Episodes cast for
"Science Fiction Theatre" (1955) More at IMDbPro »

Season: 1 | 2
Year: 1955 | 1956 | 1957

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Season 1

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Season 1, Episode 1: Beyond

5 April 1955

Season 1, Episode 2: Time Is Just a Place

15 April 1955
Al and Nell Brown are suspicious of their odd new neighbor. Mr. Heller, who claims to be an inventor, uses a robotic vacuum cleaner and a flashlight that shines X-rays. Even so, he's clueless about current technology. Al becomes convinced the couple is from the future, though Nell says her husband's reading too much science fiction.

Season 1, Episode 3: No Food for Thought

22 April 1955
A Nobel Prize-winning doctor working in rural Arizona is visited by the county health officer after the unusual death of one of his assistants. The secretive scientist is developing a synthetic nutrient that, they learned too late, has an unfortunate side effect: creatures using it become highly susceptible to deadly viruses.

Season 1, Episode 4: Out of Nowhere

29 April 1955

Season 1, Episode 5: Y.O.R.D.

6 May 1955
The world's leading expert on telepathy, Dr. Lawton, is rushed with his assistant to a military weather station at the North Pole. The men there have suddenly become psychic. The mysterious code they're mentally receiving, Y-O-R-D, turns out to be an SOS call from an alien spaceship in the Earth's orbit.

Season 1, Episode 6: Stranger in the Desert

13 May 1955

Season 1, Episode 7: Sound of Murder

20 May 1955
A scientist accused of murder uses his professional knowledge to prove his innocence.

Season 1, Episode 8: The Brain of John Emerson

20 May 1955

Season 1, Episode 9: Spider Inc.

3 June 1955

Season 1, Episode 10: Death at Two A.M.

10 June 1955
Police suspect a scientist and his helper of murder.

Season 1, Episode 11: Conversation with an Ape

17 June 1955

Season 1, Episode 12: Marked 'Danger'

24 June 1955

Season 1, Episode 13: Hour of Nightmare

1 July 1955

Season 1, Episode 14: The Strange Dr. Lorenz

15 July 1955

Season 1, Episode 15: 100 Years Young

22 July 1955

Season 1, Episode 16: The Frozen Sound

29 July 1955
Government agents attempt to rescue a kidnapped research scientist.

Season 1, Episode 17: The Stones Began to Move

12 August 1955
A research scientist working on a top secret government project disappears. When he mysterious returns, he acts as if he has been brainwashed.

Season 1, Episode 18: The Lost Heartbeat

19 August 1955

Season 1, Episode 19: The World Below

26 August 1955

Season 1, Episode 20: Barrier of Silence

9 September 1955

Season 1, Episode 21: The Negative Man

16 September 1955
After an accident in a laboratory, an electrician develops superior intelligence and super-human sensory powers.

Season 1, Episode 22: Dead Reckoning

23 September 1955
Trouble befalls an Air Force flight crew and their passengers, a meteorologist and his beautiful assistant en route to the Arctic.

Season 1, Episode 23: A Visit from Dr. Pliny

30 September 1955

Season 1, Episode 24: Dead Storage

7 October 1955

Season 1, Episode 25: The Strange People at Pecos

14 October 1955

Season 1, Episode 26: The Human Equation

21 October 1955

Season 1, Episode 27: Target Hurricane

28 October 1955

Season 1, Episode 28: The Water Maker

4 November 1955
After the strange death of Dr Dunlap, Dr Brookes arrives to see if he can complete the research Dunlap was doing into creating water in the desert. Elements of Dunlap's death don't add up and Brookes wonders if he was a lot closer to success than anyone thought.

Season 1, Episode 29: The Unexplored

11 November 1955
A Parapsychologist has his funding cut at a college. In a last ditch effort to prove the worth of his research he uses techniques he's developed to try and locate a member of the college staff who has gone missing.

Season 1, Episode 30: The Hastings Secret

18 November 1955
A team of investigators go to Peru after incomplete notes are sent from Dr Hastings. They know he was working on new insecticides to use against termites, but when they arrive at the research station they discover something frightening and revolutionary.

Season 1, Episode 31: Postcard from Barcelona

25 November 1955
After the death of Dr Keller, researchers going through his notes discover many of his greatest discoveries came from a third party. As they continue to investigate the truth becomes stranger and stranger.

Season 1, Episode 32: Friend of a Raven

2 December 1955

Season 1, Episode 33: Beyond Return

9 December 1955
A doctor discovers a way to reverse degenerate diseases. He experiments on a young woman who makes a complete recovery. He discovers she is beginning to exhibit extraordinary physical abilities, and he realizes he must reverse the process before it is too late.

Season 1, Episode 34: Before the Beginning

16 December 1955
A scientist slaves to prove his theory about the origins of life on Earth. In the meantime he is oblivious to the serious and potential fatal illness his wife has developed.

Season 1, Episode 35: The Long Day

23 December 1955
A group of scientists experiment with a new missile that will produce vast amounts of light at night. The experiment fails and the scientists have to figure how to shut the light off.

Season 1, Episode 36: Project 44

6 January 1956
A break through in rocket design "Project 44" means a team of 8 astronauts are to be selected to go on a mission to Mars. Those planning the project have to deal with the emotional stress of such a voyage along with the obvious physical needs.

Season 1, Episode 37: Are We Invaded?

20 January 1956
A journalist sees a UFO and goes on a quest to discover the truth about them. What he finds is far beyond anything either he or anyone else ever suspected.

Season 1, Episode 38: Operation Flypaper

3 February 1956
The theft of a series of scientific documents and equipment become perplexing with the only clue being unexplained time shifts that occur at the time the items went missing.

Season 1, Episode 39: The Other Side of the Moon

17 February 1956
A new astronomical camera picks up evidence of strange happenings on the Moon. The government launches a ship to investigate and the answer turns out to be well beyond what anyone thought possible.

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Season 2

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Season 2, Episode 1: Signals from the Heart

6 April 1956

Season 2, Episode 2: The Long Sleep

13 April 1956

Season 2, Episode 3: Who Is This Man?

20 April 1956
Tommy Cooper's shyness is so crippling, he's failing his college courses. At the request of his sister, Dr. Bentley of the psychology department puts Tommy under hypnosis to find the cause of his fears. Instead, the young man claims to be Jack Welsch, a murderer hanged in 1888.

Season 2, Episode 4: The Green Bomb

27 April 1956
Using stolen parts, a psychopath builds a nuclear weapon while government agents race to find him before he can detonate it.

Season 2, Episode 5: When a Camera Fails

4 May 1956
A geophysics professor uses his revolutionary new microscope to make a startling discovery: certain crystals act as photographic film. Examining prehistoric rocks, he's able to see images of dinosaurs; glass formed by an atomic test show him the mushroom cloud.

Season 2, Episode 6: Bullet Proof

11 May 1956
A bank robber uses a piece of metal salvaged from an alien spacecraft to aid his thefts.

Season 2, Episode 7: The Flicker

18 May 1956
A man randomly kills a woman and has no memory of the event or anything after he'd left a theatre. Once investigators watch the same film they discover the cause behind his strange course of action and how to stop it happening again.

Season 2, Episode 8: The Unguided Missile

25 May 1956
A female journalist seems to suddenly have access to secret information about ballistic missile research being conducted at a nearby university. Concern grows over who the leak is and what she plans to do with the information. The truth turns out to be far stranger than anyone ever expected.

Season 2, Episode 9: End of Tomorrow

1 June 1956
A German scientist appears in Washington 20 years after supposedly being lost in a South American jungle. He's brought with him an antibiotic so powerful that it prevents and cures every known disease in world. Just before mass inoculations are to begin, two government researchers discover it's dangerous side effect.

Season 2, Episode 10: The Mind Machine

8 June 1956
Elderly Dr. Milton has been developing a computerized device that translates one's brain waves into written text. Following the senior scientist's death, Dr. Cathcart continues his work with the "mind writer," using it to decipher the final thoughts from the late doctor's brain.

Season 2, Episode 11: The Missing Waveband

15 June 1956
Dr. Vincent Milhurst confesses to some fellow scientists that he did not devise the calculations that make stable satellites possible. Instead, they came from an unknown voice on a newly-found radio frequency. When they finally trace the signal, they discover it's originating 367 million miles away from Earth.

Season 2, Episode 12: The Human Experiment

22 June 1956
Biochemist Ellen Dr. Ballard has isolated an enzyme from bees that she hopes will help the mentally ill function in society. What she creates at her isolated laboratory is a house full of patients with characteristics of the queen, worker, and soldier bees. A fellow scientist arriving for a visit soon realizes that something is very wrong.

Season 2, Episode 13: The Man Who Didn't Know

29 June 1956
Six months after an experimental aircraft explodes over the Pacific, a scientist who was on the flight is found in a Singapore hospital. All he can remember is having been rescued by a passing ship. After returning to work on the secret aircraft team, the military learns that an enemy country has recordings of their confidential meetings. The rescued scientist has unwittingly been turned into a human transmitter.

Season 2, Episode 14: The Phantom Car

20 July 1956
The sheriff ignores an old prospector who claims he was almost run over by a driverless car in the desert. Once a geologist's wife is seriously injured by the same automobile, he takes matters seriously. The lawman determines that the vehicle is radio-controlled, but don't know who's operating it or why it's hitting people.

Season 2, Episode 15: Beam of Fire

27 July 1956
A scientist developing an energy source allowing interplanetary travel, is killed in his lab after a mysterious phone call. Security is tightened on the surviving scientist on the project, but he also dies after a phone call. An unknown ray had been aimed at both men, possibly coming from an intelligent being discouraging our space travels.

Season 2, Episode 16: Legend of Crater Mountain

3 August 1956
A teacher at a one room schoolhouse is being tormented by three siblings. The kids possess psychic powers that they use to frighten her. When the a researcher arrives to investigate Mrs. Brown's claims, the students ramp up the attacks.

Season 2, Episode 17: Living Lights

10 August 1956
A scientist manages to trigger organic growth by replicating the atmosphere of Venus is a small laboratory. As the experiment progresses the results far exceed anyone's expectations.

Season 2, Episode 18: Jupitron

17 August 1956

Season 2, Episode 19: The Throwback

24 August 1956
A geneticist believes that in addition to physical traits, memories can be passed along through the genes. Examining the family history of an acquaintance, Professor Hughes is amazed by the similarities between a present-day young man and an ancestor from 400 years earlier. He becomes alarmed by the ancestor's cause of death; the professor fears the young man will meet the same fate.

Season 2, Episode 20: The Miracle of Dr. Dove

31 August 1956
After a series of disappearances of important scientists the authorities begin to investigate a doctor. What they discover is a man who may have found a way to stop the aging process.

Season 2, Episode 21: One Thousand Eyes

7 September 1956
A police researcher, using a newly developed camera, solves the murders of a renowned scientist and the prime suspect in the scientist's death.

Season 2, Episode 22: Brain Unlimited

14 September 1956

Season 2, Episode 23: Death at My Fingertips

21 September 1956

Season 2, Episode 24: Sound That Kills

28 September 1956
A meeting of scientists is disrupted when it is discovered that someone is trying to kill them by using a a beam made up of ultrasonic sound.

Season 2, Episode 25: Survival in Box Canyon

12 October 1956
A rescue mission is mounted to find the plane carrying a nuclear physicist to an atomic experiment.

Season 2, Episode 26: The Voice

26 October 1956

Season 2, Episode 27: Three Minute Mile

9 November 1956
Since becoming Dr. Kendall assistant, college student Britt has gained incredible strength, and can run a mile in about three minutes. A nosy reporter, along with Britt's fiance, begin snooping to find out what kind of "Frankenstein"-type experiments the doctor is conducting.

Season 2, Episode 28: The Last Barrier

16 November 1956

Season 2, Episode 29: Signals from the Moon

23 November 1956

Season 2, Episode 30: Doctor Robot

30 November 1956

Season 2, Episode 31: The Human Circuit

7 December 1956

Season 2, Episode 32: Sun Gold

14 December 1956

Season 2, Episode 33: Facsimile

21 December 1956

Season 2, Episode 34: The Miracle Hour

28 December 1956

Season 2, Episode 35: Killer Tree

4 January 1957
A scientist investigates claims that a tree kills passersby by emitting a deadly gas.

Season 2, Episode 36: Gravity Zero

11 January 1957

Season 2, Episode 37: The Magic Suitcase

25 January 1957
An old man and his grandson invite a lost hitchhiker to stay the night at their vacation cabin. The stranger disappears, but leaves behind a suitcase that generates huge amounts of electricity. Grandpa turns it over to scientists who are clueless as to how this simple device makes so much power.

Season 2, Episode 38: Bolt of Lightning

1 February 1957
After an explosion in a research lab, investigators try to find the source of the problem. Many theories abound including the possibility of UFOs. A chance discovery leads investigators to a conclusion no one could believe

Season 2, Episode 39: The Strange Lodger

8 February 1957
A scientist's new TV ratings device can tell what channel a person's watching just by aiming an antenna at their house. He's perplexed when it registers a channel 84--a channel that doesn't exist--coming from the apartment of an elderly gentleman. A government UFO investigator becomes involved, convinced the old man isn't receiving information, but transmitting it to an alien craft.