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Tales of Tomorrow(TV show/series, 1951-1953)

30min per episode | Genre: Science-Fiction & Fantasy

Scripted Reality in 2 seasons with 85 episodes

Tales of TomorrowRating: 2.9/5 (with 3 votes) 272
Tales of Tomorrow is an American anthology science fiction series that was performed and broadcast live on ABC from 1951 to 1953. The series covered such stories as Frankenstein starring Lon Chaney Jr., 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea starring Thomas Mitchell as Captain Nemo, and many others. ()
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About Tales of Tomorrow

Tales of Tomorrow is an American anthology science fiction series that was performed and broadcast live on ABC from 1951 to 1953. The series covered such stories as Frankenstein, starring Lon Chaney, Jr., 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea starring Thomas Mitchell as Captain Nemo, and many others featuring such performers as Boris Karloff, Brian Keith, Lee J. Cobb, Rod Steiger, Bruce Cabot, Franchot Tone, Gene Lockhart, Walter Abel, Leslie Nielsen, and Paul Newman. The series had many similarities to the later Twilight Zone which also covered one of the same stories, "What You Need". In total it ran for eighty-five 30-minute episodes.

Tales of Tomorrow Seasons and Episodes

08/22/1952Season 2 - 42 episodes
#1 | 08/22/1952A Bird in Hand
Two youngsters discover a talking bird in a zoo and come to the realization that the bird is part of a plot by the animal kingdom to reclaim the world from humans.
#2 | 08/29/1952Thanks
A scientific invention brings glory to a struggling violinist but it also causes him to commit murder.
#3 | 09/05/1952The Seeing Eye Surgeon
When a prominent physician dons a pair of eyeglasses he discovers that he can see into the future.
#4 | 09/12/1952The Cocoon
A group of scientists are trapped inside a house in a remote jungle by hideous invisible creatures.
#5 | 09/19/1952The Chase
A man arrives at a sea lodge and confesses to a murder but it's later revealed that he's from the future.
#6 | 09/26/1952Youth on Tap (aka: Young Blood)
A 26 year old man gives a doctor a blood transfusion in return for $1,000 but the process causes the young man to age.
#7 | 10/03/1952Substance X
A young woman goes to her hometown at the behest of a food conglomerate. Her assignment is to discover what the people of the community are using for food after their only food outlet closes. She discovers a scientist who has developed a food substitute called 'Substance X'. Anyone who diets on Substance X is unable to eat normal food from that time on.
#8 | 10/10/1952The Horn
A scientist invents a machine that has the power to control human emotions.
#9 | 10/17/1952Double Trouble
A writer pens a story about a death ray machine only to discover later that the government actually has such a device.
#10 | 10/24/1952Many Happy Returns (aka: Invaders at Ground Zero)
A father discovers that his son and other neighborhood children are being controlled telepathically by an alien.
#11 | 10/31/1952The Tomb of King Tarus
An archeologist discovers that an ancient king has been able to stay alive for centuries in a tomb deep beneath the Egyptian desert.
#12 | 11/07/1952The Window
A live television program is interrupted by a mysterious signal that shows a murder about to take place.
#13 | 11/14/1952The Camera
A blackmailer discovers a camera that will take pictures 25 years into the future.
#14 | 11/21/1952The Quiet Lady
A deadly disease covers the earth and its only hope is a little girl.
#15 | 11/28/1952The Invigorating Air
A young scientist produces a new kind of air which proves to be "invigorating."
#16 | 12/05/1952The Glacier Giant
A reporter and his damsel sidekick search for a giant reportedly encased in the ice of the Himalayas.
#17 | 12/12/1952The Fatal Flower
Doing research in the Brazilian jungle, two biochemists develop a mysterious plant.
#18 | 12/19/1952The Machine
A machine that can foretell the future says that one of a doctor's infant patients will grow up to be a murderer.
#19 | 12/26/1952The Bitter Storm
A man brings back voices and sounds from the Garden of Eden.
#20 | 01/02/1953The Mask of Medusa
Perry Mason won't be able to help a killer who takes refuge in a museum where the statues come to life.
#21 | 01/09/1953Conqueror's Isle
#22 | 01/16/1953Discovered Heart
An alien who's an advance scout for an invasion force arrives at a lighthouse hoping to use its beacon as a signal. A precocious little girl win's the alien's heart and moves the extraterrestrial to surrender his life to prevent invasion.
#23 | 01/23/1953The Picture of Dorian Gray
Handsome Dorian Gray never seems to age but the same cannot be said about his portrait.
#24 | 01/30/1953Two Faced
To win the love of a woman, a man arranges to have the head of her former lover transplanted onto his body.
#25 | 02/06/1953The Build Box
A little boy is the recipient of a strange box from the owner of a gift shop.
#26 | 02/13/1953Another Chance
A man is given the chance to live the past seven years of his life over but he makes the same mistakes.
#27 | 02/20/1953The Great Silence
The nation is hit with an epidemic in which vocal chords are paralyzed but it's actually an alien plot to control the people of the United States.
#28 | 02/27/1953Lonesome Village
#29 | 03/06/1953The Fury of the Cocoon
Members of an expedition into the jungle are attacked by invisible blood sucking leaches from outer space.
#30 | 03/13/1953The Squeeze Play
A magician hates a reporter so he hypnotizes all the people with whom the newsie comes into contact into forgetting him.
#31 | 03/20/1953Read to Me Herr Doktor
An old professor with failing eyesight builds a robot named Herr Doktor to read him books that he had never had a chance to read when he was younger. The relationship between the professor and the robot is very close. The books that the robot reads give it the desire to be a complete person. Their roles become reversed. The robot begins to demand that the professor read aloud to him. Later, the robot falls in love with the professor's daughter. When she spurns the robot, it learns that the books it has been reading were wrong and it dies of a broken heart.
#32 | 03/27/1953Ghost Writer
A writer discovers to his horror that the events in his short stories are coming true.
#33 | 04/03/1953Past Tense
A doctor travels back in time in order to extol the virtues of penicillin and save lives but ends up being committed to an insane asylum where he falls ill and dies from a disease which could have been prevented by penicillin.
#34 | 04/10/1953Homecoming
A pilot returns home after being stranded in the Arctic for five years and discovers that he can only live in cold temperatures.
#35 | 04/17/1953The Rivals
A new wife finds herself a rival for her husband's affections--his cat.
#36 | 04/24/1953Please Omit Flowers
A mortician discovers a serum that induces a death-like sleep.
#37 | 05/01/1953The Evil Within
A scientist creates a formula that unlocks evil. Then his wife unknowingly ingests some of the formula.
#38 | 05/08/1953The Vault
While making scientific tests, four people get trapped inside a vault.
#39 | 05/15/1953Ink
A chemist comes into possession of an ink which has the power to hypnotize all who look at anything written with the substance.
#40 | 05/22/1953The Spider's Web
Inhabitants of an island find themselves affected by atomic radiation.
#41 | 05/29/1953Lazarus Walks
A man gets revived after being declared clinically dead for a short period of time. Then he discovers that he has the ability to detect lies.
#42 | 06/12/1953What Dreams May Come
A woman receives telepathic waves that she is about to be murdered.
08/03/1951Season 1 - 43 episodes

Additional Information

Production country: United States of America (USA)
Original language: English (EN)
Spoken languages: English (EN)
Translated into 3 languages: English (EN), Spanish (ES), French (FR)
Status: Ended
First episode released on: 08/03/1951
Last episode released on: 06/12/1953
Appearing Characters: Captain Nemo
Color: Black & White (B/W)

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