5.3/103 votesLoading...#1 - The Offer
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 3/11/1966
Episode 6: La oferta. A gangsters tale in which the protagonist seems to have everything organized, even his own death.
Director: Chicho Ibáñez Serrador
Writer: Chicho Ibáñez Serrador
6.0/102 votesLoading...#2 - The Wait
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 5/13/1966
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.
Director: Chicho Ibáñez Serrador
Writer: N/A
6.3/103 votesLoading...#3 - The Doll
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 4/1/1966
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.
Director: Chicho Ibáñez Serrador
Writer: N/A
6.7/103 votesLoading...#4 - The Cellar pt. 1
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 2/18/1966
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.
Director: Chicho Ibáñez Serrador
Writer: N/A
6.7/103 votesLoading...#5 - The Cellar pt. 2
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 2/25/1966
Episode 4: La bodega (2ª parte). The seeds grow like huge mushrooms in the winery, and the son's attitude has changed dramatically.
Director: Chicho Ibáñez Serrador
Writer: N/A
6.7/103 votesLoading...#6 - The Rocket
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 4/15/1966
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.
Director: Chicho Ibáñez Serrador
Writer: Chicho Ibáñez Serrador
6.7/103 votesLoading...#7 - The Joke
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 4/22/1966
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.
Director: Chicho Ibáñez Serrador
Writer: N/A
7.0/102 votesLoading...#8 - The Hand
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 2/11/1966
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.
Director: Byron Haskin
Writer: Harlan Ellison
7.0/103 votesLoading...#9 - The Double
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 3/18/1966
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.
Director: Chicho Ibáñez Serrador
Writer: N/A
7.0/102 votesLoading...#10 - The Anniversary
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 5/6/1966
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.
Director: Chicho Ibáñez Serrador
Writer: Chicho Ibáñez Serrador
7.3/103 votesLoading...#11 - The Cask
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 3/4/1966
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.
Director: Chicho Ibáñez Serrador
Writer: Chicho Ibáñez Serrador
7.5/102 votesLoading...#12 - The Alarm pt.1
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 5/20/1966
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.
Director: Chicho Ibáñez Serrador
Writer: N/A
8.0/102 votesLoading...#13 - The Pact
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 3/25/1966
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.
Director: Chicho Ibáñez Serrador
Writer: Chicho Ibáñez Serrador
8.0/102 votesLoading...#14 - The Cabin
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 4/29/1966
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.
Director: Chicho Ibáñez Serrador
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#15 - The Alarm pt. 2
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 5/27/1966
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.
Director: Chicho Ibáñez Serrador
Writer: N/A
8.0/102 votesLoading...#16 - The Smile
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 6/3/1966
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.
Director: Chicho Ibáñez Serrador
Writer: Chicho Ibáñez Serrador
8.4/105 votesLoading...#17 - The Birthday
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 2/4/1966
Episode 1: El cumpleaños. The day of his 50th birthday, a man plots to kill his wife and rob the bank he works for.
Director: Chicho Ibáñez Serrador
Writer: N/A
9.0/101 votesLoading...#18 - The Raven
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 12/29/1967
Episode 5: El cuervo. The life of horror story genius Edgar Allan Poe is dramatized.
Director: Chicho Ibáñez Serrador
Writer: Chicho Ibáñez Serrador
9.0/101 votesLoading...#19 - The House
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 2/9/1968
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.
Director: Chicho Ibáñez Serrador
Writer: Chicho Ibáñez Serrador, Juan Tébar
9.5/102 votesLoading...#20 - The Asphalt
Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 6/24/1966
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.
Director: Chicho Ibáñez Serrador
Writer: N/A
10.0/101 votesLoading...#21 - The Nightmare
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 10/20/1967
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.
Director: Chicho Ibáñez Serrador
Writer: Chicho Ibáñez Serrador
10.0/101 votesLoading...#22 - The Paw
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 11/3/1967
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.
Director: Chicho Ibáñez Serrador
Writer: N/A
10.0/101 votesLoading...#23 - The Seer
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 11/17/1967
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?
Director: Chicho Ibáñez Serrador
Writer: Chicho Ibáñez Serrador
10.0/101 votesLoading...#24 - The Return
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 12/15/1967
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.
Director: Chicho Ibáñez Serrador
Writer: N/A
10.0/101 votesLoading...#25 - The Promise
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 1/26/1968
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.
Director: Chicho Ibáñez Serrador
Writer: Chicho Ibáñez Serrador
The Worst Episodes of Tales to Keep You Awake
Every episode of Tales to Keep You Awake ranked from worst to best. Explore the Worst Episodes of Tales to Keep You Awake!
Tales of terror by established authors such as Ray Bradbury or Edgar Allan Poe, as well as original scripts.
Genres:DramaComedyMysterySci-Fi & Fantasy
Worst Episodes Summary
"The Offer" is the worst rated episode of "Tales to Keep You Awake". It scored 5.3/10 based on 3 votes. Directed by Chicho Ibáñez Serrador and written by Chicho Ibáñez Serrador, it aired on 3/11/1966. This episode scored 0.7 points lower than the second lowest rated, "The Wait".