Tales of Tomorrow — Season 2

Aired 22 August 1952

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.

Aired 29 August 1952

A scientific invention brings glory to a struggling violinist but it also causes him to commit murder.

Aired 5 September 1952

When a prominent physician dons a pair of eyeglasses he discovers that he can see into the future.

Aired 12 September 1952

A group of scientists are trapped inside a house in a remote jungle by hideous invisible creatures.

Aired 19 September 1952

A man arrives at a sea lodge and confesses to a murder but it's later revealed that he's from the future.

Aired 26 September 1952

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.

Aired 3 October 1952

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.

Aired 10 October 1952

A scientist invents a machine that has the power to control human emotions.

Aired 17 October 1952

A writer pens a story about a death ray machine only to discover later that the government actually has such a device.

Aired 24 October 1952

A father discovers that his son and other neighborhood children are being controlled telepathically by an alien.

Aired 31 October 1952

An archeologist discovers that an ancient king has been able to stay alive for centuries in a tomb deep beneath the Egyptian desert.

Aired 7 November 1952

A live television program is interrupted by a mysterious signal that shows a murder about to take place.

Aired 14 November 1952

A blackmailer discovers a camera that will take pictures 25 years into the future.

Aired 21 November 1952

A deadly disease covers the earth and its only hope is a little girl.

Aired 28 November 1952

A young scientist produces a new kind of air which proves to be "invigorating."

Aired 5 December 1952

A reporter and his damsel sidekick search for a giant reportedly encased in the ice of the Himalayas.

Aired 12 December 1952

Doing research in the Brazilian jungle, two biochemists develop a mysterious plant.

Aired 19 December 1952

A machine that can foretell the future says that one of a doctor's infant patients will grow up to be a murderer.

Aired 26 December 1952

A man brings back voices and sounds from the Garden of Eden.

Aired 2 January 1953

Perry Mason won't be able to help a killer who takes refuge in a museum where the statues come to life.

Aired 9 January 1953

Aired 16 January 1953

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.

Aired 23 January 1953

Handsome Dorian Gray never seems to age but the same cannot be said about his portrait.

Aired 30 January 1953

To win the love of a woman, a man arranges to have the head of her former lover transplanted onto his body.

Aired 6 February 1953

A little boy is the recipient of a strange box from the owner of a gift shop.

Aired 13 February 1953

A man is given the chance to live the past seven years of his life over but he makes the same mistakes.

Aired 20 February 1953

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.

Aired 27 February 1953

Aired 6 March 1953

Members of an expedition into the jungle are attacked by invisible blood sucking leaches from outer space.

Aired 13 March 1953

A magician hates a reporter so he hypnotizes all the people with whom the newsie comes into contact into forgetting him.

Aired 20 March 1953

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.

Aired 27 March 1953

A writer discovers to his horror that the events in his short stories are coming true.

Aired 3 April 1953

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.

Aired 10 April 1953

A pilot returns home after being stranded in the Arctic for five years and discovers that he can only live in cold temperatures.

Aired 17 April 1953

A new wife finds herself a rival for her husband's affections--his cat.

Aired 24 April 1953

A mortician discovers a serum that induces a death-like sleep.

Aired 1 May 1953

A scientist creates a formula that unlocks evil. Then his wife unknowingly ingests some of the formula.

Aired 8 May 1953

While making scientific tests, four people get trapped inside a vault.

Aired 15 May 1953

A chemist comes into possession of an ink which has the power to hypnotize all who look at anything written with the substance.

Aired 22 May 1953

Inhabitants of an island find themselves affected by atomic radiation.

Aired 29 May 1953

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.

Aired 12 June 1953

A woman receives telepathic waves that she is about to be murdered.