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.
Episodes
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.
A scientific invention brings glory to a struggling violinist but it also causes him to commit murder.
When a prominent physician dons a pair of eyeglasses he discovers that he can see into the future.
A group of scientists are trapped inside a house in a remote jungle by hideous invisible creatures.
A man arrives at a sea lodge and confesses to a murder but it's later revealed that he's from the future.
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.
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.
A scientist invents a machine that has the power to control human emotions.
A writer pens a story about a death ray machine only to discover later that the government actually has such a device.
A father discovers that his son and other neighborhood children are being controlled telepathically by an alien.
An archeologist discovers that an ancient king has been able to stay alive for centuries in a tomb deep beneath the Egyptian desert.
A live television program is interrupted by a mysterious signal that shows a murder about to take place.
A blackmailer discovers a camera that will take pictures 25 years into the future.
A deadly disease covers the earth and its only hope is a little girl.
A young scientist produces a new kind of air which proves to be "invigorating."
A reporter and his damsel sidekick search for a giant reportedly encased in the ice of the Himalayas.
Doing research in the Brazilian jungle, two biochemists develop a mysterious plant.
A machine that can foretell the future says that one of a doctor's infant patients will grow up to be a murderer.
A man brings back voices and sounds from the Garden of Eden.
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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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.
Handsome Dorian Gray never seems to age but the same cannot be said about his portrait.
To win the love of a woman, a man arranges to have the head of her former lover transplanted onto his body.
A little boy is the recipient of a strange box from the owner of a gift shop.
A man is given the chance to live the past seven years of his life over but he makes the same mistakes.
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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Members of an expedition into the jungle are attacked by invisible blood sucking leaches from outer space.
A magician hates a reporter so he hypnotizes all the people with whom the newsie comes into contact into forgetting him.
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.
A writer discovers to his horror that the events in his short stories are coming true.
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.
A pilot returns home after being stranded in the Arctic for five years and discovers that he can only live in cold temperatures.
A new wife finds herself a rival for her husband's affections--his cat.
A mortician discovers a serum that induces a death-like sleep.
A scientist creates a formula that unlocks evil. Then his wife unknowingly ingests some of the formula.
While making scientific tests, four people get trapped inside a vault.
A chemist comes into possession of an ink which has the power to hypnotize all who look at anything written with the substance.
Inhabitants of an island find themselves affected by atomic radiation.
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.
A woman receives telepathic waves that she is about to be murdered.
