Leslie Nielsen
Tales of Tomorrow (1951)
Season 2
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.
Released Aug. 3, 1951
Episode 25 min
2+
Genres: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Science Fiction
Keywords: imdb.psychotronic-series, imdb.anthology-series, imdb.horror-host, imdb.anthology, imdb.live-broadcast, tmdb.anthology, tmdb.science-fiction
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Network: ABC
Country: United States
Languages:
English
S2E1 - A Bird in Hand
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.
Aug. 22, 1952, midnight
S2E2 - Thanks
A scientific invention brings glory to a struggling violinist but it also causes him to commit murder.
Aug. 29, 1952, midnight
S2E3 - The Seeing Eye Surgeon
When a prominent physician dons a pair of eyeglasses he discovers that he can see into the future.
Sept. 5, 1952, midnight
S2E4 - The Cocoon
A group of scientists are trapped inside a house in a remote jungle by hideous invisible creatures.
Sept. 12, 1952, midnight
S2E5 - The Chase
A man arrives at a sea lodge and confesses to a murder but it's later revealed that he's from the future.
Sept. 19, 1952, midnight
S2E6 - Youth on Tap (aka: Young Blood)
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.
Sept. 26, 1952, midnight
S2E7 - Substance X
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.
Oct. 3, 1952, midnight
S2E8 - The Horn
A scientist invents a machine that has the power to control human emotions.
Oct. 10, 1952, midnight
S2E9 - Double Trouble
A writer pens a story about a death ray machine only to discover later that the government actually has such a device.
Oct. 17, 1952, midnight
S2E10 - Many Happy Returns (aka: Invaders at Ground Zero)
A father discovers that his son and other neighborhood children are being controlled telepathically by an alien.
Oct. 24, 1952, midnight
S2E11 - The Tomb of King Tarus
An archeologist discovers that an ancient king has been able to stay alive for centuries in a tomb deep beneath the Egyptian desert.
Oct. 31, 1952, midnight
S2E12 - The Window
A live television program is interrupted by a mysterious signal that shows a murder about to take place.
Nov. 7, 1952, midnight
S2E13 - The Camera
A blackmailer discovers a camera that will take pictures 25 years into the future.
Nov. 14, 1952, midnight
S2E14 - The Quiet Lady
A deadly disease covers the earth and its only hope is a little girl.
Nov. 21, 1952, midnight
S2E15 - The Invigorating Air
A young scientist produces a new kind of air which proves to be "invigorating."
Nov. 28, 1952, midnight
S2E16 - The Glacier Giant
A reporter and his damsel sidekick search for a giant reportedly encased in the ice of the Himalayas.
Dec. 5, 1952, midnight
S2E17 - The Fatal Flower
Doing research in the Brazilian jungle, two biochemists develop a mysterious plant.
Dec. 12, 1952, midnight
S2E18 - The Machine
A machine that can foretell the future says that one of a doctor's infant patients will grow up to be a murderer.
Dec. 19, 1952, midnight
S2E19 - The Bitter Storm
A man brings back voices and sounds from the Garden of Eden.
Dec. 26, 1952, midnight
S2E20 - The Mask of Medusa
Perry Mason won't be able to help a killer who takes refuge in a museum where the statues come to life.
Jan. 2, 1953, midnight
S2E21 - Conqueror's Isle
Jan. 9, 1953, midnight
S2E22 - Discovered Heart
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.
Jan. 16, 1953, midnight
S2E23 - The Picture of Dorian Gray
Handsome Dorian Gray never seems to age but the same cannot be said about his portrait.
Jan. 23, 1953, midnight
S2E24 - Two Faced
To win the love of a woman, a man arranges to have the head of her former lover transplanted onto his body.
Jan. 30, 1953, midnight
S2E25 - The Build Box
A little boy is the recipient of a strange box from the owner of a gift shop.
Feb. 6, 1953, midnight
S2E26 - Another Chance
A man is given the chance to live the past seven years of his life over but he makes the same mistakes.
Feb. 13, 1953, midnight
S2E27 - The Great Silence
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.
Feb. 20, 1953, midnight
S2E28 - Lonesome Village
Feb. 27, 1953, midnight
S2E29 - The Fury of the Cocoon
Members of an expedition into the jungle are attacked by invisible blood sucking leaches from outer space.
March 6, 1953, midnight
S2E30 - The Squeeze Play
A magician hates a reporter so he hypnotizes all the people with whom the newsie comes into contact into forgetting him.
March 13, 1953, midnight
S2E31 - Read to Me Herr Doktor
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.
March 20, 1953, midnight
S2E32 - Ghost Writer
A writer discovers to his horror that the events in his short stories are coming true.
March 27, 1953, midnight
S2E33 - Past Tense
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.
April 3, 1953, midnight
S2E34 - Homecoming
A pilot returns home after being stranded in the Arctic for five years and discovers that he can only live in cold temperatures.
April 10, 1953, midnight
S2E35 - The Rivals
A new wife finds herself a rival for her husband's affections--his cat.
April 17, 1953, midnight
S2E36 - Please Omit Flowers
A mortician discovers a serum that induces a death-like sleep.
April 24, 1953, midnight
S2E37 - The Evil Within
A scientist creates a formula that unlocks evil. Then his wife unknowingly ingests some of the formula.
May 1, 1953, midnight
S2E38 - The Vault
While making scientific tests, four people get trapped inside a vault.
May 8, 1953, midnight
S2E39 - Ink
A chemist comes into possession of an ink which has the power to hypnotize all who look at anything written with the substance.
May 15, 1953, midnight
S2E40 - The Spider's Web
Inhabitants of an island find themselves affected by atomic radiation.
May 22, 1953, midnight
S2E41 - Lazarus Walks
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.
May 29, 1953, midnight
S2E42 - What Dreams May Come
A woman receives telepathic waves that she is about to be murdered.
June 12, 1953, midnight
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25 min/ep
25 min
Aug. 3, 1951
June 12, 1953, midnight
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TV-G / 2+
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