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Tales to Keep You Awake

Season 2 1967 - 1968

  • 1967-10-19T23:00:00Z on La 2
  • 50m
  • 6h 40m (8 episodes)
  • Spain
  • Spanish; Castilian
  • Drama, Mystery, Comedy, Fantasy, Science Fiction
Though he made two feature films – the legendary WHO CAN KILL A CHILD? and THE HOUSE THAT SCREAMED – the ultimate legacy of writer/director Narciso ‘Chicho’ Ibáñez Serrador remains his groundbreaking 1966-1968 Televisión Española series HISTORIAS PARA NO DORMIR. Serrador wrote, directed and introduced every episode, adapting stories by Ray Bradbury, Edgar Allan Poe, Robert Bloch and his own material under the pseudonym Luis Peñafiel, shocking Franco-era audiences with black humor, macabre themes and sharp social commentary while inspiring generations of Spain’s greatest genre filmmakers as well as a 2021 reboot.

8 episodes

Season Premiere

1967-10-19T23:00:00Z

2x01 The Nightmare

Season Premiere

2x01 The Nightmare

  • 1967-10-19T23:00:00Z50m

1880, Kisilova village: There has been a number of mysterious death in the area. All victims were young ladies and the common factor between all of them are small marks in their necks. The men suspect the murderer is a strange neighbour who lives out of the village and never comes out during the day. The village doctor is the only one who refuses to believe he could be the author.

1967-11-02T23:00:00Z

2x02 The Paw

2x02 The Paw

  • 1967-11-02T23:00:00Z50m

A version of W.W. Jacobs The Monkey's Paw. A mummified monkey's paw, an amulet that grants 3 wishes. What could go wrong?

1967-11-30T23:00:00Z

2x03 The Seer

2x03 The Seer

  • 1967-11-30T23:00:00Z50m

Two people commit suicide and the police finds out both of them were taking part in a special Parapsychology course. The course involves getting familiar with precognition and clairvoyance. All people in the course start committing suicide one by one...

1967-12-14T23:00:00Z

2x04 The Return

2x04 The Return

  • 1967-12-14T23:00:00Z50m

Two cousins awaits with expectancy their uncle's death to inherit his fortune and wealth. The doctor in charge of their uncle's health tells them neither is included in his will so they decide to kill him.

1967-12-28T23:00:00Z

2x05 The Raven

2x05 The Raven

  • 1967-12-28T23:00:00Z50m

Edgar Allan Poe's life told by one of his rivals.

1968-01-11T23:00:00Z

2x06 The Promise

2x06 The Promise

  • 1968-01-11T23:00:00Z50m

Based on Poe's "The Premature Burial", this episode tells the story of a funeral director who lives obsessed with the possibility to be buried alive given he suffers from catalepsy. He lives with her niece whom he tries to train in his trade but she is not interested. He forces her to sign a promise to bury him in a cardboard box centimetres away from the ground and a 3-day long wake, just in case he is not dead.

1968-01-25T23:00:00Z

2x07 The House

2x07 The House

  • 1968-01-25T23:00:00Z50m

The heir of an old house travels to a distant village to take possession of it. But the villagers say that the ghost of the owner appears at night killing those who dare to go to the house.

Season Finale

1968-03-14T23:00:00Z

2x08 The Transplant

Season Finale

2x08 The Transplant

  • 1968-03-14T23:00:00Z50m

In an undefined future, organ transplants are a usual thing and socially accepted action. A man rejects organ transplantation because he believes that in this way retains its moral integrity.

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