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Historias para no dormir

television series

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 20, 2026
Entity authorityQ2056587 ↗
Source-derived summary

Historias para no dormir (transl. Tales to Keep You Awake) is a Spanish horror anthology television series written and directed by Narciso Ibáñez Serrador, produced by Televisión Española and broadcast on its flagship Primera Cadena network from 1966 to 1982.

History

This series marked Narciso Ibáñez Serrador's rise to fame. He had already been working with TVE since 1963, directing several previous series like Estudio 3 and Mañana puede ser verdad, but the success of this series made him a household name in Spain, as it covered a genre almost entirely unexplored in Spanish cinema and television at the time.

The first season was started with the chapter titled El cumpleaños (The birthday) on February 4, 1966. It was the only chapter shot on 16mm film; the rest of the series was produced on videotape. 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 Mano (Demon with a Glass Hand), 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).

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Historias para no dormir” as television series. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA useful identification and reception guide that helps separate the work itself from editions, performances, ownership and later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1966, 1982, 1963, 1967—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Historias, para and dormir can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the arts & letters register because the source frames it as television series. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Object files, edition statements, performance records and contemporary criticism preserve different stages of the work’s history. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 20, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q2056587. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1966, 1982, 1963 and 1967.

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Titles can refer to several editions, objects or performances, making precise identification essential before interpretation. The source lead contains qualifying language; that uncertainty should survive quotation, summary and reuse. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

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  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Historias para no dormir”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Historias para no dormir primary sources, Historias para no dormir archive and Historias research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

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This entry incorporates text from “Historias para no dormir” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.