Tales of Tomorrow

A live-broadcast anthology that feels like a creaky but earnest campfire tale, with stagey performances and a lingering sense of wonder and unease.

Created by

Charles S. Dubin, Don Medford

Genres

Sci-fi & fantasy

Starring

Una O'Connor, Paul Tripp, Bruce Cabot

Overview

Tales of Tomorrow is an American anthology science fiction series that was performed and broadcast live on ABC from 1951 to 1953. The series covered such stories as Frankenstein, starring Lon Chaney, Jr., 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea starring Thomas Mitchell as Captain Nemo, and many others featuring such performers as Boris Karloff, Brian Keith, Lee J. Cobb, Rod Steiger, Bruce Cabot, Franchot Tone, Gene Lockhart, Walter Abel, Leslie Nielsen, and Paul Newman. The series had many similarities to the later Twilight Zone which also covered one of the same stories, "What You Need". In total it ran for eighty-five 30-minute episodes.

How it feels

Eerie, tense, earnest and dark. Measured and needs your attention.

About

Technology, fate, identity, freedom

Content

Mild violence. No gore, sexual content or swearing.

Note

Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown

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