Bud Brewster
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Here's a few interesting comments from All Sci-Fi member Phantom.
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Tales Of Tomorrow (1951 - 1953)
From the Wade Williams dvd release:
| Quote: | | Tales of Tomorrow, a groundbreaking, thought-provoking series, featuring the top film stars of the day. A show so new and different, it set the stage for other thriller-anthology series such as The Twilight Zone and The Outer Limits. |
And thought-provoking it is, despite the primitive technique.
Shot on the sound stages in NYC in the formative years of television, its historical significance to small screen science fiction cannot be overestimated.
In an era when the public image of the genre was Commander Cody and Flash Gordon, Tales of Tomorrow dared to raise themes that would not be considered again until The Outer Limits, a decade in the future.
The Williams' collection, which has been preserved on kinescope, covers only seasons 1 and 2, focusing on stars of the past like Boris Karloff, Veronica Lake and Joan Blondell, and rising stars who would become Hollywood icons in the very near future, Rod Steiger, James Dean and Paul Newman.
Each episode begins with a dramatic and frightening image that suggested to audiences that they were going to see something unique in television of the period.
In Past Tense, one of the more intriguing episodes, Boris Karloff plays a doctor who has invented a time machine so he can save lives with penicillin decades before it actually became available.
Rod Steiger and James Dean appear together for the only time in their careers in The Evil Within, a Jekyll-Hyde story in which Steiger is experimenting with a mind altering drug, with disastrous consequences to his wife.
And in an episode that I still remember seeing over a half century ago, The Dune Roller, starring Bruce Cabot, a meteor that has crashed on an island is attempting to reconstitute itself into a mobile flaming ball that incinerates everything in its path (a precursor of The Monolith Monsters just a few years later).
It's a shame Williams didn't release the entire series, and at this late date, it doesn't look like it is ever going to happen.
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