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…

Adapted by | Theodore SturgeonFrom a story by | Stnley G. WeinbaumDirector | Don MedfordAir Date | June 20, 1952 In Pittsburgh, a brilliant biochemist, Dr. Scott (Richard Derr) bursts in and says he needs a human subject for his test. He’s developed a serum that will cure almost anything. His boss. Dr. Bache (Louis…

Teleplay | Cyril M. KornbluthDirector | Charles S. DubinAir Date | May 30, 1952 Dr. Arthur Fulbright (Joseph Anthony) was responsible for the death of a patient and can never forgive himself. He’s led his wife, Angie (Vicki Cummings) into near-poverty and she won’t let him forget it. As a desperate means to make a…

Teleplay | Max EhrlichStory | Fitz-James O’BrienAir Date | May 9, 1952 Prof. Vanya (Gene Lockhart) has been working for 15 years on an experiment to transform base metal into gold. His latest surefire tweak to the formula is a “secret catalyst” that he pours into the top of the oven after turning it on.…

Writer | Mann RubinDirector | Don MedfordAir Date | April 18, 1952 As “Time to Go” opens, Natalie (Sylvia Sidney, whom I’ve never seen in any movie or TV show when she was young… or younger) barricades the front door with furniture and frantically tries to reach her husband, Michael (Ed Peck) on the telephone.…

Writer | Mel GoldbergStory | Raymond F. JonesDirector | Don MedfordAir Date | Feb. 29, 1952 “The Children’s Room” is a variation on an earlier episode of Tales of Tomorrow, “A Child is Crying.” That is to say, in the context of the series, it doesn’t feel original. We’ve seen episodes with similar themes, but…

Writer | Mel GoldbergStory | Henry KuttnerDirector | Charles S. DubinAir Date | Feb. 8, 1952 These days, if someone told me they had what I need, I’d think either I was being set up for a scam, they’d be peddling something I absolutely did not need, or they wouldn’t want to know what it…

Writer | Max Ehrlich, Gail Ingram, Harry IngramBased on | the novel by Jules VerneDirector | Don MedfordAir Date | Jan. 25, 1952 and Feb. 1, 1952 The first episode of the one and only two-episode story on Tales of Tomorrow, an adaptation of the Jules Verne novel, Twenty Thousand Under the Sea, is missing.…