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Season 1

Tales of Tomorrow Season 1

August. 03,1951
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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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Tales of Tomorrow Season 1 Full Episode Guide

Episode 43 - Ice from Space
First Aired: August. 08,1952

A rocket returns from space with a huge block of ice inside its compartment. An Air Force officer realizes that this block of ice is a form of alien invasion.

Episode 42 - Sudden Darkness
First Aired: August. 01,1952

A scientist invents a device which can shut down all the world's electrical power with one flick of the switch.

Episode 41 - Ahead of His Time
First Aired: July. 18,1952

A lab technician invents a time machine and uses it to travel forward to the year 2052.

Episode 40 - The Duplicates
First Aired: July. 04,1952

A man on Jupiter is paid a huge sum of money to travel to Earth and kill his duplicate on that planet.

Episode 39 - Appointment on Mars
First Aired: June. 27,1952

Three astronauts arrive on Mars, sponsored by a mining company who will share the profits with them. Illness, paranoia and other problems develop until all three are dead - but what caused it?

Episode 38 - The Miraculous Serum
First Aired: June. 20,1952

A miracle life-saving serum has unintended consequences when it's tested on a female patient. Not only does it make the woman immune to diseases but to moral issues as well.

Episode 37 - All the Time in the World
First Aired: June. 13,1952

A man must decide whether or not he wants to survive a hydrogen bomb blast. If he does he'll be the only person remaining on earth--not a pleasant predicament.

Episode 36 - The Exile
First Aired: June. 06,1952

A scientist receives radiation burns while working with atomic energy.

Episode 35 - Little Black Bag
First Aired: May. 30,1952

A struggling doctor takes his instruments to a pawnshop because his wife complains about their lack of money. Once in the shop, he makes a deal with the pawnbroker for $20.00 and a mysterious medical bag. Later, it is discovered that the instruments in the bag can perform "miracle cures". Upon close inspection of the instruments, a patent date of July 18, 2450 is revealed.

Episode 34 - World of Water
First Aired: May. 23,1952

A scientist discovers a solvent that is capable of dissolving the planet.

Episode 33 - Black Planet
First Aired: May. 16,1952

Two astronomers working together, seek a tenth planet. The senior fears the junior might have found it and is jealous. They are also both interested in Norma, who works with them. When, in the course of a fight between the two men, the senior scientist falls dead - the question is was he killed by the other or not. Norma's brother, a police detective has to solve the case! Leslie Nielsen, Frank Albertson amd Horace MacMahon star.

Episode 32 - The Golden Ingot
First Aired: May. 09,1952

A doctor's unsuccessful experiments cause him to fall into a state of depression which has his daughter worried.

Episode 31 - Red Dust
First Aired: May. 02,1952

Four members of a space party returning to Earth from Alpha Centauri try to determine what killed the other two members of their party.

Episode 30 - Plague from Space
First Aired: April. 25,1952

A military base commander is forced to make a terrible decision when he learns that Martians have invaded Earth using a deadly combination of bacteria and brainwaves.

Episode 29 - Time to Go
First Aired: April. 18,1952

A woman finds a bank that doesn't save money--it saves time.

Episode 28 - Sleep No More
First Aired: April. 11,1952

A young man begs to be kept awake due to the fact that his dreams are turning into horrifying realities.

Episode 27 - And a Little Child
First Aired: April. 04,1952

A young hillbilly girl has the power to read minds and this power is called upon when a scientist suffers a paralyzing stroke.

Episode 26 - Flight Overdue
First Aired: March. 28,1952

The husband of an aviatrix who disappeared on a test flight finally learns the truth about his wife's disappearance.

Episode 25 - The Fisherman's Wife (aka: Fountain of Youth)
First Aired: March. 21,1952

Two scientists develop a formula to restore youth and a selfish damsel volunteers to be their first subject.

Episode 24 - The Diamond Lens
First Aired: March. 14,1952

Shortly before he is scheduled to go to the guillotine, a scientist confesses to a priest the fantastic reason why he committed murder to obtain the perfect diamond for use in a microscope.

Episode 23 - Bound Together
First Aired: March. 07,1952

A space pilot reported missing on a mission to Mars returns unexpectedly to his wife but is he the same person?

Episode 22 - The Children's Room
First Aired: February. 29,1952

A secret "Children's Room" at a college attracts the attention of intellectual advanced youths. One of them, Walt, is the son of a professor at the university. The professor uncovers that his son and other children are 'mutants' being groomed to assist an alien race in a distant part of the galaxy.

Episode 21 - Memento
First Aired: February. 22,1952

A scientist who's spent his entire life building a spaceship that can travel to Mars discovers that he cannot make the trip.

Episode 20 - Age of Peril
First Aired: February. 15,1952

A scientist devises a way to help criminals beat lie detector tests.

Episode 19 - What You Need
First Aired: February. 08,1952

A writer tries to steal an unusual machine but gets murdered by its owner.

Episode 18 - 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea: The Escape (2)
First Aired: February. 01,1952

A sailor being held prisoner onboard a submarine by the mysterious Captain Nemo escapes from captivity with the assistance of the captain's daughter.

Episode 17 - 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea: The Chase (1)
First Aired: January. 25,1952

A young sailor finds himself held captive on a submarine called the Nautilus and commanded by the mysterious Captain Nemo.

Episode 16 - Frankenstein
First Aired: January. 18,1952

In an adaptation of Mary Shelley's tale, Dr. Frankenstein brings to life a lumbering undead monster who he must then find someway to destroy.

Episode 15 - The Dune Roller
First Aired: January. 04,1952

On an island a strange rock begins to grow and move. Scientists that observe the phenomena speculate that an ancient meteor that once hit the island is attempting to reassemble itself.

Episode 14 - The Invader
First Aired: December. 21,1951

A scientist doing research in oceanography witnesses the crash of a UFO into the ocean and sends his son underwater to investigate.

Episode 13 - Sneak Attack
First Aired: December. 07,1951

During the Cold War, a captured American spy is his country's only hope to avert an attack by a new type of bomb.

Episode 12 - Enemy Unknown
First Aired: November. 23,1951

A distinguished astrophysicist refuses to help his government.

Episode 11 - The Search for the Flying Saucer
First Aired: November. 09,1951

A reporter arrives in a New Mexico town to investigate sightings of flying saucers. But neither he nor some of the town's residents are actually who they appear to be.

Episode 10 - Test Flight
First Aired: October. 26,1951

The CEO of an aerospace company is determined to build a spaceship for interplanetary travel and a young scientist convinces him that he can perform the task--but only if he's the first person to travel on the spaceship.

Episode 9 - The Crystal Egg
First Aired: October. 12,1951

The owner of a London curiosity shop delivers a mysterious crystal egg to a university professor for the scientist's opinion on its worth and its properties. The 'egg' proves to be a window to Mars. When the professor loses the egg, he tries to convince people that he is not crazy.

Episode 8 - The Dark Angel
First Aired: September. 28,1951

A doctor discovers that there's something medically strange about his smokin' hot wife.

Episode 7 - The Monsters
First Aired: September. 14,1951

Episode 6 - Errand Boy
First Aired: September. 07,1951

Episode 5 - The Last Man on Earth
First Aired: August. 31,1951

Martians takeover the Earth and leave only two people alive for experimental purposes.

Episode 4 - The Woman at Land's End
First Aired: August. 24,1951

Episode 3 - A Child is Crying
First Aired: August. 17,1951

The government attempts to use a young girl as a weapon in the Cold War when she displays powerful mental abilities.

Episode 2 - Blunder
First Aired: August. 10,1951

A scientist is on the verge of developing a new source of incredible power but after his colleagues discover an error in his calculations they find out there's no way to communicate this error to the scientist.

Episode 1 - Verdict from Space
First Aired: August. 03,1951

A defendant on trial, accused of murdering a prominent archaeologist, tells the jury an incredible story of a pending alien invasion.

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