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Mann Rubin (writer) (episode)
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Release Date:
3 August 1951 (USA)
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Anthology series featuring both classic and modern sci-fi themes.
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Good writing, antique charm
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Cast
(Series Cast Summary - 15 of 58) | 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.
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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.