Science Fiction Theatre
Series· 1955–1957· 30mNR

Science Fiction Theatre

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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.

Currently airing

Last airedFinale
S2 · E39Sound That Kills

Cast

Seasons

Season 21956
39 episodes
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    E1Signals From the Heart
    · 30m

    A policeman who wears an electronic heart transmitter has a heart attack and is searched for by doctors and his fellow police.

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    E2The Long Sleep
    · 30m

    A scientist is forced to put a dying young boy into deep freeze by a desperate father.

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    E3Who Is This Man?
    · 30m

    A hypnosis experiment goes wrong when a man adopts the personality of a murderer who was hanged in 1882.

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    E4The Green Bomb
    · 30m

    A scientist uses stolen material to build an atomic bomb in his house.

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    E5When a Camera Fails
    · 30m

    A doctor is suspected of insanity when he claims that he can see perfectly preserved images from the past by using special eyeglasses.

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    E6Bullet Proof
    · 30m

    A bank robber uses a resistant metal left behind by an alien spaceship as a shield.

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    E7The Flicker
    · 30m

    Two police inspectors attempt to prove that a man was killed because of the hypnotic effect caused by a movie screen Flicker.

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    E8The Unguided Missile
    · 30m

    A young woman becomes a national security risk when her ESP abilities pick up top-secret defense formulas.

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    E9Mind Machine
    · 30m

    A dying scientist transmits his knowledge through a brain-transmitting machine.

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    E10The Missing Waveband
    · 30m

    A scientist receives scientific information from a prisoner on a totalitarian world millions of light years away.

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    E11The Human Experiment
    · 30m

    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.

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    E12Man Who Didn't Know
    · 30m

    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.

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    E13End of Tomorrow
    · 30m

    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.

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    E14The Phantom Car
    · 30m

    A sheriff and a geologist join forces to stop the rampage of a radio controlled car.

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    E15Beam of Fire
    · 30m

    After top scientists are killed by an alien beam, a scientist discovers that space scouts are trying to stop mankind's progress into space.

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    E16The Legend of Crater Mountain
    · 30m

    A small town Arizona teacher discovers that some of her students have telepathic powers.

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    E17Living Lights
    · 30m

    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.

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    E18Jupitron
    · 30m

    A man and woman are transported to a moon of Jupiter where a long missing scientist gives then a formula for creating synthetic food.

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    E19The Throwback
    · 30m

    A biologist believes that he can predict people's lives by studying their ancestors.

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    E20Miracle of Doctor Dove
    · 30m

    Investigators try to locate three vanished nutrition experts who may have found the key to longer life.

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    E21One Thousand Eyes
    · 30m

    After a scientist is murdered and the main suspect dies, a police scientist reconstructs the crime with a revolutionary camera.

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    E22Brain Unlimited
    · 30m

    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.

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    E23Death at My Fingertips
    · 30m

    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.

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    E24Survival in Box Canyon
    · 30m

    A rescue operation tries to locate a pilot whose plane crashed in an atomic bonb testing area.

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    E25The Voice
    · 30m

    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.

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    E26Three Minute Mile
    · 30m

    A football star is given a serum that increases his strength.

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    E27The Last Barrier
    · 30m

    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.

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    E28Signals from the Moon
    · 30m

    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.

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    E29Doctor Robot
    · 30m

    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.

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    E30The Human Circuit
    · 30m

    A rescue operation is mounted when a dancer's clairvoyant vision of a stranded pilot is electronically reproduced.

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    E31The Miracle Hour
    · 30m

    A boy blinded in an automobile accident is treated by a doctor using a new technique involving lights.

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    E32Sun Gold
    · 30m

    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.

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    E33Facsimile
    · 30m

    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.

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    E34Killer Tree
    · 30m

    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.

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    E35Gravity Zero
    · 30m

    Two scientists who are about to lose their jobs, astound the world with a process that neutralizes gravity.

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    E36The Magic Suitcase
    · 30m

    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.

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    E37Bolt of Lightning
    · 30m

    An investigation reveals that a scientist died and his entire building was destroyed when he tried to build a flying saucer.

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    E38The Strange Lodger
    · 30m

    A strange man sends signals to a bright light 1,000 miles away. Before authorities can grab him, he disappears.

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    E39Sound That KillsFinale
    · 30m

    A scientist must clear his name when he is accused of murdering someone with an ultrasonic weapon he has created.

Season 11955
39 episodes
  • E1Beyond
    · 25m

    Travelling at three times the speed of sound, a test pilot ejects claiming that another craft was about to collide with his.

  • E2Time Is Just a Place
    · 30m

    A man discovers that his next door neighbors are fugitives from the future.

  • E3Out of Nowhere
    · 30m

    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.

  • E4Y.O.R.D.
    · 30m

    An alien spaceship in distress is sending an SOS to personnel at an arctic outpost.

  • E5Stranger in the Desert
    · 30m

    After meeting a radioactive eagle and a disappearing botanist, two prospectors discover a strange energy source in the desert.

  • E6No Food for Thought
    · 30m

    A synthetic nutrient that prolongs the life span of human beings spawns a deadly virus.

  • E7The Brain of John Emerson
    · 30m

    A policeman after discovering that his mind contains all the knowledge of a dead scientist decides to continue the scientist's work.

  • E8Spider Inc
    · 30m

    A giant spider fossil leads a geologist to discover a method of synthesizing petroleum.

  • E9Death at 2 A.M.
    · 30m

    A scientist uses a strength serum to murder a man who is blackmailing him.

  • E10Conversation With an Ape
    · 30m

    A telepathic chimp saves a scientist and his wife when they are confronted by a killer.

  • E11Marked Danger
    · 30m

    A space capsule releases a strange green gas that alters a young woman's metabolism.

  • E12Hour of Nightmare
    · 30m

    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...

  • E13One Hundred Years Young
    · 30m

    After a chemist claims to be 200 years old there is an effort to perfect an immortality serum.

  • E14The Strange Dr. Lorenz
    · 30m

    A doctor discovers that a honey formula has amazing healing powers.

  • E15The Frozen Sound
    · 30m

    After a doctor is charge with spying it is learned that a synthetic crystal can record sounds.

  • E16The Stones Began to Move
    · 30m

    An Egyptologist tries to prove that the pyramids were constructed using levitation.

  • E17The Lost Heartbeat
    · 30m

    A scientist needs to construct a mechanical heart or his colleague will die.

  • E18The World Below
    · 30m

    The survivors of a submarine disaster claim that they saw a city on the sea floor. They, however, are ridiculed by investigators.

  • E19Barrier of Silence
    · 30m

    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.

  • E20The Negative Man
    · 30m

    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.

  • E21Dead Reckoning
    · 30m

    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.

  • E22A Visit from Dr. Pliny
    · 30m

    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.

  • E23Strange People at Pecos
    · 30m

    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.

  • E24Dead Storage
    · 30m

    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.

  • E25The Human Equation
    · 30m

    A doctor discovers that brutal murders are being caused by fumes from a wheat fungus experiment that produces violent side effects.

  • E26Target: Hurricane
    · 30m

    When a meteor's plunge into the ocean causes a hurricane that sweeps toward Florida, a meteorologist desperately searches for his son.

  • E27Water Maker
    · 30m

    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.

  • E28The Unexplored
    · 30m

    A woman's telepathic abilities lead her and her husband to a missing biologist.

  • E29The Hastings Secret
    · 30m

    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.

  • E30Postcard from Barcelona
    · 30m

    A dead scientist's papers reveal that he had made a deal with aliens to help mankind's progress in science.

  • E31Friend of a Raven
    · 30m

    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.

  • E32Beyond Return
    · 30m

    A serum cures a dying woman but turns her into a killer who can change her physical appearance at will.

  • E33Before the Beginning
    · 30m

    Biophysicist Dr. Ken Donaldson uses a photon gun to cure his wife of a mysterious disease.

  • E34The Long Day
    · 30m

    An experimental rocket creates artificial daylight at night and causes trouble for an ex-con.

  • E35Project 44
    · 30m

    After a crew is chosen for the first flight to Mars trouble arises when the project is continually sabotaged by an astronaut.

  • E36Are We Invaded?
    · 30m

    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.

  • E37Sound of Murder
    · 30m

    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.

  • E38Operation Flypaper
    · 30m

    A thief uses a sonic paralyzer to freeze people while he steals scientific secrets.

  • E39The Other Side of the MoonFinale
    · 30m

    A scientist believes that the moon is being used as a nuclear waste dumping ground by creatures from other worlds.

Details

Seasons
2 · 78 episodes
Runtime
30m per episode
Status
Ended
Language
EN
First aired
April 9, 1955
Content rating
NR
Country
United States of America
IMDB ID
tt0047767
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