Tales of Tomorrow
Season 2
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Network: ABC
Season aired: 1952-08-22
Seasons
Overview
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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Episodes · 42
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.
Thanks
A scientific invention brings glory to a struggling violinist but it also causes him to commit murder.
The Seeing Eye Surgeon
When a prominent physician dons a pair of eyeglasses he discovers that he can see into the future.
The Cocoon
A group of scientists are trapped inside a house in a remote jungle by hideous invisible creatures.
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.
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.
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.
The Horn
A scientist invents a machine that has the power to control human emotions.
Double Trouble
A writer pens a story about a death ray machine only to discover later that the government actually has such a device.
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.
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.
The Window
A live television program is interrupted by a mysterious signal that shows a murder about to take place.
The Camera
A blackmailer discovers a camera that will take pictures 25 years into the future.
The Quiet Lady
A deadly disease covers the earth and its only hope is a little girl.
The Invigorating Air
A young scientist produces a new kind of air which proves to be "invigorating."
The Glacier Giant
A reporter and his damsel sidekick search for a giant reportedly encased in the ice of the Himalayas.
The Fatal Flower
Doing research in the Brazilian jungle, two biochemists develop a mysterious plant.
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.
The Bitter Storm
A man brings back voices and sounds from the Garden of Eden.
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.
Conqueror's Isle
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.
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Handsome Dorian Gray never seems to age but the same cannot be said about his portrait.
Two Faced
To win the love of a woman, a man arranges to have the head of her former lover transplanted onto his body.
The Build Box
A little boy is the recipient of a strange box from the owner of a gift shop.
Another Chance
A man is given the chance to live the past seven years of his life over but he makes the same mistakes.
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.
Lonesome Village
The Fury of the Cocoon
Members of an expedition into the jungle are attacked by invisible blood sucking leaches from outer space.
The Squeeze Play
A magician hates a reporter so he hypnotizes all the people with whom the newsie comes into contact into forgetting him.
