Tales of Tomorrow - Season 2
Season 2
Network
Episodes42
DatesAug 22, 1952 - Jun 12, 1953
Episodes
Season 2Episode 130 min
A Bird in Hand
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.
Aug 22, 1952
Season 2Episode 230 min
Thanks
A scientific invention brings glory to a struggling violinist but it also causes him to commit murder.
Aug 29, 1952
Season 2Episode 330 min
The Seeing Eye Surgeon
When a prominent physician dons a pair of eyeglasses he discovers that he can see into the future.
Sep 5, 1952
Season 2Episode 430 min
The Cocoon
A group of scientists are trapped inside a house in a remote jungle by hideous invisible creatures.
Sep 12, 1952
Season 2Episode 530 min
The Chase
A man arrives at a sea lodge and confesses to a murder but it's later revealed that he's from the future.
Sep 19, 1952
Season 2Episode 630 min
Youth on Tap
A 26 year old man gives a doctor a blood transfusion in return for $1,000 but the process causes the young man to age.
Sep 26, 1952
Season 2Episode 730 min
Substance X
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.
Oct 3, 1952
Season 2Episode 830 min
The Horn
A scientist invents a machine that has the power to control human emotions.
Oct 10, 1952
Season 2Episode 930 min
Double Trouble
A writer pens a story about a death ray machine only to discover later that the government actually has such a device.
Oct 17, 1952
Season 2Episode 1030 min
Many Happy Returns
A father discovers that his son and other neighborhood children are being controlled telepathically by an alien.
Oct 24, 1952
Season 2Episode 1130 min
The Tomb of King Tarus
An archeologist discovers that an ancient king has been able to stay alive for centuries in a tomb deep beneath the Egyptian desert.
Oct 31, 1952
Season 2Episode 1230 min
The Window
The live telecast of an episode titled "The Lost Planet" keeps getting interrupted by a transmission of unknown origin, depicting a woman and her lover preparing to toss her inebriated husband out of a window. The "Tales of Tomorrow" production crew scramble to determine if the broadcast is of real events and if so, how they can prevent the murder from moving to completion.
Nov 7, 1952
Season 2Episode 1330 min
The Camera
A blackmailer discovers a camera that will take pictures 25 years into the future.
Nov 14, 1952
Season 2Episode 1430 min
The Quiet Lady
A deadly disease covers the earth and its only hope is a little girl.
Nov 21, 1952
Season 2Episode 1530 min
The Invigorating Air
A young scientist produces a new kind of air which proves to be "invigorating."
Nov 28, 1952
Season 2Episode 1630 min
The Glacier Giant
A reporter and his damsel sidekick search for a giant reportedly encased in the ice of the Himalayas.
Dec 5, 1952
Season 2Episode 1730 min
The Fatal Flower
Doing research in the Brazilian jungle, two biochemists develop a mysterious plant.
Dec 12, 1952
Season 2Episode 1830 min
The Machine
A machine that can foretell the future says that one of a doctor's infant patients will grow up to be a murderer.
Dec 19, 1952
Season 2Episode 1930 min
The Bitter Storm
A man brings back voices and sounds from the Garden of Eden.
Dec 26, 1952
Season 2Episode 2030 min
The Mask of Medusa
Perry Mason won't be able to help a killer who takes refuge in a museum where the statues come to life.
Jan 2, 1953
Season 2Episode 2130 min
Conqueror's Isle
Jan 9, 1953
Season 2Episode 2230 min
Discovered Heart
An alien who's an advance scout for an invasion force arrives at a lighthouse hoping to use its beacon as a signal. A precocious little girl win's the alien's heart and moves the extraterrestrial to surrender his life to prevent invasion.
Jan 16, 1953
Season 2Episode 2330 min
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Handsome Dorian Gray never seems to age but the same cannot be said about his portrait.
Jan 23, 1953
Season 2Episode 2430 min
Two Faced
To win the love of a woman, a man arranges to have the head of her former lover transplanted onto his body.
Jan 30, 1953
Season 2Episode 2530 min
The Build Box
A little boy is the recipient of a strange box from the owner of a gift shop.
Feb 6, 1953
Season 2Episode 2630 min
Another Chance
A man is given the chance to live the past seven years of his life over but he makes the same mistakes.
Feb 13, 1953
Season 2Episode 2730 min
The Great Silence
The nation is hit with an epidemic in which vocal chords are paralyzed but it's actually an alien plot to control the people of the United States.
Feb 20, 1953
Season 2Episode 2830 min
Lonesome Village
Feb 27, 1953
Season 2Episode 2930 min
The Fury of the Cocoon
Members of an expedition into the jungle are attacked by invisible blood sucking leaches from outer space.
Mar 6, 1953
Season 2Episode 3030 min
The Squeeze Play
A magician hates a reporter so he hypnotizes all the people with whom the newsie comes into contact into forgetting him.
Mar 13, 1953
Season 2Episode 3130 min
Read to Me Herr Doktor
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. The relationship between the professor and the robot is very close. The books that the robot reads give it the desire to be a complete person. Their roles become reversed. The robot begins to demand that the professor read aloud to him. Later, the robot falls in love with the professor's daughter. When she spurns the robot, it learns that the books it has been reading were wrong and it dies of a broken heart.
Mar 20, 1953
Season 2Episode 3230 min
Ghost Writer
A writer discovers to his horror that the events in his short stories are coming true.
Mar 27, 1953
Season 2Episode 3330 min
Past Tense
A doctor travels back in time in order to extol the virtues of penicillin and save lives but ends up being committed to an insane asylum where he falls ill and dies from a disease which could have been prevented by penicillin.
Apr 3, 1953
Season 2Episode 3430 min
Homecoming
A pilot returns home after being stranded in the Arctic for five years and discovers that he can only live in cold temperatures.
Apr 10, 1953
Season 2Episode 3530 min
The Rivals
A new wife finds herself a rival for her husband's affections--his cat.
Apr 17, 1953
Season 2Episode 3630 min
Please Omit Flowers
A mortician discovers a serum that induces a death-like sleep.
Apr 24, 1953
Season 2Episode 3730 min
The Evil Within
A scientist creates a formula that unlocks evil. Then his wife unknowingly ingests some of the formula.
May 1, 1953
Season 2Episode 3830 min
The Vault
While making scientific tests, four people get trapped inside a vault.
May 8, 1953
Season 2Episode 3930 min
Ink
A chemist comes into possession of an ink which has the power to hypnotize all who look at anything written with the substance.
May 15, 1953
Season 2Episode 4030 min
The Spider's Web
Inhabitants of an island find themselves affected by atomic radiation.
May 22, 1953
Season 2Episode 4130 min
Lazarus Walks
A man gets revived after being declared clinically dead for a short period of time. Then he discovers that he has the ability to detect lies.
May 29, 1953
Season 2Episode 4230 min
What Dreams May Come
A woman receives telepathic waves that she is about to be murdered.
Jun 12, 1953
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