Red Dust (1952) Tales of Tomorrow

"Red Dust" Another outer space adventure from the 50's sci fi TV anthology series Tales of Tommorow. The first human mission to Alpha Centauri loses 2 astronauts on a red dust-covered planet, which once had an advanced civilization. Due to allergies, neither of the shipmates who perished got the required anti-radiation shots, so the remaining crew who had aren't worried about their own return to Earth. But then the red dust starts to appear everywhere on the space ship. thought provoking science fiction
on a low budget. good stuff. review by Broken Trout

[@alphonsocarioti512]

"What this needs is a drink!" This is a well-equipped ship.

[@pushrod49]

I don't even mind the commercials. Thanks BT.

[@BrokenTrout]

The vintage commercials are quite the time capsules though. Your welcome pushrod49.

[@glendarichardson5337]

This TV show was made in the early 1950s, I was born in 1960. Many of the ideas and theories portrayed in the episodes, in my opinion, are very advanced for a limited budget and a 70 year old TV show. They do make mistakes but I have noticed mistakes in recent and present Science fiction TV shows and movies.

[@Theywaswrong]

Space travel while just standing around with a clipboard taking notes. Who would have thunk it. Then at the 2 minute mark give his co-worker the finger!

[@kari7403]

"You're a scientist. You know the answer to everything!" Best line in the video. 😄

[@BrokenTrout]

"SCIENCE"

[@kari7403]

@For Truth Not necessarily. A real life scientist isn't like in the movies. The specialize in specific fields. And honestly, most of them are NOT pompous jerks who think they know everything. Both my brother and sister are technically "scientists" but they are both pretty good people. Okay. My sister, not so much. My brother works in micro biology and my sister does research and teaches some on biology at the University in Hawaii. And all the other scientists I've met are actually really cool people, just like you and me. They just usually have a thirst for knowledge.

[@rodneydowney2561]

The first thing every scientist learns is that you don't know everything.

[@kari7403]

@@rodneydowney2561 Very true. The more educated one becomes, the more they realize how little they actually know. Only an ignorant fool truly believes they know everything, or even, nearly everything.

[@alkh3myst]

@@kari7403 Then, that ignorant fool gets elected the 45th President of the United States.

[@stephenbello2500]

I have been watching these episodes for years. Great program for it's time. Plauge from Space, Ice from Space so forth and so on. Yes there are some glitches in episodes, but who really cares? I have watched many episodes not mentioned, but I really enjoy the space episodes.

[@eaglelandedjupiter]

for a very old movie this is very good

[@BrokenTrout]

They needed a bigger budget though.

[@jsat5609]

@@BrokenTrout In the early 50's ABC was in nearly the same shape as Dumont, an impoverished network. A little later, ABC was bought by the Paramount Theater chain (NOT the Studio by the same name, they were 2 separate entities by then, it's complicated and beyond the scope of this post) but the Paramount buyout saved ABC, and greatly improved it's capital situation.

[@lowerclassbrats77]

Love this series, thanks for the upload.

[@BrokenTrout]

Not a problem, I enjoy them very much myself.

[@BrokenTrout]

Your welcome. I appreciate you taking the time to comment

[@johnbockelie3899]

The Robinsons on lost in space were originally headed to Alpha Centauri .

[@Gos1234567]

Best bit was the carpet!"a sculptured design in two pile highlights"!!! Wow

[@only257]

Good episode😊

[@OneMan-wl1wj]

I guess Kurt's original idea of "jangling a bell out the ship n riding around yelling unclean!" wasn't so bad after all..😁

[@rodneydowney2561]

No sound in space. Bell wouldn't ring.

[@bobk100]

What they should have brought was a vacuum cleaner! Thanks for including the commercials, Masland carpets is still in business since 1866.

[@KennethDonnellyStargazer21]

Treasures! Ive seen very few of these but I will see more now, thanks to you!

[@Boogaboioringale]

Alpha Centauri is actually a triple star system. The smallest star(alpha Centauri c), also called proxima, has two planets, one in the “habital zone “. Proxima is also red. This was not known back then, amazing!

[@rodneydowney2561]

Also Alpha Centauri is 4.367 light years (41.5 trillion km.) from earth, so they were really booking it.

[@rogerrendzak8055]

@@rodneydowney2561 That's our closest sister, solar system, to Earth, correct?? I recall, it being slightly over 4, light years away🤔.

[@rogerrendzak8055]

The Sci-Fi channel used to show these on late night Friday, or Saturday (1994-95). I taped alot of them as they're goodly written, and cleverly acted😊!!! Yeah, they're low budget, but look at today's, Hollywood's 'TOP' production's 🤭. On my copies, there's no commercials, or anything between. But look at the very last commercial, for savings bonds. It says "For every $3, you put in, and in TEN YEARS, you will receive $4". FOUR, LOUSY DOLLARS⁉️ Today, it would equivalent to approx, $12 fixed for inflation, for every $36, dollars invested 🙄.

[@78rpmblues]

A spaceship is returning to Earth after visiting Alpha Centauri, a dust covered planet with no life, but where once lived an advanced civilization. Two of her crew died on the alien world, but a red dust will seal the fate of the survivors on this mission. This was an excellent psychological drama taking place aboard a spaceship, showing how people react under stressful situations. This is from 1952, a time when you used your imagination and could make believe what you were seeing was true. No budget for special effects, no spacesuits for the actors, and you have to laugh at some of it, like a liquor bar on the spaceship where an astronaut can get a drink, Scottie from Star Trek would love that. Red Dust is the earliest film I know of where they talk about astronauts being contaminated and the possibility of infecting the Earths population. Good early science fiction TV and worth watching.

[@ET-RAMBLINGS]

This drama was done "live", and had several on-screen mishaps, but the tension was maintained despite the simple script. The plot was derivative of John Campbell's novella "The Thing".

[@samthunders3611]

I like the commercial for that Rug I'm sold! Cantata ! Bet there made really well.

[@anothonypeterson3402]

It's funny how the Air Lock looks like a Refrigerator!!!

[@BrokenTrout]

Must be the handle.

[@alkh3myst]

Yes, that was common in those early model starships, but was fixed with the Mark 7 design.

[@jeremybear573]

Wow, this is a YT gem! Plan to upload any more of this series? New Sub here! Love the channel!

[@BrokenTrout]

Good stuff. do not touch, or buy a fan.

[@godfreecharlie]

Currently there's a planet wide dust storm on Mars. The poor rovers are doomed without 'lectricity. Perhaps the path is from Alpha Centauri , to here with Mars getting clobbered first? We are next, to be finished by red dust fiends.

[@ericcrapton2623]

Pink. Dust. Says red. Dusk ha ha but a dam mask on geez

[@barneygilewitz1064]

There was a movie in the late sixties with a similar theme and situation called Green Slime. This was picked up by astronauts exploring a planet and brought aboard their space craft. This goo began to reproduce and spread attacking the crew until they were overcome one by one - similar to the Star Trek episode, The Trouble With Tribbles, (however these were a much cuter invasive species) Disturbing as these two shows were they took it to a whole new level in the original 1979 movie Alien....

[@BrokenTrout]

The Green Slime was awesome, I still remember the "SCREE-SCREE" sound they made when they waved theire tentacles around.

[@johnbockelie3899]

Wearing. Shirt and tie in outer space.

[@johnbockelie3899]

" It, the terror from beyond space" was the template for Alien. The movie was from 1956. See it some time.

[@rogerrendzak8055]

@@johnbockelie3899 Love it!!! It's one of my favorite, sci-fi/horror movies 😊!!!

[@rogerrendzak8055]

Saw "THE GREEN SLIME" with my Dad, when it came out in theaters, back in 1968 (I was 7). I'm 61, and I still have clarity, on that memory!!! I still watch, and love it 😁.

[@steviekeys9863]

I'm sorry - this is hella funny so far. I haven't even finished watching and I'm rolling on the floor! At 2.04 dude collects some red dust with his middle finger and literally flips off his mate. Then he smacks himself in the nose with the microscope about 2.15 I'm tryin' to be serious though...

[@BrokenTrout]

That is kinda funny, but hey, were doing SCIENCE! here.

[@kari7403]

The part with the microscope cracked me up also. 😄

[@bumpusjones.1978]

I agree but it’s still fun to watch. If you haven’t seen the show Lights Out it’s also a 50s tv show and it’s entertaining to watch as well.

[@jeffreyberkin9842]

He was more careful the second time.

[@marcusjaxson4920]

pro tip : you can watch movies at Flixzone. Been using it for watching loads of movies lately.

[@peteketners5939]

02:05 My sentiments exactly.

[@PraveenRaj]

Smoking on a space ship!! :D

[@BrokenTrout]

Good one!

[@auggie803]

Cool.

[@jsat5609]

Hey, This was the 1950's! People smoked everywhere else, why not on a spaceship?

[@alkh3myst]

@@jsat5609 They had "cigarette girls" who sold to the patients, in hospitals. The patients.

[@TheCalico72]

@@alkh3myst On the other hand, the new mothers did have to extinguish their cigarettes when it was time for the nurses to bring their babies to them. Not because of 2nd hand smoke. They didn't want live ashes falling on the babies. Told to me by my mother who was a maternity nurse at the hospital where she had 10 babies between 1948 and 1960.

[@RedcoatsReturn]

Well, now we know what happened to Mars! Better warn against any return trip there, otherwise....dust to dust! Boouhahahaaaaa! PS God damn reds are everywhere! PPS Don’t judge me by my coat however.

[@BrokenTrout]

Ah, the good old day's in the future.

[@sierrajuliet7759]

Those darn chemtrails

[@briankeller788]

The ABC map logo at the end - and they used capital letters! This must be very old.

[@simonhough]

i just love piles

[@briankistner4331]

At the least the music is better than the first episode that was aired in 1951.

[@rameyzamora1018]

Holst lives!

[@jakepettibone8164]

Oh man how did we survive this long?

[@miapdx503]

We're about to self-destruct in 5...4...3...2...

[@gilwood7530]

Why doesn't anyone put up who the stars were . Is that Walter Mathau ?

[@WakandaBabe]

Lex Barker...a one time Tarzan.

[@godmaentertainment4375]

Red Dust 19

[@simonhough]

i bet Lana Turners daughter told Lex Barker to put his gun away too

[@jyesucevitz]

I hate to see what actors they passed on.

[@eaglelandedjupiter]

To fixed their problem they need a vacuum cleaner

[@t8r507]

@2:15 Careful with that ralphie you'll shoot yer eye out. Another thing I keep waiting for..... CAPTAIN VIDEO!!!! and video ranger!!

[@anothonypeterson3402]

I like this kind of show-it's pretty interesting.BUT the acting was pretty bad.It's the first show of this kind-later on perfected by One Step Beyond, Outer Limits and most of all The Twilight Zone! ...TONY

[@jsat5609]

My best guess on the acting and it's just that, is that this show was probably produced in New York, and the directors they got in New York were more likely to be stage directors, who directed so the guy in the back row could follow what was going on. Television has no back row. You need TV/Film directors for television because stage acting looks fine on stage, but it looks like gross overacting on TV.

[@garymckee8857]

Is this the Dumont Network?

[@billrrrrr]

It was syndicated - offered to sale directly to the stations.

[@winschmitt4919]

CoronaDust!

[@BrokenTrout]

Be afraid, very afraid! @Win Schmitt I appreciate the comment.

[@simonhough]

every time i see a needle i think of covid

[@kurtzbraun1353]

True low budget bomb

[@BrokenTrout]

Science!!! Thanks for the comment Curtis.

[@jacku3256]

That has to be the worst episode I've ever seen

[@BrokenTrout]

I did like the huge windows they had in the spaceship. seems like it would be a hazard though.

[@cinemafanatic2010]

You haven't seen the episode "The Fatal Flower", it's about two dudes fighting over a letter, because one of them receives no mail , and it's just so happens to have a killer plant in it.