Science Fiction Theatre
"Science Fiction Theatre" was a science fiction anthology series in 1955-1957. The series narrator was Truman Bradley who introduces stories extrapolated from actual scientific data available in the 1950's, concentrating on such concepts as space flight, UFO's and mental telepathy.
- 1955-1957
- 2 seasons
- ZIV Television Programs
- Action & Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Science Fiction
"Science Fiction Theatre" was a science fiction anthology series in 1955-1957. The series narrator was Truman Bradley who introduces stories extrapolated from actual scientific data available in the 1950's, concentrating on such concepts as space flight, UFO's and mental telepathy.
Season 2 Episode Guide
39 Episodes 1956 - 1957
Episode 1
Signals from the Heart
Fri, Apr 6, 1956 30 mins
A doctor is blamed for a train wreck that killed two dozen people because he had just certified the engineer, who had suffered a fatal heart attack right before the crash, as fit for duty. To make up for the damage to his reputation, the doctor now hopes to develop a new cardiogram that will detect heart attacks from a distance.
Episode 2
The Long Sleep
Fri, Apr 13, 1956 30 mins
After saving the life of an orangutan by lowering the body temperature, a doctor is asked to do the same to a human child---under force.
Episode 3
Who Is This Man?
Fri, Apr 20, 1956 30 mins
Tommy Cooper's shyness is so crippling, he's failing his college courses. At the request of his sister, Dr. Bentley of the psychology department puts Tommy under hypnosis to find the cause of his fears. Instead, the young man claims to be Jack Welsch, a murderer hanged in 1888.
Episode 4
The Green Bomb
Fri, Apr 27, 1956 30 mins
The brilliant founder and director of an atomic research station falls under suspicion when his behavior becomes more and more hostile and erratic. He and his secretary are the only workers who are not routinely searched upon leaving or entering the station. When over 4 pounds of fissionable material is found missing after an internal audit, the head of security must take action. Is the good Doctor selling information--or worse--to our enemies?
Episode 5
When a Camera Fails
Fri, May 4, 1956 30 mins
A geophysics professor uses his revolutionary new microscope to make a startling discovery: certain crystals act as photographic film. Examining prehistoric rocks, he's able to see images of dinosaurs; glass formed by an atomic test show him the mushroom cloud.
Episode 6
Bullet Proof
Fri, May 11, 1956 30 mins
A prison escapee on a bank robbing rampage is labeled "The Bullet Proof Man" by the press. Dressed in a thin, pliable substance that he claims was left behind by a UFO, the ammo just bounces off of him. Realizing the material is worth millions, he offers it up to a steel industrialist, unaware the man's part of a trap to capture him.
Episode 7
The Flicker
Fri, May 18, 1956 30 mins
A man randomly kills a woman and has no memory of the event or anything after he'd left a theatre. Once investigators watch the same film they discover the cause behind his strange course of action and how to stop it happening again.
Episode 8
The Unguided Missile
Fri, May 25, 1956 30 mins
A female journalist seems to suddenly have access to secret information about ballistic missile research being conducted at a nearby university. Concern grows over who the leak is and what she plans to do with the information. The truth turns out to be far stranger than anyone ever expected.
Episode 9
End of Tomorrow
Fri, Jun 1, 1956 30 mins
A German scientist appears in Washington 20 years after supposedly being lost in a South American jungle. He's brought with him an antibiotic so powerful that it prevents and cures every known disease in world. Just before mass inoculations are to begin, two government researchers discover it's dangerous side effect.
Episode 10
Mind Machine
Fri, Jun 8, 1956 30 mins
Elderly Dr. Milton has been developing a computerized device that translates one's brain waves into written text. Following the senior scientist's death, Dr. Cathcart continues his work with the "mind writer," using it to decipher the final thoughts from the late doctor's brain.
Episode 11
The Missing Waveband
Fri, Jun 15, 1956 30 mins
Dr. Vincent Milhurst confesses to some fellow scientists that he did not devise the calculations that make stable satellites possible. Instead, they came from an unknown voice on a newly-found radio frequency. When they finally trace the signal, they discover it's originating 367 million miles away from Earth.
Episode 12
The Human Experiment
Fri, Jun 22, 1956 30 mins
Biochemist Dr. Ellen Ballard has isolated an enzyme from bees that she hopes will help the mentally ill function in society. What she creates at her isolated laboratory is a house full of patients with characteristics of the queen, worker, and soldier bees. A fellow scientist arriving for a visit soon realizes that something is very wrong.
Episode 13
Man Who Didn't Know
Fri, Jun 29, 1956 30 mins
Six months after an experimental aircraft explodes over the Pacific, a scientist who was on the flight is found in a Singapore hospital. All he can remember is having been rescued by a passing ship. After returning to work on the secret aircraft team, the military learns that an enemy country has recordings of their confidential meetings. The rescued scientist has unwittingly been turned into a human transmitter.
Episode 14
The Phantom Car
Fri, Jul 20, 1956 30 mins
The sheriff ignores an old prospector who claims he was almost run over by a driverless car in the desert. Once a geologist's wife is seriously injured by the same automobile, he takes matters seriously. The lawman determines that the vehicle is radio-controlled, but don't know who's operating it or why it's hitting people.
Episode 15
Beam of Fire
Fri, Jul 27, 1956 30 mins
A scientist developing an energy source allowing interplanetary travel, is killed in his lab after a mysterious phone call. Security is tightened on the surviving scientist on the project, but he also dies after a phone call. An unknown ray had been aimed at both men, possibly coming from an intelligent being discouraging our space travels.
Episode 16
The Legend of Crater Mountain
Fri, Aug 3, 1956 30 mins
A teacher at a one room schoolhouse is being tormented by three siblings. The kids possess psychic powers that they use to frighten her. When the a researcher arrives to investigate Mrs. Brown's claims, the students ramp up the attacks.
Episode 17
Living Lights
Fri, Aug 10, 1956 30 mins
A scientist manages to trigger organic growth by replicating the atmosphere of Venus is a small laboratory. As the experiment progresses the results far exceed anyone's expectations.
Episode 18
Jupitron
Fri, Aug 17, 1956 30 mins
Dr. Barlow relates the strange tale of how he and his wife were transported from a foggy beach onto one of the moons of Jupiter. They encountered a long-missing scientist who shared with them the secret of Jupitron: a substance that will solve the Earth's hunger problem.
Episode 19
The Throwback
Fri, Aug 24, 1956 30 mins
A geneticist believes that in addition to physical traits, memories can be passed along through the genes. Examining the family history of an acquaintance, Professor Hughes is amazed by the similarities between a present-day young man and an ancestor from 400 years earlier. He becomes alarmed by the ancestor's cause of death; the professor fears the young man will meet the same fate.
Episode 20
Miracle of Doctor Dove
Fri, Aug 31, 1956 30 mins
After a series of disappearances of important scientists the authorities begin to investigate a doctor. What they discover is a man who may have found a way to stop the aging process.
Episode 21
One Thousand Eyes
Fri, Sep 7, 1956 30 mins
A police researcher, using a newly developed camera, solves the murders of a renowned scientist and the prime suspect in the scientist's death.
Episode 22
Brain Unlimited
Fri, Sep 14, 1956 30 mins
Before blacking out on a test flight during an experiment under increased oxygen storage, a scientist experiences a sudden increase in his brain activity, which he determines to investigate further.
Episode 23
Death at My Fingertips
Fri, Sep 21, 1956 30 mins
Police think they have an open-and-shut case against a professor in the murder of his college's dean, as the man's fingerprints are found all over the lab where the murder occurred. But then more newly made prints of the accused are found at the college, and they could only have been made since he's been imprisoned after his arrest.
Episode 24
Sound That Kills
Fri, Sep 28, 1956 30 mins
A meeting of scientists is disrupted when it is discovered that someone is trying to kill them by using a a beam made up of ultrasonic sound.
Episode 25
Survival in Box Canyon
Fri, Oct 12, 1956 30 mins
A rescue mission is mounted to find the plane carrying a nuclear physicist to an atomic experiment.
Episode 26
The Voice
Fri, Oct 26, 1956 30 mins
An attorney has evidence that could clear a man scheduled to be executed in a few days. But on his way to present the evidence, he is involved in a plane crash that leaves him paralyzed and unable to speak. He finds he must use the only means of communication left to him---mental telepathy, which until now he has not believed in.
Episode 27
Three Minute Mile
Fri, Nov 9, 1956 30 mins
Since becoming Dr. Kendall assistant, college student Britt has gained incredible strength, and can run a mile in about three minutes. A nosy reporter, along with Britt's fiance, begin snooping to find out what kind of "Frankenstein"-type experiments the doctor is conducting.
Episode 28
The Last Barrier
Fri, Nov 16, 1956 30 mins
A top secret rocket is launched from the Pacific to test a new hydrogen ion booster; the target is the moon. Inexplicably, it sets off a rash of flying saucer sightings on the East Coast. The scientists monitoring the flight are also surprised when the rocket is trailed by several unidentified blips on radar as it nears the moon.
Episode 29
Signals from the Moon
Fri, Nov 23, 1956 30 mins
An ambassador is shot by a would-be assassin. To remove the bullet, a surgeon needs to consult a colleague on a cruise ship in the Pacific. Scientists bounce a TV signal off the moon to the ship so he can watch and direct the operation.
Episode 30
Doctor Robot
Fri, Nov 30, 1956 30 mins
Edgar Barnes runs a project called Operation Polyglot, to build an ENIAC/UNIVAC-like computer to translate text to multiple languages. But someone is tampering with the machine in off hours. Is it nefarious, or life-saving?
Episode 31
The Human Circuit
Fri, Dec 7, 1956 30 mins
A nightclub dancer claims that, while suffering a seizure, she saw a nuclear blast. Her physician mentions this to a scientist friend who is amazed; she had witnessed a top-secret bomb explosion in the Pacific. Believing her to possess clairvoyance, the two hope to explain her talent scientifically.
Episode 32
Sun Gold
Fri, Dec 14, 1956 30 mins
Radioactive "green glass," formed by the heat of an atomic blast, is said to have been found in the Andes of Peru. A pair of scientists search for the source of the 2000-year-old sample and discover evidence of an Incan civilization with scientific knowledge provided by a "visitor in the sky."
Episode 33
Facsimile
Fri, Dec 21, 1956 30 mins
Three people working in the same laboratory are stricken, on the same day, with three different ailments. Even more shocking is that when doctors operate on them, they appear to be perfectly normal.
Episode 34
The Miracle Hour
Fri, Dec 28, 1956 30 mins
A man is determined to help his fiancée's blind son, even though doctors say the case is hopeless. He and a doctor friend decide to see if the boy can react to items and colors based on cell photosensitivity, which could if successful become a substitute for sight.
Episode 35
Killer Tree
Fri, Jan 4, 1957 30 mins
A scientist investigates claims that a tree kills passersby by emitting a deadly gas.
Episode 36
Gravity Zero
Fri, Jan 11, 1957 30 mins
An absent-minded physics professor and his loyal lab technician work on an anti-gravity device. Despite technical failures, they persist, hoping that the work will contribute to rocket launches, and someday to flying saucers.
Episode 37
The Magic Suitcase
Fri, Jan 25, 1957 30 mins
An old man and his grandson invite a lost hitchhiker to stay the night at their vacation cabin. The stranger disappears, but leaves behind a suitcase that generates huge amounts of electricity. Grandpa turns it over to scientists who are clueless as to how this simple device makes so much power.
Episode 38
Bolt of Lightning
Fri, Feb 1, 1957 30 mins
After an explosion in a research lab, investigators try to find the source of the problem. Many theories abound including the possibility of UFOs. A chance discovery leads investigators to a conclusion no one could believe
Episode 39
The Strange Lodger
Fri, Feb 8, 1957 30 mins
A scientist's new TV ratings device can tell what channel a person's watching just by aiming an antenna at their house. He's perplexed when it registers a channel 84--a channel that doesn't exist--coming from the apartment of an elderly gentleman. A government UFO investigator becomes involved, convinced the old man isn't receiving information, but transmitting it to an alien craft.