Tales to Keep You Awake

1h 19min

Drama

Comedy

Mystery

Sci-Fi & Fantasy

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

Episodes

Cast

The Birthday

1. The Birthday

18min

4th Feb 1966

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

The Hand

2. The Hand

49min

11th Feb 1966

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.

The Cellar pt. 1

3. The Cellar pt. 1

32min

18th Feb 1966

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.

The Cellar pt. 2

4. The Cellar pt. 2

26min

25th Feb 1966

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

The Cask

5. The Cask

52min

4th Mar 1966

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.

The Offer

6. The Offer

26min

11th Mar 1966

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

The Double

7. The Double

35min

18th Mar 1966

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.

The Pact

8. The Pact

1h 4min

25th Mar 1966

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.

The Doll

9. The Doll

51min

1st Apr 1966

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.

The Rocket

10. The Rocket

45min

15th Apr 1966

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.

The Joke

11. The Joke

35min

22nd Apr 1966

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.

The Cabin

12. The Cabin

32min

29th Apr 1966

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.

The Anniversary

13. The Anniversary

30min

6th May 1966

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.

The Wait

14. The Wait

41min

13th May 1966

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.

The Alarm pt.1

15. The Alarm pt.1

36min

20th May 1966

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.

The Alarm pt. 2

16. The Alarm pt. 2

46min

27th May 1966

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.

The Smile

17. The Smile

30min

3rd Jun 1966

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.

The Asphalt

18. The Asphalt

35min

24th Jun 1966

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.

First air date

4th Feb 1966

Last air date

4th Oct 1982

Status

Ended

Type

Scripted

Original language

es

Networks