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18 episodes

Tales to Keep You Awake - Season 1

First aired Feb 4, 1966Season 1

Browse all 18 episodes in this season, including available images, air dates, runtimes, ratings and episode summaries from TMDB.

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9.0

We all grew up hearing the same classic horror stories written by famous authors such as Edgar Allan Poe and Ray Bradbury. Yet... we don't seem to get tired of them, do we?. Well, 'Historias para no dormir' demonstrates that even if we have already seen these stories before, that doesn't really mean that we won't find any interest in seeing them again. The main reason why this show can captivate many horror lovers nowadays, is mostly because of the beautiful display of Gothic imagery. It's a fact that sometimes it's all about the right atmosphere and imagery. Narciso Ibañez Serrador, the creator of the show, achieves admirable results with some of the most famous horror tales such as 'The Raven', 'The Cask of Amontillado' and 'The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar' among others. The music composed by Pedro Baldie and Waldo de los Rios creates the perfect dark and sinister atmosphere that should accompany what is seen on the screen. The background music is repeated in several different episodes, which could be considered as a lack of effort by some people. Personally, I think that is not exactly a bad thing. It is in some way emblematic and why not use the same music for different episodes when it is so well composed?. "Historias para no dormir" is the right choice for anyone who is in the mood to sit back, relax and enjoy a nice display of dark imagery, atmospheric, bone-chilling music and simple stories that will reach you, even though you have probably heard about them before. Science fiction and comedy lovers are welcome to give it a chance as well, since this show also has room for them in many episodes.

Episodes

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Episode 1

The Birthday

8.7
Feb 4, 196618 min6 votes

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

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Episode 2

The Hand

7.7
Feb 11, 196649 min3 votes

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.

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Episode 3

The Cellar pt. 1

6.7
Feb 18, 196632 min3 votes

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.

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Episode 4

The Cellar pt. 2

6.7
Feb 25, 196626 min3 votes

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

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Episode 5

The Cask

8.0
Mar 4, 196652 min4 votes

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.

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Episode 6

The Offer

5.3
Mar 11, 196626 min3 votes

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

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Episode 7

The Double

7.8
Mar 18, 196635 min4 votes

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.

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Episode 8

The Pact

8.7
Mar 25, 196664 min3 votes

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.

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Episode 9

The Doll

7.3
Apr 1, 196651 min4 votes

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.

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Episode 10

The Rocket

7.5
Apr 15, 196645 min4 votes

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.

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Episode 11

The Joke

7.5
Apr 22, 196635 min4 votes

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.

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Episode 12

The Cabin

8.7
Apr 29, 196632 min3 votes

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.

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Episode 13

The Anniversary

8.0
May 6, 196630 min3 votes

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.

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Episode 14

The Wait

6.0
May 13, 196641 min2 votes

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.

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Episode 15

The Alarm pt.1

7.5
May 20, 196636 min2 votes

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.

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Episode 16

The Alarm pt. 2

8.0
May 27, 196646 min2 votes

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.

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Episode 17

The Smile

8.0
Jun 3, 196630 min2 votes

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.

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Episode 18

The Asphalt

9.7
Jun 24, 196635 min3 votes

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.