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Science Fiction Theatre is an American science fiction anthology series that aired in syndication from April 1955 to April 1957. It was produced by Ivan...
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  • Beyond
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    Beyond

    Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 4/9/1955

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

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Time Is Just a Place
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    Time Is Just a Place

    Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 4/16/1955

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

    Director: Jack Arnold

    Writer: Unknown

  • Out of Nowhere
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    Out of Nowhere

    Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 4/23/1955

    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.

    Director: Herbert L. Strock

    Writer: Unknown

  • Y.O.R.D.
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    Y.O.R.D.

    Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 4/30/1955

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

    Director: Leon Benson, Ivan Tors

    Writer: Unknown

  • Stranger in the Desert
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    Stranger in the Desert

    Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 5/7/1955

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

    Director: Ivan Tors

    Writer: Unknown

  • No Food for Thought
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    No Food for Thought

    Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 5/14/1955

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

    Director: Jack Arnold

    Writer: Unknown

  • The Brain of John Emerson
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    The Brain of John Emerson

    Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 5/21/1955

    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

  • Spider Inc
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    Spider Inc

    Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 5/28/1955

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

    Director: Jack Arnold

    Writer: Unknown

  • Death at 2 A.M.
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    Death at 2 A.M.

    Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 6/4/1955

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

    Director: Ivan Tors

    Writer: Unknown

  • Conversation With an Ape
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    Conversation With an Ape

    Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 6/11/1955

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

    Director: Herbert L. Strock

    Writer: Unknown

  • Marked Danger
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    Marked Danger

    Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 6/18/1955

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

    Director: Leigh Jason

    Writer: Unknown

  • Hour of Nightmare
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    Hour of Nightmare

    Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 6/25/1955

    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...

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • One Hundred Years Young
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    One Hundred Years Young

    Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 7/2/1955

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

    Director: Herbert L. Strock

    Writer: Unknown

  • The Strange Dr. Lorenz
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    The Strange Dr. Lorenz

    Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 7/9/1955

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

    Director: Leigh Jason

    Writer: Unknown

  • The Frozen Sound
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    The Frozen Sound

    Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 7/30/1955

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

    Director: Leigh Jason

    Writer: Unknown

  • The Stones Began to Move
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    The Stones Began to Move

    Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 8/6/1955

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

    Director: Ivan Tors, Lew Landers

    Writer: Unknown

  • The Lost Heartbeat
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    The Lost Heartbeat

    Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 8/13/1955

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

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • The World Below
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    The World Below

    Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 8/27/1955

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

    Director: Herbert L. Strock

    Writer: Unknown

  • Barrier of Silence
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    Barrier of Silence

    Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 9/3/1955

    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

  • The Negative Man
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    The Negative Man

    Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 9/10/1955

    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

  • Dead Reckoning
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    Dead Reckoning

    Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 9/17/1955

    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.

    Director: Herbert L. Strock

    Writer: Gene Levitt

  • A Visit from Dr. Pliny
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    A Visit from Dr. Pliny

    Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 9/24/1955

    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

  • Strange People at Pecos
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    Strange People at Pecos

    Season 1 Episode 23 - Aired 10/1/1955

    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.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Dead Storage
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    Dead Storage

    Season 1 Episode 24 - Aired 10/8/1955

    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

  • The Human Equation
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    The Human Equation

    Season 1 Episode 25 - Aired 10/15/1955

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

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Target: Hurricane
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    Target: Hurricane

    Season 1 Episode 26 - Aired 10/22/1955

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

    Director: Leigh Jason

    Writer: Eric Freiwald

  • Water Maker
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    Water Maker

    Season 1 Episode 27 - Aired 10/29/1955

    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.

    Director: Herbert L. Strock

    Writer: Unknown

  • The Unexplored
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    The Unexplored

    Season 1 Episode 28 - Aired 11/5/1955

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

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • The Hastings Secret
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    The Hastings Secret

    Season 1 Episode 29 - Aired 11/12/1955

    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.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Postcard from Barcelona
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    Postcard from Barcelona

    Season 1 Episode 30 - Aired 11/19/1955

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

    Director: Tom Gries, Ivan Tors

    Writer: Sloan Nibley

  • Friend of a Raven
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    Friend of a Raven

    Season 1 Episode 31 - Aired 11/26/1955

    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.

    Director: Tom Gries

    Writer: Unknown

  • Beyond Return
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    Beyond Return

    Season 1 Episode 32 - Aired 12/3/1955

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

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Before the Beginning
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    Before the Beginning

    Season 1 Episode 33 - Aired 12/10/1955

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

    Director: Ivan Tors

    Writer: Unknown

  • The Long Day
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    The Long Day

    Season 1 Episode 34 - Aired 12/17/1955

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

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Project 44
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    Project 44

    Season 1 Episode 35 - Aired 12/24/1955

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

    Director: Tom Gries

    Writer: Unknown

  • Are We Invaded?
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    Are We Invaded?

    Season 1 Episode 36 - Aired 12/31/1955

    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.

    Director: Leon Benson

    Writer: Unknown

  • Sound of Murder
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    Sound of Murder

    Season 1 Episode 37 - Aired 1/7/1956

    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.

    Director: Jack Arnold

    Writer: Unknown

  • Operation Flypaper
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    Operation Flypaper

    Season 1 Episode 38 - Aired 1/14/1956

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

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • The Other Side of the Moon
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    The Other Side of the Moon

    Season 1 Episode 39 - Aired 1/28/1956

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

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown