Science Fiction Theatre Season 1

01. Beyond
Apr 09, 1955

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

02. Time Is Just a Place
Apr 16, 1955

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

Jack Arnold
Jack Arnold

Director

Helen Gailey
Helen Gailey

Script Supervisor

03. 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.

04. Y.O.R.D.
Apr 30, 1955

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

Leon Benson
Leon Benson

Director

Ivan Tors
Ivan Tors

Director

05. Stranger in the Desert
May 07, 1955

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

Ivan Tors
Ivan Tors

Director

Helen Gailey
Helen Gailey

Script Supervisor

06. No Food for Thought
May 14, 1955

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

Jack Arnold
Jack Arnold

Director

07. 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.

08. Spider Inc
May 28, 1955

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

Jack Arnold
Jack Arnold

Director

09. Death at 2 A.M.
Jun 04, 1955

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

10. Conversation With an Ape
Jun 11, 1955

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

11. Marked Danger
Jun 18, 1955

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

Leigh Jason
Leigh Jason

Director

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...

13. One Hundred Years Young
Jul 02, 1955

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

14. The Strange Dr. Lorenz
Jul 09, 1955

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

Leigh Jason
Leigh Jason

Director

Fred Bentley
Fred Bentley

Additional Camera

15. The Frozen Sound
Jul 30, 1955

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

16. The Stones Began to Move
Aug 06, 1955

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

Lew Landers
Lew Landers

Director

Ivan Tors
Ivan Tors

Director

17. The Lost Heartbeat
Aug 13, 1955

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

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.

19. Barrier of Silence
Sep 03, 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.

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.

Ivan Tors
Ivan Tors

Director

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.

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.

23. Strange People at Pecos
Oct 01, 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.

24. Dead Storage
Oct 08, 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.

Ivan Tors
Ivan Tors

Director

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.

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.

Eric Freiwald
Eric Freiwald

Writer

Leigh Jason
Leigh Jason

Director

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.

28. The Unexplored
Nov 05, 1955

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

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.

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.

Sloan Nibley
Sloan Nibley

Writer

Tom Gries
Tom Gries

Director

Ivan Tors
Ivan Tors

Director

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.

Tom Gries
Tom Gries

Director

Edward F. Mull
Edward F. Mull

Assistant Director

32. Beyond Return
Dec 03, 1955

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

33. Before the Beginning
Dec 10, 1955

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

Ivan Tors
Ivan Tors

Director

34. The Long Day
Dec 17, 1955

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

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.

Tom Gries
Tom Gries

Director

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.

Pat O’Brien
Pat O’Brien

Lisa Gaye
Lisa Gaye

(as Leslie Gaye)

Leon Benson
Leon Benson

Director

37. Sound of Murder
Jan 07, 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.

38. Operation Flypaper
Jan 14, 1956

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

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.