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Tales to Keep You Awake

All Episodes 1964 - 1982

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  • 1966-02-03T23:00:00Z
  • 50m
  • 22h 58m (30 episodes)
  • Chicho Ibáñez Serrador
  • Spain
  • Spanish; Castilian
  • Televisión Española
  • 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.

33 episodes

1964-12-17T23:00:00Z

Special 1 The Last Clock

Special 1 The Last Clock

  • 1964-12-17T23:00:00Z50m

1965-04-22T23:00:00Z

Special 2 N. N. 23

Special 2 N. N. 23

  • 1965-04-22T23:00:00Z59m

1974-07-04T22:00:00Z

Special 3 The TV

Special 3 The TV

  • 1974-07-04T22:00:00Z50m

After a man finally makes his long-desired purchase of a high-end colour TV, he becomes increasingly obsessed with it, and begins claiming that the characters "inside" the TV are trying to kill him and his family.

Series Premiere

1966-02-03T23:00:00Z

1x01 The Birthday

Series Premiere

1x01 The Birthday

  • 1966-02-03T23:00:00Z12m

On his 50th birthday, a banker plots to murder his wife, embezzle his employer, and flee the country.

1966-02-10T23:00:00Z

1x02 The Hand

1x02 The Hand

  • 1966-02-10T23:00:00Z48m

Episode "Demon with a Glass Hand" (1964) from the TV Show "The Outer Limits", Season 2 Episode 5. In the future the Earth has been invaded by an extraterrestrial race called Kyben. Unable to cope with its technological and weapons superiority, the human race leaves the planet unleashing an epidemic that leaves the world uninhabitable. The last human being on Earth, an individual named Trent, is an amnesic man, without a past, who has an artificial crystal hand connected to his brain.

1966-02-17T23:00:00Z

1x03 The Cellar (Part 1)

1x03 The Cellar (Part 1)

  • 1966-02-17T23:00:00Z30m

First part of the adaptation made by Narciso Ibáñez Serrador of the story "Come Into My Cellar" by Ray Bradbury. A married couple receives a packet ordered by their son: it contains fast growing wild mushroom spores that he intends to grow in the cellar.

1966-02-24T23:00:00Z

1x04 The Cellar (Part 2)

1x04 The Cellar (Part 2)

  • 1966-02-24T23:00:00Z25m

Second part of the adaptation made by Narciso Ibáñez Serrador of the story "Come Into My Cellar" by Ray Bradbury. The seeds grow like huge mushrooms in the winery, and the son's attitude has changed dramatically.

1966-03-03T23:00:00Z

1x05 The Cask

1x05 The Cask

  • 1966-03-03T23:00:00Z50m

In a village in Burgundy a peddler arrives and abusing the hospitality of a man has a relationship with his wife which will be terrible.

1966-03-10T23:00:00Z

1x06 The Offer

1x06 The Offer

  • 1966-03-10T23:00:00Z50m

A gangsters tale in which the protagonist seems to have everything organized, even his own death.

1966-03-17T23:00:00Z

1x07 The Double

1x07 The Double

  • 1966-03-17T23:00:00Z50m

A man buys a robot that is a double of himself to replace him with his wife while he pretends to go to the South Seas. But the double has its own interests.

1966-03-24T23:00:00Z

1x08 The Pact

1x08 The Pact

  • 1966-03-24T23:00:00Z1m

A hypnotist pretends that a mentally ill person recovers sanity and a dead person does not die. Everything will go wrong.

1966-03-31T23:00:00Z

1x09 The Doll

1x09 The Doll

  • 1966-03-31T23:00:00Z55m

Apparently a girl is mistreated by her father and an uncle of hers investigates why. The reason is very different because the girl seems to have spell items in the attic, to do strange ceremonies and to have the company of her governess who died three years ago.

1966-04-14T23:00:00Z

1x10 The Rocket

1x10 The Rocket

  • 1966-04-14T23:00:00Z44m

An old man dreams of traveling into space. Faced with the impossibility, think of a way to do it and satisfy the grandchildren.

1966-04-21T23:00:00Z

1x11 The Anniversary

1x11 The Anniversary

  • 1966-04-21T23:00:00Z50m

A police commissioner tells his daughter's boyfriend how he rose to the job by shooting a known gangster. What he doesn't know is who his daughter's boyfriend is.

1966-04-28T23:00:00Z

1x12 The Cabin

1x12 The Cabin

  • 1966-04-28T23:00:00Z31m

Two female friend hikers are isolated in a mountain refuge. One of them died and her companion buries her under the snow. But her body will reappear in different places.

1966-05-05T23:00:00Z

1x13 The Wait

1x13 The Wait

  • 1966-05-05T23:00:00Z50m

The last family of colonists on Mars receive, after many years, the visit of a crew from Earth. They knew that family but found that some members of the family are the same age as they were many years before.

1966-05-19T23:00:00Z

1x14 The Alarm (Part 1)

1x14 The Alarm (Part 1)

  • 1966-05-19T23:00:00Z35m

The press announces the arrival of an alien invasion. At the same time, a professor investigates a series of phenomena related to radioactivity and a woman.

1966-05-26T23:00:00Z

1x15 The Alarm (Part 2)

1x15 The Alarm (Part 2)

  • 1966-05-26T23:00:00Z50m

The radiation that the Geiger counter detects always indicates to the cabaret actress. The centuries-old mystery she hides has to do with the upcoming alien invasion.

1966-06-02T23:00:00Z

1x16 The Smile

1x16 The Smile

  • 1966-06-02T23:00:00Z50m

In the future, after a nuclear catastrophe, the inhabitants hate the previous civilization to the point of having a monthly party to destroy books and works of art of that civilization that reached such a degree of destruction.

1966-05-31T23:00:00Z

1x17 The Joke

1x17 The Joke

  • 1966-05-31T23:00:00Z33m

A woman and her lover plan to murder her husband who is a prankster but until the last moment he will stick to the prank.

Season Finale

1966-06-23T23:00:00Z

1x18 The Asphalt

Season Finale

1x18 The Asphalt

  • 1966-06-23T23:00:00Z34m

A man walks down the street and is stuck to the asphalt without being able to move. It is useless to ask for help to those who pass and little by little it is sinking more and more.

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.

Season Premiere

1982-09-05T22:00:00Z

3x01 Freddy

Season Premiere

3x01 Freddy

  • 1982-09-05T22:00:00Z1h 45m

When a travelling theatre company arrives in a small French town to perform, a most unlikely murderer starts picking them off.

1982-09-12T22:00:00Z

3x02 The Case of Mr. Valdemar

3x02 The Case of Mr. Valdemar

  • 1982-09-12T22:00:00Z1h 3m

In this adaptation of the Edgar Allan Poe story, a dying man agrees to have a hypnotist experiment on him, with horrific results.

1982-09-19T22:00:00Z

3x03 The End Began Yesterday

3x03 The End Began Yesterday

  • 1982-09-19T22:00:00Z1h 2m

A University professor suspects of the powerful intelligence of one of the students. At the same time, several crimes are taking place.

Season Finale

1982-10-03T23:00:00Z

3x04 The Junkman

Season Finale

3x04 The Junkman

  • 1982-10-03T23:00:00Z50m

Edmond, an old and destitute peddler, begins to suspect that his alcoholic son is defiling graves at the local cemetery.

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