6.5/1058 votes#1 - 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: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.9/1085 votes#2 - 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: N/A
6.5/1042 votes#3 - 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: N/A
7.5/1051 votes#4 - 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: Ivan Tors, Leon Benson
Writer: N/A
6.5/1037 votes#5 - 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: N/A
7.0/1045 votes#6 - 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: N/A
7.4/1036 votes#7 - 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: N/A
6.7/1041 votes#8 - 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: N/A
6.5/1031 votes#9 - 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: N/A
6.9/1031 votes#10 - 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: N/A
7.0/1030 votes#11 - 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: N/A
6.8/1036 votes#12 - 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: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.1/1033 votes#13 - 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: N/A
7.2/1035 votes#14 - 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: N/A
7.5/1031 votes#15 - 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: N/A
7.5/1037 votes#16 - 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: N/A
6.6/1030 votes#17 - 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: N/A
Writer: N/A
6.8/1032 votes#18 - 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: N/A
7.4/1032 votes#19 - 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: N/A
7.7/1036 votes#20 - 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: N/A
6.7/1032 votes#21 - 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
7.6/1038 votes#22 - 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: N/A
Writer: Sloan Nibley
7.9/1042 votes#23 - 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: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.4/1032 votes#24 - 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: N/A
7.7/1032 votes#25 - 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: N/A
Writer: N/A
The Best Episodes of Science Fiction Theatre Season 1
Every episode of Science Fiction Theatre Season 1 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Science Fiction Theatre Season 1!
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Season 1 Ratings Summary
"Beyond" is the best rated episode of "Science Fiction Theatre" season 1. It scored 6.5/10 based on 58 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 4/9/1955. This episode is rated 1.4 points higher than the second-best, "Time Is Just a Place".