TONIGHT'S TALE OF TOMORROW ...



"The books are wrong! The books are wrong!"

Here's Tales of Tomorrow, a sci-fi TV series from 1952, broadcast live as was the custom back then. Most of the plots revolve around scientists making mistakes or dabbling in areas mankind was never intended to dabble ... this one concerns a scientist with failing eyesight who builds a robot to read to him (it's adorable), but in another a scientist (Rod Steiger, no less) discovers a formula that enhances hatred and aggression in people and stores it in the fridge next to the leftovers, another builds a tape recorder that can capture the voice of anyone in history (even Jesus!) and yet another scientist invents a horn that "calls sinister forces." A primitive pioneer of territory later explored by Twilight Zone, X-Files, and Fringe, so if that kinda stuff gets to you, take a look.