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Season 1


"Tales of Tomorrow" (1951): Season 1: Episode 1 -- Gordon Kent is put on trial for theft and murder. He is accused of robbing and murdering Professor Sykes in order to get money to build a blowtorch capable of cutting through anything. Gordon claims that he is innocent.

Season 1, Episode 1: Verdict from Space

Original Air Date—3 August 1951
Gordon Kent is on trial for allegedly killing a scientist in an underground cavern. Desperately, he tries to explain what they found inside the cave, and the the implications for the future of mankind.

"Tales of Tomorrow" (1951): Season 1: Episode 2 -- A scientist named Carl Eversons decides to continue a series of experiments with nuclear fission.

Season 1, Episode 2: Blunder

Original Air Date—10 August 1951
Scientists race to warn a colleague that his experiment could destroy life on Earth.

Season 1, Episode 3: A Child Is Crying

Original Air Date—17 August 1951

Season 1, Episode 4: The Woman at Land's End

Original Air Date—24 August 1951

Season 1, Episode 5: The Last Man on Earth

Original Air Date—31 August 1951

Season 1, Episode 6: Errand Boy

Original Air Date—7 September 1951

Season 1, Episode 7: The Monsters

Original Air Date—14 September 1951

"Tales of Tomorrow" (1951): Season 1: Episode 8 -- Johanna is the first of an advanced race of human beings: an "angel" who apparently is immortal and will never die.

Season 1, Episode 8: The Dark Angel

Original Air Date—28 September 1951
A man searches for the cause of his wife's unprecedented physical and mental transformation.

"Tales of Tomorrow" (1951): Season 1: Episode 9 -- 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.

Season 1, Episode 9: The Crystal Egg

Original Air Date—12 October 1951
A crystal egg reveals live tableaux of the planet Mars. A 19th Century scientist is obsessed with investigating the crystal, but the antique shop owner who came across the seemingly worthless glass hopes to sell it ASAP to a tall, insistent stranger, for whom no price is too dear. The delay while the scientist experiments on the egg makes the buyer even more desperate.

"Tales of Tomorrow" (1951): Season 1: Episode 10 -- A wealthy industrialist hires a rocket scientist to design and build an engine that will get a ship, and the CEO, to another planet.

Season 1, Episode 10: Test Flight

Original Air Date—26 October 1951
An ambitious, headstrong businessman uses his huge personal fortune to construct a spaceship that will take him to Mars.

"Tales of Tomorrow" (1951): Season 1: Episode 11 -- A grounded pilot is determined to prove that recent UFO sightings are real only he doesn't realize how close to finding out the truth he is.

Season 1, Episode 11: The Search for the Flying Saucer

Original Air Date—9 November 1951

Season 1, Episode 12: Enemy Unknown

Original Air Date—23 November 1951

"Tales of Tomorrow" (1951): Season 1: Episode 13 -- An American secret agent during the cold war is the only hope of stopping a multiple warhead detonation in the United States.

Season 1, Episode 13: Sneak Attack

Original Air Date—7 December 1951
When unmanned Soviet planes land at 25 big city airports and threaten to detonate their payloads, America's only hope is a covert agent in an Iron Curtain hospital.

"Tales of Tomorrow" (1951): Season 1: Episode 14 -- A scientist and others witness the crash of an alien space craft in the ocean.

Season 1, Episode 14: The Invaders

Original Air Date—12 December 1951
A research team led by Dr. Burroughs witnesses a UFO crash into the sea. Burroughs' son Roy makes a dive on the ship, but when he surfaces, his father begins to realize that Roy is not himself.

"Tales of Tomorrow" (1951): Season 1: Episode 15 -- 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.

Season 1, Episode 15: The Dune Roller

Original Air Date—4 January 1952

"Tales of Tomorrow" (1951): Season 1: Episode 16 -- 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.

Season 1, Episode 16: Frankenstein

Original Air Date—18 January 1952
Dr. Victor Frankenstein, working in a castle on a remote Swiss island, attempts to create a perfect man but his resultant creation turns out to be a murderous beast who must be destroyed.

Season 1, Episode 17: Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea: The Chase: Part 1

Original Air Date—25 January 1952

Season 1, Episode 18: Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea: The Escape: Part 2

Original Air Date—1 February 1952

"Tales of Tomorrow" (1951): Season 1: Episode 19 -- A writer desires a machine so much he'll even steal to get it, only to have the owner of the machine feel great regret for having to kill that writer.

Season 1, Episode 19: What You Need

Original Air Date—8 February 1952
An unscrupulous free-lance writer extorts the elderly owner of a seedy second-hand shop who is prescient about the future.

"Tales of Tomorrow" (1951): Season 1: Episode 20 -- Criminals get a helping hand defeating polygraph machines from a brilliant scientist.

Season 1, Episode 20: Age of Peril

Original Air Date—15 February 1952
In 1965 an intelligence agent is assigned to discover how national secrets are being stolen from a high security plant.

Season 1, Episode 21: Memento

Original Air Date—22 February 1952

"Tales of Tomorrow" (1951): Season 1: Episode 22 -- A secret "Children's Room" at a college attracts the attention of intellectual advanced youths. 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.

Season 1, Episode 22: The Children's Room

Original Air Date—29 February 1952

Season 1, Episode 23: Bound Together

Original Air Date—7 March 1952

Season 1, Episode 24: The Diamond Lens

Original Air Date—14 March 1952

Season 1, Episode 25: The Fisherman's Wife

Original Air Date—21 March 1952

"Tales of Tomorrow" (1951): Season 1: Episode 26 -- Laura (Lake) was a famous aviatrix who left her husband Don and subsequently vanished. Now, four years later, an old friend of theirs reveals the truth behind her disappearance.

Season 1, Episode 26: Flight Overdue

Original Air Date—28 March 1952
An internationally acclaimed aviatrix is recruited ostensibly for a flight over the Pacific over her husband's misgivings. Years after she disappears, her angry husband is informed of the true nature of her mission and her ultimate fate.

Season 1, Episode 27: And a Little Child

Original Air Date—4 April 1952

Season 1, Episode 28: Sleep No More

Original Air Date—11 April 1952

"Tales of Tomorrow" (1951): Season 1: Episode 29 -- Aliens borrow people's time with deadly results.

Season 1, Episode 29: Time to Go

Original Air Date—18 April 1952

"Tales of Tomorrow" (1951): Season 1: Episode 30 -- USAF Colonel Jeffrey Ward's abilities are put to the ultimate test when a Martian spaceship lands at his base.

Season 1, Episode 30: Plague from Space

Original Air Date—25 April 1952
USAF Colonel Jeffrey Ward's abilities are put to the ultimate test when a Martian spaceship lands at his base. At first glance the craft has only one passenger, but when an infection breaks out it becomes clear that there was more than one Martian on the ship.

"Tales of Tomorrow" (1951): Season 1: Episode 31 -- On a returning spaceship, an alien dust forms over the entire ship, preventing its return.

Season 1, Episode 31: Red Dust

Original Air Date—2 May 1952

"Tales of Tomorrow" (1951): Season 1: Episode 32 -- A modern alchemist has more subtle methods of attempting to change lead to gold

Season 1, Episode 32: The Golden Ingot

Original Air Date—9 May 1952

Season 1, Episode 33: Black Planet

Original Air Date—16 May 1952

"Tales of Tomorrow" (1951): Season 1: Episode 34 -- Scientists discovery threatens the world

Season 1, Episode 34: World of Water

Original Air Date—23 May 1952
A disgruntled refugee scientist, frustrated in both his professional and personal lives, develops a universal solvent, which threatens to turn all solid material into water.

"Tales of Tomorrow" (1951): Season 1: Episode 35 -- 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.

Season 1, Episode 35: The Little Black Bag

Original Air Date—30 May 1952
A depressed, tired doctor with a shrewish wife is ready to end his practice. Instead he comes into possession of a doctor's kit with miraculous properties. He and his wife disagree ethically on how to use their new found luck.

Season 1, Episode 36: The Exile

Original Air Date—6 June 1952

"Tales of Tomorrow" (1951): Season 1: Episode 37 -- A visitor from the future has a time machine on his wrist

Season 1, Episode 37: All the Time in the World

Original Air Date—13 June 1952
A woman proposes to rob New York's Metropolitan Museum, using a wristwatch which accelerates time for the wearer, so their movements go undetected by anyone more than 5 feet away. The small-time crook she hires for the job doesn't care where the artworks are going or why the woman who identifies herself only as "The Collector," wants the masterpieces.

"Tales of Tomorrow" (1951): Season 1: Episode 38 -- A serum makes it possible for a person to live forever

Season 1, Episode 38: The Miraculous Serum

Original Air Date—20 June 1952
A physician invents a serum allowing animals to overcome any illness or injury, by magnifying their adaptability. He tests it on an impoverished young woman, who's moments from death. Becoming healthier than she's ever been, she thanks him for "giving her the world," which for her is much more than a figure of speech.

"Tales of Tomorrow" (1951): Season 1: Episode 39 -- 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.

Season 1, Episode 39: Appointment on Mars

Original Air Date—27 June 1952
Three astronauts land on Mars, hoping to find valuable minerals. After discovering a rich deposit of uranium ore, one of the men becomes increasingly paranoid. Is it just his imagination, or are they really being watched?

"Tales of Tomorrow" (1951): Season 1: Episode 40 -- A world on the far side of the sun duplicates ours

Season 1, Episode 40: The Duplicates

Original Air Date—4 July 1952

"Tales of Tomorrow" (1951): Season 1: Episode 41 -- Inventor contacts future world scientists who want to change the future

Season 1, Episode 41: Ahead of His Time

Original Air Date—18 July 1952
The world in 2052 is a pretty wonderful place - no wars, no poverty, no famines - but all humankind is about to be destroyed because of a small miscalculation in a scientific experiment a century earlier set off a chain reaction that will contaminate the Earth with a lethal amount of radiation. With only hours before the end of the world, a 21st century scientist attempts to send a message to colleagues a hundred years in the past to prevent the mistake using a 20th century man's new time machine.

Season 1, Episode 42: Sudden Darkness

Original Air Date—1 August 1952

"Tales of Tomorrow" (1951): Season 1: Episode 43 -- During a Congressional appropriations investigation, an Air Force sounding rocket returns to Earth with an unexpected cargo: a block of ice with unusual chemical properties.

Season 1, Episode 43: Ice from Space

Original Air Date—8 August 1952
During a Congressional appropriations investigation, an Air Force sounding rocket returns to Earth with an unexpected cargo: a block of ice with unusual chemical properties. Soon the base commander, Major Dozier, is forced to deal not only with the bullheaded Congressman Burns, but the fact that the ice seems to be able to freeze everything around it.

Season 1, Episode 44: A Child Is Crying

Original Air Date—15 August 1952

Season 1, Episode 45: A Bird in Hand

Original Air Date—22 August 1952

Season 2


"Tales of Tomorrow" (1951): Season 2: Episode 1 -- A bizarre pair of spectacles gives a surgeon the power to predict how and when his patients will die.

Season 2, Episode 1: Seeing-Eye Surgeon

Original Air Date—5 September 1952

Season 2, Episode 2: The Cocoon

Original Air Date—12 September 1952

Season 2, Episode 3: The Chase

Original Air Date—19 September 1952

"Tales of Tomorrow" (1951): Season 2: Episode 4 -- Young Jeff (Robert Alda) accepts a mysterious doctor's offer for quick cash and ends up losing far more than he bargained for.

Season 2, Episode 4: Youth on Tap

Original Air Date—26 September 1952

Season 2, Episode 5: Substance 'X'

Original Air Date—3 October 1952

"Tales of Tomorrow" (1951): Season 2: Episode 6 -- A scientist invents a horn that calls sinister forces.

Season 2, Episode 6: The Horn

Original Air Date—10 October 1952

Season 2, Episode 7: Double Trouble

Original Air Date—17 October 1952

"Tales of Tomorrow" (1951): Season 2: Episode 8 -- On his birthday a man begins an alarming communication with an alien.

Season 2, Episode 8: Many Happy Returns

Original Air Date—24 October 1952

Season 2, Episode 9: The Tomb of King Taurus

Original Air Date—31 October 1952

"Tales of Tomorrow" (1951): Season 2: Episode 10 -- A TV show broadcast is interrupted by what appears to be live video of a murder in progress.

Season 2, Episode 10: The Window

Original Air Date—7 November 1952
Live telecast of Tales of Tomorrow keeps being broken into by a phantom broadcast of a cheating couple preparing to launch her soused husband out a window. The Tales crew scramble to investigate if the caper's real & if so, how can they interrupt the murder already in progress?

Season 2, Episode 11: The Camera

Original Air Date—14 November 1952

Season 2, Episode 12: The Quiet Lady

Original Air Date—21 November 1952

Season 2, Episode 13: The Invigorating Air

Original Air Date—28 November 1952

Season 2, Episode 14: The Glacier Giant

Original Air Date—5 December 1952

"Tales of Tomorrow" (1951): Season 2: Episode 15 -- Scientists in the Amazon find a man-eating flower.

Season 2, Episode 15: The Fatal Flower

Original Air Date—12 December 1952

Season 2, Episode 16: The Machine

Original Air Date—19 December 1952

"Tales of Tomorrow" (1951): Season 2: Episode 17 -- A bitter scientist reveals a new device that can detect and record every sound ever made on Earth, even the voice of Christ

Season 2, Episode 17: The Bitter Storm

Original Air Date—26 December 1952
An embittered scientist secretly invents a receiver which picks up sounds from anytime in the past. As a savage hurricane closes in on the island where he lives, his family press him to demonstrate the instrument, and overcome the hatred which paralyzes him into staying in isolation on the otherwise-abandoned island.

Season 2, Episode 18: The Mask of Medusa

Original Air Date—2 January 1953

Season 2, Episode 19: Conquerer's Isle

Original Air Date—9 January 1953

Season 2, Episode 20: Discovered Heart

Original Air Date—16 January 1953

Season 2, Episode 21: The Picture of Dorian Gray

Original Air Date—23 January 1953

Season 2, Episode 22: Two-Faced

Original Air Date—30 January 1953

Season 2, Episode 23: The Build-Box

Original Air Date—6 February 1953

"Tales of Tomorrow" (1951): Season 2: Episode 24 -- A jewel thief's memory is erased so he can start his life over as an honest man.

Season 2, Episode 24: Another Chance

Original Air Date—13 February 1953

"Tales of Tomorrow" (1951): Season 2: Episode 25 -- A mysterious phenomenon that causes people to lose the use of their vocal cords appears in a remote corner of the northwestern United States and begins spreading.

Season 2, Episode 25: The Great Silence

Original Air Date—20 February 1953
A mysterious phenomenon that causes people to lose the use of their vocal cords appears in a remote corner of the northwestern United States and begins spreading. The government blames the event on freak fallout effects from H-Bomb testing, but an illiterate mountain man (Burgess Meredith) discovers the real source of the affliction.

Season 2, Episode 26: The Lonesome Village

Original Air Date—27 February 1953

Season 2, Episode 27: The Squeeze Play

Original Air Date—13 March 1953

"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.

Season 2, Episode 28: Read to Me, Herr Doktor

Original Air Date—20 March 1953
Patricia Kinworth is surprised to discover that her father has built a robot and named it after an old teacher nicknamed "Herr Doktor". Professor Kinworth built the robot to read his books to him, but has underestimated both the amount of intelligence he gave his creation and its desire to live out the stories that the robot has read.

"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.

Season 2, Episode 29: Ghost Writer

Original Air Date—27 March 1953
An out of work writer accepts a well-paying offer from a mysterious man to help ease the burden on his wife. Soon, however, he becomes increasingly disturbed as the incidents he writes about begin to occur in real life.

"Tales of Tomorrow" (1951): Season 2: Episode 30 -- A scientist travels back in time to help mankind.

Season 2, Episode 30: Past Tense

Original Air Date—3 April 1953
Physician invents a time machine to go back in time and make a fortune by selling penicillin to a pharmaceutical firm. His wife is more concerned about paying bills because he's neglecting his practice, so she threatens to destroy the device. If she does, could he be trapped in the past?

Season 2, Episode 31: Homecoming

Original Air Date—10 April 1953

"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.

Season 2, Episode 32: The Fury of the Cocoon

Original Air Date—6 March 1953
After a scientific expedition to a meteorite impact site in the jungle disappears, a three-man relief team sets off for the expedition's camp. The lone survivor tells them that the expedition was attacked by invisible insect-like creatures that came out of the meteorite. The scientists must find a way to defeat the insects before they are overwhelmed.

Season 2, Episode 33: The Rival

Original Air Date—17 April 1953

Season 2, Episode 34: Please Omit Flowers

Original Air Date—24 April 1953

"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.

Season 2, Episode 35: The Evil Within

Original Air Date—1 May 1953
Scientist perfects a chemical unleashing the beast within, but before he can create an antidote, his neglected wife accidentally is dosed when he has to rush a batch home to keep it refrigerated. Her mild resentment of his endless hours at the lab accelerates into a torrent, after she gobbles pie on which the potion dripped.

Season 2, Episode 36: The Vault

Original Air Date—8 May 1953

Season 2, Episode 37: Ink

Original Air Date—15 May 1953

Season 2, Episode 38: The Spider Web

Original Air Date—22 May 1953

Season 2, Episode 39: Lazarus Walks

Original Air Date—29 May 1953

Season 2, Episode 40: What Dreams May Come

Original Air Date—12 June 1953

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