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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...
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Season 1

  • Verdict from Space
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    Verdict from Space

    Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 8/3/1951

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

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Blunder
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    Blunder

    Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 8/10/1951

    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.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • A Child is Crying
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    A Child is Crying

    Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 8/17/1951

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

    Director: Don Medford

    Writer: Alvin Sapinsley

  • The Woman at Land's End
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    The Woman at Land's End

    Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 8/24/1951

    No description available

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • The Last Man on Earth
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    The Last Man on Earth

    Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 8/31/1951

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

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Errand Boy
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    Errand Boy

    Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 9/7/1951

    No description available

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • The Monsters
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    The Monsters

    Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 9/14/1951

    No description available

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • The Dark Angel
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    The Dark Angel

    Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 9/28/1951

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

    Director: Charles S. Dubin

    Writer: Alvin Sapinsley

  • The Crystal Egg
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    The Crystal Egg

    Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 10/12/1951

    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.

    Director: Charles S. Dubin

    Writer: Unknown

  • Test Flight
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    Test Flight

    Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 10/26/1951

    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.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • The Search for the Flying Saucer
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    The Search for the Flying Saucer

    Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 11/9/1951

    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.

    Director: Charles S. Dubin

    Writer: Mel Goldberg

  • Enemy Unknown
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    Enemy Unknown

    Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 11/23/1951

    A distinguished astrophysicist refuses to help his government.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Sneak Attack
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    Sneak Attack

    Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 12/7/1951

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

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • The Invader
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    The Invader

    Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 12/21/1951

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

    Director: Don Medford

    Writer: Unknown

  • The Dune Roller
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    The Dune Roller

    Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 1/4/1952

    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.

    Director: Don Medford

    Writer: Unknown

  • Frankenstein
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    Frankenstein

    Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 1/18/1952

    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.

    Director: Don Medford

    Writer: Unknown

  • 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea: The Chase (1)
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    20,000 Leagues Under the Sea: The Chase (1)

    Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 1/25/1952

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

    Director: Don Medford

    Writer: Max Simon Ehrlich

  • 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea: The Escape (2)
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    20,000 Leagues Under the Sea: The Escape (2)

    Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 2/1/1952

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

    Director: Don Medford

    Writer: Unknown

  • What You Need
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    What You Need

    Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 2/8/1952

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

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Age of Peril
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    Age of Peril

    Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 2/15/1952

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

    Director: Don Medford

    Writer: Unknown

  • Memento
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    Memento

    Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 2/22/1952

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

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • The Children's Room
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    The Children's Room

    Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 2/29/1952

    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.

    Director: Don Medford

    Writer: Mel Goldberg

  • Bound Together
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    Bound Together

    Season 1 Episode 23 - Aired 3/7/1952

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

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • The Diamond Lens
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    The Diamond Lens

    Season 1 Episode 24 - Aired 3/14/1952

    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.

    Director: Don Medford

    Writer: Max Simon Ehrlich

  • The Fisherman's Wife (aka: Fountain of Youth)
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    The Fisherman's Wife (aka: Fountain of Youth)

    Season 1 Episode 25 - Aired 3/21/1952

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

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Flight Overdue
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    Flight Overdue

    Season 1 Episode 26 - Aired 3/28/1952

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

    Director: Don Medford

    Writer: Unknown

  • And a Little Child
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    And a Little Child

    Season 1 Episode 27 - Aired 4/4/1952

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

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Sleep No More
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    Sleep No More

    Season 1 Episode 28 - Aired 4/11/1952

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

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Time to Go
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    Time to Go

    Season 1 Episode 29 - Aired 4/18/1952

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

    Director: Don Medford

    Writer: Unknown

  • Plague from Space
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    Plague from Space

    Season 1 Episode 30 - Aired 4/25/1952

    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.

    Director: Don Medford

    Writer: Mann Rubin

  • Red Dust
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    Red Dust

    Season 1 Episode 31 - Aired 5/2/1952

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

    Director: Don Medford

    Writer: Unknown

  • The Golden Ingot
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    The Golden Ingot

    Season 1 Episode 32 - Aired 5/9/1952

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

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Black Planet
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    Black Planet

    Season 1 Episode 33 - Aired 5/16/1952

    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.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • World of Water
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    World of Water

    Season 1 Episode 34 - Aired 5/23/1952

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

    Director: Don Medford

    Writer: Unknown

  • Little Black Bag
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    Little Black Bag

    Season 1 Episode 35 - Aired 5/30/1952

    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.

    Director: Charles S. Dubin

    Writer: Mann Rubin, Cyril M. Kornbluth

  • The Exile
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    The Exile

    Season 1 Episode 36 - Aired 6/6/1952

    A scientist receives radiation burns while working with atomic energy.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • All the Time in the World
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    All the Time in the World

    Season 1 Episode 37 - Aired 6/13/1952

    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.

    Director: Don Medford

    Writer: Unknown

  • The Miraculous Serum
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    The Miraculous Serum

    Season 1 Episode 38 - Aired 6/20/1952

    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.

    Director: Don Medford

    Writer: Theodore Sturgeon

  • Appointment on Mars
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    Appointment on Mars

    Season 1 Episode 39 - Aired 6/27/1952

    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?

    Director: Don Medford

    Writer: Unknown

  • The Duplicates
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    The Duplicates

    Season 1 Episode 40 - Aired 7/4/1952

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

    Director: Don Medford

    Writer: Unknown

  • Ahead of His Time
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    Ahead of His Time

    Season 1 Episode 41 - Aired 7/18/1952

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

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Sudden Darkness
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    Sudden Darkness

    Season 1 Episode 42 - Aired 8/1/1952

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

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Ice from Space
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    Ice from Space

    Season 1 Episode 43 - Aired 8/8/1952

    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.

    Director: Don Medford

    Writer: Unknown