The Best Episodes of Science Fiction Theatre

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   8.0/10(52 votes)

   #1 - One Thousand Eyes

   S2:E2110/6/1956

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

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   7.9/10(35 votes)

   #2 - Three Minute Mile

   S2:E2611/17/1956

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

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   7.8/10(89 votes)

   #3 - Time Is Just a Place

   S1:E24/16/1955

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

   Director:Jack Arnold

   Writer:Unknown

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   7.7/10(50 votes)

   #4 - Operation Flypaper

   S1:E381/14/1956

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

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   7.6/10(44 votes)

   #5 - Strange People at Pecos

   S1:E2310/1/1955

   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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   7.5/10(27 votes)

   #6 - Survival in Box Canyon

   S2:E2411/3/1956

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

   Directors:Herbert L. Strock, Ivan Tors

   Writer:Unknown

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   7.4/10(56 votes)

   #7 - Y.O.R.D.

   S1:E44/30/1955

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

   Directors:Leon Benson, Ivan Tors

   Writer:Unknown

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   7.4/10(39 votes)

   #8 - The Negative Man

   S1:E209/10/1955

   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.

   Director:Ivan Tors

   Writer:Unknown

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   7.4/10(39 votes)

   #9 - The Green Bomb

   S2:E44/28/1956

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

   Director:Tom Gries

   Writer:Tom Gries

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    7.4/10(28 votes)

    #10 - The Unguided Missile

    S2:E85/26/1956

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

    Director:Herbert L. Strock

    Writer:Unknown

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    7.3/10(41 votes)

    #11 - A Visit from Dr. Pliny

    S1:E229/24/1955

    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.

    Director:Unknown

    Writer:Sloan Nibley

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    7.3/10(35 votes)

    #12 - The Human Equation

    S1:E2510/15/1955

    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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    7.3/10(27 votes)

    #13 - Jupitron

    S2:E189/15/1956

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

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    7.3/10(34 votes)

    #14 - The Voice

    S2:E2511/10/1956

    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.

    Director:Unknown

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    7.2/10(39 votes)

    #15 - The Brain of John Emerson

    S1:E75/21/1955

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

    Director:Leslie Goodwins

    Writer:Unknown

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    7.2/10(35 votes)

    #16 - The Frozen Sound

    S1:E157/30/1955

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

    Director:Leigh Jason

    Writer:Unknown

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    7.2/10(35 votes)

    #17 - Barrier of Silence

    S1:E199/3/1955

    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.

    Director:Leon Benson

    Writer:Unknown

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    7.2/10(36 votes)

    #18 - Dead Storage

    S1:E2410/8/1955

    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.

    Director:Ivan Tors

    Writer:Unknown

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    7.2/10(29 votes)

    #19 - Postcard from Barcelona

    S1:E3011/19/1955

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

    Directors:Tom Gries, Ivan Tors

    Writer:Sloan Nibley

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    Directors:Tom Gries, Ivan Tors

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    7.2/10(33 votes)

    #20 - The Other Side of the Moon

    S1:E391/28/1956

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

    Director:Unknown

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    7.2/10(28 votes)

    #21 - Signals From the Heart

    S2:E14/7/1956

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

    Directors:Herbert L. Strock, Ivan Tors

    Writer:Unknown

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    7.2/10(31 votes)

    #22 - When a Camera Fails

    S2:E55/5/1956

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

    Directors:Herbert L. Strock, Ivan Tors

    Writer:Unknown

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    7.2/10(28 votes)

    #23 - Bullet Proof

    S2:E65/12/1956

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

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    7.2/10(29 votes)

    #24 - The Flicker

    S2:E75/19/1956

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

    Director:Herbert L. Strock

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    7.2/10(24 votes)

    #25 - The Human Experiment

    S2:E116/23/1956

    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.

    Director:Ivan Tors

    Writer:Unknown

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