THE LEGENDARY SPANISH ANTHOLOGY SERIES
Original title
Historias para no dormir
Released
2/4/1966
Origin country
ES
Genre
Comedy, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Production companies
TVE
Status
Ended
Number of seasons
3
Number of episodes
30
Tales of terror by established authors such as Ray Bradbury or Edgar Allan Poe, as well as original scripts.
Episode 1: El cumpleaños. The day of his 50th birthday, a man plots to kill his wife and rob the bank he works for.
Episode 2: La Mano. 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.
Episode 3: La bodega (1ª parte). First part of the adaptation made by Narciso Ibáñez Serrador of the story "Come Into My Cellar" by Ray Bradbury.
Episode 4: La bodega (2ª parte). The seeds grow like huge mushrooms in the winery, and the son's attitude has changed dramatically.
Episode 5: El tonel. 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.
Episode 6: La oferta. A gangsters tale in which the protagonist seems to have everything organized, even his own death.
Episode 7: El doble. 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.
Episode 8: El pacto. A hypnotist pretends that a mentally ill person recovers sanity and a dead person does not die. Everything will go wrong.
Episode 9: El muñeco. 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.
Episode 10: El cohete. An old man dreams of traveling into space. Faced with the impossibility, think of a way to do it and satisfy the grandchildren.
Episode 11: La broma. A woman and her lover plan to murder her husband who is a prank but until the last moment he will continue to play the prank.
Episode 12: La cabaña. 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.
Episode 13: El aniversario. 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.
Episode 14: La espera. The last family of colonists on Mars receive, after many years, the visit of crew from Earth. They knew that family but found that some in that family are the same age as they were many years before.
Episode 15: La alarma (1ª parte). 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.
Episode 16: La alarma (2ª parte). 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.
Episode 17: La sonrisa. 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.
Episode 18: El asfalto. 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.
Episode 1: La pesadilla. A Carpathian village is plagued by a vampire; the town's men suspect Lolakin, a reclusive aristocrat. Catalina loves Lolakin and demands that he marry her and take her away or else she will produce "proof" that he is the vampire.
Episode 2: La zarpa. A poor family is given a monkey's paw that is able to grant three wishes to its owner but with a warning that the wishes always lead to tragedy.
Episode 3: El vidente. A team of parapsychologists are dying by suicide, one by one; could it be caused by a race of invisible beings who want to maintain the secret of their existence?
Episode 4: El regreso. Two cousins plot to murder their rich old uncle but he knows all about it and promises to return from the dead for revenge.
Episode 5: El cuervo. The life of horror story genius Edgar Allan Poe is dramatized.
Episode 6: La promesa. A mortician with a history of catalepsy forces his timid niece to promise to follow a strict set of rules to ensure that he will not be buried alive.
Episode 7: La casa. 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.
Episode 8: El trasplante. 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.
Episode 1: Freddy. A variety theater company is heading to a city where it will perform for a few weeks. However, the members of the show will die every day at the hands of an impossible murderer.
Episode 2: El caso del Señor Valdemar. Mr. Valdemar, a terminally ill patient, asks his friend, a hypnotist doctor, to apply this treatment with a result that nobody could expect.
Episode 3: El fin empezó ayer. In a University a professor suspects of the powerful intelligence of one of the students. As long as several crimes take place.
Episode 4: El trapero. Edmond, an old and poor ragman who lives with his wife Berenice in the suburbs of the city suspects that his son, addicted to alcohol, is the culpable of the profanation of several tombs in the near cemetery.
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