Tales of Tomorrow: Collection 1
Television's First Sci-Fi Anthology
The year was 1951. The Cold War was heating up. Russia had the bomb. Flying saucers invaded the skies over New Mexico. Network television was only five years old and science fiction was entering its renaissance, with such visionary films as Rocketship X-M, Destination Moon and The Day the Earth Stood Still. From out of these turbulent times was born TV’s first science fiction anthology series: Tales of Tomorrow on the ABC television network.
Tales of Tomorrow, a groundbreaking, thought-provoking series, featuring the top films 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. Not to be missed!
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Fun but very dated - RobBC
This series from television’s earliest days is not as clever as “The Twilight Zone” nor is it as imaginative as “The Outer Limits” but it still possesses a charming naivete that almost makes up for the primitive production values and simplistic scenarios. It’s great to see some future movie stars back when they were just starting out (James Dean as a lab assistant?!) and the old commercials are a hoot to watch. It was fun, but I’m not so sure I want to rent the other discs.
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Fun but very dated - RobBC
This series from television’s earliest days is not as clever as “The Twilight Zone” nor is it as imaginative as “The Outer Limits” but it still possesses a charming naivete that almost makes up for the primitive production values and simplistic scenarios. ...