About this season
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 (39)
1. Beyond
Aired 9 April 1955 • 25 min
Travelling at three times the speed of sound, a test pilot ejects claiming that another craft was about to collide with his.
2. Time Is Just a Place
Aired 16 April 1955 • 30 min
A man discovers that his next door neighbors are fugitives from the future.
3. Out of Nowhere
Aired 23 April 1955 • 30 min
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.
4. Y.O.R.D.
Aired 30 April 1955 • 30 min
An alien spaceship in distress is sending an SOS to personnel at an arctic outpost.
5. Stranger in the Desert
Aired 7 May 1955 • 30 min
After meeting a radioactive eagle and a disappearing botanist, two prospectors discover a strange energy source in the desert.
6. No Food for Thought
Aired 14 May 1955 • 30 min
A synthetic nutrient that prolongs the life span of human beings spawns a deadly virus.
7. The Brain of John Emerson
Aired 21 May 1955 • 30 min
A policeman after discovering that his mind contains all the knowledge of a dead scientist decides to continue the scientist's work.
8. Spider Inc
Aired 28 May 1955 • 30 min
A giant spider fossil leads a geologist to discover a method of synthesizing petroleum.
9. Death at 2 A.M.
Aired 4 June 1955 • 30 min
A scientist uses a strength serum to murder a man who is blackmailing him.
10. Conversation With an Ape
Aired 11 June 1955 • 30 min
A telepathic chimp saves a scientist and his wife when they are confronted by a killer.
11. Marked Danger
Aired 18 June 1955 • 30 min
A space capsule releases a strange green gas that alters a young woman's metabolism.
12. Hour of Nightmare
Aired 25 June 1955 • 30 min
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...
13. One Hundred Years Young
Aired 2 July 1955 • 30 min
After a chemist claims to be 200 years old there is an effort to perfect an immortality serum.
14. The Strange Dr. Lorenz
Aired 9 July 1955 • 30 min
A doctor discovers that a honey formula has amazing healing powers.
15. The Frozen Sound
Aired 30 July 1955 • 30 min
After a doctor is charge with spying it is learned that a synthetic crystal can record sounds.
16. The Stones Began to Move
Aired 6 August 1955 • 30 min
An Egyptologist tries to prove that the pyramids were constructed using levitation.
17. The Lost Heartbeat
Aired 13 August 1955 • 30 min
A scientist needs to construct a mechanical heart or his colleague will die.
18. The World Below
Aired 27 August 1955 • 30 min
The survivors of a submarine disaster claim that they saw a city on the sea floor. They, however, are ridiculed by investigators.
19. Barrier of Silence
Aired 3 September 1955 • 30 min
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.
20. The Negative Man
Aired 10 September 1955 • 30 min
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.
21. Dead Reckoning
Aired 17 September 1955 • 30 min
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.
22. A Visit from Dr. Pliny
Aired 24 September 1955 • 30 min
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.
23. Strange People at Pecos
Aired 1 October 1955 • 30 min
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.
24. Dead Storage
Aired 8 October 1955 • 30 min
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.
25. The Human Equation
Aired 15 October 1955 • 30 min
A doctor discovers that brutal murders are being caused by fumes from a wheat fungus experiment that produces violent side effects.
26. Target: Hurricane
Aired 22 October 1955 • 30 min
When a meteor's plunge into the ocean causes a hurricane that sweeps toward Florida, a meteorologist desperately searches for his son.
27. Water Maker
Aired 29 October 1955 • 30 min
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.
28. The Unexplored
Aired 5 November 1955 • 30 min
A woman's telepathic abilities lead her and her husband to a missing biologist.
29. The Hastings Secret
Aired 12 November 1955 • 30 min
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.
30. Postcard from Barcelona
Aired 19 November 1955 • 30 min
A dead scientist's papers reveal that he had made a deal with aliens to help mankind's progress in science.
31. Friend of a Raven
Aired 26 November 1955 • 30 min
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.
32. Beyond Return
Aired 3 December 1955 • 30 min
A serum cures a dying woman but turns her into a killer who can change her physical appearance at will.
33. Before the Beginning
Aired 10 December 1955 • 30 min
Biophysicist Dr. Ken Donaldson uses a photon gun to cure his wife of a mysterious disease.
34. The Long Day
Aired 17 December 1955 • 30 min
An experimental rocket creates artificial daylight at night and causes trouble for an ex-con.
35. Project 44
Aired 24 December 1955 • 30 min
After a crew is chosen for the first flight to Mars trouble arises when the project is continually sabotaged by an astronaut.
36. Are We Invaded?
Aired 31 December 1955 • 30 min
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.
37. Sound of Murder
Aired 7 January 1956 • 30 min
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.
38. Operation Flypaper
9.0Aired 14 January 1956 • 30 min
A thief uses a sonic paralyzer to freeze people while he steals scientific secrets.
39. The Other Side of the Moon
Aired 28 January 1956 • 30 min
A scientist believes that the moon is being used as a nuclear waste dumping ground by creatures from other worlds.