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. Signals From the Heart
Aired 7 April 1956 • 30 min
A policeman who wears an electronic heart transmitter has a heart attack and is searched for by doctors and his fellow police.
2. The Long Sleep
Aired 14 April 1956 • 30 min
A scientist is forced to put a dying young boy into deep freeze by a desperate father.
3. Who Is This Man?
Aired 21 April 1956 • 30 min
A hypnosis experiment goes wrong when a man adopts the personality of a murderer who was hanged in 1882.
4. The Green Bomb
Aired 28 April 1956 • 30 min
A scientist uses stolen material to build an atomic bomb in his house.
5. When a Camera Fails
Aired 5 May 1956 • 30 min
A doctor is suspected of insanity when he claims that he can see perfectly preserved images from the past by using special eyeglasses.
6. Bullet Proof
Aired 12 May 1956 • 30 min
A bank robber uses a resistant metal left behind by an alien spaceship as a shield.
7. The Flicker
Aired 19 May 1956 • 30 min
Two police inspectors attempt to prove that a man was killed because of the hypnotic effect caused by a movie screen Flicker.
8. The Unguided Missile
Aired 26 May 1956 • 30 min
A young woman becomes a national security risk when her ESP abilities pick up top-secret defense formulas.
9. Mind Machine
Aired 23 June 1956 • 30 min
A dying scientist transmits his knowledge through a brain-transmitting machine.
10. The Missing Waveband
Aired 16 June 1956 • 30 min
A scientist receives scientific information from a prisoner on a totalitarian world millions of light years away.
11. The Human Experiment
Aired 23 June 1956 • 30 min
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.
12. Man Who Didn't Know
Aired 30 June 1956 • 30 min
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.
13. End of Tomorrow
Aired 7 July 1956 • 30 min
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.
14. The Phantom Car
Aired 21 July 1956 • 30 min
A sheriff and a geologist join forces to stop the rampage of a radio controlled car.
15. Beam of Fire
Aired 28 July 1956 • 30 min
After top scientists are killed by an alien beam, a scientist discovers that space scouts are trying to stop mankind's progress into space.
16. The Legend of Crater Mountain
Aired 18 August 1956 • 30 min
A small town Arizona teacher discovers that some of her students have telepathic powers.
17. Living Lights
Aired 25 August 1956 • 30 min
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.
18. Jupitron
Aired 15 September 1956 • 30 min
A man and woman are transported to a moon of Jupiter where a long missing scientist gives then a formula for creating synthetic food.
19. The Throwback
Aired 22 September 1956 • 30 min
A biologist believes that he can predict people's lives by studying their ancestors.
20. Miracle of Doctor Dove
Aired 29 September 1956 • 30 min
Investigators try to locate three vanished nutrition experts who may have found the key to longer life.
21. One Thousand Eyes
10.0Aired 6 October 1956 • 30 min
After a scientist is murdered and the main suspect dies, a police scientist reconstructs the crime with a revolutionary camera.
22. Brain Unlimited
Aired 13 October 1956 • 30 min
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.
23. Death at My Fingertips
Aired 20 October 1956 • 30 min
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.
24. Survival in Box Canyon
Aired 3 November 1956 • 30 min
A rescue operation tries to locate a pilot whose plane crashed in an atomic bonb testing area.
25. The Voice
Aired 10 November 1956 • 30 min
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.
26. Three Minute Mile
Aired 17 November 1956 • 30 min
A football star is given a serum that increases his strength.
27. The Last Barrier
Aired 24 November 1956 • 30 min
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.
28. Signals from the Moon
Aired 1 December 1956 • 30 min
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.
29. Doctor Robot
Aired 8 December 1956 • 30 min
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.
30. The Human Circuit
Aired 15 December 1956 • 30 min
A rescue operation is mounted when a dancer's clairvoyant vision of a stranded pilot is electronically reproduced.
31. The Miracle Hour
Aired 22 December 1956 • 30 min
A boy blinded in an automobile accident is treated by a doctor using a new technique involving lights.
32. Sun Gold
Aired 29 December 1956 • 30 min
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.
33. Facsimile
Aired 5 January 1957 • 30 min
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.
34. Killer Tree
Aired 12 January 1957 • 30 min
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.
35. Gravity Zero
Aired 19 January 1957 • 30 min
Two scientists who are about to lose their jobs, astound the world with a process that neutralizes gravity.
36. The Magic Suitcase
Aired 26 January 1957 • 30 min
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.
37. Bolt of Lightning
Aired 2 February 1957 • 30 min
An investigation reveals that a scientist died and his entire building was destroyed when he tried to build a flying saucer.
38. The Strange Lodger
Aired 9 February 1957 • 30 min
A strange man sends signals to a bright light 1,000 miles away. Before authorities can grab him, he disappears.
39. Sound That Kills
Aired 6 April 1957 • 30 min
A scientist must clear his name when he is accused of murdering someone with an ultrasonic weapon he has created.