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Phantom Solar Explorer
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Posted: Sun May 03, 2020 2:38 pm Post subject: Tales Of Tomorrow (1951 - 1953) |
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Tales of Tomorrow
From the Wade Williams dvd release:
Quote: | Tales of Tomorrow, a groundbreaking, thought-provoking series, featuring the top film stars of the day. A show so new and different, it set the stage for other thriller-anthology series such as The Twilight Zone and The Outer Limits. |
And thought-provoking it is, despite the primitive technique.
Shot on the sound stages in NYC in the formative years of television, its historical significance to small screen science fiction cannot be overestimated.
In an era when the public image of the genre was Commander Cody and Flash Gordon, Tales of Tomorrow dared to raise themes that would not be considered again until The Outer Limits, a decade in the future.
The Williams' collection, which has been preserved on kinescope, covers only seasons 1 and 2, focusing on stars of the past like Boris Karloff, Veronica Lake and Joan Blondell, and rising stars who would become Hollywood icons in the very near future, Rod Steiger, James Dean and Paul Newman.
Each episode begins with a dramatic and frightening image that suggested to audiences that they were going to see something unique in television of the period.
In Past Tense, one of the more intriguing episodes, Boris Karloff plays a doctor who has invented a time machine so he can save lives with penicillin decades before it actually became available.
Rod Steiger and James Dean appear together for the only time in their careers in The Evil Within, a Jekyll-Hyde story in which Steiger is experimenting with a mind altering drug, with disastrous consequences to his wife.
And in an episode that I still remember seeing over a half century ago, The Dune Roller, starring Bruce Cabot, a meteor that has crashed on an island is attempting to reconstitute itself into a mobile flaming ball that incinerates everything in its path (a precursor of The Monolith Monsters just a few years later).
It's a shame Williams didn't release the entire series, and at this late date, it doesn't look like it is ever going to happen. _________________ What Is Essential Is Invisible |
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Tales of Tomorrow was 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.
The idea for this science fiction television series was developed by Theodore Sturgeon and Mort Abrahams, together with the membership of the Science Fiction League of America.
The original title was planned as Tomorrow is Yours.
A deal was struck with Richard Gordon and George Foley, giving the producers of the show first choice of any of the 2,000 short stories and 13 novels by the various members of the League.
Tales of Tomorrow was the first dramatized showcase for several authors, including Arthur C. Clarke. Other early science fiction writers whose work was reflected in the series included Fredric Brown ("The Last Man on Earth" and "Age of Peril"), Philip Wylie ("Blunder"), C. M. Kornbluth ("The Little Black Bag") and Stanley G. Weinbaum ("The Miraculous Serum").
The show was intended for adults; at the time, most science fiction productions were targeted to children.
The producers wanted to blend mystery and science fiction, and emphasize fast pacing and suspense.
While the television version of Tales of Tomorrow was still being produced in 1953, ABC decided to try a radio version. The radio show ran from January 1 to April 9, 1953. Unlike the TV version, scripts were adapted from stories appearing in Galaxy Science Fiction; the contemporary series Dimension X previously had a similar relationship with Astounding Science Fiction magazine.
The radio series was not successful.
After only a few episodes, on February 26 it moved to CBS for the remainder of its 15-episode run.
The TV version was canceled shortly afterward (the last episode was shown on June 12, 1953). A few years after its cancellation, the radio series X Minus One (a 1955 revival of Dimension X) debuted, sharing a similar relationship with Galaxy Science Fiction.
Four of the fifteen Tales of Tomorrow stories were later adapted for X Minus One: "The Stars Are the Styx", "The Moon Is Green", "The Girls from Earth", and "The Old Die Rich".
Most of the TV episodes are in the United States public domain. Over 40 of these are available on Youtube.
Additionally, five of the surviving radio series episodes are now in the public domain in the United States and available for free download at Internet Archive.
Leslie Nielsen made his first space voyage to Mars in TOT but his Martian habitat was a war surplus pup tent.
Most stories were presented as simple stage plays, with characters talking to each other very dramatically with little or no special effects of any kind....And many stories were of the SCIENCE FICTION THEATRE mode...a discourse on some scientific idea like lie detectors etc.
BUT...The good ones were VERY good ; and considering the absence of adult sci-fi being presented anywhere except the few pulps like GALAXY and ASTOUNDING it was refreshing to see on broadcast primetime TV.
Live TV episodes were captured on kinescope. Of the 85 TOT episodes produced, around 40 have been released on various DVD sets, along with another handful on VHS, which for years was the only place to find one of the most memorable entries, “A Child Is Crying.
The adaptation of FRANKENSTEIN starring Lon Chaney was broadcast live. However, for some reason Lon thought it was just a live rehearsal so the broadcast included a host of flubbed lines and Lon's attempts to avoid damaging the props, creating a very strange live performance being broadcast live into the homes of viewers!
Check them out on YouTube...I guarantee you'll if not enjoy them...find them an amusing example of primitive 50's TV!
(Some data gathered from Wikapedia) _________________ There comes a time, thief, when gold loses its lustre, and the gems cease to sparkle, and the throne room becomes a prison; and all that is left is a father's love for his child. |
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Tales of Tomorrow
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
ABC 9:30 to 10:00 PM
Part one January 25, 1952 The Chase
Captain Nemo's daughter falls in love with Commander Farragaut, a captive in her father's underwater vessel, only to realize she is being held a prisoner too.
Part two February 1, 1952 The Escape
Captain Nemo's daughter falls in love with Farragaut, a captive in her father's underwater vessel, only to realize she is being held a prisoner too.
Directed by Don Medford
Writen by Max Ehrlich, Gail Ingram and Harry Ingram (adaptation)
Jules Verne (novel)
Cast
Roger De Koven as The narator & Jules Verne
John S. Hamilton as Swede
Eddie Hyans as Slay
Brian Keith as Ensign Frank Peters, USN
Bethel Leslie as The Girl [Nemo’s Daughter]
Thomas Mitchell as Captain Nemo
Leslie Nielsen as Commander Tom Farragut, USN
Other Crew
Produced by George F. Foley, Jr.
Assistant Producer James Lister
Graphic Art Director Arthur Rankin, Jr.
Set Designer James Trittipo
Sound by Nick Carbonaro
Technical Director Walter Kubilus
Part 1 (I haven't been able to fond a link.)
Part 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCAdMsO4DDw
Wikipedia™ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tales_of_Tomorrow
Tales of Tomorrow is available for free download at the Internet Archive
Pictures Coming soon! _________________ ____________
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Gord Green Galactic Ambassador
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Yes, that's Thomas "Gone With the Wind" Mitchell as Captain Nemo and Leslie "Forbidden Planet" Nielsen as Capt. Farragaut ! _________________ There comes a time, thief, when gold loses its lustre, and the gems cease to sparkle, and the throne room becomes a prison; and all that is left is a father's love for his child. |
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"The Little Black Bag" May 30, 1952.
In 1952, a burned-out, down-on-his-luck doctor comes into possession of a medical bag from the year 2450. He discovers that within the bag is a treasure trove of miraculous medical instruments, pills, and technology that are light-years beyond anything known currently.
Based on the short story by SF author C.M. Kornbluth.
This is a marvelously imaginative story to watch.
It would be remade on Rod Serling's The Night Gallery using the same exact title for a segment on December 23, 1970 with some minor modifications. Burgess Meredith plays the discredited doctor on that episode. The futuristic medical bag comes from the year 2098 instead of 2450 in this case.
I only knew of this story from The Night Gallery and wasn't aware that it had 18-years earlier been an episode for Tales of Tomorrow. So I checked out the 1952 episode on Youtube.
Very fine actors in both versions, but I prefer TNG iteration.
Both versions suffer from the fact that the fantastic medical bag from the future is very ordinary looking.
But once they open it up and start to pull out the astonishing medical items, well, it's still underwhelming regarding the look of the props.
Yes, it's the theme of the story that matters and the actors carry it off beautifully in both shows. However, it would have been wonderful to see, at least, the 1970 episode able to create some nifty looking props. After all, it was almost two decades since the story originally aired on TOT.
You'd think that an industry that had design artists bring us the awesome looking tricorder, phaser, communicator from Star Trek:TOS, the Space:1999 commlock & stun gun, or the Hornet Sting from The Green Hornet, would have been able to dazzle us with the medical bag's contrivances that were from many decades into the future?
Then again, both TV shows were hampered by modest budgets and the burden of tight shooting schedules.
This compelling story should receive an update. With today's astounding special & visual effects they could do real justice to that little black bag and its wonders. |
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Mike, I'm in your debt . . . again!
Today I was all set to watch more episodes of Men Into Space, but your post (and this thread, which was started by Phantom back in 2020) tempted to me to a look at Tales From Tomorrow. Several decades ago I watched a few episodes on VHS tape, but they didn't impress me very much.
However, after watching The Little Black Bag, The Miraculous Formula, and What You Need, I realized that this series was what I always wanted The Twilight Zone to be . . . even though it seldom was.
In other words. solid science fiction stories, with science at the heart of each premise!
The version of What You Need presented by Tales of Tomorrow is very different from the lame version on The Twilight Zone — which actually ended the same way, even though the rest of the story included absolutelu none of the interesting sci-fi elements!
Here's the 1953 version of The Little Black Bag. The acting is amazing, and the bag itself (first seen in the pawn shop) looks expensive and appealing. The instruction chart in the bag was impressive and easy to interpret.
The way the devices are described by the characters is fascinating. The story is skillfully written, especially the scene in which the female patient's paralyzed arm is quickly cured! Wow . . .
The climax was absolutely stunning!
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Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
~ The Space Children (1958)
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The episode called Ice From Space is highly recommended . . . for numerous reasons.
First all the story is about an experiments rocket called the AF-71 which is sent up with several mice in the capsule, but it doesn't come down for several days, and when it does it lands on farm, completely intact and undamaged . . . but with the mice frozen.
And a five-foot wide block of ice is inside.
The block of ice is being kept in the farm's barn, and it causes the area around the farm to become increasingly cold!
The scientists and the military study the block of ice while it's strange effect on area rapidly widens until 300 hundred square miles have been plunged into a local "ice age"!
The block of ice itself begins to slowly grow, becoming larger and more irregular. The scientists speculate that the ice itself is livng thing, consuming the heat around it.
I won't give away the ending, but I will warn you that it seems abrupt and unsatisfying — as if the screenwriter had too much story to tell in the time slot allotted for the episode and he had to slap a quick ending on it.
Believe it or not, watch for Paul Newman in a small role as one of the military men! It's was his second TV screen appearance, two years before his first movie role in The Silver Chalice in 1954.
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Posted: Thu Feb 03, 2022 2:47 pm Post subject: |
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Tales Of Tomorrow : A Child Is Crying 1951
Before Billy Mumy terrorized the people of the small, isolated town with his God-like powers, there was a young girl named Lilly who was so incredibly smart that she terrified the generals and politicians when she discovered that she could solve problems that baffled the scientists.
Furthermore, Lily could project hypnotic suggestions into the people's mind, and she could see events in the future by considering all the factors, and then deducing the results.
She tells the generals she knows about an imminent attack on the U.S. — but she won't give out the details because it will start a WWIII. The generals order Llly's attending physician to give Lily truth serum to get the information they need.
What happens is shocking . . . and it has a very satisfying ending.
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Young actress Robin Morgan is remarkable as the super-genius child, Lily Massner. The other actors are equally effective, and this live broadcast went off without a hitch!
The intensity of Ms. Morgan's performance (despite her young age) is magnificent, including the way she flawlessly delivers long lines of dialog which include both complex scientific terms and passionate statements concerning the tragic future of mankind.
The full-orchestra music sounds like it was composed specifically for this 1951 broadcast, although I'm sure that wouldn't be practical for such a program. (Unfortunately some of the episodes I've watched only had cheesy organ music like the old soap operas.)
Do yourself a favor and watch this outstanding science fiction story.
_____ Tales Of Tomorrow : A Child Is Crying 1951
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Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
~ The Space Children (1958)
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Tales of Tomorrow "Search for the Flying Saucers"
Lee.J. Cobb is a billionaire industrialist who is obsessed this building a spaceship so he can be the first man to fly into space.
After he spends millions of his corporation's money and the spaceship is still not completed, the board of directors threatens to halt his spending — which uses an experimental propulsion system using magnetism.
When one of the directors comes to the launch site and tries to stop the launch after finding out that he inflated the company stock to finish the rocket, he launches anyway, accompanied by the scientist who designed the ship.
Once in space, Lee J. Cobb finds out the truth about his spaceship's designer.
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This is not one of the better episodes, story wise, and it's flawed by the cheesy "organ music" score.
_Tales of Tomorrow "Search for the Flying Saucers"
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~ The Space Children (1958)
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Tales of Tomorrow - The Miraculous Serum
I watched The Miraculous Serum and I was impressed by how fast paced, well directed, and well acted the episode was. It stars Richard Derr (When Worlds Collide) and Lola Albright (The Monolith Monsters). She looks gorgeous in this program.
The story resembles She Devil (1957), which based on The Adaptive Ultimate by Stanley G. WEINBAUM. In fact, I heard the older doctor use that phrase in the dialog. So, apparently this is yet another version of a story which even has an adaptation on the radio program called Escape.
YouTube has that version too, at this link. (<— link)
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This YouTube link has 26 episodes, allegedly "in order", but they really aren't.. _________________ ____________
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Tales of tomorrow : Appointment On Mars (1952)
First of all, this episode uses very effective recorded music instead of the terrible organ music some of the other episodes inflict on the audience.
And the cast is good — with Leslie Nelson, Bryan Keith, and William Redfield from Conquest of Space. Ironically, the name of Leslie Nelson's character is Robert, but the other characters call him . . . "Robbie".
The conclusion is a bit predictable, but it's still a fun episode.
_ Tales of tomorrow : Appointment On Mars (1952)
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Tales of tomorrow : Past Tense
Skilled direction, fine acting, effective music, and a good cast make this a fine episodes — although the conclusion is . . . well, not how I would have written it.
However, the prop of the time machine is really quite good!
_________ Tales of tomorrow : Past Tense 1953
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IMDB has this to say about this drama staring Zachary Scott.
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A foreign power has covertly landed twenty-five 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.
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The episode doesn't look like a bit like a science fiction story for the first eight minutes, but then things take an unexpected turn when 25 large aircraft (both military transports and civilian airliners) land in airports all over the nation — painted to look like American aircraft, but being flown by remote control!
When the military in Denver, Colorado, try to open one of the mysterious planes it explodes with such force that the entire city is destroyed!
During all this, an American secret agent (Zachary Scott) is being held in a hospital behind the Iron Curtain after being captured. He befriends a nurse who objects to her country's terrible plot against America, and she tells him about the attack.
Meanwhile, the President is told that a new type of ray can be used to deactivate the bombs inside the planes, but it will take longer to do so than the one hour time limit the enemy has given America to surrender.
Will Zachary Scott find and sabotage the enemy's remote control mechanism before the 24 remaining super-bombs destroy the American cities?
Watch the episode below and find the answer!
I realized today that watching this series is like reading sci-fi short stories. You get the characters, the dialog, and the plot, but you have to imagine most of the special effects yourself.
_______ Tales of Tomorrow: Sneak Attack (1951)
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The Invader (1951)Tales of Tomorrow
Eva Gabor plays the research assistant to an elderly oceanographer on a ship, studying rare marine flora which is being harvested from the sea floor by a deep sea diver.
Eva is engaged to the scientist's son, Roy, who also works with his father on the research vessel, and she tries to convince the older man that he's alienating his poor son just because he wants to be a writer rather than an oceanographer like his father.
Shortly thereafter, the deck hands summon Eva and the scientists to the deck when they see what they assume is meteor. However, the glowing object descends with eerie slowness while making a strange sound, then it plunges into the ocean, causing a bright flash of light.
The scientist orders his diver to go down and examine the strange object on the ocean floor, but the diver refuses, So the son volunteers to go, hoping to win his father's approval.
When Roy returns, he insists that the object was just a meteorite, despite the strange way the object descended.
In spite of the father's disappointment that the meteorite wasn't an alien spacecraft (as he'd first thought), he's proud of his son for making the dive, and he tells him he's sorry for his past behavior.
However, a short time later — while Eva and the father are on deck — one of the sailors is below, alone with the son. Roy acts strangely unemotional, and he suddenly switches off the light, then he turns to face the man, causing him gaze at the son (who's off camera) with a terrified expression . . . like this one! —>
Back on deck, the father announces that they're returning to San Francisco, and this pleases the weary crew — as well as Eva, who knows she and Roy can now get married with the father's blessing.
But when Eva goes below to give Roy the good news, she finds the body of the sailor in a storage locker. Roy again turns out the light and reveals his hideous alien face to the Eva!
Shortly thereafter, Alien/Roy confronts the old scientist and tells him that he's killed all the others aboard the ship, and that he killed Roy after the man discovered the spaceship on the ocean floor. The alien assumed Roy's human form and returned to the surface.
The alien proclaims that his race is superior to all others in the galaxy, and that they will exterminate mankind and colonize the Earth.
The elderly oceanographer suddenly realizes that his total dedication to science has been misguided when the alien boasts about his race's "superiority" just because of their scientific advancements.
The climax is dramatic and satisfying, even though it's not the kind of "happy ending" I tend to prefer.
_________ The Invader (1951) Tales of Tomorrow
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IMDB has two different (but interesting) descriptions of this episode. I'm about to watch and find out which is most accurate.
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First synopsis: 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.
Second synopsis: A park ranger on the Lake Michigan shore traces a mysterious series of fires. He discovers the cause is a fiery crystalline meteor rolling through the dunes, gathering up pieces of itself.
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By the way, each post on All Sci-Fi has a button at the bottom which is labeled REPLY.
However, apparently very few of our 147 registered users (<— link) know how to use it!
Damn, that's plume embarrassing, folks!
Please don't be one of those poor people who are so intimidated by the brilliant comments of our "active members" that they never add replies of their own!
On that note, this post (and any of the others on this thread) is the perfect importunity to demonstrate your intelligence and imagination!
Just hit the "quote" button on the post you want to reply to, and then edit out all the parts of my post which don't apply to your response.
Then simply compose a reply we can all enjoy!
~ It's easy! It's free! It's fun for the whole family!
And frankly I'm very eager to hear what you guys think about this episodes of an amazing series.
I mean, for God's sake, I know I'm not the only one on our board who enjoys discussing this stuff!
So . . .don't just LURK!
Get to WORK!
All Sci-Fi needs POSTS!
_Tales of Tomorrow SE01 / EP15 The Dune Roller 1951
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