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Tales of Tomorrow

Season 2 1952 - 1953

  • 1952-08-22T04:00:00Z on ABC
  • 25m
  • 17h 30m (42 episodes)
  • United States
  • English
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.

42 episodes

Season Premiere

1952-08-22T04:00:00Z

2x01 A Bird in Hand

Season Premiere

2x01 A Bird in Hand

  • 1952-08-22T04:00:00Z25m

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.

1952-08-29T04:00:00Z

2x02 Thanks

2x02 Thanks

  • 1952-08-29T04:00:00Z25m

A scientific invention brings glory to a struggling violinist but it also causes him to commit murder.

1952-09-05T04:00:00Z

2x03 The Seeing Eye Surgeon

2x03 The Seeing Eye Surgeon

  • 1952-09-05T04:00:00Z25m

When a prominent physician dons a pair of eyeglasses he discovers that he can see into the future.

1952-09-12T04:00:00Z

2x04 The Cocoon

2x04 The Cocoon

  • 1952-09-12T04:00:00Z25m

A group of scientists are trapped inside a house in a remote jungle by hideous invisible creatures.

1952-09-19T04:00:00Z

2x05 The Chase

2x05 The Chase

  • 1952-09-19T04:00:00Z25m

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.

1952-10-03T05:00:00Z

2x07 Substance X

2x07 Substance X

  • 1952-10-03T05:00:00Z25m

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.

1952-10-10T05:00:00Z

2x08 The Horn

2x08 The Horn

  • 1952-10-10T05:00:00Z25m

A scientist invents a machine that has the power to control human emotions.

1952-10-17T05:00:00Z

2x09 Double Trouble

2x09 Double Trouble

  • 1952-10-17T05:00:00Z25m

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.

1952-10-31T05:00:00Z

2x11 The Tomb of King Tarus

2x11 The Tomb of King Tarus

  • 1952-10-31T05:00:00Z25m

An archeologist discovers that an ancient king has been able to stay alive for centuries in a tomb deep beneath the Egyptian desert.

1952-11-07T05:00:00Z

2x12 The Window

2x12 The Window

  • 1952-11-07T05:00:00Z25m

A live television program is interrupted by a mysterious signal that shows a murder about to take place.

1952-11-14T05:00:00Z

2x13 The Camera

2x13 The Camera

  • 1952-11-14T05:00:00Z25m

A blackmailer discovers a camera that will take pictures 25 years into the future.

1952-11-21T05:00:00Z

2x14 The Quiet Lady

2x14 The Quiet Lady

  • 1952-11-21T05:00:00Z25m

A deadly disease covers the earth and its only hope is a little girl.

1952-11-28T05:00:00Z

2x15 The Invigorating Air

2x15 The Invigorating Air

  • 1952-11-28T05:00:00Z25m

A young scientist produces a new kind of air which proves to be "invigorating."

1952-12-05T05:00:00Z

2x16 The Glacier Giant

2x16 The Glacier Giant

  • 1952-12-05T05:00:00Z25m

A reporter and his damsel sidekick search for a giant reportedly encased in the ice of the Himalayas.

1952-12-12T05:00:00Z

2x17 The Fatal Flower

2x17 The Fatal Flower

  • 1952-12-12T05:00:00Z25m

Doing research in the Brazilian jungle, two biochemists develop a mysterious plant.

1952-12-19T05:00:00Z

2x18 The Machine

2x18 The Machine

  • 1952-12-19T05:00:00Z25m

A machine that can foretell the future says that one of a doctor's infant patients will grow up to be a murderer.

1952-12-26T05:00:00Z

2x19 The Bitter Storm

2x19 The Bitter Storm

  • 1952-12-26T05:00:00Z25m

A man brings back voices and sounds from the Garden of Eden.

1953-01-02T05:00:00Z

2x20 The Mask of Medusa

2x20 The Mask of Medusa

  • 1953-01-02T05:00:00Z25m

Perry Mason won't be able to help a killer who takes refuge in a museum where the statues come to life.

1953-01-09T05:00:00Z

2x21 Conqueror's Isle

2x21 Conqueror's Isle

  • 1953-01-09T05:00:00Z25m

1953-01-16T05:00:00Z

2x22 Discovered Heart

2x22 Discovered Heart

  • 1953-01-16T05:00:00Z25m

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.

2x23 The Picture of Dorian Gray

  • 1953-01-23T05:00:00Z25m

Handsome Dorian Gray never seems to age but the same cannot be said about his portrait.

1953-01-30T05:00:00Z

2x24 Two Faced

2x24 Two Faced

  • 1953-01-30T05:00:00Z25m

To win the love of a woman, a man arranges to have the head of her former lover transplanted onto his body.

1953-02-06T05:00:00Z

2x25 The Build Box

2x25 The Build Box

  • 1953-02-06T05:00:00Z25m

A little boy is the recipient of a strange box from the owner of a gift shop.

1953-02-13T05:00:00Z

2x26 Another Chance

2x26 Another Chance

  • 1953-02-13T05:00:00Z25m

A man is given the chance to live the past seven years of his life over but he makes the same mistakes.

1953-02-20T05:00:00Z

2x27 The Great Silence

2x27 The Great Silence

  • 1953-02-20T05:00:00Z25m

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.

1953-02-27T05:00:00Z

2x28 Lonesome Village

2x28 Lonesome Village

  • 1953-02-27T05:00:00Z25m

1953-03-06T05:00:00Z

2x29 The Fury of the Cocoon

2x29 The Fury of the Cocoon

  • 1953-03-06T05:00:00Z25m

Members of an expedition into the jungle are attacked by invisible blood sucking leaches from outer space.

1953-03-13T05:00:00Z

2x30 The Squeeze Play

2x30 The Squeeze Play

  • 1953-03-13T05:00:00Z25m

A magician hates a reporter so he hypnotizes all the people with whom the newsie comes into contact into forgetting him.

1953-03-20T05:00:00Z

2x31 Read to Me Herr Doktor

2x31 Read to Me Herr Doktor

  • 1953-03-20T05:00:00Z25m

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.

1953-03-27T05:00:00Z

2x32 Ghost Writer

2x32 Ghost Writer

  • 1953-03-27T05:00:00Z25m

A writer discovers to his horror that the events in his short stories are coming true.

1953-04-03T05:00:00Z

2x33 Past Tense

2x33 Past Tense

  • 1953-04-03T05:00:00Z25m

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.

1953-04-10T05:00:00Z

2x34 Homecoming

2x34 Homecoming

  • 1953-04-10T05:00:00Z25m

A pilot returns home after being stranded in the Arctic for five years and discovers that he can only live in cold temperatures.

1953-04-17T05:00:00Z

2x35 The Rivals

2x35 The Rivals

  • 1953-04-17T05:00:00Z25m

A new wife finds herself a rival for her husband's affections--his cat.

1953-04-24T05:00:00Z

2x36 Please Omit Flowers

2x36 Please Omit Flowers

  • 1953-04-24T05:00:00Z25m

A mortician discovers a serum that induces a death-like sleep.

1953-05-01T04:00:00Z

2x37 The Evil Within

2x37 The Evil Within

  • 1953-05-01T04:00:00Z25m

A scientist creates a formula that unlocks evil. Then his wife unknowingly ingests some of the formula.

1953-05-08T04:00:00Z

2x38 The Vault

2x38 The Vault

  • 1953-05-08T04:00:00Z25m

While making scientific tests, four people get trapped inside a vault.

1953-05-15T04:00:00Z

2x39 Ink

2x39 Ink

  • 1953-05-15T04:00:00Z25m

A chemist comes into possession of an ink which has the power to hypnotize all who look at anything written with the substance.

1953-05-22T04:00:00Z

2x40 The Spider's Web

2x40 The Spider's Web

  • 1953-05-22T04:00:00Z25m

Inhabitants of an island find themselves affected by atomic radiation.

1953-05-29T04:00:00Z

2x41 Lazarus Walks

2x41 Lazarus Walks

  • 1953-05-29T04:00:00Z25m

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.

1953-06-12T04:00:00Z

2x42 What Dreams May Come

2x42 What Dreams May Come

  • 1953-06-12T04:00:00Z25m

A woman receives telepathic waves that she is about to be murdered.

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