Оригінальна назва
Tales of Tomorrow
Випущено
03.08.1951
Країна
US
Жанр
Науково фантастичний
Статус
Завершено
Кількість сезонів
2
Кількість епізодів
85
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.
A defendant on trial, accused of murdering a prominent archaeologist, tells the jury an incredible story of a pending alien invasion.
A scientist is on the verge of developing a new source of incredible power but after his colleagues discover an error in his calculations they find out there's no way to communicate this error to the scientist.
The government attempts to use a young girl as a weapon in the Cold War when she displays powerful mental abilities.
Martians takeover the Earth and leave only two people alive for experimental purposes.
A doctor discovers that there's something medically strange about his smokin' hot wife.
The owner of a London curiosity shop delivers a mysterious crystal egg to a university professor for the scientist's opinion on its worth and its properties. The 'egg' proves to be a window to Mars. When the professor loses the egg, he tries to convince people that he is not crazy.
The CEO of an aerospace company is determined to build a spaceship for interplanetary travel and a young scientist convinces him that he can perform the task--but only if he's the first person to travel on the spaceship.
A reporter arrives in a New Mexico town to investigate sightings of flying saucers. But neither he nor some of the town's residents are actually who they appear to be.
A distinguished astrophysicist refuses to help his government.
During the Cold War, a captured American spy is his country's only hope to avert an attack by a new type of bomb.
A scientist doing research in oceanography witnesses the crash of a UFO into the ocean and sends his son underwater to investigate.
On an island a strange rock begins to grow and move. Scientists that observe the phenomena speculate that an ancient meteor that once hit the island is attempting to reassemble itself.
In an adaptation of Mary Shelley's tale, Dr. Frankenstein brings to life a lumbering undead monster who he must then find someway to destroy.
A young sailor finds himself held captive on a submarine called the Nautilus and commanded by the mysterious Captain Nemo.
A sailor being held prisoner onboard a submarine by the mysterious Captain Nemo escapes from captivity with the assistance of the captain's daughter.
A writer tries to steal an unusual machine but gets murdered by its owner.
A scientist devises a way to help criminals beat lie detector tests.
A scientist who's spent his entire life building a spaceship that can travel to Mars discovers that he cannot make the trip.
A secret "Children's Room" at a college attracts the attention of intellectual advanced youths. One of them, Walt, is the son of a professor at the university. The professor uncovers that his son and other children are 'mutants' being groomed to assist an alien race in a distant part of the galaxy.
A space pilot reported missing on a mission to Mars returns unexpectedly to his wife but is he the same person?
Shortly before he is scheduled to go to the guillotine, a scientist confesses to a priest the fantastic reason why he committed murder to obtain the perfect diamond for use in a microscope.
Two scientists develop a formula to restore youth and a selfish damsel volunteers to be their first subject.
The husband of an aviatrix who disappeared on a test flight finally learns the truth about his wife's disappearance.
A young hillbilly girl has the power to read minds and this power is called upon when a scientist suffers a paralyzing stroke.
A young man begs to be kept awake due to the fact that his dreams are turning into horrifying realities.
A woman finds a bank that doesn't save money--it saves time.
A 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.
Four members of a space party returning to Earth from Alpha Centauri try to determine what killed the other two members of their party.
A doctor's unsuccessful experiments cause him to fall into a state of depression which has his daughter worried.
Two 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.
A scientist discovers a solvent that is capable of dissolving the planet.
A 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.
A scientist receives radiation burns while working with atomic energy.
A 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.
A 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.
Three 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?
A man on Jupiter is paid a huge sum of money to travel to Earth and kill his duplicate on that planet.
A lab technician invents a time machine and uses it to travel forward to the year 2052.
A scientist invents a device which can shut down all the world's electrical power with one flick of the switch.
A 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.
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.
A scientific invention brings glory to a struggling violinist but it also causes him to commit murder.
When a prominent physician dons a pair of eyeglasses he discovers that he can see into the future.
A group of scientists are trapped inside a house in a remote jungle by hideous invisible creatures.
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.
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.
A scientist invents a machine that has the power to control human emotions.
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.
An archeologist discovers that an ancient king has been able to stay alive for centuries in a tomb deep beneath the Egyptian desert.
A live television program is interrupted by a mysterious signal that shows a murder about to take place.
A blackmailer discovers a camera that will take pictures 25 years into the future.
A deadly disease covers the earth and its only hope is a little girl.
A young scientist produces a new kind of air which proves to be "invigorating."
A reporter and his damsel sidekick search for a giant reportedly encased in the ice of the Himalayas.
Doing research in the Brazilian jungle, two biochemists develop a mysterious plant.
A machine that can foretell the future says that one of a doctor's infant patients will grow up to be a murderer.
A man brings back voices and sounds from the Garden of Eden.
Perry Mason won't be able to help a killer who takes refuge in a museum where the statues come to life.
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.
Handsome Dorian Gray never seems to age but the same cannot be said about his portrait.
To win the love of a woman, a man arranges to have the head of her former lover transplanted onto his body.
A little boy is the recipient of a strange box from the owner of a gift shop.
A man is given the chance to live the past seven years of his life over but he makes the same mistakes.
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.
Members of an expedition into the jungle are attacked by invisible blood sucking leaches from outer space.
A magician hates a reporter so he hypnotizes all the people with whom the newsie comes into contact into forgetting him.
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.
A writer discovers to his horror that the events in his short stories are coming true.
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.
A pilot returns home after being stranded in the Arctic for five years and discovers that he can only live in cold temperatures.
A new wife finds herself a rival for her husband's affections--his cat.
A mortician discovers a serum that induces a death-like sleep.
A scientist creates a formula that unlocks evil. Then his wife unknowingly ingests some of the formula.
While making scientific tests, four people get trapped inside a vault.
A chemist comes into possession of an ink which has the power to hypnotize all who look at anything written with the substance.
Inhabitants of an island find themselves affected by atomic radiation.
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.
A woman receives telepathic waves that she is about to be murdered.
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