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42 Episodes 1952 - 1953
Episode 1
Fri, Aug 22, 195225 mins
Two youngsters discover a talking bird in a zoo and come to the realization that the bird is part of a plot by the animal kingdom to reclaim the world from humans.
Episode 2
Fri, Aug 29, 195225 mins
A violinist plays with a time machine.
Episode 3
Fri, Sep 5, 195228 mins
Despite the encouragement of a loyal nurse, the abilities of Dr. Tyrell, a skilled neurosurgeon, are constantly derided by his officious and condescending superior, Dr. Foyle. Tyrell is surprised when Foyle selects him to assist in a delicate brain operation involving America's top physicist, whose survival is important to America's security and future well-being. Prospects for a successful procedure are slim, and Tyrell finds himself in the role of chief surgeon when Foyle unexpectedly backs out claiming illness. Tyrell finds himself in a no-win situation, but prior to the surgery he is visited by the enigmatic Dr, Xenon, who offers him use of a special pair of mysterious glasses which will help him in the operation.
Episode 4
Fri, Sep 12, 195225 mins
Scientists exploring a crater in a remote jungle discover a perfectly-preserved cocoon, which releases an invisible and very dangerous creature.
Episode 5
Fri, Sep 19, 195225 mins
Episode 6
Fri, Sep 26, 195229 mins
A man named Jeff definitely has his share of problems: his truck has been stolen, his girlfriend Kitty is impatiently waiting to be married, and he only has one week to come up with a thousand dollars to buy a gas station with so he can earn money. When a mysterious Dr. Platan shows up offering the thousand dollars for a pint of Jeff's common blood type (type A), Jeff accepts at first, but then has doubts...
Episode 7
Fri, Oct 3, 195225 mins
A young woman goes to her hometown at the behest of a food conglomerate. Her assignment is to discover what the people of the community are using for food after their only food outlet closes. She discovers a scientist who has developed a food substitute called 'Substance X'. Anyone who diets on Substance X is unable to eat normal food from that time on.
Episode 8
Fri, Oct 10, 195230 mins
An inventor labors on a horn to directly communicate emotions in an all-powerful way, while he's building violins in a factory. A scientist begged the company owner to let the inventor use his factory. The shop foreman, a failed pianist, is jealous of the respect the owner feels for the inventor's dedication and idealism. The foreman connives to sabotage the inventor's masterwork.
Episode 9
Fri, Oct 17, 195225 mins
The FBI investigates the author of a story about a death ray.
Episode 10
Fri, Oct 24, 195230 mins
An alien on the Moon persuades an Earth boy to build a gadget, accidentally electrocuting the boy's father, who disbelieves the machine can work with no visible power-source. The alien telepathically communicates instructions to the thrilled boy, who's reluctant to be candid with his family, referring to the hideous creature merely as Mr. White, a handyman helping him with a basement science project.
Episode 11
Fri, Oct 31, 195225 mins
When an archaeology team open an Egyptian tomb, they find an ancient king who's been alive for 4,000 years.
Episode 12
Fri, Nov 7, 195229 mins
A live telecast of Tales of Tomorrow (1951) keeps being broken into by a phantom broadcast of a cheating couple preparing to launch her soused husband out a window. The Tales of Tomorrow (1951) crew scramble to investigate if the caper's real and if so, how can they interrupt the murder already in progress?
Episode 13
Fri, Nov 14, 195225 mins
A blackmailer discovers a camera that will take pictures 25 years into the future.
Episode 14
Fri, Nov 21, 195225 mins
An extraterrestrial cloud brings a deadly disease.
Episode 15
Fri, Nov 28, 195225 mins
A young scientist produces a new kind of invigorating air.
Episode 16
Fri, Dec 5, 195225 mins
A reporter searches for a giant reportedly encased in the ice of the Himalayas.
Episode 17
Fri, Dec 12, 195230 mins
A botanist breeding a monstrous carnivorous plant spars with his assistant, in the isolation and oppressive heat of their research compound in a remote sector of the Amazon. Dr. Alden's gleeful obsession with his hybrid plant buoys him along, until his aide Merriman's boredom inspires a means to play on the older man's weak heart and narrow mind.
Episode 18
Fri, Dec 19, 195230 mins
A machine forewarns a doctor that one of his infant patients will grow up to be a murder.
Episode 19
Fri, Dec 26, 195230 mins
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.
Episode 20
Fri, Jan 2, 195325 mins
A killer takes refuge in a museum where the statues come to life.
Episode 21
Fri, Jan 9, 195325 mins
Episode 22
Fri, Jan 16, 195325 mins
A scout for a hostile invasion force from outer space comes to a lighthouse hoping to use it as a signalling station. A precocious little girl wins the alien's heart and moves the extraterrestrial to surrender his life to prevent invasion.
Episode 23
Fri, Jan 23, 195325 mins
A corrupt young man somehow keeps his youthful beauty, but a special painting gradually reveals his inner ugliness to all.
Episode 24
Fri, Jan 30, 195325 mins
To win a woman's heart, a man arranges to have the head of her former lover transplanted onto his body.
Episode 25
Fri, Feb 6, 195325 mins
A little boy is the recipient of a strange box from the owner of a gift shop.
Episode 26
Fri, Feb 13, 195330 mins
The mysterious Dr. Borrow transports cornered petty thief Harold back in time to avoid both capture and his wife leaving him. Borrow's price is right for the shattered Harold: a stolen brooch that he couldn't cut down or fence anyway. Supplied with the new identity of handsome, unmarried John Marshall, the young man gains the 7 futile years back.
Episode 27
Fri, Feb 20, 195330 mins
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.
Episode 28
Fri, Feb 27, 195330 mins
People wait to find out if they're the last on Earth.
Episode 29
Fri, Mar 6, 195325 mins
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.
Episode 30
Fri, Mar 13, 195325 mins
A magician hates a reporter so he hypnotizes all the people with whom the newsie comes into contact into forgetting him.
Episode 31
Fri, Mar 20, 195330 mins
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.
Episode 32
Fri, Mar 27, 195330 mins
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.
Episode 33
Fri, Apr 3, 195330 mins
A 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?
Episode 34
Fri, Apr 10, 195330 mins
An Air Force pilot who was long thought to be lost returns to his wife and hometown after being stranded in the arctic for five years. During that time, he's become a changed man and can only exist in extreme cold.
Episode 35
Fri, Apr 17, 195325 mins
After finding love again at a late age, an old man introduces his new bride to what will become her competition: a cat.
Episode 36
Fri, Apr 24, 195325 mins
Looking for a way to boost his business clientele, a ruthless mortician comes across a potion that causes a very deep sleep to come on people, making others think that they are dead.
Episode 37
Fri, May 1, 195330 mins
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.
Episode 38
Fri, May 8, 195325 mins
When a scientific test goes array, it traps four people in a vault deep in the Earth. They wonder if they are the last humans alive.
Episode 39
Fri, May 15, 195325 mins
When a man decides to move out of the house he shares with his older sister to get married, she plots against him with a chemist's ink that forces compliance to what is written and read.
Episode 40
Fri, May 22, 195330 mins
The inhabitants of a remote island find that they are beginning to change after receiving radiation.
Episode 41
Fri, May 29, 195325 mins
After being resuscitated following his death, a man discovers that he is a walking lie detector.
Episode 42
Fri, Jun 12, 195330 mins
Telepathic thoughts alert a woman to her future murder.