Science Fiction Theatre
Science Fiction Theatre is an American science fiction anthology series produced by Ivan Tors and Maurice Ziv, syndicated from 1955 to 1957. Host Truman Bradley introduces each half-hour story extrapolated from the real scientific data and anxieties of the era — visitors from other worlds, miracle drugs, weather control, and the limits of the human mind. The series drew on stories by writers such as Jack Finney and Stanley Weinbaum and employed working scientists as consultants to keep its speculation within the bounds of the plausible. The first season of 39 episodes is in the public domain; the first 13 are streamed here.
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Season 1
Beyond
A scientist's experiment probes the boundary between life and whatever lies beyond it.
Time Is Just a Place
A man discovers visitors from the future hiding in plain sight in the present day.
Out of Nowhere
An object appears from nowhere, baffling the scientists called to study it.
Y.O.R.D.
Researchers investigate a signal of unknown origin that seems to answer back.
Stranger in the Desert
A stranger wanders out of the desert with a story that defies explanation.
No Food for Thought
A synthetic food substitute promises to end hunger, until its side effects emerge.
The Brain of John Emerson
A surgeon attempts a radical procedure to save a mind unlike any other.
Spider, Inc.
A research firm's pursuit of a miracle material leads to an unsettling discovery.
Death at 2 A.M.
A series of deaths points to a cause that science has yet to name.
Conversation with an Ape
A scientist teaches an ape to speak and is unprepared for what it says.
Marked Danger
A device meant to predict disasters marks a man as its next subject.
Hour of Nightmare
An experiment in shared dreaming turns into an hour no one can wake from.
100 Years Young
A treatment that halts aging raises the question of what a century of life really costs.
The Strange Dr. Lorenz
A doctor discovers that a honey formula has amazing healing powers.
The Frozen Sound
After a doctor is charge with spying it is learned that a synthetic crystal can record sounds.
The Stones Began to Move
An Egyptologist tries to prove that the pyramids were constructed using levitation.
The Lost Heartbeat
A scientist needs to construct a mechanical heart or his colleague will die.
The World Below
The survivors of a submarine disaster claim that they saw a city on the sea floor. They, however, are ridiculed by investigators.
Barrier of Silence
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.
The Negative Man
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.
Dead Reckoning
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.
A Visit from Dr. Pliny
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.
Strange People at Pecos
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.
Dead Storage
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.
The Human Equation
A doctor discovers that brutal murders are being caused by fumes from a wheat fungus experiment that produces violent side effects.
Target: Hurricane
When a meteor's plunge into the ocean causes a hurricane that sweeps toward Florida, a meteorologist desperately searches for his son.
Water Maker
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.
The Unexplored
A woman's telepathic abilities lead her and her husband to a missing biologist.
The Hastings Secret
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.
Postcard from Barcelona
A dead scientist's papers reveal that he had made a deal with aliens to help mankind's progress in science.
Friend of a Raven
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.
Beyond Return
A serum cures a dying woman but turns her into a killer who can change her physical appearance at will.
Before the Beginning
Biophysicist Dr. Ken Donaldson uses a photon gun to cure his wife of a mysterious disease.
The Long Day
An experimental rocket creates artificial daylight at night and causes trouble for an ex-con.
Project 44
After a crew is chosen for the first flight to Mars trouble arises when the project is continually sabotaged by an astronaut.
Are We Invaded?
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.
Sound of Murder
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.
Operation Flypaper
A thief uses a sonic paralyzer to freeze people while he steals scientific secrets.
The Other Side of the Moon
A scientist believes that the moon is being used as a nuclear waste dumping ground by creatures from other worlds.
Season 2
Signals From the Heart
A policeman who wears an electronic heart transmitter has a heart attack and is searched for by doctors and his fellow police.
The Long Sleep
A scientist is forced to put a dying young boy into deep freeze by a desperate father.
Who Is This Man?
A hypnosis experiment goes wrong when a man adopts the personality of a murderer who was hanged in 1882.
The Green Bomb
A scientist uses stolen material to build an atomic bomb in his house.
When a Camera Fails
A doctor is suspected of insanity when he claims that he can see perfectly preserved images from the past by using special eyeglasses.
Bullet Proof
A bank robber uses a resistant metal left behind by an alien spaceship as a shield.
The Flicker
Two police inspectors attempt to prove that a man was killed because of the hypnotic effect caused by a movie screen Flicker.
The Unguided Missile
A young woman becomes a national security risk when her ESP abilities pick up top-secret defense formulas.
Mind Machine
A dying scientist transmits his knowledge through a brain-transmitting machine.
The Missing Waveband
A scientist receives scientific information from a prisoner on a totalitarian world millions of light years away.
The Human Experiment
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.
Man Who Didn't Know
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.
End of Tomorrow
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.
The Phantom Car
A sheriff and a geologist join forces to stop the rampage of a radio controlled car.
Beam of Fire
After top scientists are killed by an alien beam, a scientist discovers that space scouts are trying to stop mankind's progress into space.
The Legend of Crater Mountain
A small town Arizona teacher discovers that some of her students have telepathic powers.
Living Lights
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.
Jupitron
A man and woman are transported to a moon of Jupiter where a long missing scientist gives then a formula for creating synthetic food.
The Throwback
A biologist believes that he can predict people's lives by studying their ancestors.
Miracle of Doctor Dove
Investigators try to locate three vanished nutrition experts who may have found the key to longer life.
One Thousand Eyes
After a scientist is murdered and the main suspect dies, a police scientist reconstructs the crime with a revolutionary camera.
Brain Unlimited
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.
Death at My Fingertips
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.
Survival in Box Canyon
A rescue operation tries to locate a pilot whose plane crashed in an atomic bonb testing area.
The Voice
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.
Three Minute Mile
A football star is given a serum that increases his strength.
The Last Barrier
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.
Signals from the Moon
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.
Doctor Robot
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.
The Human Circuit
A rescue operation is mounted when a dancer's clairvoyant vision of a stranded pilot is electronically reproduced.
The Miracle Hour
A boy blinded in an automobile accident is treated by a doctor using a new technique involving lights.
Sun Gold
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.
Facsimile
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.
Killer Tree
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.
Gravity Zero
Two scientists who are about to lose their jobs, astound the world with a process that neutralizes gravity.
The Magic Suitcase
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.
Bolt of Lightning
An investigation reveals that a scientist died and his entire building was destroyed when he tried to build a flying saucer.
The Strange Lodger
A strange man sends signals to a bright light 1,000 miles away. Before authorities can grab him, he disappears.
Sound That Kills
A scientist must clear his name when he is accused of murdering someone with an ultrasonic weapon he has created.
Details
- Years
- 1955–1957
- Seasons
- 2
- Episodes
- 78
- Genres
- Sci-Fi, Drama
- TMDB Rating
- 6.3/10 (9 votes)
- Maturity Rating
- NR
- Quality
- HD
- Audio
- English
- Status
- Public Domain
- Studio
- Ivan Tors Productions
