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The Best Episodes of Tales to Keep You Awake

Every episode of Tales to Keep You Awake ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Tales to Keep You Awake!

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
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    Tales to Keep You Awake Season 1 Episode 1 - The Birthday
    7.6/10(181 votes)

    #1 - The Birthday

    S1:E1

    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:Unknown

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  2. Tales to Keep You Awake Season 2 Episode 1 - The Nightmare
    7.3/10(58 votes)

    #2 - The Nightmare

    S2:E1

    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

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  3. Tales to Keep You Awake Season 2 Episode 2 - The Paw
    7.3/10(60 votes)

    #3 - The Paw

    S2:E2

    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:Unknown

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  4. Tales to Keep You Awake Season 2 Episode 4 - The Return
    7.3/10(55 votes)

    #4 - The Return

    S2:E4

    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:Unknown

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  5. Tales to Keep You Awake Season 2 Episode 6 - The Promise
    7.3/10(58 votes)

    #5 - The Promise

    S2:E6

    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

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  6. Tales to Keep You Awake Season 3 Episode 4 - The Junkman
    7.3/10(72 votes)

    #6 - The Junkman

    S3:E4

    Episode 4: El trapero. Edmond, an old and poor ragman who lives with his wife Berenice in the suburbs of the city suspects that his son, addicted to alcohol, is the culpable of the profanation of several tombs in the near cemetery.

    Director:Chicho Ibáñez Serrador
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. Tales to Keep You Awake Season 1 Episode 5 - The Cask
    7.2/10(95 votes)

    #7 - The Cask

    S1:E5

    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

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  8. Tales to Keep You Awake Season 1 Episode 16 - The Alarm pt. 2
    7.1/10(68 votes)

    #8 - The Alarm pt. 2

    S1:E16

    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:Unknown

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  9. Tales to Keep You Awake Season 1 Episode 18 - The Asphalt
    7.1/10(111 votes)

    #9 - The Asphalt

    S1:E18

    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:Unknown

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  10. Tales to Keep You Awake Season 1 Episode 7 - The Double
    7.0/10(95 votes)

    #10 - The Double

    S1:E7

    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:Unknown

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  11. Tales to Keep You Awake Season 1 Episode 8 - The Pact
    7.0/10(78 votes)

    #11 - The Pact

    S1:E8

    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

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  12. Tales to Keep You Awake Season 2 Episode 5 - The Raven
    7.0/10(53 votes)

    #12 - The Raven

    S2:E5

    Episode 5: El cuervo. The life of horror story genius Edgar Allan Poe is dramatized.

    Director:Chicho Ibáñez Serrador
    Writer:Chicho Ibáñez Serrador

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  13. Tales to Keep You Awake Season 1 Episode 3 - The Cellar pt. 1
    6.9/10(84 votes)

    #13 - The Cellar pt. 1

    S1:E3

    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:Unknown

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  14. Tales to Keep You Awake Season 1 Episode 9 - The Doll
    6.9/10(90 votes)

    #14 - The Doll

    S1:E9

    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:Unknown

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  15. Tales to Keep You Awake Season 1 Episode 15 - The Alarm pt.1
    6.9/10(69 votes)

    #15 - The Alarm pt.1

    S1:E15

    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:Unknown

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  16. Tales to Keep You Awake Season 3 Episode 2 - The Case of Mr Valdemar
    6.9/10(56 votes)

    #16 - The Case of Mr Valdemar

    S3:E2

    Episode 2: El caso del Señor Valdemar. Mr. Valdemar, a terminally ill patient, asks his friend, a hypnotist doctor, to apply this treatment with a result that nobody could expect.

    Director:Chicho Ibáñez Serrador
    Writer:Chicho Ibáñez Serrador

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  17. Tales to Keep You Awake Season 1 Episode 4 - The Cellar pt. 2
    6.8/10(78 votes)

    #17 - The Cellar pt. 2

    S1:E4

    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:Unknown

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  18. Tales to Keep You Awake Season 1 Episode 10 - The Rocket
    6.8/10(71 votes)

    #18 - The Rocket

    S1:E10

    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

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  19. Tales to Keep You Awake Season 1 Episode 14 - The Wait
    6.8/10(60 votes)

    #19 - The Wait

    S1:E14

    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:Unknown

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  20. Tales to Keep You Awake Season 2 Episode 3 - The Seer
    6.8/10(52 votes)

    #20 - The Seer

    S2:E3

    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

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  21. Tales to Keep You Awake Season 3 Episode 3 - The End Began Yesterday
    6.8/10(74 votes)

    #21 - The End Began Yesterday

    S3:E3

    Episode 3: El fin empezó ayer. In a University a professor suspects of the powerful intelligence of one of the students. As long as several crimes take place.

    Director:Chicho Ibáñez Serrador
    Writer:Chicho Ibáñez Serrador

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  22. Tales to Keep You Awake Season 3 Episode 1 - Freddy
    6.7/10(76 votes)

    #22 - Freddy

    S3:E1

    Episode 1: Freddy. A variety theater company is heading to a city where it will perform for a few weeks. However, the members of the show will die every day at the hands of an impossible murderer.

    Director:Chicho Ibáñez Serrador
    Writer:Chicho Ibáñez Serrador

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  23. Tales to Keep You Awake Season 1 Episode 11 - The Joke
    6.6/10(77 votes)

    #23 - The Joke

    S1:E11

    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:Unknown

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  24. Tales to Keep You Awake Season 2 Episode 8 - The Transplant
    6.6/10(61 votes)

    #24 - The Transplant

    S2:E8

    Episode 8: El trasplante. In an undefined future, organ transplants are a usual thing and socially accepted action. A man rejects organ transplantation because he believes that in this way retains its moral integrity.

    Director:Chicho Ibáñez Serrador
    Writer:Chicho Ibáñez Serrador

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  25. Tales to Keep You Awake Season 1 Episode 13 - The Anniversary
    6.4/10(70 votes)

    #25 - The Anniversary

    S1:E13

    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

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Best Episodes Summary

"The Birthday" is the best rated episode of "Tales to Keep You Awake". It scored 7.6/10 based on 181 votes. Directed by Chicho Ibáñez Serrador and written by Unknown, it aired on 2/4/1966. This episode scored 0.3 points higher than the second highest rated, "The Nightmare".