Tales of Tomorrow

1951
Tales of Tomorrow

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EP1 A Bird in Hand Aug 22, 1952

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.

EP2 Thanks Aug 29, 1952

A scientific invention brings glory to a struggling violinist but it also causes him to commit murder.

EP3 The Seeing Eye Surgeon Sep 05, 1952

When a prominent physician dons a pair of eyeglasses he discovers that he can see into the future.

EP4 The Cocoon Sep 12, 1952

A group of scientists are trapped inside a house in a remote jungle by hideous invisible creatures.

EP5 The Chase Sep 19, 1952

A man arrives at a sea lodge and confesses to a murder but it's later revealed that he's from the future.

EP6 Youth on Tap (aka: Young Blood) Sep 26, 1952

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.

EP7 Substance X Oct 03, 1952

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.

EP8 The Horn Oct 10, 1952

A scientist invents a machine that has the power to control human emotions.

EP9 Double Trouble Oct 17, 1952

A writer pens a story about a death ray machine only to discover later that the government actually has such a device.

EP10 Many Happy Returns (aka: Invaders at Ground Zero) Oct 24, 1952

A father discovers that his son and other neighborhood children are being controlled telepathically by an alien.

EP11 The Tomb of King Tarus Oct 31, 1952

An archeologist discovers that an ancient king has been able to stay alive for centuries in a tomb deep beneath the Egyptian desert.

EP12 The Window Nov 07, 1952

A live television program is interrupted by a mysterious signal that shows a murder about to take place.

EP13 The Camera Nov 14, 1952

A blackmailer discovers a camera that will take pictures 25 years into the future.

EP14 The Quiet Lady Nov 21, 1952

A deadly disease covers the earth and its only hope is a little girl.

EP15 The Invigorating Air Nov 28, 1952

A young scientist produces a new kind of air which proves to be "invigorating."

EP16 The Glacier Giant Dec 05, 1952

A reporter and his damsel sidekick search for a giant reportedly encased in the ice of the Himalayas.

EP17 The Fatal Flower Dec 12, 1952

Doing research in the Brazilian jungle, two biochemists develop a mysterious plant.

EP18 The Machine Dec 19, 1952

A machine that can foretell the future says that one of a doctor's infant patients will grow up to be a murderer.

EP19 The Bitter Storm Dec 26, 1952

A man brings back voices and sounds from the Garden of Eden.

EP20 The Mask of Medusa Jan 02, 1953

Perry Mason won't be able to help a killer who takes refuge in a museum where the statues come to life.

EP21 Conqueror's Isle Jan 09, 1953

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EP22 Discovered Heart Jan 16, 1953

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.

EP23 The Picture of Dorian Gray Jan 23, 1953

Handsome Dorian Gray never seems to age but the same cannot be said about his portrait.

EP24 Two Faced Jan 30, 1953

To win the love of a woman, a man arranges to have the head of her former lover transplanted onto his body.

EP25 The Build Box Feb 06, 1953

A little boy is the recipient of a strange box from the owner of a gift shop.

EP26 Another Chance Feb 13, 1953

A man is given the chance to live the past seven years of his life over but he makes the same mistakes.

EP27 The Great Silence Feb 20, 1953

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.

EP28 Lonesome Village Feb 27, 1953

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EP29 The Fury of the Cocoon Mar 06, 1953

Members of an expedition into the jungle are attacked by invisible blood sucking leaches from outer space.

EP30 The Squeeze Play Mar 13, 1953

A magician hates a reporter so he hypnotizes all the people with whom the newsie comes into contact into forgetting him.

EP31 Read to Me Herr Doktor Mar 20, 1953

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.

EP32 Ghost Writer Mar 27, 1953

A writer discovers to his horror that the events in his short stories are coming true.

EP33 Past Tense Apr 03, 1953

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.

EP34 Homecoming Apr 10, 1953

A pilot returns home after being stranded in the Arctic for five years and discovers that he can only live in cold temperatures.

EP35 The Rivals Apr 17, 1953

A new wife finds herself a rival for her husband's affections--his cat.

EP36 Please Omit Flowers Apr 24, 1953

A mortician discovers a serum that induces a death-like sleep.

EP37 The Evil Within May 01, 1953

A scientist creates a formula that unlocks evil. Then his wife unknowingly ingests some of the formula.

EP38 The Vault May 08, 1953

While making scientific tests, four people get trapped inside a vault.

EP39 Ink May 15, 1953

A chemist comes into possession of an ink which has the power to hypnotize all who look at anything written with the substance.

EP40 The Spider's Web May 22, 1953

Inhabitants of an island find themselves affected by atomic radiation.

EP41 Lazarus Walks May 29, 1953

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.

EP42 What Dreams May Come Jun 12, 1953

A woman receives telepathic waves that she is about to be murdered.
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Released: 03 August 1951 Ended
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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.

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