Tales of Tomorrow: Season 2
Season 2 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of Tales of Tomorrow Season 1.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
Season 2 Progress Shield
A Bird in Hand
Aug 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.
Thanks
Aug 29, 1952
A scientific invention brings glory to a struggling violinist but it also causes him to commit murder.
The Seeing Eye Surgeon
Sep 5, 1952
When a prominent physician dons a pair of eyeglasses he discovers that he can see into the future.
The Cocoon
Sep 12, 1952
A group of scientists are trapped inside a house in a remote jungle by hideous invisible creatures.
The Chase
Sep 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.
Youth on Tap (aka: Young Blood)
Sep 26, 1952
A 26 year old man gives a doctor a blood transfusion in return for $1,000 but the process causes the young man to age.
Substance X
Oct 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 out
The Horn
Oct 10, 1952
A scientist invents a machine that has the power to control human emotions.
Double Trouble
Oct 17, 1952
A writer pens a story about a death ray machine only to discover later that the government actually has such a device.
Many Happy Returns (aka: Invaders at Ground Zero)
Oct 24, 1952
A father discovers that his son and other neighborhood children are being controlled telepathically by an alien.
The Tomb of King Tarus
Oct 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.
The Window
Nov 7, 1952
A live television program is interrupted by a mysterious signal that shows a murder about to take place.
The Camera
Nov 14, 1952
A blackmailer discovers a camera that will take pictures 25 years into the future.
The Quiet Lady
Nov 21, 1952
A deadly disease covers the earth and its only hope is a little girl.
The Invigorating Air
Nov 28, 1952
A young scientist produces a new kind of air which proves to be "invigorating."
The Glacier Giant
Dec 5, 1952
A reporter and his damsel sidekick search for a giant reportedly encased in the ice of the Himalayas.
The Fatal Flower
Dec 12, 1952
Doing research in the Brazilian jungle, two biochemists develop a mysterious plant.
The Machine
Dec 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.
The Bitter Storm
Dec 26, 1952
A man brings back voices and sounds from the Garden of Eden.
The Mask of Medusa
Jan 2, 1953
Perry Mason won't be able to help a killer who takes refuge in a museum where the statues come to life.
Discovered Heart
Jan 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 e
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Jan 23, 1953
Handsome Dorian Gray never seems to age but the same cannot be said about his portrait.
Two Faced
Jan 30, 1953
To win the love of a woman, a man arranges to have the head of her former lover transplanted onto his body.
The Build Box
Feb 6, 1953
A little boy is the recipient of a strange box from the owner of a gift shop.
Another Chance
Feb 13, 1953
A man is given the chance to live the past seven years of his life over but he makes the same mistakes.
The Great Silence
Feb 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.
The Fury of the Cocoon
Mar 6, 1953
Members of an expedition into the jungle are attacked by invisible blood sucking leaches from outer space.
The Squeeze Play
Mar 13, 1953
A magician hates a reporter so he hypnotizes all the people with whom the newsie comes into contact into forgetting him.
Read to Me Herr Doktor
Mar 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 p
Ghost Writer
Mar 27, 1953
A writer discovers to his horror that the events in his short stories are coming true.
Past Tense
Apr 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
Homecoming
Apr 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.
The Rivals
Apr 17, 1953
A new wife finds herself a rival for her husband's affections--his cat.
Please Omit Flowers
Apr 24, 1953
A mortician discovers a serum that induces a death-like sleep.
The Evil Within
May 1, 1953
A scientist creates a formula that unlocks evil. Then his wife unknowingly ingests some of the formula.
The Vault
May 8, 1953
While making scientific tests, four people get trapped inside a vault.
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.
The Spider's Web
May 22, 1953
Inhabitants of an island find themselves affected by atomic radiation.
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.
What Dreams May Come
Jun 12, 1953
A woman receives telepathic waves that she is about to be murdered.