Subj : Tales of Tomorrow - TZ/NG
To   : Dumas Walker
From : Ed Vance
Date : Tue Jun 18 2024 11:24:34

> I watched a couple of episodes of the early 1950's TV series "Tales of
> Tomorrow" on youtube last night.  Both of them had familiar titles.

>  *** WARNING - Potential SPOILERS!!! ***

> The first one was called "The Little Black Bag."  Sure enough, it was a
> "pre-telling" of the Night Gallery episode of the same name.  In the Night
> Gallery, the bag is found by a drunk bum (and former doctor) while in the
> company of another bum who ultimately attempts to take advantage of the
> find.  In the NG episode, the bag was sent into the past in error.

> In the ToT episode, the bag is "found" by a down-on-his-luck doctor who
> trades his doctor's bag for it, and some money, at a pawn shop.  In this
> story, it is his greedy wife who attempts to take advantage, and how the
> bag was transported into the past is not certain.  In both episodes, the
> finder suffers at the hands of the greedy friend/mate, who untimately meets
> their own fate (in slightly different ways) after the contents of the bag are
> disabled.

> The second one was called "All the Time in the World," which I thought
> might just be a "pre-telling" of the Twilight Zone episode "Time Enough at
> Last."  It was not exactly.  Both stories begin with references to new
> atomic weapons in newspaper headlines, and both end with a cruel twist that
> leave a character wondering how they will spend "their" time.  However,
> they are mostly different stories.

> The ToT episode probably has more in common with the TZ episode "A Different
> Kind of Stop Watch" as both of these stories involve someone who is given a
> device to freeze or alter the passage of time and, like "Time Enough At
> Last," there is that same cruel twist at the end.

> If you like old sci-fi TV, I would recommend searching for both on youtube.
>  Bear in mind that Tales of Tomorrow was performed live on TV in the early
> 1950's so the picture quality is no where near today's standards (or even
> early 1960's standards).  Also, if you are searching for "All the Time in
> the World," at least one result is actually a mis-titled copy of another
> episode called "Miracle Serum."  If you find that one, try again.  :)

>  * SLMR 2.1a * All the world's indeed a stage & we are merely players...


I remember seeing the one where at the end the fellow is demonstrating the tool
to a medical group, and as he touches his neck with the tool thescean changes
to the future where the tool is recalled back to the future.
You know what happened after that, don't You?
Ed

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