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Science Fiction Theatre
1955 - 1957 6.2 (8 votes) 2 Seasons
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Drama Sci-Fi & Fantasy

Science Fiction Theatre

Overview

Science Fiction Theatre is an American science fiction anthology series that aired in syndication from April 1955 to April 1957. It was produced by Ivan Tors and Maurice Ziv.

Key Crew

Producer: Ivan Tors, Frederick Ziv

Top Cast

Truman Bradley
Truman Bradley

Seasons

Season 1 poster
Season 1 (1955)

No overview available.

39 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: Beyond
1955-04-09

Travelling at three times the speed of sound, a test pilot ejects claiming that another craft was about to collide with his.

Runtime: 25 min
Episode 2: Time Is Just a Place
1955-04-16

A man discovers that his next door neighbors are fugitives from the future.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 3: Out of Nowhere
1955-04-23

When Dr. Osbourne discovers bats crashing into the sides of buildings, he figures out that a radar disrupting device is being used by enemy agents.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 4: Y.O.R.D.
1955-04-30

An alien spaceship in distress is sending an SOS to personnel at an arctic outpost.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 5: Stranger in the Desert
1955-05-07

After meeting a radioactive eagle and a disappearing botanist, two prospectors discover a strange energy source in the desert.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 6: No Food for Thought
1955-05-14

A synthetic nutrient that prolongs the life span of human beings spawns a deadly virus.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 7: The Brain of John Emerson
1955-05-21

A policeman after discovering that his mind contains all the knowledge of a dead scientist decides to continue the scientist's work.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 8: Spider Inc
1955-05-28

A giant spider fossil leads a geologist to discover a method of synthesizing petroleum.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 9: Death at 2 A.M.
1955-06-04

A scientist uses a strength serum to murder a man who is blackmailing him.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 10: Conversation With an Ape
1955-06-11

A telepathic chimp saves a scientist and his wife when they are confronted by a killer.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 11: Marked Danger
1955-06-18

A space capsule releases a strange green gas that alters a young woman's metabolism.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 12: Hour of Nightmare
1955-06-25

Rumors of UFO sitings and human disappearances in a remote section of Mexico draw a man and woman team of magazine photographers to investigate. The police commandante attempts to dissuade them from venturing into the mountains, then, failing that, refers them to a local man to be their guide - the brother of the only person confirmed to have really disappeared. Once among the hills, this trio discovers strange lights in the skies, an abandoned rifle with a grotesquely twisted barrel, something moving in the underbrush...

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 13: One Hundred Years Young
1955-07-02

After a chemist claims to be 200 years old there is an effort to perfect an immortality serum.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 14: The Strange Dr. Lorenz
1955-07-09

A doctor discovers that a honey formula has amazing healing powers.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 15: The Frozen Sound
1955-07-30

After a doctor is charge with spying it is learned that a synthetic crystal can record sounds.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 16: The Stones Began to Move
1955-08-06

An Egyptologist tries to prove that the pyramids were constructed using levitation.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 17: The Lost Heartbeat
1955-08-13

A scientist needs to construct a mechanical heart or his colleague will die.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 18: The World Below
1955-08-27

The survivors of a submarine disaster claim that they saw a city on the sea floor. They, however, are ridiculed by investigators.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 19: Barrier of Silence
1955-09-03

A U.S. scientist working on a top-secret atomic project disappears from a German city. When he reappears two weeks later, he cannot remember anything about what happened to him. He cannot communicate with those around him and appears to be brainwashed.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 20: The Negative Man
1955-09-10

When electrician Vic Murphy is blasted by the electricity of a computer, his intelligence immediately soars beyond genius level and his senses enable him to hear and see things no man has ever before experienced.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 21: Dead Reckoning
1955-09-17

On an emergency flight to the Arctic, a pilot runs into a magnetic storm. The crew is forced to use Earth's magnetic fields to escape.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 22: A Visit from Dr. Pliny
1955-09-24

A man claiming to be from another planet announces that he has a source of power greater than atomic energy. He claims he has come to share the knowledge, but is regarded as an eccentric crack pot.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 23: Strange People at Pecos
1955-10-01

Radar expert Jeff Jamison believes that his neighbors are spies from outer space. He becomes more convinced when the neighbor's little girl appears to be unable to feel pain.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 24: Dead Storage
1955-10-08

A baby woolly mammoth is brought to life after being frozen in the Arctic for a half million years. Scientists attempt to discover a means of sustaining its life.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 25: The Human Equation
1955-10-15

A doctor discovers that brutal murders are being caused by fumes from a wheat fungus experiment that produces violent side effects.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 26: Target: Hurricane
1955-10-22

When a meteor's plunge into the ocean causes a hurricane that sweeps toward Florida, a meteorologist desperately searches for his son.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 27: Water Maker
1955-10-29

A scientist is comes to the desert laboratory of a dead scientist in order to evaluate the scientist's plans to create water in the arid areas of the earth.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 28: The Unexplored
1955-11-05

A woman's telepathic abilities lead her and her husband to a missing biologist.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 29: The Hastings Secret
1955-11-12

A scientist is killed by deadly termites in the jungles of Peru. A young couple attempt to complete his experiments on termites that can eat through solid rock.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 30: Postcard from Barcelona
1955-11-19

A dead scientist's papers reveal that he had made a deal with aliens to help mankind's progress in science.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 31: Friend of a Raven
1955-11-26

A social worker tries to help a deaf-mute boy who can apparantly communicate with animals. When the boy's hearing and speech are restored, he rebels.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 32: Beyond Return
1955-12-03

A serum cures a dying woman but turns her into a killer who can change her physical appearance at will.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 33: Before the Beginning
1955-12-10

Biophysicist Dr. Ken Donaldson uses a photon gun to cure his wife of a mysterious disease.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 34: The Long Day
1955-12-17

An experimental rocket creates artificial daylight at night and causes trouble for an ex-con.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 35: Project 44
1955-12-24

After a crew is chosen for the first flight to Mars trouble arises when the project is continually sabotaged by an astronaut.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 36: Are We Invaded?
1955-12-31

A student tries to prove that flying saucers exist. His evidence is debunked until he turns up a photograph that could only have been taken from a distant point in the universe.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 37: Sound of Murder
1956-01-07

Dr. Tom Matthews uses his scientific knowledge to battle a false charge of murder. The problem is the case against Matthews is strong because Matthews's voice has been identified in compromising situations.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 38: Operation Flypaper
1956-01-14

A thief uses a sonic paralyzer to freeze people while he steals scientific secrets.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 39: The Other Side of the Moon
1956-01-28

A scientist believes that the moon is being used as a nuclear waste dumping ground by creatures from other worlds.

Runtime: 30 min
Season 2 poster
Season 2 (1956)

No overview available.

39 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: Signals From the Heart
1956-04-07

A policeman who wears an electronic heart transmitter has a heart attack and is searched for by doctors and his fellow police.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 2: The Long Sleep
1956-04-14

A scientist is forced to put a dying young boy into deep freeze by a desperate father.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 3: Who Is This Man?
1956-04-21

A hypnosis experiment goes wrong when a man adopts the personality of a murderer who was hanged in 1882.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 4: The Green Bomb
1956-04-28

A scientist uses stolen material to build an atomic bomb in his house.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 5: When a Camera Fails
1956-05-05

A doctor is suspected of insanity when he claims that he can see perfectly preserved images from the past by using special eyeglasses.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 6: Bullet Proof
1956-05-12

A bank robber uses a resistant metal left behind by an alien spaceship as a shield.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 7: The Flicker
1956-05-19

Two police inspectors attempt to prove that a man was killed because of the hypnotic effect caused by a movie screen Flicker.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 8: The Unguided Missile
1956-05-26

A young woman becomes a national security risk when her ESP abilities pick up top-secret defense formulas.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 9: Mind Machine
1956-06-23

A dying scientist transmits his knowledge through a brain-transmitting machine.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 10: The Missing Waveband
1956-06-16

A scientist receives scientific information from a prisoner on a totalitarian world millions of light years away.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 11: The Human Experiment
1956-06-23

A scientist develops a powerful serum and experiments with it at her country home. The serum transforms her subjects into superbeings who take her prisoner.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 12: Man Who Didn't Know
1956-06-30

After a plane crash, a jet pilot recovers with no memories of his recent past. He is unaware that he has been implanted with an enemy spying device.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 13: End of Tomorrow
1956-07-07

A scientist defects to the west and claims to have a serum that will destroy all viruses. A doctor, however, believes the serum to be a weapon that is designed to cause mass sterility.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 14: The Phantom Car
1956-07-21

A sheriff and a geologist join forces to stop the rampage of a radio controlled car.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 15: Beam of Fire
1956-07-28

After top scientists are killed by an alien beam, a scientist discovers that space scouts are trying to stop mankind's progress into space.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 16: The Legend of Crater Mountain
1956-08-18

A small town Arizona teacher discovers that some of her students have telepathic powers.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 17: Living Lights
1956-08-25

A scientist creates the atmosphere of Venus in a bell-jar to prove that life can exist there. He, however, doesn't anticipate the strange creatures of floating light that appear in, and then escape from, his bell-jar.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 18: Jupitron
1956-09-15

A man and woman are transported to a moon of Jupiter where a long missing scientist gives then a formula for creating synthetic food.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 19: The Throwback
1956-09-22

A biologist believes that he can predict people's lives by studying their ancestors.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 20: Miracle of Doctor Dove
1956-09-29

Investigators try to locate three vanished nutrition experts who may have found the key to longer life.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 21: One Thousand Eyes
1956-10-06

After a scientist is murdered and the main suspect dies, a police scientist reconstructs the crime with a revolutionary camera.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 22: Brain Unlimited
1956-10-13

While testing an anti-black-out serum a pilot is forced to eject. He later tries to reconstruct the event by speeding up his brain.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 23: Death at My Fingertips
1956-10-20

A student is framed for murder by someone forging fingerprint evidence. It is later discovered that the real killer knows how to transfer finger prints through plastic skin grafts.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 24: Survival in Box Canyon
1956-11-03

A rescue operation tries to locate a pilot whose plane crashed in an atomic bonb testing area.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 25: The Voice
1956-11-10

A ESP skeptic discovers evidence that may save the life of a man sentenced to death. When his plane crashes, the skeptic is forced to us ESP to transmit the crucial evidence to prison authorities.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 26: Three Minute Mile
1956-11-17

A football star is given a serum that increases his strength.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 27: The Last Barrier
1956-11-24

In a secret test the US launches a rocket to photograph the moon. In order to maintain security the government plants a story that the rocket is actually a flying saucer. Reports come in, however, that lead them to believe that there are flying saucers out there.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 28: Signals from the Moon
1956-12-01

A diplomat from an eastern country must undergo a delicate operation involving bouncing a video signal off the moon after he is injured by an assassin's bullet.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 29: Doctor Robot
1956-12-08

A digital computing machine designed to translate human languages appears to have been tampered with. An investigation reveals, however, that a staff member has been secretly using the computer to evaluate medical alternatives for his critically ill wife.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 30: The Human Circuit
1956-12-15

A rescue operation is mounted when a dancer's clairvoyant vision of a stranded pilot is electronically reproduced.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 31: The Miracle Hour
1956-12-22

A boy blinded in an automobile accident is treated by a doctor using a new technique involving lights.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 32: Sun Gold
1956-12-29

Evidence of a 2,000 year old nuclear explosion is uncovered in the Peruvian Andes. Explorers go there and discover the skeleton of a ""visitor from the sky"" who provided the Incas with incredible secrets including the ability to harness the power of sunlight.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 33: Facsimile
1957-01-05

Three top scientists fall victim to a mysterious disease. An investigation reveals that the lab they worked in has been picking up and amplifying pain impulses from a hospital across town.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 34: Killer Tree
1957-01-12

A scientist investigates a tree with an ancient reputation of breathing death. He discovers that the area surrounding the tree releases a colorless, odorless, and deadly gas.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 35: Gravity Zero
1957-01-19

Two scientists who are about to lose their jobs, astound the world with a process that neutralizes gravity.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 36: The Magic Suitcase
1957-01-26

A young boy and his grandfather find a mysterious suitcase that appears to be a power plant capable of producing an unlimited amount of energy.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 37: Bolt of Lightning
1957-02-02

An investigation reveals that a scientist died and his entire building was destroyed when he tried to build a flying saucer.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 38: The Strange Lodger
1957-02-09

A strange man sends signals to a bright light 1,000 miles away. Before authorities can grab him, he disappears.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 39: Sound That Kills
1957-04-06

A scientist must clear his name when he is accused of murdering someone with an ultrasonic weapon he has created.

Runtime: 30 min

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