Science Fiction Theatre
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1. Beyond
Community Score
| 10.0 Perfect |
The pilot of an experimental fighter jet passes mach 2 and then sees a UFO, off his wing, matching his speed. He believes that the craft will collide with his jet, so he ejects. Later, he tries to convince the authorities that he wasn't imagining it. They finally convince him that what he saw was simply his own pen, floating in free-fall. However, after the jet's wreckage has been retrieved, even the authorities know that the pen explanation is wrong, and that there was probably a real UFO.
Director: Herbert L. Strock
Guest star: Michael Fox (Radar Man), Bruce Bennett (General Troy) , Robert C. Carson (Capt. Ferguson, Security), William Lundigan (Maj. Fred Gunderman), Ellen Drew (Helen Gunderman), Basil Ruysdael (Prof. Samuel Carson), Tom Drake (Dr. James Everett), Doug Kennedy (Col. R.J. Barton), Mark Lowell (Radio Operator)
2. Time Is Just a Place
Community Score
| 10.0 Perfect |
A man discovers that his next door neighbors are fugitives from the future.
Director: Jack Arnold
Guest star: Don DeFore (Al Brown), Warren Stevens (Ted Heller), Marie Windsor (Nell Brown), Peggy O'Connor (Ann Heller)
3. Out of Nowhere
First aired: 4/23/1955When Dr. Osbourne discovers bats crashing into the sides of buildings, he figures out that a radar disrupting device is being used by enemy agents.
Director: Herbert L. Strock
Guest star: Richard Arlen (Dr. Osbourne), Jess Barker (Dr. Jeffries), Carlyle Mitchell (Kenyon), Jonathon Hale (Dr. Milton), Hal Forest (Fleming), Irving Mitchell (Superintendent), Craig Duncan (Robb)
4. Y.O.R.D.
First aired: 4/30/1955 Production Code: 1005An alien spaceship is distress is sending an SOS to personnel at an arctic outpost.
Director: Leon Benson
Guest star: Walter Kingsford (Dr. Lawton), Rachel Ames (Edna Miner) , DeForest Kelley (Captian Hall), Kenneth Tobey (Lt. Dunne), Louis Jean Heydt (Col. Van Dyke)
5. Stranger in the Desert
First aired: 5/7/1955After meeting a radioactive eagle and a disappearing botanist, two prospectors discover a strange energy source in the desert.
Director: Henry S. Kesler
Guest star: Marshall Thompson (Gil Collins) , Gene Evans (Bud Porter), Lowell Gilmore (Ballard), John Mitchum (Sheriff Grayson), Ray Bennett (Deputy Charlie)
6. No Food for Thought
Community Score
| 6.0 Fair |
A synthetic nutrient that prolongs the life span of human beings spawns a deadly virus.
Director: Jack Arnold
Guest star: John Howard (Dr. Paul Novak), Otto Kruger (Emmanual Hall), Vera Miles (Jan Corey), Clarence Lung (Dr. Lee Su-Yin), Stanley Andrews (Sheriff Simpson), Hank Patterson (Joe (postman)), Hal K. Dawson (Silas Baker)
7. The Brain of John Emerson
First aired: 5/21/1955 Production Code: 1008A policeman after discovering that his mind contains all the knowledge of a dead scientist decides to continue the scientist's work.
Director: Leslie Goodwins
Guest star: Michael Fox (Dr. Franklin), Charles Maxwell (Dr. Norman Turner) , John Howard (Sgt. John Emerson), Joyce Holden (Joan), Ellen Drew (Mrs. Diane Tunrer), Robert F. Simon (Damon), Jackie Blanchard (Nurse)
8. Spider Inc
Community Score
| 6.4 Fair |
A giant spider fossil leads a geologist to discover a method of synthesizing petroleum.
Director: Jack Arnold
Guest star: Gene Barry (Joe Ferguson), Audrey Totter (Ellie Ferguson), Ludwig Stossel, Robert Clarke (Frank), Herbert Rudley (Mr. McAdoo), Frank Hanley, Phil Arnold (Middle Investor), George Meader
9. Death at 2 A.M.
First aired: 6/4/1955 Production Code: 1010A scientist uses a strength serum to murder a man who is blackmailing him.
Director: Henry Kesler
Guest star: John Qualen (Prof. Sam Avery), Skip Homeier (Bill Reynolds), Ted de Corsia (Det. Sgt. Cox), Douglas Henderson (Mr. Lewis), Virginia Hunter (Paula Hunter)
10. Conversation With an Ape
First aired: 6/11/1955 Production Code: 1011A telepathic chimp saves a scientist and his wife when they are confronted by a killer.
Director: Herbert L. Strock
Guest star: Barbara Hale (Nancy Stanton), Hugh Beaumont (Guy Stanton), Paul Birch (Escaped Convict Pete Lane)
11. Marked Danger
First aired: 6/18/1955A space capsule releases a strange green gas that alters a young woman's metabolism.
Director: Leigh Jason
Guest star: Arthur Franz (Fred Strand) , Nancy Gates (Lois Strand), Otto Kruger (Werner Engstrom), Steve Pendleton, John Pickard (I), John Alvin, Phyllis Cole (Nurse)
12. Hour of Nightmare
First aired: 6/25/1955A man and woman discover the dead body of an alien in the desert. They also learn that the strange lights in the Mexican Sky are caused by aliens looking for their fallen comrade.
Director: Henry Kesler
Guest star: William Bishop (Mel Wingate), Lynn Bari (Verda Wingate), Christopher Dark (Ramon Sanchez), Charles Evans (Ed Trantor), Toney Barrett (Velasquez)
13. One Hundred Years Young
First aired: 7/2/1955 Production Code: 1015After a chemist claims to be 200 years old there is an effort to perfect an immortality serum.
Director: Herbert L. Strock
Guest star: Ruth Hussey (Bernice Knight), John Abbott (John Bowers), John Archer (Mike Redding), Charles Meredith (Mr. Lyman), Larry Hudson (Police Scientist Dick)
14. The Strange Dr. Lorenz
First aired: 7/9/1955A doctor discovers that a honey formula has amazing healing powers.
Director: Leigh Jason
Guest star: Donald Curtis (Dr. Fred Garner), Edmund Gwenn (Dr. Lorenz), Kristine Miller (Nurse Helen Tuttle), Hank Patterson (George), Charles Wagenheim (Everett), Madge Cleveland (Mrs. LeBlanc)
15. The Frozen Sound
Community Score
| 10.0 Perfect |
After a doctor is charge with spying it is learned that a synthetic crystal can record sounds.
Director: Leigh Jason
Guest star: Marshall Thompson (David Masters), Michael Fox (Dr. Gordine) , Marilyn Erskine (Linda Otis), Ray Collins (Milton Otis), Elizabeth Patterson (Hannah)
16. The Stones Began to Move
Community Score
| 10.0 Perfect |
An Egyptologist tries to prove that the pyramids were constructed using levitation.
Director: Lew Landers
Guest star: Basil Rathbone (Victor Berenson), Jean Willes (Virginia Kinkaid), Jonathan Hale (Dr. Morton Archer, Curator), Richard Flato (Ahmed Abdullah), Russ Conway (Det. Lt. Crenshaw), Robin Short (Dr. Paul Kincaid), Carol Thurston (Seja Dih's Granddaughter), Helen Van Camp
17. The Lost Heartbeat
First aired: 8/13/1955A scientist needs to construct a mechanical heart or his colleague will die.
Director: Henry Kesler
Guest star: Walter Kingsford (Dr. John Crane) , Zachary Scott (Dr. Richard Marshall), Jan Sheppard (Joan Crane), John Mitchum, Thomas McKee, Ted Thorpe, Gordon Wynn, Pierce Lyden
18. The World Below
First aired: 8/27/1955The survivors of a submarine disaster claim that they saw a city on the sea floor. They, however, are ridiculed by investigators.
Director: Herbert L. Strock
Guest star: Gene Barry (Capt. John Forrester), Tol Avery (Professor Buck Weaver), Marguerite Chapman (Jean Forester), Paul Dubov (Lt. Carruthers, Prosecutor), John Phillips, George Eldredge (Cdr. Stanely, Hearing Chairman), William Stout, James Waters, George Mather
19. Barrier of Silence
First aired: 9/3/1955A 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.
Director: Leon Benson
Guest star: Charles Maxwell (Thornton) , Warren Stevens (Professor Sheldon), Phyllis Coates (Karen Sheldon), Adolphe Menjou (Dr. Elliot Harcourt), John Doucette (Neilson)
20. The Negative Man
First aired: 9/10/1955When 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.
Director: Henry Kesler
Guest star: Carl "Alfalfa" Switzer (Pete), Dane Clark (Vic Murphy), Beverly Garland (Sally Torens), Robert F. Simon, Joe Forte, Pat Miller, David Alpert, Tom Daly, Peter Davis
21. Dead Reckoning
First aired: 9/17/1955 Production Code: 1022On 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.
Director: Herbert L. Strock
Guest star: John Craig (Captain John Berry), Adam Williams (Lt. Bookman), Arlene Whelan (Evelyn Raleigh), Steve Brodie (Lt. David Kramer), Everett Glass (Dr. Millard Townsend), Arthur Lewis (Sgt. Cornellius Cooper), Tom Anthony (Navigator Tom), Frank Gerstle (Commanding Officer)
22. A Visit from Dr. Pliny
First aired: 9/24/1955A 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.
Director: Henry Kesler
Guest star: Edmund Gwenn (Dr. Pliny), John Stephenson (Dr. Brewster), William Schallert (Thomas), Morris Ankrum (George Hasley), Howard Wright (Dr. Miller), Juney Ellis (Mrs. Petterson), Marilyn Saris (Ruth), Victoria Fox (British Institute Receptionist)
23. Strange People at Pecos
First aired: 10/1/1955Radar 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.
Director: Eddie Davis
Guest star: Arthur Franz (Jeff Jamison), Rachel Ames (Amy Kern) , Doris Dowling (Celia Jamison), Andrew Glick (Terry Jamison), Dabbs Greer (Arthur Kern), Beverly Washburn (Laurie Kern), Barry Froner (Junior Jamison), James Westerfield (Dr. Charles Conselman), Paul Birch (Sheriff), Hank Patterson (Truck Driver)
24. Dead Storage
First aired: 10/8/1955 Production Code: 1025A 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.
Director: Jack Herzberg
Guest star: Virginia Bruce (Dr. Myrna Griffith), Robert H. Harris (Dr. Robinson), Douglas Henderson (Dr. Avery), Walter Coy (Warren Keith), Booth Colman (Dr. McLeod)
25. The Human Equation
First aired: 10/15/1955 Production Code: 1026A doctor discovers that brutal murders are being caused by fumes from a wheat fungus experiment that produces violent side effects.
Director: Henry Kesler
Guest star: Macdonald Carey (Dr. Lee Seward), Jean Byron (Nan Guild), Peter Adams (Dr. Clements), Tom McKee (Dr. Upton), Marjorie Bennett, Michael Winkelman (unknown), George Meader, Elizabeth Whitney, Herbert Heyes (Governor)
26. Target: Hurricane
First aired: 10/22/1955 Production Code: 1027When a meteor's plunge into the ocean causes a hurricane that sweeps toward Florida, a meteorologist desperately searches for his son.
Director: Leigh Jason
Guest star: Marshall Thompson (James Tyler) , Garry Marshall (Bobby Tyler), Margaret Tyler (Julie Tyler), Robert Griffin (Walter Bronson), Ray Collins (Hugh Fredericks), John Doucette (Col. Stewart), John Bryant, Will J. White, Margaret Field (Julie Tyler)
27. Water Maker
First aired: 10/29/1955A 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.
Director: Herbert L. Strock
Guest star: Craig Stevens (David Brooks), Virginia Grey (Sheila Dunlap), William Talman (Norman Conway), Elmore Vincent, John Mitchum
28. The Unexplored
First aired: 11/5/1955A woman's telepathic abilities lead her and her husband to a missing biologist.
Director: Eddie Davis
Guest star: Kent Smith (Professor Alex Bondar), Osa Massen (Julie Bondar), Harvey Stephens (Henry Stark), Madge Kennedy (Mrs. Canby), George Eldredge, Ruta Lee, George Crise, Paul Hahn
29. The Hastings Secret
First aired: 11/12/1955 Production Code: 1030A 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.
Director: Jack Herzberg
Guest star: Bill Williams (Bill Twinning) , Barbara Hale (Pat Hastings), Morris Ankrum (Dr. Clausen)
30. Postcard from Barcelona
First aired: 11/19/1955 Production Code: 1031A dead scientist's papers reveal that he had made a deal with aliens to help mankind's progress in science.
Director: Alvin Ganzer
Guest star: Walter Kingsford (Dr. Cole) , Walter Kingsford (Dr. Cole), Keefe Brasselle (Edward Burton), Christine Larson (Nina Keller), Cyril Delevanti (Thatcher), Charles Cane (Sheriff Alderson)
31. Friend of a Raven
First aired: 11/26/1955 Production Code: 1032A 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.
Director: Tom Gries
Guest star: Richard Eyer (Tim Daniels), Virginia Bruce (Jean Gordon), William Ching (Walter Daniels), Bernard Phillips (Dr. Hoster), Charles Cane (Frank Jenkins), Isa Ashdown
32. Beyond Return
First aired: 12/3/1955 Production Code: 1033A serum cures a dying woman but turns her into a killer who can change her physical appearance at will.
Director: Eddie Davis
Guest star: Peter Hansen (Dr. Dan Scott) , Zachary Scott (Dr. Erwin Bach), Joan Vohs (Kyra Zelas), James Seay (James Russel), Tom De Graffenried (Police Officer), Alan Reynolds (Police Officer), Dennis Moore (Robbery Victim), Elizabeth Slifer (Mrs. Shea), Kay Faylen (Nurse), Toni Carroll (Nurse)
33. Before the Beginning
First aired: 12/10/1955 Production Code: 1034Biophysicist Dr. Ken Donaldson uses a photon gun to cure his wife of a mysterious disease.
Director: Alvin Ganzer
Guest star: Rachel Ames (Kate Donaldson) , Dane Clark (Ken Donaldson), Phillip Pine (Norman Heller), Ted de Corsia (Dr. Donaldson), Emerson Treacy (Dr. Heineman)
34. The Long Day
First aired: 12/17/1955 Production Code: 1035An experimental rocket creates artificial daylight at night and causes trouble for an ex-con.
Director: Paul Guilfoyle (I)
Guest star: Brad Jackson (I), George Brent (Sam Gilmore), Jean Byron (Laura Gilmore), Steve Brodie (Robert Barton), DeForest Kelley (Matt Brander), Raymond Bailey (Professor), Michael Winkelman (Sammy Gilmore), Michael Garth (Joe Crane), Addison Richards (Howard "Howie" Stevens), Carol Thurston (Ann Brander)
35. Project 44
First aired: 12/24/1955After a crew is chosen for the first flight to Mars trouble arises when the project is continually sabotaged by an astronaut.
Director: Tom Gries
Guest star: Bill Williams (Dr. Arnold Bryan) , Doris Dowling (Dr. Janice Morgan), Biff Elliot (Ed Garrett), Mary Munday, Mack Williams (Undersecretary of State Everett Sturgis), Toni Carroll, Amanda Webb, Vicki Bakker, Ken Drake (Astronaut Candidate), Robert Nelson, Tom Bernard, Patsy Parsons ([as Patricia Parsons]), Dr. Robert S. Richardson (Himself)
36. Are We Invaded?
First aired: 12/31/1955A 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.
Director: Leon Benson
Guest star: Leslie Gaye (Barbara Arnold), Richard Erdman (Seth Turner), Anthony Eustrel (Galleon), Paul Hahn (Paul), Pat O'Brien (I) (Dr. Walter Arnold)
37. The Sound of Murder
First aired: 1/7/1956Dr. 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.
Director: Jack Arnold
Guest star: Charles Maxwell (Agent John Randall) , Howard Duff (Dr. Tom Matthews), Whit Bissell (Harry Grayson), Wheaton Chambers (Dr. Van Kamp), Olan Soule (Mr. Wilkins), Russ Conway (Charles S. Lyons, D.A.), Charlotte Lawrence, Paul Peters, Julie Jordon, Christine Larson, Ruth Perrott (Mary Kerwin), Edward Earle
38. Operation Flypaper
First aired: 1/14/1956A thief uses a sonic paralyzer to freeze people while he steals scientific secrets.
Director: Eddie Davis
Guest star: Vincent Price (Dr. Philip Redmond), George Eldredge (David Vollard), John Eldredge (John Vollard), Kristine Miller (Alma Ford), Dabbs Greer (MacNamara), Mauritz Hugo (Hotel Manager), William Vaughan (Richard Owen)
39. The Other Side of the Moon
First aired: 1/28/1956A scientist believes that the moon is being used as a nuclear waste dumping ground by creatures from other worlds.
Director: Eddie Davis
Guest star: Skip Homeier (Larry Kersten), Beverly Garland (Katey Kersten), Philip Ober (Prof. Carl Scheider), Bill Henry (Dean Collins), Mack Williams (General Jacob Evans), Paul Hahn (Prof. Hammel), Peter Davis, Peter Dunne, Paul Guilfoyle (I) (Dr. Sutton), Scotty Morrow (Ricky Summerlin)
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