Tales of Tomorrow (1951)
- Genre: Sci-Fi & Fantasy
- First Air Date: 1951-08-03
- Last Air Date: 1953-06-12
- Total Seasons: 2
- Total Episodes: 85
- Status: Ended
- Episode Runtime: 30 min.
- Production Country: United States of America
- Network: ABC
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.
| Title | Air Date | Duration | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Season 1 | Episode 1 | Verdict from Space | 1951-08-03 | 30 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 2 | Blunder | 1951-08-10 | 30 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 3 | A Child is Crying | 1951-08-17 | 30 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 4 | The Woman at Land's End | 1951-08-24 | 30 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 5 | The Last Man on Earth | 1951-08-31 | 30 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 6 | Errand Boy | 1951-09-07 | 30 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 7 | The Monsters | 1951-09-14 | 30 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 8 | The Dark Angel | 1951-09-28 | 30 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 9 | The Crystal Egg | 1951-10-12 | 30 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 10 | Test Flight | 1951-10-26 | 30 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 11 | The Search for the Flying Saucer | 1951-11-09 | 30 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 12 | Enemy Unknown | 1951-11-23 | 30 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 13 | Sneak Attack | 1951-12-07 | 30 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 14 | The Invader | 1951-12-21 | 30 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 15 | The Dune Roller | 1952-01-04 | 30 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 16 | Frankenstein | 1952-01-18 | 30 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 17 | 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea: The Chase | 1952-01-25 | 30 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 18 | 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea: The Escape | 1952-02-01 | 30 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 19 | What You Need | 1952-02-08 | 30 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 20 | Age of Peril | 1952-02-15 | 30 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 21 | Memento | 1952-02-22 | 30 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 22 | The Children's Room | 1952-02-29 | 30 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 23 | Bound Together | 1952-03-07 | 30 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 24 | The Diamond Lens | 1952-03-14 | 30 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 25 | The Fisherman's Wife | 1952-03-21 | 30 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 26 | Flight Overdue | 1952-03-28 | 30 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 27 | And a Little Child | 1952-04-04 | 30 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 28 | Sleep No More | 1952-04-11 | 30 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 29 | Time to Go | 1952-04-18 | 30 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 30 | Plague from Space | 1952-04-25 | 30 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 31 | Red Dust | 1952-05-02 | 30 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 32 | The Golden Ingot | 1952-05-09 | 30 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 33 | Black Planet | 1952-05-16 | 30 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 34 | World of Water | 1952-05-23 | 30 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 35 | Little Black Bag | 1952-05-30 | 30 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 36 | The Exile | 1952-06-06 | 30 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 37 | All the Time in the World | 1952-06-13 | 30 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 38 | The Miraculous Serum | 1952-06-20 | 30 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 39 | Appointment on Mars | 1952-06-27 | 30 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 40 | The Duplicates | 1952-07-04 | 30 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 41 | Ahead of His Time | 1952-07-18 | 30 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 42 | Sudden Darkness | 1952-08-01 | 30 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 43 | Ice from Space | 1952-08-08 | 30 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 1 | A Bird in Hand | 1952-08-22 | 30 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 2 | Thanks | 1952-08-29 | 30 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 3 | The Seeing Eye Surgeon | 1952-09-05 | 30 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 4 | The Cocoon | 1952-09-12 | 30 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 5 | The Chase | 1952-09-19 | 30 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 6 | Youth on Tap | 1952-09-26 | 30 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 7 | Substance X | 1952-10-03 | 30 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 8 | The Horn | 1952-10-10 | 30 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 9 | Double Trouble | 1952-10-17 | 30 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 10 | Many Happy Returns | 1952-10-24 | 30 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 11 | The Tomb of King Tarus | 1952-10-31 | 30 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 12 | The Window | 1952-11-07 | 30 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 13 | The Camera | 1952-11-14 | 30 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 14 | The Quiet Lady | 1952-11-21 | 30 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 15 | The Invigorating Air | 1952-11-28 | 30 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 16 | The Glacier Giant | 1952-12-05 | 30 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 17 | The Fatal Flower | 1952-12-12 | 30 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 18 | The Machine | 1952-12-19 | 30 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 19 | The Bitter Storm | 1952-12-26 | 30 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 20 | The Mask of Medusa | 1953-01-02 | 30 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 21 | Conqueror's Isle | 1953-01-09 | 30 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 22 | Discovered Heart | 1953-01-16 | 30 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 23 | The Picture of Dorian Gray | 1953-01-23 | 30 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 24 | Two Faced | 1953-01-30 | 30 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 25 | The Build Box | 1953-02-06 | 30 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 26 | Another Chance | 1953-02-13 | 30 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 27 | The Great Silence | 1953-02-20 | 30 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 28 | Lonesome Village | 1953-02-27 | 30 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 29 | The Fury of the Cocoon | 1953-03-06 | 30 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 30 | The Squeeze Play | 1953-03-13 | 30 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 31 | Read to Me Herr Doktor | 1953-03-20 | 30 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 32 | Ghost Writer | 1953-03-27 | 30 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 33 | Past Tense | 1953-04-03 | 30 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 34 | Homecoming | 1953-04-10 | 30 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 35 | The Rivals | 1953-04-17 | 30 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 36 | Please Omit Flowers | 1953-04-24 | 30 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 37 | The Evil Within | 1953-05-01 | 30 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 38 | The Vault | 1953-05-08 | 30 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 39 | Ink | 1953-05-15 | 30 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 40 | The Spider's Web | 1953-05-22 | 30 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 41 | Lazarus Walks | 1953-05-29 | 30 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 42 | What Dreams May Come | 1953-06-12 | 30 min |
