Category: TV Terror Guide
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Tom Jennings (June 12, 1968)
When Jeff left Dr. Hoffman alone last night, I suddenly found myself in the room with her. I crept up behind and startled her. She asked who I was and what I wanted. I gave her a big smile and exposed my fangs to her. Backing off, she told me to stay away from her.…
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Tom Jennings (June 11, 1968, pt. 2)
Night had come to Collinwood. I stood still and silent outside the Old House, staring into the window. As I watched Julia Hoffman enter the room and catch Jeff reading some type of journal, I tried to remember how I got there. The evening after Maggie came to the hospital, Joe arrived just as she…
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Tom Jennings (June 11, 1968)
After finishing a wiring project upstairs at what we call, “the house by the sea,” I asked its new resident, Nicholas Blair, if I could take a look around the cellar to get an idea of how much more work needed to be done. You can never tell in these old houses. I entered a…
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Coming Soon
Experience Dark Shadows in bite-sized pieces as the characters tell its stories in their own words with only the information they possess at the time they make entries in their diaries. If you’re not familiar with the show, this will be an easy way to get into it, and if you are, the format just…
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The Evil Within-The Spider’s Web
Writers | David E. Durston, Manya StarrDirector | Don MedfordAir Date | May 1, 1953 How would you explain a sudden overpowering unnatural urge to destroy everything you love? In a variation of the classic Jekyll and Hyde story, Anne (Margaret Phillips) accidentally consumes a serum when a glass vial of it breaks and drips…
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Ghost Writer-Past Tense
Writer | Mann RubinDirector | Don MedfordAir Date | March 27, 1953 Here’s a switch: a wife supports her husband during hard times instead of nagging at him to get a job. Joan (Gaby Rodgers) encourages Bert (Leslie Nielsen) to keep writing his novel rather than take a paying job. After answering a newspaper ad…
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The Fury of the Cocoon-Read to Me, Herr Doktor
Writer | Frank De FelittaDirector | Don MedfordAir Date | March 6, 1953 Famous last words… At the end of “The Cocoon,” Professor John Blanforth said he couldn’t help but rejoice that he’d seen the last of the hideous invisible creature that he and his niece, Susan, discovered in the jungle. We then saw another…
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Another Chance-The Great Silence
Writer | Frank De FelittaDirector | Don MedfordAir Date | February 13, 1953 Another Tales of Tomorrow character… “Another Chance.” Harold Mason (Leslie Nielsen) finds himself in the kind of trouble you invite when you steal a priceless brooch. He accuses his wife, Carlotta (Virginia Vincent), of talking him into committing the crime, and she…
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The Mask of Medusa/Two-Faced
Writer | Nelson BondAir Date | January 2, 1953 “The Mask of Medusa” doesn’t have the look and feel of a “regular” episode of Tales of Tomorrow. Although most of the action takes place on a set, it includes exterior scenes that are seamless in transition. Plus, the quality is better. Perhaps it was just…
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The Cocoon/Substance ‘X’
Written by | Frank De FelittaDirected by | Don MedfordAir Date | September 12, 1952 There’s always drama on these scientific expeditions! Susan (Edith Fellows) joins her uncle, Professor John Blanforth (Edgar Stehli) into the jungle looking for fossils of unknown insect species. With them is her fiancée, Tom (Jackie Cooper), with whom Professor Blanforth…
Classic Horrors Club 