suzanne Todd   John Wiseman   Robert Zemeckis   Original Music by Ry Cooder   Alan Silvestri   Nicholas Pike   Jay Ferguson   Joe Renzetti

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