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.
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E1
A 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.
Aug 22, 1952 · 25m -
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E2
Thanks
A scientific invention brings glory to a struggling violinist but it also causes him to commit murder.
Aug 29, 1952 · 25m -
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E3
The Seeing Eye Surgeon
When a prominent physician dons a pair of eyeglasses he discovers that he can see into the future.
Sep 5, 1952 · 28m -
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E4
The Cocoon
A group of scientists are trapped inside a house in a remote jungle by hideous invisible creatures.
Sep 12, 1952 · 25m -
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E5
The Chase
A man arrives at a sea lodge and confesses to a murder but it's later revealed that he's from the future.
Sep 19, 1952 · 25m -
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E6
Youth 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.
Sep 26, 1952 · 29m -
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E7
Substance 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.
Oct 3, 1952 · 25m -
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E8
The Horn
A scientist invents a machine that has the power to control human emotions.
Oct 10, 1952 · 30m -
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E9
Double Trouble
A writer pens a story about a death ray machine only to discover later that the government actually has such a device.
Oct 17, 1952 · 25m -
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E10
Many Happy Returns (aka: Invaders at Ground Zero)
A father discovers that his son and other neighborhood children are being controlled telepathically by an alien.
Oct 24, 1952 · 30m -
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E11
The 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.
Oct 31, 1952 · 25m -
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E12
The Window
A live television program is interrupted by a mysterious signal that shows a murder about to take place.
Nov 7, 1952 · 29m -
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E13
The Camera
A blackmailer discovers a camera that will take pictures 25 years into the future.
Nov 14, 1952 · 25m -
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E14
The Quiet Lady
A deadly disease covers the earth and its only hope is a little girl.
Nov 21, 1952 · 25m -
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E15
The Invigorating Air
A young scientist produces a new kind of air which proves to be "invigorating."
Nov 28, 1952 · 25m -
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E16
The Glacier Giant
A reporter and his damsel sidekick search for a giant reportedly encased in the ice of the Himalayas.
Dec 5, 1952 · 25m -
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E17
The Fatal Flower
Doing research in the Brazilian jungle, two biochemists develop a mysterious plant.
Dec 12, 1952 · 30m -
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E18
The Machine
A machine that can foretell the future says that one of a doctor's infant patients will grow up to be a murderer.
Dec 19, 1952 · 30m -
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E19
The Bitter Storm
A man brings back voices and sounds from the Garden of Eden.
Dec 26, 1952 · 30m -
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E20
The 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.
Jan 2, 1953 · 25m -
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E21
Conqueror's Isle
Jan 9, 1953 · 25m -
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E22
Discovered 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.
Jan 16, 1953 · 25m -
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E23
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Handsome Dorian Gray never seems to age but the same cannot be said about his portrait.
Jan 23, 1953 · 25m -
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E24
Two Faced
To win the love of a woman, a man arranges to have the head of her former lover transplanted onto his body.
Jan 30, 1953 · 25m -
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E25
The Build Box
A little boy is the recipient of a strange box from the owner of a gift shop.
Feb 6, 1953 · 25m -
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E26
Another Chance
A man is given the chance to live the past seven years of his life over but he makes the same mistakes.
Feb 13, 1953 · 30m -
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E27
The 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.
Feb 20, 1953 · 30m -
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E28
Lonesome Village
Feb 27, 1953 · 30m -
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E29
The Fury of the Cocoon
Members of an expedition into the jungle are attacked by invisible blood sucking leaches from outer space.
Mar 6, 1953 · 25m -
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E30
The Squeeze Play
A magician hates a reporter so he hypnotizes all the people with whom the newsie comes into contact into forgetting him.
Mar 13, 1953 · 25m -
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E31
Read 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.
Mar 20, 1953 · 30m -
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E32
Ghost Writer
A writer discovers to his horror that the events in his short stories are coming true.
Mar 27, 1953 · 30m -
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E33
Past 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.
Apr 3, 1953 · 30m -
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E34
Homecoming
A pilot returns home after being stranded in the Arctic for five years and discovers that he can only live in cold temperatures.
Apr 10, 1953 · 30m -
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E35
The Rivals
A new wife finds herself a rival for her husband's affections--his cat.
Apr 17, 1953 · 25m -
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E36
Please Omit Flowers
A mortician discovers a serum that induces a death-like sleep.
Apr 24, 1953 · 25m -
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E37
The Evil Within
A scientist creates a formula that unlocks evil. Then his wife unknowingly ingests some of the formula.
May 1, 1953 · 30m -
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E38
The Vault
While making scientific tests, four people get trapped inside a vault.
May 8, 1953 · 25m -
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E39
Ink
A chemist comes into possession of an ink which has the power to hypnotize all who look at anything written with the substance.
May 15, 1953 · 25m -
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E40
The Spider's Web
Inhabitants of an island find themselves affected by atomic radiation.
May 22, 1953 · 30m -
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E41
Lazarus 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.
May 29, 1953 · 25m -
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E42
What Dreams May Come
A woman receives telepathic waves that she is about to be murdered.
Jun 12, 1953 · 30m