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The Best Episodes of Tales to Keep You Awake Season 1

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    Tales to Keep You Awake Season 1 Episode 1 - The Birthday
    8.4/10(5 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 1 Episode 2 - The Hand
    7.0/10(2 votes)

    #2 - The Hand

    S1:E2

    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

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  3. Tales to Keep You Awake Season 1 Episode 3 - The Cellar pt. 1
    6.7/10(3 votes)

    #3 - 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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  4. Tales to Keep You Awake Season 1 Episode 4 - The Cellar pt. 2
    6.7/10(3 votes)

    #4 - 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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  5. Tales to Keep You Awake Season 1 Episode 5 - The Cask
    7.3/10(3 votes)

    #5 - 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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  6. Tales to Keep You Awake Season 1 Episode 6 - The Offer
    5.3/10(3 votes)

    #6 - The Offer

    S1:E6

    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

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  7. Tales to Keep You Awake Season 1 Episode 7 - The Double
    7.0/10(3 votes)

    #7 - 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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  8. Tales to Keep You Awake Season 1 Episode 8 - The Pact
    8.0/10(2 votes)

    #8 - 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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  9. Tales to Keep You Awake Season 1 Episode 9 - The Doll
    6.3/10(3 votes)

    #9 - 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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  10. Tales to Keep You Awake Season 1 Episode 10 - The Rocket
    6.7/10(3 votes)

    #10 - 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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  11. Tales to Keep You Awake Season 1 Episode 11 - The Joke
    6.7/10(3 votes)

    #11 - 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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  12. Tales to Keep You Awake Season 1 Episode 12 - The Cabin
    8.0/10(2 votes)

    #12 - The Cabin

    S1:E12

    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
    Writers:Antonio Cotanda Arnal, Alejandro García Planas

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  13. Tales to Keep You Awake Season 1 Episode 13 - The Anniversary
    7.0/10(2 votes)

    #13 - 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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  14. Tales to Keep You Awake Season 1 Episode 14 - The Wait
    6.0/10(2 votes)

    #14 - 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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  15. Tales to Keep You Awake Season 1 Episode 15 - The Alarm pt.1
    7.5/10(2 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 1 Episode 16 - The Alarm pt. 2
    8.0/10(2 votes)

    #16 - 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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  17. Tales to Keep You Awake Season 1 Episode 17 - The Smile
    8.0/10(2 votes)

    #17 - The Smile

    S1:E17

    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

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  18. Tales to Keep You Awake Season 1 Episode 18 - The Asphalt
    9.5/10(2 votes)

    #18 - 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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Season 1 Ratings Summary

"The Birthday" is the best rated episode of "Tales to Keep You Awake" season 1. It scored 8.4/10 based on 5 votes. Directed by Chicho Ibáñez Serrador and written by Unknown, it aired on 2/4/1966. This episode is rated 1.4 points higher than the second-best, "The Hand".