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Science Fiction Theatre Season 1 Episodes
Season 1 Episode Guide
39 Episodes 1955 - 1956
Episode 1
Beyond
Sat, Apr 9, 195530 mins
A new rocket fuel is being developed to power the XF, a jet capable of traveling faster Mach 2. During a test, a craft moving faster than the XF is encountered and the pilot ejects. His report of the event is questioned. An inquiry follows.
Episode 2
Time Is Just a Place
Sat, Apr 16, 195530 mins
Al and Nell Brown are suspicious of their odd new neighbor. Mr. Heller, who claims to be an inventor, uses a robotic vacuum cleaner and a flashlight that shines X-rays. Even so, he's clueless about current technology. Al becomes convinced the couple is from the future, though Nell says her husband's reading too much science fiction.
Episode 3
Out of Nowhere
Fri, Apr 29, 195530 mins
A strange signal is disrupting the sonar used by bats, causing them to slam into a skyscraper. Fearing a foreign country is tying to disrupt our radar systems, the government investigates. They discover a strong microwave beam aimed at the building from directly above. The inspectors figure it must be coming from a space station in orbit before remembering that signals from earth are reflected by the ionosphere.
Episode 4
Y..O..R..D..
Sat, Apr 30, 195530 mins
The world's leading expert on telepathy, Dr. Lawton, is rushed with his assistant to a military weather station at the North Pole. The men there have suddenly become psychic. The mysterious code they're mentally receiving, Y-O-R-D, turns out to be an SOS call from an alien spaceship in the Earth's orbit.
Episode 5
Stranger in the Desert
Sat, May 7, 195530 mins
Two uranium prospectors find a rich deposit-and a botanist. The botanist has no interest in riches but may have an unworldly motive instead.
Episode 6
No Food for Thought
Sat, Apr 23, 195530 mins
A Nobel Prize-winning doctor working in rural Arizona is visited by the county health officer after the unusual death of one of his assistants. The secretive scientist is developing a synthetic nutrient that, they learned too late, has an unfortunate side effect: creatures using it become highly susceptible to deadly viruses.
Episode 7
The Brain of John Emerson
Sat, May 21, 195530 mins
A policeman is recovering from brain surgery. His surgeon was a renowned neuroscientist who has died and his IQ has mysteriously increased. He visits the surgeon's laboratory and recognizes the room and equipment. Visiting the doctor's home, he encounters his widow, who is suspicious that he knows so much about the house and the doctor's work.
Episode 8
Spider, Inc.
Sat, May 28, 195530 mins
A scientist thinks he can use a 50 million year old piece of amber with a spider encased within to produce synthetic oil.
Episode 9
Death at 2 A.M.
Sat, Jun 4, 195530 mins
Police suspect a scientist and his helper of murder. Problem is, neither man has the strength needed to kill the victim in the manner he was killed.
Episode 10
Conversation with an Ape
Sat, Jun 11, 195530 mins
An animal researcher finds that his own wife is terrified of animals, and hopes to cure her by teaching her to communicate with them, but an unexpected and more dramatic event may do the trick even sooner.
Episode 11
Marked 'Danger
Sat, Jun 18, 195530 mins
A man prospecting in the desert finds a sealed experimental container containing two white mice, and brings them home to his wife before calling the authorities. But when the authorities arrive, the two mice are gone, with only a green residue in the container.
Episode 12
Hour of Nightmare
Sat, Jun 25, 195530 mins
A husband and wife freelance photography team travels to Mexico to photograph mysterious flying objects in the night sky and stumble upon a dead alien.
Episode 13
100 Years Young
Sat, Jul 2, 195530 mins
Though he looks to be in his forties, the man caught breaking into a research laboratory claims he's over 200 years old. He says he learned the secret formula for youth from the medicine man who raised him. The researchers find him to be sad and lonely, afraid to love someone because she will die of old age while he just keeps going.
Episode 14
The Strange Doctor Lorenz
Sat, Jul 9, 195530 mins
A physician who is losing the use of his hands due to X-ray radiation seeks out a mysterious beekeeper who is apparently able to cure the most severe burns.
Episode 15
The Frozen Sound
Sat, Jul 30, 195530 mins
The scientific director of a government project is under suspicion of espionage after top secret information is leaked from his office. A search uncovers a strange bottle made of crystal. Tests show the rock records sound, reproducing the private conversations that happen in the director's office.
Episode 16
The Stones Began to Move
Tue, Aug 9, 195530 mins
A discovery inside the recently-opened tomb of an Egyptian pharaoh may hold a clue as to the construction of the pyramids.
Episode 17
The Lost Heartbeat
Sat, Aug 13, 195530 mins
A young doctor who's been experimenting with heart surgery is visited by his former teacher. Elderly Dr. Crane's time is short due to his bad ticker. Armed with a newly-developed miniature battery, he hopes to convince the surgeon to use the power source to run an artificial heart he wants implanted in his chest.
Episode 18
The World Below
Sat, Aug 27, 195530 mins
On a deep sea dive in a special device, three men swear that they saw an underwater city, but Navy investigators can find no evidence of the city's existence.
Episode 19
Barrier of Silence
Sat, Sep 3, 195530 mins
A pilot loses his memory of what happened during a top-secret flight, most likely due to intense sound. Scientists hope to retrieve his memory by subjecting him to intense silence.
Episode 20
Negative Man
Sat, Sep 10, 195530 mins
After an accident in a laboratory, an electrician develops superior intelligence and super-human sensory powers.
Episode 21
Dead Reckoning
Sat, Sep 17, 195530 mins
Trouble befalls an Air Force flight crew and their passengers, a meteorologist and his beautiful assistant en route to the Arctic.
Episode 22
A Visit from Dr. Pliny
Sat, Sep 24, 195530 mins
Quirky strangers appear at the research institute. They have curious ideas, and unexplained knowledge. Local researchers aren't sure if they are legitimate or if they are dangerous nuts. What will happen if they are allowed into the lab?
Episode 23
The Strange People at Pecos
Sat, Oct 1, 195530 mins
A high-strung radar operator is convinced that UFOs are following the test rockets he monitors at a secret facility in Pecos, New Mexico. His kids' new playmate, an odd little girl who feels no pain, causes him to jump to conclusions; he's sure the child and her family are spies from outer space.
Episode 24
Dead Storage
Sat, Oct 8, 195530 mins
Arctic workers discover a frozen mammoth, which is quickly transported to a research institute. Upon thawing, and with a little galvanic shock, investigations take an interesting turn.
Episode 25
The Human Equation
Sat, Oct 15, 195530 mins
Researchers studying new antibiotics are finding themselves accused of uncharacteristic behaviors, which they can't recall. Could the ergot-derived compound be affecting their brains?
Episode 26
Target Hurricane
Sat, Oct 22, 195530 mins
The Miami Hurricane Bureau leaps into action when a killer storm mysteriously appears offshore. Besides keeping the public informed of the threat, James Tyler is worried about his son who's on a camping trip with his Boy Scout troop.
Episode 27
The Water Maker
Sat, Oct 29, 195530 mins
After the strange death of Dr Dunlap, Dr Brookes arrives to see if he can complete the research Dunlap was doing into creating water in the desert. Elements of Dunlap's death don't add up and Brookes wonders if he was a lot closer to success than anyone thought.
Episode 28
The Unexplored
Sat, Nov 5, 195530 mins
A Parapsychologist has his funding cut at a college. In a last ditch effort to prove the worth of his research he uses techniques he's developed to try and locate a member of the college staff who has gone missing.
Episode 29
The Hastings Secret
Sat, Nov 12, 195530 mins
A team of investigators go to Peru after incomplete notes are sent from Dr Hastings. They know he was working on new insecticides to use against termites, but when they arrive at the research station they discover something frightening and revolutionary.
Episode 30
Postcard from Barcelona
Sat, Nov 19, 195530 mins
After the death of Dr Keller, researchers going through his notes discover many of his greatest discoveries came from a third party. As they continue to investigate the truth becomes stranger and stranger.
Episode 31
Friend of a Raven
Sat, Nov 26, 195530 mins
A teacher of the deaf and a truant officer visit an apparently deaf-mute boy to determine why he has not been attending school. The teacher finds that the boy has an uncanny ability to communicate with animals, in spite of his disability.
Episode 32
Beyond Return
Sat, Dec 3, 195530 mins
A doctor discovers a way to reverse degenerative diseases. He experiments on a young woman who makes a complete recovery. He discovers she is beginning to exhibit extraordinary physical abilities, and he realizes he must reverse the process before it is too late.
Episode 33
Before the Beginning
Sat, Dec 10, 195530 mins
A scientist slaves to prove his theory about the origins of life on Earth. In the meantime he is oblivious to the serious and potential fatal illness his wife has developed.
Episode 34
The Long Day
Sat, Dec 17, 195530 mins
A group of scientists experiment with a new missile that will produce vast amounts of light at night. The experiment fails and the scientists have to figure how to shut the light off.
Episode 35
Project 44
Sat, Dec 24, 195530 mins
A break through in rocket design "Project 44" means a team of 8 astronauts are to be selected to go on a mission to Mars. Those planning the project have to deal with the emotional stress of such a voyage along with the obvious physical needs.
Episode 36
Are We Invaded?
Sat, Dec 31, 195530 mins
A journalist sees a UFO and goes on a quest to discover the truth about them. What he finds is far beyond anything either he or anyone else ever suspected.
Episode 37
Sound of Murder
Sat, Jan 7, 195630 mins
A scientist accused of murder uses his professional knowledge to prove his innocence.
Episode 38
Operation Flypaper
Sat, Jan 14, 195630 mins
The theft of a series of scientific documents and equipment become perplexing with the only clue being unexplained time shifts that occur at the time the items went missing.
Episode 39
The Other Side of the Moon
Sat, Jan 28, 195630 mins
A new astronomical camera picks up evidence of strange happenings on the Moon. The government launches a ship to investigate and the answer turns out to be well beyond what anyone thought possible.
