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Past Tense
Tales of Tomorrow - S2 - E33
A doctor travels back in time in order to extol the virtues of penicillin and save lives but ends up being committed to an insane asylum where he falls ill and dies from a disease which could have been prevented by penicillin.
Tales of Tomorrow: Season 2 - 42 Episode s
2x1 - A Bird in Hand
August 22, 1952
Two youngsters discover a talking bird in a zoo and come to the realization that the bird is part of a plot by the animal kingdom to reclaim the world from humans.
2x2 - Thanks
August 29, 1952
A scientific invention brings glory to a struggling violinist but it also causes him to commit murder.
2x3 - The Seeing Eye Surgeon
September 5, 1952
When a prominent physician dons a pair of eyeglasses he discovers that he can see into the future.
2x4 - The Cocoon
September 12, 1952
A group of scientists are trapped inside a house in a remote jungle by hideous invisible creatures.
2x5 - The Chase
September 19, 1952
A man arrives at a sea lodge and confesses to a murder but it's later revealed that he's from the future.
2x6 - Youth on Tap (aka: Young Blood)
September 26, 1952
A 26 year old man gives a doctor a blood transfusion in return for ,000 but the process causes the young man to age.
2x7 - Substance X
October 3, 1952
A young woman goes to her hometown at the behest of a food conglomerate. Her assignment is to discover what the people of the community are using for food after their only food outlet closes. She discovers a scientist who has developed a food substitute called 'Substance X'. Anyone who diets on Substance X is unable to eat normal food from that time on.
2x8 - The Horn
October 10, 1952
A scientist invents a machine that has the power to control human emotions.
2x9 - Double Trouble
October 17, 1952
A writer pens a story about a death ray machine only to discover later that the government actually has such a device.
2x10 - Many Happy Returns (aka: Invaders at Ground Zero)
October 24, 1952
A father discovers that his son and other neighborhood children are being controlled telepathically by an alien.
2x11 - The Tomb of King Tarus
October 31, 1952
An archeologist discovers that an ancient king has been able to stay alive for centuries in a tomb deep beneath the Egyptian desert.
2x12 - The Window
November 7, 1952
A live television program is interrupted by a mysterious signal that shows a murder about to take place.
2x13 - The Camera
November 14, 1952
A blackmailer discovers a camera that will take pictures 25 years into the future.
2x14 - The Quiet Lady
November 21, 1952
A deadly disease covers the earth and its only hope is a little girl.
2x15 - The Invigorating Air
November 28, 1952
A young scientist produces a new kind of air which proves to be "invigorating."
2x16 - The Glacier Giant
December 5, 1952
A reporter and his damsel sidekick search for a giant reportedly encased in the ice of the Himalayas.
2x17 - The Fatal Flower
December 12, 1952
Doing research in the Brazilian jungle, two biochemists develop a mysterious plant.
2x18 - The Machine
December 19, 1952
A machine that can foretell the future says that one of a doctor's infant patients will grow up to be a murderer.
2x19 - The Bitter Storm
December 26, 1952
A man brings back voices and sounds from the Garden of Eden.
2x20 - The Mask of Medusa
January 2, 1953
Perry Mason won't be able to help a killer who takes refuge in a museum where the statues come to life.
2x21 - Conqueror's Isle
January 9, 1953
2x22 - Discovered Heart
January 16, 1953
An alien who's an advance scout for an invasion force arrives at a lighthouse hoping to use its beacon as a signal. A precocious little girl win's the alien's heart and moves the extraterrestrial to surrender his life to prevent invasion.
2x23 - The Picture of Dorian Gray
January 23, 1953
Handsome Dorian Gray never seems to age but the same cannot be said about his portrait.
2x24 - Two Faced
January 30, 1953
To win the love of a woman, a man arranges to have the head of her former lover transplanted onto his body.
2x25 - The Build Box
February 6, 1953
A little boy is the recipient of a strange box from the owner of a gift shop.
2x26 - Another Chance
February 13, 1953
A man is given the chance to live the past seven years of his life over but he makes the same mistakes.
2x27 - The Great Silence
February 20, 1953
The nation is hit with an epidemic in which vocal chords are paralyzed but it's actually an alien plot to control the people of the United States.
2x28 - Lonesome Village
February 27, 1953
2x29 - The Fury of the Cocoon
March 6, 1953
Members of an expedition into the jungle are attacked by invisible blood sucking leaches from outer space.
2x30 - The Squeeze Play
March 13, 1953
A magician hates a reporter so he hypnotizes all the people with whom the newsie comes into contact into forgetting him.
2x31 - Read to Me Herr Doktor
March 20, 1953
An old professor with failing eyesight builds a robot named Herr Doktor to read him books that he had never had a chance to read when he was younger. The relationship between the professor and the robot is very close. The books that the robot reads give it the desire to be a complete person. Their roles become reversed. The robot begins to demand that the professor read aloud to him. Later, the robot falls in love with the professor's daughter. When she spurns the robot, it learns that the books it has been reading were wrong and it dies of a broken heart.
2x32 - Ghost Writer
March 27, 1953
A writer discovers to his horror that the events in his short stories are coming true.
2x33 - Past Tense
April 3, 1953
A doctor travels back in time in order to extol the virtues of penicillin and save lives but ends up being committed to an insane asylum where he falls ill and dies from a disease which could have been prevented by penicillin.
2x34 - Homecoming
April 10, 1953
A pilot returns home after being stranded in the Arctic for five years and discovers that he can only live in cold temperatures.
2x35 - The Rivals
April 17, 1953
A new wife finds herself a rival for her husband's affections--his cat.
2x36 - Please Omit Flowers
April 24, 1953
A mortician discovers a serum that induces a death-like sleep.
2x37 - The Evil Within
May 1, 1953
A scientist creates a formula that unlocks evil. Then his wife unknowingly ingests some of the formula.
2x38 - The Vault
May 8, 1953
While making scientific tests, four people get trapped inside a vault.
2x39 - Ink
May 15, 1953
A chemist comes into possession of an ink which has the power to hypnotize all who look at anything written with the substance.
2x40 - The Spider's Web
May 22, 1953
Inhabitants of an island find themselves affected by atomic radiation.
2x41 - Lazarus Walks
May 29, 1953
A man gets revived after being declared clinically dead for a short period of time. Then he discovers that he has the ability to detect lies.
2x42 - What Dreams May Come
June 12, 1953
A woman receives telepathic waves that she is about to be murdered.