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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.

Overview

User Rating:
7.5/10   51 votes
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Writer:
Mann Rubin (writer) (episode)
Contact:
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Seasons:
1 | 2 full episode list
Release Date:
3 August 1951 (USA) more
Genre:
Horror | Sci-Fi more
Plot:
Anthology series featuring both classic and modern sci-fi themes.
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User Comments:
Terrific avant-garde science-fiction! 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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Additional Details

Runtime:
30 min (84 episodes)
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Aspect Ratio:
1.33 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
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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6 out of 6 people found the following comment useful.
Terrific avant-garde science-fiction!, 1 December 1999
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Author: Louis Rugani (x779@webtv.net) from United States

I was lucky enough to see this series in first run! Fortunately, the episodes are still available on videotape. (I salute those who preserved the films.) This was in many ways more experimental than "Twilight Zone" and similar programs. And here's an example: I recall the episode where the program opened with a typical and excellent Tales Of Tomorrow science-fiction storyline. Just as the audience got into the live action, the entire play and its cast and even its crew were disrupted by an actual on-stage emergency! (This, of course, was a play-within-a-play, but the "reality" of it was stunning!) Seek out taped episodes, and learn what television once, long ago, could do, and how creative it could be, and what it wasn't afraid to try.

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