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Tales to Keep You Awake

Tales to Keep You Awake

★ 7.6/10•1966•NR•Drama•Comedy•Mystery
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THE LEGENDARY SPANISH ANTHOLOGY SERIES

Tales of terror by established authors such as Ray Bradbury or Edgar Allan Poe, as well as original scripts.

StatusEnded
LanguageES
First Air DateFeb 4, 1966

Episodes

Episode 1 - The BirthdayE118m

The Birthday

Episode 1: El cumpleaños. The day of his 50th birthday, a man plots to kill his wife and rob the bank he works for.

Feb 4, 1966

Episode 2 - The HandE249m

The Hand

Episode 2: La Mano. In the future the Earth has been invaded by an extraterrestrial race called Kyben. Unable to cope with its technological and weapons superiority, the human race leaves the planet unleashing an epidemic that leaves the world uninhabitable. The last human being on Earth, an individual named Trent, is an amnesic man, without a past, who has an artificial crystal hand connected to his brain.

Feb 11, 1966

Episode 3 - The Cellar pt. 1E332m

The Cellar pt. 1

Episode 3: La bodega (1ª parte). First part of the adaptation made by Narciso Ibáñez Serrador of the story "Come Into My Cellar" by Ray Bradbury.

Feb 18, 1966

Episode 4 - The Cellar pt. 2E426m

The Cellar pt. 2

Episode 4: La bodega (2ª parte). The seeds grow like huge mushrooms in the winery, and the son's attitude has changed dramatically.

Feb 25, 1966

Episode 5 - The CaskE552m

The Cask

Episode 5: El tonel. In a village in Burgundy a peddler arrives and abusing the hospitality of a man has a relationship with his wife which will be terrible.

Mar 4, 1966

Episode 6 - The OfferE626m

The Offer

Episode 6: La oferta. A gangsters tale in which the protagonist seems to have everything organized, even his own death.

Mar 11, 1966

Episode 7 - The DoubleE735m

The Double

Episode 7: El doble. A man buys a robot that is a double of himself to replace him with his wife while he pretends to go to the South Seas. But the double has its own interests.

Mar 18, 1966

Episode 8 - The PactE864m

The Pact

Episode 8: El pacto. A hypnotist pretends that a mentally ill person recovers sanity and a dead person does not die. Everything will go wrong.

Mar 25, 1966

Episode 9 - The DollE951m

The Doll

Episode 9: El muñeco. Apparently a girl is mistreated by her father and an uncle of hers investigates why. The reason is very different because the girl seems to have spell items in the attic, to do strange ceremonies and to have the company of her governess who died three years ago.

Apr 1, 1966

Episode 10 - The RocketE1045m

The Rocket

Episode 10: El cohete. An old man dreams of traveling into space. Faced with the impossibility, think of a way to do it and satisfy the grandchildren.

Apr 15, 1966

Episode 11 - The JokeE1135m

The Joke

Episode 11: La broma. A woman and her lover plan to murder her husband who is a prank but until the last moment he will continue to play the prank.

Apr 22, 1966

Episode 12 - The CabinE1232m

The Cabin

Episode 12: La cabaña. Two female friend hikers are isolated in a mountain refuge. One of them died and her companion buries her under the snow. But her body will reappear in different places.

Apr 29, 1966

Episode 13 - The AnniversaryE1330m

The Anniversary

Episode 13: El aniversario. A police commissioner tells his daughter's boyfriend how he rose to the job by shooting a known gangster. What he doesn't know is who his daughter's boyfriend is.

May 6, 1966

Episode 14 - The WaitE1441m

The Wait

Episode 14: La espera. The last family of colonists on Mars receive, after many years, the visit of crew from Earth. They knew that family but found that some in that family are the same age as they were many years before.

May 13, 1966

Episode 15 - The Alarm pt.1E1536m

The Alarm pt.1

Episode 15: La alarma (1ª parte). The press announces the arrival of an alien invasion. At the same time, a professor investigates a series of phenomena related to radioactivity and a woman.

May 20, 1966

Episode 16 - The Alarm pt. 2E1646m

The Alarm pt. 2

Episode 16: La alarma (2ª parte). The radiation that the Geiger counter detects always indicates to the cabaret actress. The centuries-old mystery she hides has to do with the upcoming alien invasion.

May 27, 1966

Episode 17 - The SmileE1730m

The Smile

Episode 17: La sonrisa. In the future, after a nuclear catastrophe, the inhabitants hate the previous civilization to the point of having a monthly party to destroy books and works of art of that civilization that reached such a degree of destruction.

Jun 3, 1966

Episode 18 - The AsphaltE1835m

The Asphalt

Episode 18: El asfalto. A man walks down the street and is stuck to the asphalt without being able to move. It is useless to ask for help to those who pass and little by little it is sinking more and more.

Jun 24, 1966

Actors

Chicho Ibáñez Serrador

Chicho Ibáñez Serrador

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