Tales to Keep You Awake

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  E1

  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.

  1966-02-04 · 18m
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  E2

  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.

  1966-02-11 · 49m
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  E3

  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.

  1966-02-18 · 32m
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  E4

  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.

  1966-02-25 · 26m
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  E5

  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.

  1966-03-04 · 52m
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  E6

  The Offer

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

  1966-03-11 · 26m
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  E7

  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.

  1966-03-18 · 35m
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  E8

  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.

  1966-03-25 · 64m
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  E9

  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.

  1966-04-01 · 51m
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  E10

  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.

  1966-04-15 · 45m
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  E11

  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.

  1966-04-22 · 35m
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  E12

  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.

  1966-04-29 · 32m
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  E13

  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.

  1966-05-06 · 30m
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  E14

  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.

  1966-05-13 · 41m
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  E15

  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.

  1966-05-20 · 36m
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  E16

  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.

  1966-05-27 · 46m
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  E17

  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.

  1966-06-03 · 30m
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  E18

  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.

  1966-06-24 · 35m
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Top cast

Chicho Ibáñez Serrador