Tales of Tomorrow

Épisode 1 - Verdict from Space

3 août 1951

A defendant on trial, accused of murdering a prominent archaeologist, tells the jury an incredible story of a pending alien invasion.

Épisode 2 - Blunder

10 août 1951

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.

Épisode 3 - A Child is Crying

17 août 1951

The government attempts to use a young girl as a weapon in the Cold War when she displays powerful mental abilities.

Épisode 4 - The Woman at Land's End

24 août 1951

Épisode 5 - The Last Man on Earth

31 août 1951

Martians takeover the Earth and leave only two people alive for experimental purposes.

Épisode 6 - Errand Boy

7 septembre 1951

Épisode 7 - The Monsters

14 septembre 1951

Épisode 8 - The Dark Angel

28 septembre 1951

A doctor discovers that there's something medically strange about his smokin' hot wife.

Épisode 9 - The Crystal Egg

12 octobre 1951

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.

Épisode 10 - Test Flight

26 octobre 1951

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.

Épisode 11 - The Search for the Flying Saucer

9 novembre 1951

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.

Épisode 12 - Enemy Unknown

23 novembre 1951

A distinguished astrophysicist refuses to help his government.

Épisode 13 - Sneak Attack

7 décembre 1951

During the Cold War, a captured American spy is his country's only hope to avert an attack by a new type of bomb.

Épisode 14 - The Invader

21 décembre 1951

A scientist doing research in oceanography witnesses the crash of a UFO into the ocean and sends his son underwater to investigate.

Épisode 15 - The Dune Roller

4 janvier 1952

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.

Épisode 16 - Frankenstein

18 janvier 1952

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.

Épisode 17 - 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea: The Chase (1)

25 janvier 1952

A young sailor finds himself held captive on a submarine called the Nautilus and commanded by the mysterious Captain Nemo.

Épisode 18 - 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea: The Escape (2)

1 février 1952

A sailor being held prisoner onboard a submarine by the mysterious Captain Nemo escapes from captivity with the assistance of the captain's daughter.

Épisode 19 - What You Need

8 février 1952

A writer tries to steal an unusual machine but gets murdered by its owner.

Épisode 20 - Age of Peril

15 février 1952

A scientist devises a way to help criminals beat lie detector tests.

Épisode 21 - Memento

22 février 1952

A scientist who's spent his entire life building a spaceship that can travel to Mars discovers that he cannot make the trip.

Épisode 22 - The Children's Room

29 février 1952

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.

Épisode 23 - Bound Together

7 mars 1952

A space pilot reported missing on a mission to Mars returns unexpectedly to his wife but is he the same person?

Épisode 24 - The Diamond Lens

14 mars 1952

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.

Épisode 25 - The Fisherman's Wife (aka: Fountain of Youth)

21 mars 1952

Two scientists develop a formula to restore youth and a selfish damsel volunteers to be their first subject.

Épisode 26 - Flight Overdue

28 mars 1952

The husband of an aviatrix who disappeared on a test flight finally learns the truth about his wife's disappearance.

Épisode 27 - And a Little Child

4 avril 1952

A young hillbilly girl has the power to read minds and this power is called upon when a scientist suffers a paralyzing stroke.

Épisode 28 - Sleep No More

11 avril 1952

A young man begs to be kept awake due to the fact that his dreams are turning into horrifying realities.

Épisode 29 - Time to Go

18 avril 1952

A woman finds a bank that doesn't save money--it saves time.

Épisode 30 - Plague from Space

25 avril 1952

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.

Épisode 31 - Red Dust

2 mai 1952

Four members of a space party returning to Earth from Alpha Centauri try to determine what killed the other two members of their party.

Épisode 32 - The Golden Ingot

9 mai 1952

A doctor's unsuccessful experiments cause him to fall into a state of depression which has his daughter worried.

Épisode 33 - Black Planet

16 mai 1952

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.

Épisode 34 - World of Water

23 mai 1952

A scientist discovers a solvent that is capable of dissolving the planet.

Épisode 35 - Little Black Bag

30 mai 1952

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.

Épisode 36 - The Exile

6 juin 1952

A scientist receives radiation burns while working with atomic energy.

Épisode 37 - All the Time in the World

13 juin 1952

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.

Épisode 38 - The Miraculous Serum

20 juin 1952

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.

Épisode 39 - Appointment on Mars

27 juin 1952

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?

Épisode 40 - The Duplicates

4 juillet 1952

A man on Jupiter is paid a huge sum of money to travel to Earth and kill his duplicate on that planet.

Épisode 41 - Ahead of His Time

18 juillet 1952

A lab technician invents a time machine and uses it to travel forward to the year 2052.

Épisode 42 - Sudden Darkness

1 août 1952

A scientist invents a device which can shut down all the world's electrical power with one flick of the switch.

Épisode 43 - Ice from Space

8 août 1952

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.

Épisode 1 - A Bird in Hand

22 août 1952

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.

Épisode 2 - Thanks

29 août 1952

A scientific invention brings glory to a struggling violinist but it also causes him to commit murder.

Épisode 3 - The Seeing Eye Surgeon

5 septembre 1952

When a prominent physician dons a pair of eyeglasses he discovers that he can see into the future.

Épisode 4 - The Cocoon

12 septembre 1952

A group of scientists are trapped inside a house in a remote jungle by hideous invisible creatures.

Épisode 5 - The Chase

19 septembre 1952

A man arrives at a sea lodge and confesses to a murder but it's later revealed that he's from the future.

Épisode 6 - Youth on Tap (aka: Young Blood)

26 septembre 1952

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.

Épisode 7 - Substance X

3 octobre 1952

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.

Épisode 8 - The Horn

10 octobre 1952

A scientist invents a machine that has the power to control human emotions.

Épisode 9 - Double Trouble

17 octobre 1952

A writer pens a story about a death ray machine only to discover later that the government actually has such a device.

Épisode 10 - Many Happy Returns (aka: Invaders at Ground Zero)

24 octobre 1952

A father discovers that his son and other neighborhood children are being controlled telepathically by an alien.

Épisode 11 - The Tomb of King Tarus

31 octobre 1952

An archeologist discovers that an ancient king has been able to stay alive for centuries in a tomb deep beneath the Egyptian desert.

Épisode 12 - The Window (aka: The Lost Planet)

7 novembre 1952

A live television program is interrupted by a mysterious signal that shows a murder about to take place.

Épisode 13 - The Camera

14 novembre 1952

A blackmailer discovers a camera that will take pictures 25 years into the future.

Épisode 14 - The Quiet Lady

21 novembre 1952

A deadly disease covers the earth and its only hope is a little girl.

Épisode 15 - The Invigorating Air

28 novembre 1952

A young scientist produces a new kind of air which proves to be "invigorating."

Épisode 16 - The Glacier Giant

5 décembre 1952 - 4/5

A reporter and his damsel sidekick search for a giant reportedly encased in the ice of the Himalayas.

Épisode 17 - The Fatal Flower

12 décembre 1952

Doing research in the Brazilian jungle, two biochemists develop a mysterious plant.

Épisode 18 - The Machine

19 décembre 1952

A machine that can foretell the future says that one of a doctor's infant patients will grow up to be a murderer.

Épisode 19 - The Bitter Storm

26 décembre 1952

A man brings back voices and sounds from the Garden of Eden.

Épisode 20 - The Mask of Medusa

2 janvier 1953

Perry Mason won't be able to help a killer who takes refuge in a museum where the statues come to life.

Épisode 21 - Conqueror's Isle

9 janvier 1953

Épisode 22 - Discovered Heart

16 janvier 1953

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.

Épisode 23 - The Picture of Dorian Gray

23 janvier 1953

Handsome Dorian Gray never seems to age but the same cannot be said about his portrait.

Épisode 24 - Two Faced

30 janvier 1953

To win the love of a woman, a man arranges to have the head of her former lover transplanted onto his body.

Épisode 25 - The Build Box

6 février 1953

A little boy is the recipient of a strange box from the owner of a gift shop.

Épisode 26 - Another Chance

13 février 1953

A man is given the chance to live the past seven years of his life over but he makes the same mistakes.

Épisode 27 - The Great Silence

20 février 1953

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.

Épisode 28 - Lonesome Village

27 février 1953

Épisode 29 - The Fury of the Cocoon

6 mars 1953

Members of an expedition into the jungle are attacked by invisible blood sucking leaches from outer space.

Épisode 30 - The Squeeze Play

13 mars 1953

A magician hates a reporter so he hypnotizes all the people with whom the newsie comes into contact into forgetting him.

Épisode 31 - Read to Me Herr Doktor

20 mars 1953

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.

Épisode 32 - Ghost Writer

27 mars 1953

A writer discovers to his horror that the events in his short stories are coming true.

Épisode 33 - Past Tense

3 avril 1953

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.

Épisode 34 - Homecoming

10 avril 1953

A pilot returns home after being stranded in the Arctic for five years and discovers that he can only live in cold temperatures.

Épisode 35 - The Rivals

17 avril 1953

A new wife finds herself a rival for her husband's affections--his cat.

Épisode 36 - Please Omit Flowers

24 avril 1953

A mortician discovers a serum that induces a death-like sleep.

Épisode 37 - The Evil Within

1 mai 1953

A scientist creates a formula that unlocks evil. Then his wife unknowingly ingests some of the formula.

Épisode 38 - The Vault

8 mai 1953

While making scientific tests, four people get trapped inside a vault.

Épisode 39 - Ink

15 mai 1953

A chemist comes into possession of an ink which has the power to hypnotize all who look at anything written with the substance.

Épisode 40 - The Spider's Web

22 mai 1953

Inhabitants of an island find themselves affected by atomic radiation.

Épisode 41 - Lazarus Walks

29 mai 1953

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.

Épisode 42 - What Dreams May Come

12 juin 1953

A woman receives telepathic waves that she is about to be murdered.