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Tales to Keep You Awake
1966 - 1982 6.8 (16 votes) 3 Seasons
Genres
Drama Comedy Mystery Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Networks
La 1
La 2
Created By
Chicho Ibáñez Serrador

Tales to Keep You Awake (Historias para no dormir)

THE LEGENDARY SPANISH ANTHOLOGY SERIES

Overview

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

Top Cast

Chicho Ibáñez Serrador
Chicho Ibáñez Serrador

Seasons

Season 1 poster
Season 1 (1966)

No overview available.

18 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: The Birthday
1966-02-04

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

Runtime: 18 min
Episode 2: The Hand
1966-02-11

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.

Runtime: 49 min
Episode 3: The Cellar pt. 1
1966-02-18

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.

Runtime: 32 min
Episode 4: The Cellar pt. 2
1966-02-25

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

Runtime: 26 min
Episode 5: The Cask
1966-03-04

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.

Runtime: 52 min
Episode 6: The Offer
1966-03-11

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

Runtime: 26 min
Episode 7: The Double
1966-03-18

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.

Runtime: 35 min
Episode 8: The Pact
1966-03-25

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.

Runtime: 64 min
Episode 9: The Doll
1966-04-01

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.

Runtime: 51 min
Episode 10: The Rocket
1966-04-15

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.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 11: The Joke
1966-04-22

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.

Runtime: 35 min
Episode 12: The Cabin
1966-04-29

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.

Runtime: 32 min
Episode 13: The Anniversary
1966-05-06

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.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 14: The Wait
1966-05-13

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.

Runtime: 41 min
Episode 15: The Alarm pt.1
1966-05-20

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.

Runtime: 36 min
Episode 16: The Alarm pt. 2
1966-05-27

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.

Runtime: 46 min
Episode 17: The Smile
1966-06-03

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.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 18: The Asphalt
1966-06-24

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.

Runtime: 35 min
Season 2 poster
Season 2 (1967)

No overview available.

8 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: The Nightmare
1967-10-20

Episode 1: La pesadilla. A Carpathian village is plagued by a vampire; the town's men suspect Lolakin, a reclusive aristocrat. Catalina loves Lolakin and demands that he marry her and take her away or else she will produce "proof" that he is the vampire.

Runtime: 48 min
Episode 2: The Paw
1967-11-03

Episode 2: La zarpa. A poor family is given a monkey's paw that is able to grant three wishes to its owner but with a warning that the wishes always lead to tragedy.

Runtime: 47 min
Episode 3: The Seer
1967-11-17

Episode 3: El vidente. A team of parapsychologists are dying by suicide, one by one; could it be caused by a race of invisible beings who want to maintain the secret of their existence?

Runtime: 50 min
Episode 4: The Return
1967-12-15

Episode 4: El regreso. Two cousins plot to murder their rich old uncle but he knows all about it and promises to return from the dead for revenge.

Runtime: 57 min
Episode 5: The Raven
1967-12-29

Episode 5: El cuervo. The life of horror story genius Edgar Allan Poe is dramatized.

Runtime: 48 min
Episode 6: The Promise
1968-01-26

Episode 6: La promesa. A mortician with a history of catalepsy forces his timid niece to promise to follow a strict set of rules to ensure that he will not be buried alive.

Runtime: 49 min
Episode 7: The House
1968-02-09

Episode 7: La casa. The heir of an old house travels to a distant village to take possession of it. But the villagers say that the ghost of the owner appears at night killing those who dare to go to the house.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 8: The Transplant
1968-03-15

Episode 8: El trasplante. In an undefined future, organ transplants are a usual thing and socially accepted action. A man rejects organ transplantation because he believes that in this way retains its moral integrity.

Runtime: 61 min

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