Ahead of His Time (1952)

★★★★★ · Just like in the Funny Books! · Time Travelin Mike · 2009-12-08

This episode is a delightful story to watch, because it is so much like the DC Comics Sci-Fi anthology stories from the same time period. Perhaps things such as the Tele-Time Set may seem outlandish to people of today, but such were common themes in the comics. I am sure that many young boys really enjoyed this episode when it aired in 1952 because it seemed like a comics story come to life!

★★★★★ · Simply great · Chrisdavisusa@gmail.com · 2010-11-22

Optimism always entertains. Great idea.great acting.great execution.

★★★★★ · classic tv series · sc117 · 2017-07-14

good episode

★★★★ · A fella can have his future in his own lifetime too! · benkid77 · 2012-03-04

Fun sci-fi adventure. I love the time-vest and the future "Geiger counter" (an oscilloscope with somewhat advanced features). I do wonder who wrote this story as the "teletime set" is very reminiscent of a device I read about in an Arthur C. Clarke novel some time ago. An interesting point, the 1950s newspaper with "Korean truce negotiations stalled" and "Cost of living zooms up" headlines could have equally been written in a newspaper from 2012! I concur with the previous reviewer who mentioned the obligatory Bunsen burner wasn't lit. That darned list of chemical formula just would not burn.…

★★★★ · Ahead of his Time (Tales of Tomorrow) · richgoup · 2011-08-08

Season 1, episode 41. Original air date: 18 July 1952. The world in 2052 is a pretty wonderful place - no wars, no poverty, no famines - but all humankind is about to be destroyed because of a small miscalculation in a scientific experiment a century earlier set off a chain reaction that will contamine the Earth with a lethal amount of radiation. With only hours before the end of the World, a 21st Century scientist attempts to send a message to colleagues a hundred years in the past to prevent the mistake using a 20th Century man`s new time machine. Cast: Paul Tripp (Sam Whipple), Ruth Enders…

★★★★ · Ahead of his Time · owenorders · 2023-10-19

Mary Jarvis seemed to have quite prominent nipples beneath her dress, for a show broadcast in 1952.