Tales of Tomorrow
TV-G
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1951
Sci-Fi
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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Episode 42 : What Dreams May Come
June. 12,1953
A woman receives telepathic waves that she is about to be murdered.
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Episode 41 : 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.
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Episode 40 : The Spider's Web
May. 22,1953
Inhabitants of an island find themselves affected by atomic radiation.
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Episode 39 : 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.
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Episode 38 : The Vault
May. 08,1953
While making scientific tests, four people get trapped inside a vault.
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Episode 37 : The Evil Within
May. 01,1953
A scientist creates a formula that unlocks evil. Then his wife unknowingly ingests some of the formula.
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Episode 36 : Please Omit Flowers
April. 24,1953
A mortician discovers a serum that induces a death-like sleep.
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Episode 35 : The Rivals
April. 17,1953
A new wife finds herself a rival for her husband's affections--his cat.
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Episode 34 : Homecoming
April. 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.
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Episode 33 : Past Tense
April. 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.
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Episode 32 : Ghost Writer
March. 27,1953
A writer discovers to his horror that the events in his short stories are coming true.
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Episode 30 : The Squeeze Play
March. 13,1953
A magician hates a reporter so he hypnotizes all the people with whom the newsie comes into contact into forgetting him.
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Episode 29 : The Fury of the Cocoon
March. 06,1953
Members of an expedition into the jungle are attacked by invisible blood sucking leaches from outer space.
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Episode 28 : Lonesome Village
February. 27,1953
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Episode 27 : The Great Silence
February. 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.
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Episode 26 : Another Chance
February. 13,1953
A man is given the chance to live the past seven years of his life over but he makes the same mistakes.
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Episode 25 : The Build Box
February. 06,1953
A little boy is the recipient of a strange box from the owner of a gift shop.
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Episode 24 : Two Faced
January. 30,1953
To win the love of a woman, a man arranges to have the head of her former lover transplanted onto his body.
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Episode 23 : The Picture of Dorian Gray
January. 23,1953
Handsome Dorian Gray never seems to age but the same cannot be said about his portrait.
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Episode 22 : Discovered Heart
January. 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.
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Episode 21 : Conqueror's Isle
January. 09,1953
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Episode 20 : The Mask of Medusa
January. 02,1953
Perry Mason won't be able to help a killer who takes refuge in a museum where the statues come to life.
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Episode 19 : The Bitter Storm
December. 26,1952
A man brings back voices and sounds from the Garden of Eden.
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Episode 18 : The Machine
December. 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.
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Episode 17 : The Fatal Flower
December. 12,1952
Doing research in the Brazilian jungle, two biochemists develop a mysterious plant.
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Episode 16 : The Glacier Giant
December. 05,1952
A reporter and his damsel sidekick search for a giant reportedly encased in the ice of the Himalayas.
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Episode 15 : The Invigorating Air
November. 28,1952
A young scientist produces a new kind of air which proves to be "invigorating."
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Episode 14 : The Quiet Lady
November. 21,1952
A deadly disease covers the earth and its only hope is a little girl.
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Episode 13 : The Camera
November. 14,1952
A blackmailer discovers a camera that will take pictures 25 years into the future.
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Episode 12 : The Window
November. 07,1952
A live television program is interrupted by a mysterious signal that shows a murder about to take place.
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Episode 11 : The Tomb of King Tarus
October. 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.
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Episode 10 : Many Happy Returns (aka: Invaders at Ground Zero)
October. 24,1952
A father discovers that his son and other neighborhood children are being controlled telepathically by an alien.
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Episode 9 : Double Trouble
October. 17,1952
A writer pens a story about a death ray machine only to discover later that the government actually has such a device.
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Episode 8 : The Horn
October. 10,1952
A scientist invents a machine that has the power to control human emotions.
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Episode 6 : Youth on Tap (aka: Young Blood)
September. 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.
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Episode 5 : The Chase
September. 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.
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Episode 4 : The Cocoon
September. 12,1952
A group of scientists are trapped inside a house in a remote jungle by hideous invisible creatures.
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Episode 3 : The Seeing Eye Surgeon
September. 05,1952
When a prominent physician dons a pair of eyeglasses he discovers that he can see into the future.
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Episode 2 : Thanks
August. 29,1952
A scientific invention brings glory to a struggling violinist but it also causes him to commit murder.
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