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Status
Ended
Release
1951 - 1953
Seasons / Eps
2 / 85
Streaming availability by country
Tales of Tomorrow is 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 featuring such performers as Boris Karloff, Brian Keith, Lee J. Cobb, Rod Steiger, Bruce Cabot, Franchot Tone, Gene Lockhart, Walter Abel, Leslie Nielsen, and Paul Newman. The series had many similarities to the later Twilight Zone which also covered one of the same stories, "What You Need". In total it ran for eighty-five 30-minute episodes.
124 Cast Members
Leslie Nielsen
4 Episodes
Brian Keith
4 Episodes
Walter Abel
4 Episodes
Thomas Mitchell
3 Episodes
Raymond Bailey
3 Episodes
Olive Deering
2 Episodes
Nancy Coleman
3 Episodes
Joseph Anthony
2 Episodes
Una O'Connor
2 Episodes
Paul Tripp
2 Episodes
Bruce Cabot
2 Episodes
Gene Lockhart
2 Episodes
Luis van Rooten
2 Episodes
Gene Raymond
2 Episodes
Robert Middleton
Dr. John Borrow
2 Episodes
Boris Karloff
2 Episodes
Henry Jones
2 Episodes
Chester Morris
2 Episodes
Bethel Leslie
2 Episodes
Victor Jory
2 Episodes
