Tales of Tomorrow Season 1 Episodes

Episode 1

Verdict from Space

Fri, Aug 3, 195130 mins

Inventor Gordon Kent is in a Morgan County, Maine, courtroom on trial for murdering scientist Adrian Sykes. The archaeologist had discovered a recording device placed millennia earlier in an isolated cave by an alien force to warn when Earth entered the Atomic Age. The court ignores Kent's warnings about an almost certain alien invasion.

Episode 2

Blunder

Fri, Aug 10, 195127 mins

A scientist working on a new kind of nuclear reactor in the Arctic has made a mistake in his calculations that could have fatal consequences for life on Earth. Two other scientists must try to contact him before he can start his experiment.

Episode 3

A Child Is Crying

Fri, Aug 17, 195125 mins

A young child with a genius I. Q. is taken away from her mother to work at a military base. Unfortunately her intellect is so stellar she can only predict absolute doom for everyone in the future.

Episode 4

The Woman at Land's End

Fri, Aug 24, 195125 mins

Episode 5

The Last Man on Earth

Fri, Aug 31, 195130 mins

Martians have landed all over the world and they've left just two human beings alive, but only so they can experiment on them.

Episode 6

Errand Boy

Fri, Sep 7, 195125 mins

Episode 7

The Monsters

Fri, Sep 14, 195125 mins

Episode 8

The Dark Angel

Fri, Sep 28, 195130 mins

Tim Hathaway is distraught by the changes that have come over his wife Joanne. She is becoming more beautiful, more intelligent, and increasingly distant. She disappears and he tracks her down, finally forcing her to reveal the frightening reason behind her metamorphosis.

Episode 9

The Crystal Egg

Fri, Oct 12, 195130 mins

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.

Episode 10

Test Flight

Fri, Oct 26, 195125 mins

Headstrong, ambitious, sometimes unscrupulous businessman Wayne Crowder, an entrepreneurial capitalist, has ambitions to build a spaceship that is capable of interplanetary travel. Despite warnings about the foolhardiness of his undertaking, Crowder is determined to follow through especially when a meek scientist named Wilkins shares his ideas about utilizing magnetism as a propulsion device. After clearing Earth's gravitational pull, Crowder feels the theory has been proven and wishes to return to Earth but finds out he has signed up for more than he bargained for.

Episode 11

The Search for the Flying Saucer

Fri, Nov 9, 195130 mins

Army pilot Vic Russo, grounded after reporting an encounter with a UFO, is determined to prove flying saucers exist. He travels to a remote New Mexico town to investigate reports of alien craft, but the locals clam up when he brings up the subject. All except Crazy John, an old coot who offers to lead Vic to their landing site.

Episode 12

Enemy Unknown

Fri, Nov 23, 195130 mins

A government on the verge of meltdown requests the help of a renowned astrophysicist who refuses their plea for assistance.

Episode 13

Sneak Attack

Fri, Dec 7, 195125 mins

A foreign power has covertly landed 25 super bombs in cities throughout the United States and are prepared to detonate them if the President refuses to surrender the nation. America's only hope is a secret agent currently recovering for gunshot wounds inside the foreign power's borders.

Episode 14

The Invader

Wed, Dec 12, 195130 mins

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.

Episode 15

The Dune Roller

Fri, Jan 4, 195225 mins

On isolated Lightning Island, a rock mysteriously crashes out of a house after pebbles combine and grow. Scientists discover the rocks consist of an unknown mineral. But long-time resident Cap Zanse believes it's an Ouroboros or hoop snake, a legendary creature which rolls with tail in mouth, and is blamed for the mysterious extermination of local animals on the Lake Michigan isle.

Episode 16

Frankenstein

Fri, Jan 18, 195230 mins

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.

Episode 17

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea: The Chase: Part 1

Fri, Jan 25, 195225 mins

Captain Nemo is holding Farragut captive in his under-the-sea vessel, only to have his daughter fall in love with the handsome young sailor.

Episode 18

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea: The Escape: Part 2

Fri, Feb 1, 195225 mins

Captain Nemo's daughter falls in love with Farragut, a captive in her father's underwater vessel, only to realize she is being held a prisoner too.

Episode 19

What You Need

Fri, Feb 8, 195225 mins

An unethical free-lance writer, desperate for money, has noticed that many well-to-do businessmen frequent Peter Talley's seedy second-hand shop, where they buy seemingly mundane items for large sums of money. He browbeats mild-mannered Talley into giving him "what he needs," an ordinary pair of shears, and is cautioned to always carry them on his person. The greedy writer, anxious to obtain money to marry his slatternly girl friend, finds the shears to be a life saver. When his scarf is caught in machinery and threatens to strangle him, the scissors literally save his life. Sensing there is money to be made, he extorts the store owner into revealing himself as a scientist whose back room machine gives him a window into a man's future.

Episode 20

Age of Peril

Fri, Feb 15, 195225 mins

In the future world of 1965, Security Agent Larry Calhoun is assigned to discover how national secrets are being stolen in a high security plant. He is aided by scientist Dr. Chappell and his beautiful daughter Irene, who have developed what would seem to be the perfect lie detector device. However, after they catch a foreign agent red-handed, he is still able to beat the "foolproof" test although no one can quite figure out how.

Episode 21

Memento

Fri, Feb 22, 195225 mins

A scientist discovers he cannot make the trip to Mars after building a spaceship.

Episode 22

The Children's Room

Fri, Feb 29, 195230 mins

A couple -- Bill and Rose -- are having increasing difficulties with their son Walt: he talks down to his parents like they are stupid and reads books written in a language that no one understands. The books come from a "children's room" that supposedly does not exist. Once the room is discovered its true meaning is revealed.

Episode 23

Bound Together

Fri, Mar 7, 195225 mins

An astronaut's wife considers an affair while her husband is in space.

Episode 24

The Diamond Lens

Fri, Mar 14, 195222 mins

A scientist about to be executed recounts how he stopped at nothing, including murder, to create the perfect diamond lens with which to craft a microscope enabling him to see the worlds within the microscopic realm.

Episode 25

The Fisherman's Wife

Fri, Mar 21, 195225 mins

Two scientists develop a formula to restore youth and a damsel volunteers to be their first subject.

Episode 26

Flight Overdue

Fri, Mar 28, 195229 mins

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.

Episode 27

And a Little Child

Fri, Apr 4, 195225 mins

A mind reader is the only hope to avert nuclear war.

Episode 28

Sleep No More

Fri, Apr 11, 195225 mins

A young man begs to be kept awake because his dreams are turning into horrifying realities.

Episode 29

Time to Go

Fri, Apr 18, 195224 mins

An alien race is dying, but Earth can save them - by depositing saved time in their bank. Natalie loves that she can get her time back with interest, adding years to her life, while the aliens manipulate the stored hours to save their advanced civilization. She hates to waste a minute anyway, but her husband enjoys his time so much, he's not eligible to be a depositor.

Episode 30

Plague from Space

Fri, Apr 25, 195230 mins

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.

Episode 31

Red Dust

Fri, May 2, 195230 mins

The first human mission to another solar system loses 2 crew on a red dust-covered planet, which once had an advanced civilization. Due to allergies, neither of the shipmates got anti-radiation shots, so the remaining crew aren't concerned about their own return to Earth. But then the red dust starts to appear everywhere on the space ship.

Episode 32

The Golden Ingot

Fri, May 9, 195229 mins

A chemist has been trying time and again to make gold from lead. He has been laughed at and his bills are overdue. Will he ever succeed? Or what would happen if someone were to fake his success?

Episode 33

Black Planet

Fri, May 16, 195225 mins

Two astronomers working together, seek a tenth planet. The senior fears the junior might have found it and is jealous. They are also both interested in Norma, who works with them. When, in the course of a fight between the two men, the senior scientist falls dead - the question is was he killed by the other or not. Norma's brother a police detective has to solve the case.

Episode 34

World of Water

Fri, May 23, 195230 mins

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.

Episode 35

The Little Black Bag

Fri, May 30, 195230 mins

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 newfound luck.

Episode 36

The Exile

Fri, Jun 6, 195225 mins

An outcast alone in space develops space fever.

Episode 37

All the Time in the World

Fri, Jun 13, 195230 mins

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.

Episode 38

The Miraculous Serum

Fri, Jun 20, 195230 mins

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.

Episode 39

Appointment on Mars

Fri, Jun 27, 195230 mins

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?

Episode 40

The Duplicates

Fri, Jul 4, 195230 mins

The government discovers a parallel world inhabited by duplicates of humanity and sends an engineer, Bruce Calvin, to that world to kill his counterpart before the two planets destroy each other.

Episode 41

Ahead of His Time

Fri, Jul 18, 195230 mins

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.

Episode 42

Sudden Darkness

Fri, Aug 1, 195230 mins

A scientist invents a device which can shut down all the world's electrical power.

Episode 43

Ice from Space

Fri, Aug 8, 195230 mins

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.

Episode 44

A Child is Crying

Fri, Aug 15, 1952