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Tales of Tomorrow : Season 1
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Air date: 03 Aug '51 - 43 episodesTales 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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List of Episodes (43)
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26. Flight Overdue
28 Mar '52The husband of an aviatrix who disappeared on a test flight finally learns the truth about his wife's disappearance.
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27. And a Little Child
04 Apr '52A young hillbilly girl has the power to read minds and this power is called upon when a scientist suffers a paralyzing stroke.
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28. Sleep No More
11 Apr '52A young man begs to be kept awake due to the fact that his dreams are turning into horrifying realities.
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29. Time to Go
18 Apr '52A woman finds a bank that doesn't save money--it saves time.
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30. Plague from Space
25 Apr '52A 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.
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31. Red Dust
02 May '52Four members of a space party returning to Earth from Alpha Centauri try to determine what killed the other two members of their party.
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32. The Golden Ingot
09 May '52A doctor's unsuccessful experiments cause him to fall into a state of depression which has his daughter worried.
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33. Black Planet
16 May '52Two 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.
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34. World of Water
23 May '52A scientist discovers a solvent that is capable of dissolving the planet.
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35. Little Black Bag
30 May '52A 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.
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36. The Exile
06 Jun '52A scientist receives radiation burns while working with atomic energy.
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37. All the Time in the World
13 Jun '52A 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.
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38. The Miraculous Serum
20 Jun '52A 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.
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39. Appointment on Mars
27 Jun '52Three 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?
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40. The Duplicates
04 Jul '52A man on Jupiter is paid a huge sum of money to travel to Earth and kill his duplicate on that planet.
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41. Ahead of His Time
18 Jul '52A lab technician invents a time machine and uses it to travel forward to the year 2052.
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42. Sudden Darkness
01 Aug '52A scientist invents a device which can shut down all the world's electrical power with one flick of the switch.
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43. Ice from Space
08 Aug '52A 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.
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