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Science Fiction Theatre

Season 1 · 39 episodes · Apr 9, 1955

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    Episode 1

    Beyond

    Apr 9, 1955

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

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    Episode 2

    Time Is Just a Place

    Apr 16, 1955

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

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    Episode 3

    Out of Nowhere

    Apr 23, 1955

    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.

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    Episode 4

    Y.O.R.D.

    Apr 30, 1955

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

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    Episode 5

    Stranger in the Desert

    May 7, 1955

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

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    Episode 6

    No Food for Thought

    May 14, 1955

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

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    Episode 7

    The Brain of John Emerson

    May 21, 1955

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

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    Episode 8

    Spider Inc

    May 28, 1955

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

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    Episode 9

    Death at 2 A.M.

    Jun 4, 1955

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

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    Episode 10

    Conversation With an Ape

    Jun 11, 1955

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

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    Episode 11

    Marked Danger

    Jun 18, 1955

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

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    Episode 12

    Hour of Nightmare

    Jun 25, 1955

    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...

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    Episode 13

    One Hundred Years Young

    Jul 2, 1955

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

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    Episode 14

    The Strange Dr. Lorenz

    Jul 9, 1955

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

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    Episode 15

    The Frozen Sound

    Jul 30, 1955

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

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    Episode 16

    The Stones Began to Move

    Aug 6, 1955

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

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    Episode 17

    The Lost Heartbeat

    Aug 13, 1955

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

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    Episode 18

    The World Below

    Aug 27, 1955

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

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    Episode 19

    Barrier of Silence

    Sep 3, 1955

    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.

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    Episode 20

    The Negative Man

    Sep 10, 1955

    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.

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    Episode 21

    Dead Reckoning

    Sep 17, 1955

    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.

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    Episode 22

    A Visit from Dr. Pliny

    Sep 24, 1955

    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.

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    Episode 23

    Strange People at Pecos

    Oct 1, 1955

    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.

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    Episode 24

    Dead Storage

    Oct 8, 1955

    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.

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    Episode 25

    The Human Equation

    Oct 15, 1955

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

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    Episode 26

    Target: Hurricane

    Oct 22, 1955

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

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    Episode 27

    Water Maker

    Oct 29, 1955

    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.

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    Episode 28

    The Unexplored

    Nov 5, 1955

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

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    Episode 29

    The Hastings Secret

    Nov 12, 1955

    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.

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    Episode 30

    Postcard from Barcelona

    Nov 19, 1955

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

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    Episode 31

    Friend of a Raven

    Nov 26, 1955

    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.

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    Episode 32

    Beyond Return

    Dec 3, 1955

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

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    Episode 33

    Before the Beginning

    Dec 10, 1955

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

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    Episode 34

    The Long Day

    Dec 17, 1955

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

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    Episode 35

    Project 44

    Dec 24, 1955

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

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    Episode 36

    Are We Invaded?

    Dec 31, 1955

    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.

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    Episode 37

    Sound of Murder

    Jan 7, 1956

    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.

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    Episode 38

    Operation Flypaper

    Jan 14, 1956

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

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    Episode 39

    The Other Side of the Moon

    Jan 28, 1956

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