Overview of 'Science Fiction Theatre' Season 1

Science Fiction Theatre (1955)

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.

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Release Date: 1955-04-09
Seasons: 1 2

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Country: US
Language: English
Runtime: 30

Season 1 Episode List

Episode 1 - Beyond
Release Date: 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.
Episode 2 - Time Is Just a Place
Release Date: 1955-04-16
A man discovers that his next door neighbors are fugitives from the future.
Episode 3 - Out of Nowhere
Release Date: 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.
Episode 4 - Y.O.R.D.
Release Date: 1955-04-30
An alien spaceship in distress is sending an SOS to personnel at an arctic outpost.
Episode 5 - Stranger in the Desert
Release Date: 1955-05-07
After meeting a radioactive eagle and a disappearing botanist, two prospectors discover a strange energy source in the desert.
Episode 6 - No Food for Thought
Release Date: 1955-05-14
A synthetic nutrient that prolongs the life span of human beings spawns a deadly virus.
Episode 7 - The Brain of John Emerson
Release Date: 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.
Episode 8 - Spider Inc
Release Date: 1955-05-28
A giant spider fossil leads a geologist to discover a method of synthesizing petroleum.
Episode 9 - Death at 2 A.M.
Release Date: 1955-06-04
A scientist uses a strength serum to murder a man who is blackmailing him.
Episode 10 - Conversation With an Ape
Release Date: 1955-06-11
A telepathic chimp saves a scientist and his wife when they are confronted by a killer.
Episode 11 - Marked Danger
Release Date: 1955-06-18
A space capsule releases a strange green gas that alters a young woman's metabolism.
Episode 12 - Hour of Nightmare
Release Date: 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...
Episode 13 - One Hundred Years Young
Release Date: 1955-07-02
After a chemist claims to be 200 years old there is an effort to perfect an immortality serum.
Episode 14 - The Strange Dr. Lorenz
Release Date: 1955-07-09
A doctor discovers that a honey formula has amazing healing powers.
Episode 15 - The Frozen Sound
Release Date: 1955-07-30
After a doctor is charge with spying it is learned that a synthetic crystal can record sounds.
Episode 16 - The Stones Began to Move
Release Date: 1955-08-06
An Egyptologist tries to prove that the pyramids were constructed using levitation.
Episode 17 - The Lost Heartbeat
Release Date: 1955-08-13
A scientist needs to construct a mechanical heart or his colleague will die.
Episode 18 - The World Below
Release Date: 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.
Episode 19 - Barrier of Silence
Release Date: 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.
Episode 20 - The Negative Man
Release Date: 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.
Episode 21 - Dead Reckoning
Release Date: 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.
Episode 22 - A Visit from Dr. Pliny
Release Date: 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.
Episode 23 - Strange People at Pecos
Release Date: 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.
Episode 24 - Dead Storage
Release Date: 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.
Episode 25 - The Human Equation
Release Date: 1955-10-15
A doctor discovers that brutal murders are being caused by fumes from a wheat fungus experiment that produces violent side effects.
Episode 26 - Target: Hurricane
Release Date: 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.
Episode 27 - Water Maker
Release Date: 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.
Episode 28 - The Unexplored
Release Date: 1955-11-05
A woman's telepathic abilities lead her and her husband to a missing biologist.
Episode 29 - The Hastings Secret
Release Date: 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.
Episode 30 - Postcard from Barcelona
Release Date: 1955-11-19
A dead scientist's papers reveal that he had made a deal with aliens to help mankind's progress in science.
Episode 31 - Friend of a Raven
Release Date: 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.
Episode 32 - Beyond Return
Release Date: 1955-12-03
A serum cures a dying woman but turns her into a killer who can change her physical appearance at will.
Episode 33 - Before the Beginning
Release Date: 1955-12-10
Biophysicist Dr. Ken Donaldson uses a photon gun to cure his wife of a mysterious disease.
Episode 34 - The Long Day
Release Date: 1955-12-17
An experimental rocket creates artificial daylight at night and causes trouble for an ex-con.
Episode 35 - Project 44
Release Date: 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.
Episode 36 - Are We Invaded?
Release Date: 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.
Episode 37 - Sound of Murder
Release Date: 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.
Episode 38 - Operation Flypaper
Release Date: 1956-01-14
A thief uses a sonic paralyzer to freeze people while he steals scientific secrets.
Episode 39 - The Other Side of the Moon
Release Date: 1956-01-28
A scientist believes that the moon is being used as a nuclear waste dumping ground by creatures from other worlds.