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Tales To Keep You Awake - Season 3

Series: Tales To Keep You Awake

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Episodes

Rating

Year

1966

About

Though he made three feature films, the ultimate legacy of writer/director Narciso 'Chicho' Ibáñez Serrador remains his groundbreaking 1966-1968 Televisión Española series Historias Para No Dormir. Serrador wrote, directed and introduced every episode, adapting stories by Ray Bradbury, Edgar Allan Poe, Robert Bloch and his own material under the pseudonym Luis Peñafiel.

Related Subjects

Horror

Episodes

1. Freddy

1h 49m

Someone (or something) is murdering members of a traveling variety show. To stop the bloodshed, the police will consider all suspects great and small, because the cunning perpetrator is no dummy.

2. El Caso Del Señor Valdemar (The Case of Mr. Valdemar)

1h 5m

In this retelling of a classic Edgar Allan Poe tale, a scientist pushes the ethical envelope by pitting the power of hypnosis against death itself. The result is a terrifying examination of the thin line between the living and the dead.

3. El Fin Empezó Ayer (The End Began Yesterday)

1h 4m

A university professor begins to suspect that there's more to his brightest, most ambitious student than meets the eye. Could it be that the brilliant young man is gifted to an unearthly degree?

4. El Trapero (The Junkman)

1h 19m

Despite his impoverished circumstances, Mr. Edmund the junkman lives a life of quiet dignity. His drunken lout of a son, Bernard, isn't quite so content. When Bernard's greed leads him to violence, he'll learn that the difference between trash and treasure is entirely in the eyes of the beholder.