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Tue, Dec 20, 2005
Tales of Tomorrow - Collection Two of 1st Season Shows
It's too bad that the modest production values and antiquated technology used to make Tales of Tomorrow will turn off even many hard-core science fiction, fantasy, and horror fans. Though by today's video standards the crudely kinescoped episodes of the 1951-53 series, which originally aired live on the east coast, hardly look impressive on big screen, high-def TVs the series, often regarded as a forerunner to The Twilight Zone and The Outer Limits, is actually pretty good and impressively adult.
At the time, science fiction/fantasy shows were limited to the crude serial-like adventures of Captain Video and His Video Rangers and Tom Corbett, Space Cadet. Even The Adventures of Superman, newly out on DVD, is pretty flaccid, and its affection is driven more by nostalgia than quality.
Tales of Tomorrow, by contrast, was in terms of content mor... Read the entire review
Tales of Tomorrow - Collection Two of 1st Season Shows