Historias para no dormir
| Historias para no dormir | |
|---|---|
| Created by | Narciso Ibáñez Serrador |
| Written by | Narciso Ibáñez Serrador |
| Directed by | Narciso Ibáñez Serrador |
| Country of origin | Spain |
| Original language(s) | Spanish |
| No. of seasons | 3 |
| No. of episodes | 29 |
| Production company(s) | Televisión Española |
| Release | |
| Original network | TVE1 |
| Original release | February 4, 1966 – September 27, 1982 |
| External links | |
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Historias para no dormir (English: Stories to Stay Awake) was a horror Spanish television series written and directed by Narciso Ibáñez Serrador, produced by Televisión Española and broadcast on its Primera Cadena from 1966 to 1982.
This series marked Narciso Ibáñez Serrador's rise to fame. He had already been working on TVE since 1963, directing several previous series like Estudio 3 and Mañana puede ser verdad, but this was the work that made him famous for the Spanish public. It covered a genre, almost unknown in Spanish cinema or television.
The first season was started with the chapter titled El cumpleaños (The birthday) on February the 4th, 1966. It was the only chapter filmed on 16 mm celluloid, since the rest of the series were recorded on VTR. It was an adaptation of a tale by Fredric Brown. The rest of the series saw original stories written by Serrador, like La alarma (The Alarm), or adapted screenplays from tales by Ray Bradbury, Edgar Allan Poe and others, in chapters like La espera (The Waiting Time), El cohete (The rocket) or El pacto (The Deal), the last one adapted from Poe's The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar. Although the most important chapter of the first season was El asfalto (The Asphalt), winner of the Golden Nymph for the best script on the Monte-Carlo Television Festival. It was the first international prize ever won by Televisión Española.
The second season was broadcast from 1967 to 1968 and it only had 8 episodes: La pesadilla (The Nightmare), La zarpa (The Paw, version of W.W. Jacobs The Monkey's Paw), El vidente (The Seer), El regreso (The Return), El cuervo (The Raven, special episode dedicated to Edgard Allan Poe's biography), La promesa (The Promise), La casa (The House) and El transplante (The Transplant). The series would be abandoned when Serrador started filming his first full-length feature film La residencia.
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