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Tales of Tomorrow : Season 2
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Air date: 22 Aug '52 - 42 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 (42)
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1. A Bird in Hand
22 Aug '52Two 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.
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2. Thanks
29 Aug '52A scientific invention brings glory to a struggling violinist but it also causes him to commit murder.
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3. The Seeing Eye Surgeon
05 Sep '52When a prominent physician dons a pair of eyeglasses he discovers that he can see into the future.
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4. The Cocoon
12 Sep '52A group of scientists are trapped inside a house in a remote jungle by hideous invisible creatures.
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5. The Chase
19 Sep '52A man arrives at a sea lodge and confesses to a murder but it's later revealed that he's from the future.
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6. Youth on Tap (aka: Young Blood)
26 Sep '52A 26 year old man gives a doctor a blood transfusion in return for $1,000 but the process causes the young man to age.
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7. Substance X
03 Oct '52A 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.
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8. The Horn
10 Oct '52A scientist invents a machine that has the power to control human emotions.
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9. Double Trouble
17 Oct '52A writer pens a story about a death ray machine only to discover later that the government actually has such a device.
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10. Many Happy Returns (aka: Invaders at Ground Zero)
24 Oct '52A father discovers that his son and other neighborhood children are being controlled telepathically by an alien.
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11. The Tomb of King Tarus
31 Oct '52An archeologist discovers that an ancient king has been able to stay alive for centuries in a tomb deep beneath the Egyptian desert.
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12. The Window
07 Nov '52A live television program is interrupted by a mysterious signal that shows a murder about to take place.
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13. The Camera
14 Nov '52A blackmailer discovers a camera that will take pictures 25 years into the future.
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14. The Quiet Lady
21 Nov '52A deadly disease covers the earth and its only hope is a little girl.
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15. The Invigorating Air
28 Nov '52A young scientist produces a new kind of air which proves to be "invigorating."
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16. The Glacier Giant
05 Dec '52A reporter and his damsel sidekick search for a giant reportedly encased in the ice of the Himalayas.
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17. The Fatal Flower
12 Dec '52Doing research in the Brazilian jungle, two biochemists develop a mysterious plant.
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18. The Machine
19 Dec '52A machine that can foretell the future says that one of a doctor's infant patients will grow up to be a murderer.
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19. The Bitter Storm
26 Dec '52A man brings back voices and sounds from the Garden of Eden.
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20. The Mask of Medusa
02 Jan '53Perry Mason won't be able to help a killer who takes refuge in a museum where the statues come to life.
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21. Conqueror's Isle
09 Jan '53
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22. Discovered Heart
16 Jan '53An 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.
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23. The Picture of Dorian Gray
23 Jan '53Handsome Dorian Gray never seems to age but the same cannot be said about his portrait.
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24. Two Faced
30 Jan '53To win the love of a woman, a man arranges to have the head of her former lover transplanted onto his body.
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25. The Build Box
06 Feb '53A little boy is the recipient of a strange box from the owner of a gift shop.
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