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Science Fiction Theatre

Season 2 · 39 episodes · Apr 7, 1956

  1. Episode 1

    Signals From the Heart

    Apr 7, 1956

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

  2. Episode 2

    The Long Sleep

    Apr 14, 1956

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

  3. Episode 3

    Who Is This Man?

    Apr 21, 1956

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

  4. Episode 4

    The Green Bomb

    Apr 28, 1956

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

  5. Episode 5

    When a Camera Fails

    May 5, 1956

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

  6. Episode 6

    Bullet Proof

    May 12, 1956

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

  7. Episode 7

    The Flicker

    May 19, 1956

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

  8. Episode 8

    The Unguided Missile

    May 26, 1956

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

  9. Episode 9

    Mind Machine

    Jun 23, 1956

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

  10. Episode 10

    The Missing Waveband

    Jun 16, 1956

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

  11. Episode 11

    The Human Experiment

    Jun 23, 1956

    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.

  12. Episode 12

    Man Who Didn't Know

    Jun 30, 1956

    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.

  13. Episode 13

    End of Tomorrow

    Jul 7, 1956

    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.

  14. Episode 14

    The Phantom Car

    Jul 21, 1956

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

  15. Episode 15

    Beam of Fire

    Jul 28, 1956

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

  16. Episode 16

    The Legend of Crater Mountain

    Aug 18, 1956

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

  17. Episode 17

    Living Lights

    Aug 25, 1956

    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.

  18. Episode 18

    Jupitron

    Sep 15, 1956

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

  19. Episode 19

    The Throwback

    Sep 22, 1956

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

  20. Episode 20

    Miracle of Doctor Dove

    Sep 29, 1956

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

  21. Episode 21

    One Thousand Eyes

    Oct 6, 1956

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

  22. Episode 22

    Brain Unlimited

    Oct 13, 1956

    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.

  23. Episode 23

    Death at My Fingertips

    Oct 20, 1956

    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.

  24. Episode 24

    Survival in Box Canyon

    Nov 3, 1956

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

  25. Episode 25

    The Voice

    Nov 10, 1956

    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.

  26. Episode 26

    Three Minute Mile

    Nov 17, 1956

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

  27. Episode 27

    The Last Barrier

    Nov 24, 1956

    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.

  28. Episode 28

    Signals from the Moon

    Dec 1, 1956

    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.

  29. Episode 29

    Doctor Robot

    Dec 8, 1956

    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.

  30. Episode 30

    The Human Circuit

    Dec 15, 1956

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

  31. Episode 31

    The Miracle Hour

    Dec 22, 1956

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

  32. Episode 32

    Sun Gold

    Dec 29, 1956

    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.

  33. Episode 33

    Facsimile

    Jan 5, 1957

    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.

  34. Episode 34

    Killer Tree

    Jan 12, 1957

    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.

  35. Episode 35

    Gravity Zero

    Jan 19, 1957

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

  36. Episode 36

    The Magic Suitcase

    Jan 26, 1957

    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.

  37. Episode 37

    Bolt of Lightning

    Feb 2, 1957

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

  38. Episode 38

    The Strange Lodger

    Feb 9, 1957

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

  39. Episode 39

    Sound That Kills

    Apr 6, 1957

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