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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.
Episodes
Season 1
No overview available for this season.
Beyond
Apr 09, 1955
Travelling at three times the speed of sound, a test pilot ejects claiming that another craft was about to collide with his.
Time Is Just a Place
Apr 16, 1955
A man discovers that his next door neighbors are fugitives from the future.
Out of Nowhere
Apr 23, 1955
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.
Y.O.R.D.
Apr 30, 1955
An alien spaceship in distress is sending an SOS to personnel at an arctic outpost.
Stranger in the Desert
May 07, 1955
After meeting a radioactive eagle and a disappearing botanist, two prospectors discover a strange energy source in the desert.
No Food for Thought
May 14, 1955
A synthetic nutrient that prolongs the life span of human beings spawns a deadly virus.
The Brain of John Emerson
May 21, 1955
A policeman after discovering that his mind contains all the knowledge of a dead scientist decides to continue the scientist's work.
Spider Inc
May 28, 1955
A giant spider fossil leads a geologist to discover a method of synthesizing petroleum.
Death at 2 A.M.
Jun 04, 1955
A scientist uses a strength serum to murder a man who is blackmailing him.
Conversation With an Ape
Jun 11, 1955
A telepathic chimp saves a scientist and his wife when they are confronted by a killer.
Marked Danger
Jun 18, 1955
A space capsule releases a strange green gas that alters a young woman's metabolism.
Hour of Nightmare
Jun 25, 1955
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...
One Hundred Years Young
Jul 02, 1955
After a chemist claims to be 200 years old there is an effort to perfect an immortality serum.
The Strange Dr. Lorenz
Jul 09, 1955
A doctor discovers that a honey formula has amazing healing powers.
The Frozen Sound
Jul 30, 1955
After a doctor is charge with spying it is learned that a synthetic crystal can record sounds.
The Stones Began to Move
Aug 06, 1955
An Egyptologist tries to prove that the pyramids were constructed using levitation.
The Lost Heartbeat
Aug 13, 1955
A scientist needs to construct a mechanical heart or his colleague will die.
The World Below
Aug 27, 1955
The survivors of a submarine disaster claim that they saw a city on the sea floor. They, however, are ridiculed by investigators.
Barrier of Silence
Sep 03, 1955
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.
The Negative Man
Sep 10, 1955
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.
Dead Reckoning
Sep 17, 1955
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.
A Visit from Dr. Pliny
Sep 24, 1955
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.
Strange People at Pecos
Oct 01, 1955
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.
Dead Storage
Oct 08, 1955
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.
The Human Equation
Oct 15, 1955
A doctor discovers that brutal murders are being caused by fumes from a wheat fungus experiment that produces violent side effects.
Target: Hurricane
Oct 22, 1955
When a meteor's plunge into the ocean causes a hurricane that sweeps toward Florida, a meteorologist desperately searches for his son.
Water Maker
Oct 29, 1955
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.
The Unexplored
Nov 05, 1955
A woman's telepathic abilities lead her and her husband to a missing biologist.
The Hastings Secret
Nov 12, 1955
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.
Postcard from Barcelona
Nov 19, 1955
A dead scientist's papers reveal that he had made a deal with aliens to help mankind's progress in science.
Friend of a Raven
Nov 26, 1955
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.
Beyond Return
Dec 03, 1955
A serum cures a dying woman but turns her into a killer who can change her physical appearance at will.
Before the Beginning
Dec 10, 1955
Biophysicist Dr. Ken Donaldson uses a photon gun to cure his wife of a mysterious disease.
The Long Day
Dec 17, 1955
An experimental rocket creates artificial daylight at night and causes trouble for an ex-con.
Project 44
Dec 24, 1955
After a crew is chosen for the first flight to Mars trouble arises when the project is continually sabotaged by an astronaut.
Are We Invaded?
Dec 31, 1955
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.
Sound of Murder
Jan 07, 1956
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.
Operation Flypaper
Jan 14, 1956
A thief uses a sonic paralyzer to freeze people while he steals scientific secrets.
The Other Side of the Moon
Jan 28, 1956
A scientist believes that the moon is being used as a nuclear waste dumping ground by creatures from other worlds.
Season 2
No overview available for this season.
Signals From the Heart
Apr 07, 1956
A policeman who wears an electronic heart transmitter has a heart attack and is searched for by doctors and his fellow police.
The Long Sleep
Apr 14, 1956
A scientist is forced to put a dying young boy into deep freeze by a desperate father.
Who Is This Man?
Apr 21, 1956
A hypnosis experiment goes wrong when a man adopts the personality of a murderer who was hanged in 1882.
The Green Bomb
Apr 28, 1956
A scientist uses stolen material to build an atomic bomb in his house.
When a Camera Fails
May 05, 1956
A doctor is suspected of insanity when he claims that he can see perfectly preserved images from the past by using special eyeglasses.
Bullet Proof
May 12, 1956
A bank robber uses a resistant metal left behind by an alien spaceship as a shield.
The Flicker
May 19, 1956
Two police inspectors attempt to prove that a man was killed because of the hypnotic effect caused by a movie screen Flicker.
The Unguided Missile
May 26, 1956
A young woman becomes a national security risk when her ESP abilities pick up top-secret defense formulas.
Mind Machine
Jun 23, 1956
A dying scientist transmits his knowledge through a brain-transmitting machine.
The Missing Waveband
Jun 16, 1956
A scientist receives scientific information from a prisoner on a totalitarian world millions of light years away.
The Human Experiment
Jun 23, 1956
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.
Man Who Didn't Know
Jun 30, 1956
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.
End of Tomorrow
Jul 07, 1956
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.
The Phantom Car
Jul 21, 1956
A sheriff and a geologist join forces to stop the rampage of a radio controlled car.
Beam of Fire
Jul 28, 1956
After top scientists are killed by an alien beam, a scientist discovers that space scouts are trying to stop mankind's progress into space.
The Legend of Crater Mountain
Aug 18, 1956
A small town Arizona teacher discovers that some of her students have telepathic powers.
Living Lights
Aug 25, 1956
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.
Jupitron
Sep 15, 1956
A man and woman are transported to a moon of Jupiter where a long missing scientist gives then a formula for creating synthetic food.
The Throwback
Sep 22, 1956
A biologist believes that he can predict people's lives by studying their ancestors.
Miracle of Doctor Dove
Sep 29, 1956
Investigators try to locate three vanished nutrition experts who may have found the key to longer life.
One Thousand Eyes
Oct 06, 1956
After a scientist is murdered and the main suspect dies, a police scientist reconstructs the crime with a revolutionary camera.
Brain Unlimited
Oct 13, 1956
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.
Death at My Fingertips
Oct 20, 1956
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.
Survival in Box Canyon
Nov 03, 1956
A rescue operation tries to locate a pilot whose plane crashed in an atomic bonb testing area.
The Voice
Nov 10, 1956
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.
Three Minute Mile
Nov 17, 1956
A football star is given a serum that increases his strength.
The Last Barrier
Nov 24, 1956
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.
Signals from the Moon
Dec 01, 1956
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.
Doctor Robot
Dec 08, 1956
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.
The Human Circuit
Dec 15, 1956
A rescue operation is mounted when a dancer's clairvoyant vision of a stranded pilot is electronically reproduced.
The Miracle Hour
Dec 22, 1956
A boy blinded in an automobile accident is treated by a doctor using a new technique involving lights.
Sun Gold
Dec 29, 1956
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.
Facsimile
Jan 05, 1957
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.
Killer Tree
Jan 12, 1957
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.
Gravity Zero
Jan 19, 1957
Two scientists who are about to lose their jobs, astound the world with a process that neutralizes gravity.
The Magic Suitcase
Jan 26, 1957
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.
Bolt of Lightning
Feb 02, 1957
An investigation reveals that a scientist died and his entire building was destroyed when he tried to build a flying saucer.
The Strange Lodger
Feb 09, 1957
A strange man sends signals to a bright light 1,000 miles away. Before authorities can grab him, he disappears.
Sound That Kills
Apr 06, 1957
A scientist must clear his name when he is accused of murdering someone with an ultrasonic weapon he has created.
Series Info
Status
Ended
Seasons
2
Episodes
78
Language
en