Tales to Keep You Awake
Tales of terror by established authors such as Ray Bradbury or Edgar Allan Poe, as well as original scripts.
Cast: Chicho Ibáñez Serrador
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18 episodes
1. The BirthdayEpisode 1: El cumpleaños. The day of his 50th birthday, a man plots to kill his wife and rob the bank he works for.NRCC18minFeb 4, 1966
2. The HandEpisode 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.NRCC49minFeb 11, 1966
3. The Cellar pt. 1Episode 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.NRCC32minFeb 18, 1966
4. The Cellar pt. 2Episode 4: La bodega (2ª parte). The seeds grow like huge mushrooms in the winery, and the son's attitude has changed dramatically.NRCC26minFeb 25, 1966
5. The CaskEpisode 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.NRCC52minMar 4, 1966
6. The OfferEpisode 6: La oferta. A gangsters tale in which the protagonist seems to have everything organized, even his own death.NRCC26minMar 11, 1966
7. The DoubleEpisode 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.NRCC35minMar 18, 1966
8. The PactEpisode 8: El pacto. A hypnotist pretends that a mentally ill person recovers sanity and a dead person does not die. Everything will go wrong.NRCC1 h 4 minMar 25, 1966
9. The DollEpisode 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.NRCC51minApr 1, 1966
10. The RocketEpisode 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.NRCC45minApr 15, 1966
11. The JokeEpisode 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.NRCC35minApr 22, 1966
12. The CabinEpisode 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.NRCC32minApr 29, 1966
13. The AnniversaryEpisode 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.NRCC30minMay 6, 1966
14. The WaitEpisode 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.NRCC41minMay 13, 1966
15. The Alarm pt.1Episode 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.NRCC36minMay 20, 1966- 16. The Alarm pt. 2Episode 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.NRCC46minMay 27, 1966
17. The SmileEpisode 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.NRCC30minJun 3, 1966
18. The AsphaltEpisode 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.NRCC35minJun 24, 1966
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Tales of terror by established authors such as Ray Bradbury or Edgar Allan Poe, as well as original scripts.
Creators and cast
- Created by
- Chicho Ibáñez Serrador
- Studio
- TVE
