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…

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…

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…

Written by | Max EhrlichStory by | Fitz-James O’BrienDirected by | Don MedfordAir Date | March 14, 1952 On death row, thirty minutes before execution by guillotine, Andre Lapalme (Franchot Tone) tells us the story of what put him there. They call me mad, but I saw what I saw through the diamond lens. In…

Written by | Mann RubinAir Date | Oct. 31, 1952 It’s shades of The Fatal Flower as Doctor Allen (Walter Abel) and Quincy (Richard Purdy) argue about their situation. Instead of an experimental plant station in Brazil, though, they’re at a dig site in Egypt. Quincy fears they’ve been abandoned and says he never wanted…

Written by | Harry Guth, Mann RubinDirector | Don MedfordAir Date | April 25, 1952 While Colonel Jeffrey Ward (Gene Raymond) and Captain Hutchinson (Charles Proctor) await the arrival of General Bonameade (Richard Keith), a strange disc that they tracked earlier on radar reappears in the sky and then lands on base. They haul it…

Written by | Raymond Z. Gallun (story), David Karp (adaptation), Frederik Pohl (writer)Director | Don MedfordAir Date | Oct. 24, 1952 Andy (Gene Raymond) tells his son, Jack (Clifford Sales), that his science experiment won’t work because there’s no electricity running to it, yet Jack warns him not to touch it. He tells him a…

Written by | Lona KeeneyDirector | Don MedfordAir Date | Sept. 26, 1952 Dr. Platan (Harry Townes) observes young couple Jeff (Robert Alda) and Kitty (Mary Alice Moore) arguing about money and marriage. Jeff needs $1,000 to close the deal on the purchase of a gas station, and Platan offers him that amount in exchange…

Written by | E.H. FrankDirector | Don MedfordAir Date | Aug. 8, 1952 Our story opens on a military base with Major Dozier (Edmon Ryan) and Congressman Burns (Raymond Bailey) arguing about the fate of the AR-76 rocket that launched two days ago and has since disappeared. They agree on one thing: That rocket must…

Written by | Richard M. SimonDirector | Don MedfordAir Date | July 4, 1952 Bruce Calvin (Darren McGavin) has been out of a job for three months after working eight years with the Dunhill Engineering Company and unexpectedly losing his job. When he answers an ad in the newspaper, a potential employer, Dr. Johnson from…