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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0014381965520
Format: Black & White, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC
Label: Image Entertainment
Manufacturer: Image Entertainment
Number Of Items: 2
Publisher: Image Entertainment
Region Code: 1
Release Date: November 01, 2005
Running Time: 277 minutes
Sales Rank: 34233
Studio: Image Entertainment
Theatrical Release Date: August 03, 1951
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Blast off for excitement with television's first science fiction hit!
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Rating: - Tomorrow as today's yesterday
Pioneering sci-fi TV series TALES OF TOMORROW aired 85 episodes between 8/3/51 and 9/13/53 on the ABC-TV network. These half-hour stories often featured many famous Hollywood stars (like Thomas Mitchell and Gene Lockhart) as well as some just beginning to make a name for themselves (Leslie Nielsen, James Doohan). Special effects, props and scenery are minimal, yet this space-themed forerunner of TWILIGHT ZONE, THE OUTER LIMITS (and so many others) has a charm all its own.
The dozen chapters on collection #2 are all from season #1. Also available is TALES OF TOMORROW, COLLECTION 3 which contains 14 season two shows.
CONTENTS include titles, original airdates and principal actors.
DISC ONE--
The Dark Angel (9/28/51) - Sidney Blackmer/Meg Mundy/Donald Briggs/Mel Ruick
The Crystal Egg (10/12/51) - Thomas Mitchell/Edgar Stehli/Josephine Brown/Sally Gracie/Gage Clark
The Search for the Flying Saucer (11/9/51) - Maurice Manson/Olive Deering/Vaughan Taylor
The Invader (12/21/51) - Eva Gabor/Edgar Stehli/William Eythe/Salem Ludwig/Farrell Pelly
The Dune Roller (1/4/52) - Bruce Cabot/Nancy Coleman/Nelson Olmstead/Lee Graham/Truman Smith/Virginia Gilmore
The Children's Room (2/29/52) - Una O'Connor/Lisa Ayers/Terry Greene/Clare Luce/Charles Kenny/Grant Roberts
DISC TWO--
Plague From Space (4/25/52) - Gene Raymond/James Doohan/Phillip Pine/Harry Landers/Alex Alexander
Red Dust (5/2/52) - Lex Barker/Fred ... Read More
Rating:  - "Tomorrow, Tomorrow, I kinda like ya, Tomorrow!"
I reviewed the previous DVD volume of Tales of Tomorrow last year, and I gave a very favorable critique. I said it was a fascinating window into early television and early science fiction and that I was greatly looking forward to another installment. However, after watching this new second volume, I'm afraid I didn't quite feel the same sense of wonder and enjoyment that I did before. The proceedings felt less fresh and innovative and the plots seemed unwieldy, like they were just treading water. Am I too cynical? Did the novelty just wear off? What exactly happened? Today I'm taking a closer look into "Tomorrow" in order to find out.
Over all, I really do feel that this set of collected episodes just didn't pass muster with me. Two episodes, "Dark Angel" and "The Children's Room", have nearly identical plots about a new race of preternaturally powerful men and women born from ordinary Homo sapiens (As a dedicated fan of the X-Men, you have to work really hard to impress me with stories like that). Then there's "Time to Go" which involves a humorless woman storing her spare time in a bank (No, seriously). After that there's "The Duplicates" which is about an engineer from Jupiter who's ordered to murder his clone on Earth (No, seriously) and it features a wacky surprise twist ending that anyone can deduce after watching the first three minutes. In three separate shows you can witness Earth's triumph against the "Plague from Space", the horrible "Red Dust" from space, and the ... Read More
Rating:  - A change to time travel
This collection, and it's predecessor Collection 1, are extremely interesting artifacts from the early days of television. These are sci-fi stories, performed live, without special effects, but with real stories and lots of character development.
Many of the episodes also include the original commercials, so when you're watching the DVD, you're viewing what people saw in its entirety when these things first aired, which was over fifty years ago.
One word of caution, don't go into this DVD with expectations of the modern sci-fi experience. This is NOT Star Wars. In fact, it is closer in execution to The Twilight Zone, although this series preceeded TZ by a few years. But even at that, since this series was done live, there are occaisional mistakes that the actors make, so if you're one who likes flawless execution, acting, and FX, this probably isn't your cup of tea. On the other hand, if you like watching actors quickly recover, and like a sense of sponeity in your viewing, this might be worth your time.
So if you want to travel back in time to prime time in 1951, this DVD is a vehicle going to that destination.
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