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"Tales of Tomorrow" (1951): Season 2: Episode 35 -- Rod Steiger invents a solution that unlocks "The Evil Within Humans" He stores the potion in his home fridge at the house and some of it drips on leftovers.
"Tales of Tomorrow" (1951): Season 2: Episode 30 -- A scientist travels back in time to help mankind.
"Tales of Tomorrow" (1951): Season 2: Episode 29 -- An out of work writer accepts a well-paying offer from a mysterious man to help ease the burden on his wife.
"Tales of Tomorrow" (1951): Season 2: Episode 28 -- 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.
"Tales of Tomorrow" (1951): Season 2: Episode 32 -- An expedition into the tropics is plagued by dissent, desertion, and an invisible blood sucking leech that has arrived from outer space.

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Writer:
Mann Rubin (writer) (episode)
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Release Date:
3 August 1951 (USA) more
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Anthology series featuring both classic and modern sci-fi themes.
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Good writing, antique charm more (9 total)

Cast

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Leslie Nielsen ... Farragut / ... (6 episodes, 1952-1953)
Theo Goetz ... Doctor Jarvis / ... (4 episodes, 1951-1952)
Cameron Prud'Homme ... Borden / ... (4 episodes, 1951-1953)
Olive Deering ... Ginny Walker (4 episodes, 1951-1953)
Edith Fellows (4 episodes, 1951-1953)
Walter Abel (4 episodes, 1951-1952)
Allyn Edwards ... Announcer (3 episodes, 1951-1952)
Thomas Mitchell ... Captain Nemo / ... (3 episodes, 1951-1952)
Lon McCallister ... Gordon Kent (3 episodes, 1951)
Nancy Coleman ... Jean Burgess / ... (3 episodes, 1952-1953)
Barbara Joyce ... Dr. Marnoff / ... (3 episodes, 1951-1952)
Brian Keith ... Peters / ... (3 episodes, 1952)
Sam Locante ... Bartender / ... (3 episodes, 1952)
Edgar Stehli ... Burroughs / ... (3 episodes, 1951-1952)
Roger De Koven ... Narrator / ... (3 episodes, 1952)
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30 min (84 episodes)
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For a production of "Frankenstein" Lon Chaney Jr. played the creature. Due to his heavy drinking, he thought that the actual performance was just another rehearsal. Instead of actually smashing the props on the set, he simply went through the motions as he did for the rehearsals. more

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Good writing, antique charm, 28 December 2006
Author: horrorfilmx from United States

I picked up a dollar DVD of TALES FROM TOMORROW especially for the Lon Chaney "Frankenstein" episode (yeah, everyone knows he was drunk and thought it was a rehearsal --- he was pretty good nonetheless). I must have a different DVD from the previous posters because everyone else mentions "The Crystal Egg" and "Appointment on Mars" but no one has said anything about "The Dune Roller" which, to my mind, is the best episode of the four. Of all three it suffers most from its low budget. When your title menace is a huge, terrifying "creature" at some point the audience expects to see it, even if it turns out to be only a crude puppet. In this case the menace remains off screen at all times but the story is still very effective, thanks to good writing (reminiscent of 50s British Sci-Fi like X THE UNKNOWN and THE CRAWLING EYE) and a very strong central performance by Bruce Cabot, who up until now I'd never thought of as a particularly impressive actor. "The Dune Roller" would make a good feature film, or would have when modestly budgeted science fiction thrillers were still a commercially acceptable genre.

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