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[[File:Talesoftomorrow 1951series.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Title card for ''Tales of Tomorrow (1951 series)''...]]

==Summary==


Live television anthology series featuring classic, pulp, and 1950s era sci-fi themes.

==Details==

* Release Date: 1951
* Country/Language: US, English
* Genres/Technical: Science Fiction, Horror, Mystery, Drama, Anthology, black-and-white, live
* Runtime: (generally formatted for a 30-minute commercial television slot)
* Starring: (various)
* Director: (various)
* Writer: (various)
* Producer/Production Co: ABC, George F. Foley
* View Public Domain episodes: ([https://archive.org/search.php?query=%22Tales%20of%20Tomorrow%22&and[]=mediatype%3A%22movies%22 link])

==Ratings==
===[http://www.mpaa.org/film-ratings/ MPAA Ratings]===

* Rated: (not rated) (perhaps equivalent to a TV-PG for 1950s TV-friendly mild off-screen Violence)

===Tentacle Ratings===
A rough [[Tentacle Ratings|measure]] of how "Lovecraftian" the work is:
* Ss___ (One and a Half Tentacles: Barely Lovecraftian)

The anthology series as a whole isn't very "Lovecraftian", but, in addition to presenting some classic science fiction (from the likes of [[H.G. Wells]], [[Jules Verne]], and [[Mary Shelley]], who all had at least minor influence on Lovecraft's work), the series includes a handful of episodes written by Lovecraft's correspondents and other writers directly influenced by him, such as [[Henry Kuttner]] and [[C.L. Moore]], [[John W. Campbell]] jr., [[Ray Bradbury]], [[Arthur C. Clarke]], and [[Theodore Sturgeon]]. See the suggested episodes list below for some stories from this series that are similar in content and tone to Lovecraft's work.

''Note: This rating is not intended as a measure of quality, merely of how closely related to Lovecraftian "Weird" fiction the work is.''

===Reviews===

Review Links:
* (review needed)

==Synopses of Suggested Episodes==

* "Verdict from Space" (Ep. 1x01) - A man on trial for allegedly killing a scientist in an underground cavern desperately tries to explain what they found inside the cavern, and its implications for the future of mankind. By [[Theodore Sturgeon]].
* "The Dark Angel" (Ep. 1x08) - A man searches for the cause of his wife's unprecedented physical and mental transformation. By [[Henry Kuttner]] and [[C.L. Moore]] (as Lewis Padgett)
* "The Crystal Egg" (Ep. 1x09) - The owner of a London curiosity shop delivers a mysterious crystal egg to a university professor for the scientist's opinion on its worth and its properties. The 'egg' proves to be a window to Mars. When the professor loses the egg, he tries to convince people that he is not crazy. By [[H.G. Wells]].
* "The Children's Room" (Ep. 1x22) - A couple are having increasing difficulties with their son: he talks down to his parents like they are stupid and reads books written in a language that no one understands. The books come from a "children's room" that supposedly does not exist. Once the room is discovered its true meaning is revealed.
* "Red Dust" (Ep. 1x31) - A human mission to another solar system's red dust-covered planet is returning to Earth when the crew discovers the strange red dust everywhere on the space ship.
* "The Cocoon" (Ep. 2x02) - Scientists exploring a crater in a remote jungle discover a perfectly-preserved cocoon, which releases an invisible and very dangerous creature. By Frank De Felitta.
* "The Fury of the Cocoon" (Ep. 2x34) - After a scientific expedition to a meteorite impact site in the jungle disappears, a three-man relief team sets off for the expedition's camp. The lone survivor tells them that the expedition was attacked by invisible insect-like creatures that came out of the meteorite. The scientists must find a way to defeat the insects before they are overwhelmed. By Frank De Felitta.

==Notes==

===Comments, Trivia, Dedication===


===Associated Mythos Elements===
* TO DO

===Keeper Notes===

* "Verdict from Space" - The investigators are called in to find out what happened after the sole survivor of a team of scientists is accused of their murder and claims his innocense with a bizarre story about the dangerous contents of the subterranean vault the scientists have drilled their way into, a vault that contains alien technology millions of years old....
* "The Dark Angel" - the original story seems to be basically a variation on the abnormal-ancestry theme; the investigators are called in to investigate the mysterious disappearance of a woman who has miraculously recovered from a terminal disease, but exhibited some peculiar physical and mental changes; her distraught husband claims she "evolved" into something so inhuman that in time it began to regard him as a "pet"; the evidence suggests he may have murdered her....
* "The Crystal Egg" - the investigators must pick up the pieces of a curiosity shop owner's shattered sanity after he seemingly suffers a breakdown, claiming he had obtained and then lost a "crystal egg" which proved to be a window to "Mars"....
* "The Children's Room" - the investigators look into the remains of a family which has self-destructed; it seems that the family's son has been talking down to his parents and reads books written in languages nobody else understands, books obtained from a library in a mysterious "children's room" in another dimension....
* "Red Dust" - Professor Quatermass' [[British Experimental Rocket Group]] assigns a team of trusted experts to intervene when a rocket expedition to another planet loses two crew members on the alien planet, and a mysterious red dust similar to that found on the planet's surface begins to appear on the rocket during its return jouney.
* "The Cocoon" and "Fury of the Cocoon" - a relief team searches for a lost scientific expedition exploring a crater in a remote jungle; the sole survivor is found raving about a nightmarish attack by alien insects that are emerging from cocoons found inside the meteorite....


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 <!-- Optional.  Notes to Keepers on using this for film for scenario ideas.  Heresies and Controversies:  this is also a good place to include non-canon and controversial aspects of the film's mythos.  Suggested Alternative Theories include:  Derleth's elemental scheme; pseudo-science interpretation; "fanon" interpretations; unofficial humorous or eccentric versions; identification with "Real Life" mythological, religious, folklore, natural, and historical phenomena; rumor and speculation contribute some flexibility and ambiguity to the mythos. * Alternative_theory.  ([[source]])  -->
 * "Verdict from Space" - The investigators are called in to find out what happened after the sole survivor of a team of scientists is accused of their murder and claims his innocence with a bizarre story about the dangerous contents of the subterranean vault the scientists have drilled their way into, a vault that contains alien technology millions of years old....
 * "The Dark Angel" - the original story seems to be basically a variation on the abnormal-ancestry theme; the investigators are called in to investigate the mysterious disappearance of a woman who has miraculously recovered from a terminal disease, but exhibited some peculiar physical and mental changes; her distraught husband claims she "evolved" into something so inhuman that in time it began to regard him as a "pet"; the evidence suggests he may have murdered her....
 * "The Crystal Egg" - the investigators must pick up the pieces of a curiosity shop owner's shattered sanity after he seemingly suffers a breakdown, claiming he had obtained and then lost a "crystal egg" which proved to be a window to "Mars"....
 * "The Children's Room" - the investigators look into the remains of a family which has self-destructed; it seems that the family's son has been talking down to his parents and reads books written in languages nobody else understands, books obtained from a library in a mysterious "children's room" in another dimension....
 ** The actual episode, the only one I've seen, actually devolves from that premise into a rather non-Lovecraftian political indoctrination fable; your mileage may vary on how useful the political aspect is to include in your adaptation into a scenario... perhaps substitute communists for cultists?

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 * Ss___ (One and a Half Tentacles: Barely Lovecraftian)
-The anthology series as a whole isn't very "Lovecraftian", but, in addition to presenting some classic science fiction (from the likes of [[H.G. Wells]], [[Jules Verne]], and [[Mary Shelley]], who all had at least minor influence on Lovecraft's work), the series includes a handful of episodes written by Lovecraft's correspondents and other writers directly influenced by him, such as [[Henry Kuttner]] and [[C.L. Moore]], [[John W. Campbell]] jr., [[Ray Bradbury]], [[Arthur C. Clarke]], and [[Theodore Sturgeon]].  See the suggested episodes list below for some stories from this series that are similar in content and tone to Lovecraft's work.
+I've only seen one episode of this, but based on the synopses I've read, the anthology series as a whole isn't very "Lovecraftian", but, in addition to presenting some classic science fiction (from the likes of [[H.G. Wells]], [[Jules Verne]], and [[Mary Shelley]], who all had at least minor influence on Lovecraft's work), the series includes a handful of episodes written by Lovecraft's correspondents and other writers directly influenced by him, such as [[Henry Kuttner]] and [[C.L. Moore]], [[John W. Campbell]] jr., [[Ray Bradbury]], [[Arthur C. Clarke]], and [[Theodore Sturgeon]].  See the suggested episodes list and Keepers Notes below for some stories from this series whose synopses at least suggest some ideas that could be useful for adaptation to a "Lovecraftian" tale.
 ''Note:  This rating is not intended as a measure of quality, merely of how closely related to Lovecraftian "Weird" fiction the work is.''
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 ===Keeper Notes===
 <!-- Optional.  Notes to Keepers on using this for film for scenario ideas.  Heresies and Controversies:  this is also a good place to include non-canon and controversial aspects of the film's mythos.  Suggested Alternative Theories include:  Derleth's elemental scheme; pseudo-science interpretation; "fanon" interpretations; unofficial humorous or eccentric versions; identification with "Real Life" mythological, religious, folklore, natural, and historical phenomena; rumor and speculation contribute some flexibility and ambiguity to the mythos. * Alternative_theory.  ([[source]])  -->
-* "Verdict from Space" - The investigators are called in to find out what happened after the sole survivor of a team of scientists is accused of their murder and claims his innocense with a bizarre story about the dangerous contents of the subterranean vault the scientists have drilled their way into, a vault that contains alien technology millions of years old....
+* "Verdict from Space" - The investigators are called in to find out what happened after the sole survivor of a team of scientists is accused of their murder and claims his innocence with a bizarre story about the dangerous contents of the subterranean vault the scientists have drilled their way into, a vault that contains alien technology millions of years old....
 * "The Dark Angel" - the original story seems to be basically a variation on the abnormal-ancestry theme; the investigators are called in to investigate the mysterious disappearance of a woman who has miraculously recovered from a terminal disease, but exhibited some peculiar physical and mental changes; her distraught husband claims she "evolved" into something so inhuman that in time it began to regard him as a "pet"; the evidence suggests he may have murdered her....
 * "The Crystal Egg" - the investigators must pick up the pieces of a curiosity shop owner's shattered sanity after he seemingly suffers a breakdown, claiming he had obtained and then lost a "crystal egg" which proved to be a window to "Mars"....
 * "The Children's Room" - the investigators look into the remains of a family which has self-destructed; it seems that the family's son has been talking down to his parents and reads books written in languages nobody else understands, books obtained from a library in a mysterious "children's room" in another dimension....
-* "Red Dust" - Professor Quatermass' [[British Experimental Rocket Group]] assigns a team of trusted experts to intervene when a rocket expedition to another planet loses two crew members on the alien planet, and a mysterious red dust similar to that found on the planet's surface begins to appear on the rocket during its return jouney.
+** The actual episode, the only one I've seen, actually devolves from that premise into a rather non-Lovecraftian political indoctrination fable; your mileage may vary on how useful the political aspect is to include in your adaptation into a scenario... perhaps substitute communists for cultists?
 * "The Cocoon" and "Fury of the Cocoon" - a relief team searches for a lost scientific expedition exploring a crater in a remote jungle; the sole survivor is found raving about a nightmarish attack by alien insects that are emerging from cocoons found inside the meteorite....

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 * Writer:  (various)
 * Producer/Production Co:  ABC, George F. Foley
-* View Public Domain episodes: ([https://archive.org/search.php?query=%22Tales%20of%20Tomorrow%22&and[]=mediatype%3A%22movies%22 link])
+* View Public Domain episodes: ([https://archive.org/search.php?query=%22Tales%20of%20Tomorrow link])
 ==Ratings==