- Show type: Science Fiction/Science Fact Anthology Drama.
- Original run of show was April 1955 to February 1957.
- The series was syndicated and airdates varied locally.
- There were 2 seasons, 78 episodes and show length was 30 minutes.
- The first season was filmed in color and the second season in black and white.
- The series was hosted by Truman Bradley.
- The series was produced by Ivan Tors.
- The series was A ZIV Television Production.
- Timeless Media Group released the complete series on DVD on May 12, 2015.
Each episode of Science Fiction Theatre began with host Truman Bradley demonstrating and explaining some scientific fact or theory. Many of the concepts came from articles in the then recent issues of Scientific American magazine. This was followed by a fictional story based on or related to the science concepts.
Episode Guide version July 31, 2026
Season 1
1. Beyond
Airdate: April 9, 1955
Directed by: Herbert L. Strock
Screenplay by: Robert Smith, George Van Marter
From a Story by: Ivan Tors
Guest Cast:
William Lundigan as Maj. Fred Gunderman
Bruce Bennett as Gen. Troy
Tom Drake as Dr. James Everett
Ellen Drew as Helen Gunderman
Basil Ruysdael as Prof. Samuel Carson
Douglas Kennedy as Col. R.J. Barton
Michael Fox as Radar Man
Robert Carson as Capt. Ferguson
Mark Lowell as Switchboard Operator
Synopsis: A new rocket fuel is being developed to power the XF, a jet capable of traveling faster Mach 2. During a test, a craft moving faster than the XF is encountered and the pilot ejects. Since the object did not show up on radar his report of the event is questioned.
2. Time Is Just a Place
Airdate: April 16, 1955
Directed by: Jack Arnold
Screenplay by: Lee Berg
From a Short Story by: Jack Finney
Guest Cast:
Don DeFore as Al Brown
Marie Windsor as Nell Brown
Warren Stevens as Ted Heller
Peggy O'Connor as Ann Heller
Synopsis: Al and Nell Brown are suspicious of their odd new neighbor. Mr. Heller, who claims to be an inventor, uses a robotic vacuum cleaner and a flashlight that shines X-rays. Even so, he's clueless about current technology. Al becomes convinced the couple is from the future, though Nell says her husband's reading too much science fiction.
Notes: Adapted from Jack Finney's short story Such Interesting Neighbors which was first published in 1951.
3. Out of Nowhere
Airdate: April 29, 1955
Directed by: Herbert L. Strock
Screenplay by: Donn Mullally
Guest Cast:
Richard Arlen as Dr. Osbourne
Jess Barker as Dr. Jeffries
Carlyle Mitchell as Gen. Kenyon
Irving Mitchell as Superintendent
Jonathan Hale as Dr. Hugo Milton
Hal Forrest as Fleming
Craig Duncan as Robb
Elsie Baker as Cleaning Lady
Robert Templeton
Dallas Boyd as Henry (uncredited)
Grant Davis as Man at Lunch Stand (uncredited)
Frank Hunt as Man at Lunch Stand (uncredited)
Gus Hyland as Maintenance Man (uncredited)
Joseph La Cava as FBI Man (uncredited)
Bob Peterson as Uniformed Policeman (uncredited)
Ben Pollock as Dr. Kennedy (uncredited)
Gail Robinson as Milkman (uncredited)
Synopsis: A strange signal is disrupting the sonar used by bats, causing them to slam into a skyscraper. Fearing a foreign country is tying to disrupt our radar systems, the government investigates. They discover a strong microwave beam aimed at the building from directly above.
4. Y..O..R..D..
Airdate: April 30, 1955
Directed by: Leon Benson
Screenplay by: Leon Benson, George Van Marter
From a Story by: Ivan Tors, George Van Marter
Guest Cast:
Walter Kingsford as Dr. H.J. Lawton
Judith Ames as Edna Miner
Louis Jean Heydt as Lt. Col. Van Dyke
DeForest Kelley as Captain Hall, M.D.
Ken Tobey as Lieutenant Dunne
John Bryant as Warrant Officer Milligan
Clark Howat as Capt. Boyce
Michael Fox as Man Heard on Speaker (voice) (uncredited)
Synopsis: The world's leading expert on telepathy, Dr. Lawton, is rushed with his assistant to a military weather station at the North Pole. The men there have suddenly become psychic mentally receiving a mysterious code.
5. Stranger in the Desert
Airdate: May 7, 1955
Directed by: Henry S. Kesler
Screenplay by: Robert M. Fresco, Curtis Kenyon
From a Story by: Ivan Tors
Guest Cast:
Marshall Thompson as Gil Collins
Gene Evans as Bud Porter
Lowell Gilmore as Ballard
John Mitchum as Sheriff Grayson
Ray Bennett as Deputy Charlie
Synopsis: Two uranium prospectors find a rich deposit and meet a botanist from another land who is searching for oxygen-producing plants.
6. No Food for Thought
Airdate: April 23, 1955
Directed by: Jack Arnold
Screenplay by: Robert M. Fresco
Guest Cast:
Otto Kruger as Dr. Emanuel M. Hall
John Howard as Dr. Paul Novak
Vera Miles as Dr. Jan Corey
Clarence Lung as Dr. Lee Suyin
Stanley Andrews as Sheriff Edgar Simpson
Hal K. Dawson as Silas Barker
Hank Patterson as Joe Green
Synopsis: A Nobel Prize-winning doctor working in rural Arizona is visited by the county health officer after the unusual death of one of his assistants. The secretive scientist is developing a synthetic nutrient that he hoped would be used to prevent widespread hunger. He learned too late it has an unfortunate side effect where creatures using it become highly susceptible to deadly viruses.
7. The Brain of John Emerson
Airdate: May 21, 1955
Directed by: Leslie Goodwins
Screenplay by: Rik Vollaerts
Guest Cast:
John Howard as John Emerson
Ellen Drew as Diane Turner
Joyce Holden as Joan Emerson
Robert Simon as Police Capt. Damon
Michael Fox as Dr. Franklin
Jackie Blanchard as Nurse
Charles Maxwell as Dr. Norman Turner
Synopsis: A new surgical technique saves the life of a policeman by removing a bullet from his brain. He visits the surgeon's laboratory and recognizes the room and equipment. Visiting the doctor's home, he encounters his wife, who is suspicious that he knows so much about the house and the doctor's work.
8. Spider, Inc.
Airdate: May 28, 1955
Directed by: Jack Arnold
Screenplay by: Jerry Sackheim
Guest Cast:
Gene Barry as Joe Ferguson
Audrey Totter as Ellie Ferguson
Ludwig Stossel as Mr. Rogers
Robert Clarke as Frank
Herbert Rudley as Mr. McAdoo
Frank Hanley as Dr. Hemingway
Phil Arnold as Schmidt
George Meader as Mr. Malloy
Synopsis: A scientist thinks he can use a 50 million year old piece of amber with a spider encased within to produce synthetic oil.
9. Death at 2 A.M.
Airdate: June 4, 1955
Directed by: Henry S. Kesler
Screenplay by: Ellis Marcus
From a Story by: Ivan Tors
Guest Cast:
Skip Homeier as Bill Reynolds
John Qualen as Prof. Samuel Avery
Ted de Corsia as Detective Sgt. Cox
Virginia Hunter as Paula Kennedy
Douglas Henderson as Murray Lewis
Synopsis: Police suspect a scientist and his helper of murder. Problem is, neither man has the strength needed to kill the victim in the manner he was killed.
10. Conversation with an Ape
Airdate: June 11, 1955
Directed by: Herbert L. Strock
Screenplay by: Rik Vollaerts
Guest Cast:
Barbara Hale as Nancy Stanton
Hugh Beaumont as Dr. Guy Stanton
Paul Birch as Pete Lane
Synopsis: An animal researcher finds that his own wife is terrified of animals, and hopes to cure her by teaching her to communicate with them. However an unexpected and more dramatic event may do the trick even sooner.
11. Marked 'Danger
Airdate: June 18, 1955
Directed by: Leigh Jason
Screenplay by: Stuart Jerome, Jerry Sackheim
From a Story by: Jack Bennett
Guest Cast:
Otto Kruger as Dr. Werner Engstrom
Arthur Franz as Fred Strand
Nancy Gates as Lois Strand
Steve Pendleton as Dr. Briggs
John Pickard as Sheriff Carson
John Alvin as Dr. Lee Thomas
Phyllis Cole as Nurse
Synopsis: A man prospecting in the desert finds a sealed experimental container containing two white mice, and brings them home to his wife. He goes into town to contact the authorities but when they arrive at the house, the two mice are gone, with only a green residue in the container.
12. Hour of Nightmare
Airdate: June 25, 1955
Directed by: Henry S. Kesler
Screenplay by: Lou Huston
Guest Cast:
William Bishop as Mel Wingate
Lynn Bari as Verda Wingate
Charles Evans as Ed Tratnor
Tony Barrett as Police Commandante
Christopher Dark as Ramon Sanchez
Synopsis: A husband and wife freelance photography team travels to Mexico to photograph mysterious flying objects in the night sky and stumble upon a mysterious dead body.
13. 100 Years Young
Airdate: July 2, 1955
Directed by: Herbert L. Strock
Screenplay by: Jerry Sackheim
From a Story by: Arthur Fitz-Richard
Guest Cast:
Ruth Hussey as Bernice Knight
John Abbott as John Bowers
John Archer as Police Lt. Mike Redding
Charles Meredith as Mr. Lyman
Larry Hudson as Dick Ganz
Synopsis: Though he looks to be in his forties, the man caught breaking into a research laboratory claims he's over 200 years old. He says he learned the secret formula for youth from the medicine man who raised him. The researchers find him to be sad and lonely, afraid to love someone because she will die of old age while he just keeps going.
14. The Strange Doctor Lorenz
Airdate: July 9, 1955
Directed by: Leigh Jason
Screenplay by: Norman Jolley
Guest Cast:
Edmund Gwenn as Dr. Lorenz
Donald Curtis as Dr. Fred Garner
Kristine Miller as Helen Tuttle
Charles Wagenheim as Everett
Hank Patterson as George
Madge Cleveland as Mrs. LeBlanc
Synopsis: A physician who is losing the use of his hands due to X-ray radiation seeks out a mysterious beekeeper who is apparently able to cure the most severe burns.
15. The Frozen Sound
Airdate: July 30, 1955
Directed by: Leigh Jason
Screenplay by: Norman Jolley
From a Story by: Norman Jolley, Ivan Tors
Guest Cast:
Marshall Thompson as Dr. David J. Masters
Marilyn Erskine as Linda Otis
Ray Collins as Dr. Milton Otis
Elizabeth Patterson as Hannah
Michael Fox as Dr. Gordine
Morgan Windbiel as Lester (uncredited)
Synopsis: Two thousand year old sounds coming from a rock leads scientists to the cause of a security leak.
16. The Stones Began to Move
Airdate: August 9, 1955
Directed by: Lew Landers
Screenplay by: Doris Gilbert
From a Story by: Doris Gilbert, Ivan Tors
Guest Cast:
Basil Rathbone as Dr. Victor Berenson
Robin Short as Dr. Paul Kincaid
Jean Willis as Virginia Kincaid
Jonathan Hale as Dr. Morton Archer
Richard Flato as Dr. Ahmed Abdullah
Carol Thurston as Seja Dih's Granddaughter
Russ Conway as Det. Lt. Crenshaw
Helen Van Camp as Maid
Heinie Conklin as Janitor (uncredited)
Synopsis: A discovery inside the recently-opened tomb of an Egyptian pharaoh may hold a clue as to the construction of the pyramids.
17. The Lost Heartbeat
Airdate: August 13, 1955
Directed by: Henry S. Kesler
Screenplay by: Stuart Jerome
From a Story by: Anna Hunger, R. DeWitt Miller
Guest Cast:
Zachary Scott as Dr. Richard Marshall
Walter Kingsford as Dr. John Crane
Jan Shepard as Joan Crane
Thomas McKee as Bill
John Mitchum as Mr. Evans
Ted Thorpe as Houseboy
Gordon Wynn as Doctor
Pierce Lyden as Anesthetist
Synopsis: A young doctor who's been experimenting with heart surgery is visited by his former teacher. Elderly Dr. Crane's time is short due to his bad ticker. Armed with a newly-developed miniature battery, he hopes to convince the surgeon to use the power source to run an artificial heart he wants implanted in his chest.
18. The World Below
Airdate: August 27, 1955
Directed by: Herbert L. Strock
Screenplay by: Lee Hewitt
Guest Cast:
Gene Barry as Capt. John Forester
Marguerite Chapman as Jean Forester
Tol Avery as Prof. Buck Weaver
George Eldredge as Comdr. Stanley
Paul Dubov as Lt. Carruthers
William Stout as TV Announcer
James Waters as Bailiff
John Phillips as Sonar Operator
George Mather as Radio Operator
Tom Anthony as TV Reporter at Hospital (uncredited)
Synopsis: On a deep sea dive in a special device, three men swear that they saw an underwater city, but Navy investigators can find no evidence of the city's existence.
19. Barrier of Silence
Airdate: September 3, 1955
Directed by: Leon Benson
Screenplay by: Lou Huston
Guest Cast:
Adolphe Menjou as Dr. Elliott Harcourt
Warren Stevens as Prof. Richard Sheldon
Phyllis Coates as Karen Sheldon
Charles Maxwell as Robert Thornton
John Doucette as Neilson
Synopsis: A pilot loses his memory of what happened during a top-secret flight, most likely due to intense sound. Scientists hope to retrieve his memory by subjecting him to intense silence.
20. Negative Man
Airdate: September 10, 1955
Directed by: Henry S. Kesler
Screenplay by: Thelma Schnee
From a Story by: Ivan Tors
Guest Cast:
Dane Clark as Vic Murphy
Beverly Garland as Sally Torens
Carl Switzer as Pete
Robert Simon as Prof. Norman Stern
Joe Forte as Prof. Spaulding
Pat Miller as Joe
David Alpert as Edmund Reis
Tom Daly as Dr. Markell
Peter Davis as Frank
Synopsis: After an accident in a laboratory, an electrician develops superior intelligence and super-human sensory powers.
21. Dead Reckoning
Airdate: September 17, 1955
Directed by: Herbert L. Strock
Screenplay by: Gene Levitt
Guest Cast:
James Craig as Capt. John Perry
Steve Brodie as Lt. David Cramer
Arleen Whelan as Evelyn Raleigh
Adam Williams as Lt. Frank Buchanan
Art Lewis as Sgt. Cornelius Cooper
Everett Glass as Dr. Millard Townsend
Frank Gerstle as Col. Eugene Beckwith
Tom Anthony as Tom
Synopsis: Trouble befalls an Air Force flight crew and their passengers, a meteorologist and his beautiful assistant, en route to the Arctic.
22. A Visit from Dr. Pliny
Airdate: September 24, 1955
Directed by: Henry S. Kesler
Screenplay by: Sloan Nibley
Guest Cast:
Edmund Gwenn as Dr. Pliny
William Schallert as Mr. Thomas
Juney Ellis as Mrs. Peterson
John Stephenson as Dr. Brewster
Morris Ankrum as George Halsey
Marilyn Saris as Ruth
Howard Wright as Dr. Miller
Victoria Fox as British Institute Receptionist
Synopsis: Quirky strangers appear at the research institute. They have curious ideas, and unexplained knowledge. Local researchers aren't sure if they are legitimate or if they are dangerous nuts. What will happen if they are allowed into the lab?
23. The Strange People at Pecos
Airdate: October 1, 1955
Directed by: Eddie Davis
Screenplay by: Doris Gilbert
Guest Cast:
Arthur Franz as Jeff Jamison
Doris Dowling as Celia Jamison
Barry Froner as Jeff Jamison Jr.
Andrew Glick as Terry Jamison
Dabbs Greer as Arthur Kern
Judith Ames as Amy Kern
Beverly Washburn as Laurie Kern
James Westerfield as Dr. Charles Conselman
Paul Birch as Sheriff Gomez
Hank Patterson as Truck Driver
Synopsis: A high-strung radar operator is convinced that UFOs are following the test rockets he monitors at a secret facility in Pecos, New Mexico. His kids' new playmate, an odd little girl who feels no pain, causes him to jump to conclusions. He thinks the child and her family are spies from outer space.
24. Dead Storage
Airdate: October 8, 1955
Directed by: Jack Herzberg
Screenplay by: Stuart Jerome
From a Story by: Ivan Tors
Guest Cast:
Virginia Bruce as Dr. Myrna Griffin
Walter Coy as Warren Keath
Robert Harris as Dr. Robinson
Douglas Henderson as Dr. Avery
Booth Colman as Dr. McLeod
Lorraine Knight as Teletype Secretary (uncredited)
Synopsis: Arctic workers discover a frozen mammoth, which is quickly transported to a research institute. Upon thawing, and with a little galvanic shock, investigations take an interesting turn.
25. The Human Equation
Airdate: October 15, 1955
Directed by: Henry S. Kesler
Screenplay by: Norman Jolley
Guest Cast:
Macdonald Carey as Dr. Lee Seward
Jean Byron as Nan Guild
Peter Adams as Dr. Clements
Herbert Heyes as Governor
Tom McKee as Dr. Henry J. Upton
Michael Winkelman as Kenny Guild
George Meader as Dr. Albert Finch
Elizabeth Whitney as Cleaning Woman
Marjorie Bennett as Witness
Synopsis: Researchers studying new antibiotics are finding themselves accused of uncharacteristic behaviors, which they can't recall. Could the ergot-derived compound be affecting their brains?
26. Target Hurricane
Airdate: October 22, 1955
Directed by: Leigh Jason
Screenplay by: Robert Schaefer, Eric Freiwald
From a Story by: Ivan Tors
Guest Cast:
Marshall Thompson as James Tyler
Ray Collins as Prof. Hugh Fredericks
Margaret Field as Julie Tyler
Gary Marshall as Bobby Tyler
Robert Griffin as Walter Bronson
John Doucette as Col. Stewart
John Bryant as Lieutenant
Will J. White as Sergeant
Synopsis: The Miami Hurricane Bureau leaps into action when a killer storm mysteriously appears offshore. Besides keeping the public informed of the threat, James Tyler is worried about his son who's on a camping trip with his Boy Scout troop as they are in the path of the storm.
27. The Water Maker
Airdate: October 29, 1955
Directed by: Herbert L. Strock
Screenplay by: Stuart Jeromem
From a Story by: Jerry Sackheim
Guest Cast:
William Talman as Norman Conway
Virginia Grey as Sheila Dunlap
Craig Stevens as Dr. David Brooks
Elmore Vincent as Charlie
John Mitchum as Sheriff
Synopsis: After the strange death of Dr Dunlap, Dr Brookes arrives to see if he can complete the research Dunlap was doing into creating water in the desert. Elements of Dunlap's death don't add up and Brookes wonders if he was a lot closer to success than anyone thought.
28. The Unexplored
Airdate: November 5, 1955
Directed by: Eddie Davis
Screenplay by: Arthur Weiss
Guest Cast:
Kent Smith as Professor Alex Bondar
Osa Massen as Julie Bondar
Harvey Stephens as Henry Stark
George Eldredge as Dean Trimble
Madge Kennedy as Mrs. Canby
Paul Hahn as Police Lt. Healy
Ruta Lee as Student
George Crise as Student
Synopsis: A Parapsychologist has his funding cut at a college. In a last ditch effort to prove the worth of his research he uses techniques he's developed to try and locate a member of the college staff who has gone missing.
29. The Hastings Secret
Airdate: November 12, 1955
Directed by: Jack Herzberg
Screenplay by: Lee Hewitt
Guest Cast:
Bill Williams as Bill Twining
Barbara Hale as Pat Hastings
Morris Ankrum as Dr. Clausen
Synopsis: A team of investigators go to Peru after incomplete notes are sent from Dr Hastings. They know he was working on new insecticides to use against termites, but when they arrive at the research station they discover something frightening and revolutionary.
30. Postcard from Barcelona
Airdate: November 19, 1955
Directed by: Alvin Ganzer
Screenplay by: Sloan Nibley
From a Story by: Tom Gries, Ivan Tors
Guest Cast:
Keefe Brasselle as Edward Burton
Walter Kingsford as Dr. Cole
Christine Larson as Nina Keller
Cyril Delevanti as Thatcher
Charles Cane as Sheriff Alderson
Synopsis: After the death of Dr Keller, researchers going through his notes discover many of his greatest discoveries came from a third party. As they continue to investigate the truth becomes stranger and stranger.
31. Friend of a Raven
Airdate: November 26, 1955
Directed by: Tom Gries
Screenplay by: Richard Joseph Tuber
Guest Cast:
Virginia Bruce as Jean Gordon
Richard Eyer as Timmy Daniels
William Ching as Walter Daniels
Bernard Phillips as Dr. Hoster
Charles Cane as Frank Jenkins
Isa Ashdown as Girl
Ann Howard as Nurse (uncredited)
Synopsis: A teacher of the deaf and a truant officer visit an apparently deaf-mute boy to determine why he has not been attending school. The teacher finds that the boy has an uncanny ability to communicate with animals, in spite of his disability.
32. Beyond Return
Airdate: December 3, 1955
Directed by: Eddie Davis
Screenplay by: Doris Gilbert
From a Story by: John Jessel
Guest Cast:
Zachary Scott as Dr. Erwin Bach
Joan Vohs as Kyra Zelas
Peter Hanson as Dr. Dan Scott
Tom de Graffenried as Police Officer
Alan Reynolds as Police Officer
Dennis Moore as Robbery Victim
Lizz Slifer as Mrs. Shea
James Seay as James Russell
Kay Faylen as Blonde Nurse
Toni Carroll as Brunette Nurse
Synopsis: A doctor discovers a way to reverse degenerative diseases. He experiments on a young woman who makes a complete recovery. He discovers she is beginning to exhibit extraordinary physical abilities, and he realizes he must reverse the process before it is too late.
33. Before the Beginning
Airdate: December 10, 1955
Directed by: Alvin Ganzer
Screenplay by: Arthur Weiss
From a Story by: Ivan Tors, Arthur Weiss
Guest Cast:
Dane Clark as Dr. Ken Donaldson
Ted de Corsia as Dr. Donaldson, Sr.
Judith Ames as Kate Donaldson
Phillip Pine as Dr. Norman Heller
Emerson Treacy as Dr. Heineman
Synopsis: A scientist slaves to prove his theory about the origins of life on Earth. In the meantime he is oblivious to the serious and potential fatal illness his wife has developed.
34. The Long Day
Airdate: December 17, 1955
Directed by: Paul Guilfoyle
Screenplay by: George and Gertrude Fass
Guest Cast:
George Brent as Sam Gilmore
Steve Brodie as Dr. Robert Barton
Jean Byron as Laura Gilmore
Raymond Bailey as Dr. Smiley
Bradford Jackson as Carl Eberhardt
Michael Winkelman as Sammy Gilmore
Michael Garth as Joe Crane
Addison Richards as Howie Stevens
DeForest Kelley as Matt Brander
Carol Thurston as Ann Brander
Synopsis: A group of scientists experiment with a new missile that will produce vast amounts of light at night. The experiment fails and the scientists have to figure how to shut the light off.
35. Project 44
Airdate: December 24, 1955
Directed by: Tom Gries
Screenplay by: Lou Huston
Guest Cast:
Bill Williams as Dr. Arnold Bryan
Doris Dowling as Dr. Janice Morgan
Biff Elliot as Ed Garrett
Mack Williams as Everett Sturgis
Mary Munday as Barbara Daman
Toni Carroll as Nurse Williams
Patricia Parsons as Eileen Herrick
Amanda Webb as Thelma Marlow
Vicki Bakken as Sylvia Weiss
Tom Bernard as Elton Crane
Kenneth Drake as Malcolm Douglas
Bob Nelson as Willard Hicks
Robert S. Richardson as Self (uncredited)
Synopsis: A break through in rocket design "Project 44" means a team of 8 astronauts are to be selected to go on a mission to Mars. Those planning the project have to deal with the emotional stress of such a voyage along with the obvious physical needs.
36. Are We Invaded?
Airdate: December 31, 1955
Directed by: Leon Benson
Screenplay by: Norman Jolley
Guest Cast:
Pat O'Brien as Dr. Walter Arnold
Richard Erdman as Seth Turner
Leslie Gaye as Barbara Arnold
Antony Eustrel as Galleon
Paul Hahn as Paul
Synopsis: A journalist sees a UFO and goes on a quest to discover the truth about them. What he finds is far beyond anything either he or anyone else ever suspected.
37. Sound of Murder
Airdate: January 7, 1956
Directed by: Jack Arnold
Screenplay by: Stuart Jerome
From a Story by: Ivan Tors
Guest Cast:
Howard Duff as Dr. Tom Mathews
Russ Conway as Charles S. Lyons
Wheaton Chambers as Prof. Van Kamp
Christine Larson as Wilma Mathews
Whit Bissell as Harry Grayson
Edward Earle as Dr. Joel Kerwin
Ruth Perrott as Mary Kerwin
Charles Maxwell as Agent John Randall
Olan Soule as Mr. Wilkins
Julie Jordan as Secretary
Charlotte Lawrence as Telephone Operator
Paul Peters as Guard #1
Rod De Medici as Man (uncredited)
Ann Howard as Woman (uncredited)
Synopsis: A scientist accused of murdering a co-worker and stealing his discoveries uses his professional knowledge to prove his innocence.
38. Operation Flypaper
Airdate: January 14, 1956
Directed by: Eddie Davis
Screenplay by: Doris Gilbert
Guest Cast:
Vincent Price as Dr. Philip Redmond
George Eldredge as David Vollard
John Eldredge as Jonathan Vollard
Kristine Miller as Alma Ford
Mauritz Hugo as Hotel Manager
Dabbs Greer as MacNamara
William Vaughan as Richard Owen
Synopsis: The theft of a series of scientific documents and equipment become perplexing with the only clue being unexplained time shifts that occur at the time the items went missing.
39. The Other Side of the Moon
Airdate: January 28, 1956
Directed by: Eddie Davis
Screenplay by: Robert M. Fresco, Richard Joseph Tuber
Guest Cast:
Skip Homeier as Lawrence Kerston
Philip Ober as Prof. Carl Schneider
Beverly Garland as Katherine Kerston
Bill Henry as Dean Collins
Mack Williams as Gen. Jacob Evans
Paul Guilfoyle as Dr. Sutton
Paul Hahn as Prof. Hammell
Peter Davis as Duncan
Peter Dunne as Carr
Synopsis: A new astronomical camera picks up evidence of strange happenings on the Moon. The government launches a ship to investigate and the answer turns out to be well beyond what anyone thought possible.
Season 2
1. Signals from the Heart
Airdate: April 6, 1956
Directed by: Herbert L. Strock
Screenplay by: Stuart Jerome
From a Story by: Ivan Tors
Guest Cast:
Peter Hanson as Dr. Warren Stark
Walter Kingsford as Prof. Tubor
Joyce Holden as Alma Stark
Gene Roth as Patrolman Tom Horton
Riza Royce as Mrs. Horton
Greg Moffett as Jimmy Stark
Gordon Barnes as Chaney
Larry Kerr as Fielding
Michael Garth as Station 4 Officer
Synopsis: A doctor is blamed for a train wreck that killed two dozen people because he had just certified the engineer, who had suffered a fatal heart attack right before the crash, as fit for duty. To make up for the damage to his reputation, the doctor now hopes to develop a new cardiogram that will detect heart attacks from a distance.
2. The Long Sleep
Airdate: April 13, 1956
Directed by: Paul Guilfoyle
Screenplay by: Arthur Weiss
From a Story by: Ivan Tors
Guest Cast:
Dick Foran as Dr. Samuel Willard
John Doucette as John Barton
Nancy Hale as Ruth Taney
Helen Mowery as Alma Willard
Barry Froner as Gene Willard
William Erwin as Mike
Eddie Gallagher as Al Hall
Synopsis: A scientist saves the life of an orangutan by lowering the body temperature. When this success is publicized, a man kidnaps the doctor's wife and son and forces the doctor to repeat the experiment on his dying son.
3. Who Is This Man?
Airdate: April 20, 1956
Directed by: William Castle
Screenplay by: Charles B. Smith
Guest Cast:
Bruce Bennett as Dr. Hugh Bentley
David Alpert as Dr. Porter Owen
Harlow Wilcox as Karl Krauss
Charles Smith as Tommy Cooper
Tom Pittman as Willis
Lisa Davis as Alice Cooper
Tom Bernard as Joe Ellison
Maureen Cassidy as Judy
Don Eitner as Henry Richards
Sam Scar as Waiter
Ralph Helfer as Ralph (uncredited)
Synopsis: Tommy Cooper's shyness is so crippling, he's failing his college courses. At the request of his sister, Dr. Bentley of the psychology department puts Tommy under hypnosis to find the cause of his fears which reveals a frightening mystery.
4. The Green Bomb
Airdate: April 27, 1956
Directed by: Tom Gries
Screenplay by: Tom Gries
From a Story by: Ivan Tors
Guest Cast:
Kenneth Tobey as Frank Davis
Whit Bissell as Dr. Maxwell Carnaven
Robert Griffin as Ralph Scott
Melville Ruick as Dr. Selwyn Frake
Charles Maxwell as Shaw
Robert Sherman as Kenneth Clayton
Eve McVeagh as Ann Page
Leo Needham as Bishop
George Huerta as Boy Finding Dog
Grant Davis as Bit (uncredited)
Joe Zboran as Bit (uncredited)
Synopsis: Using stolen parts, a psychopath builds a nuclear weapon while government agents race to find him before he can detonate it.
5. When a Camera Fails
Airdate: May 4, 1956
Directed by: Herbert L. Strock
Screenplay by: Norman Jolley
From a Story by: Ivan Tors
Guest Cast:
Gene Lockhart as Dr. Richard Hewitt
Mack Williams as Dr. Johnston
Than Wyenn as Dr. Herbert
Byron Kane as Dr. Brady
Opal Euard as Martha Hewitt
Lewis Auerbach as Don Cater
Andrew Roud as Bit (uncredited)
Synopsis: A geophysics professor uses his revolutionary new microscope to make a startling discovery: certain crystals act as photographic film. Examining prehistoric rocks, he's able to see images of the distant past.
6. Bullet Proof
Airdate: May 11, 1956
Directed by: Paul Guilfoyle
Screenplay by: Lee Hewitt
Guest Cast:
Marshall Thompson as Jim Connors
Jacqueline Holt as Jean Rudman
John Eldredge as Prof. Rudman
Christopher Dark as Ralph Parr
Gene Roth as George Martin
John Mitchum as Detective Sergeant
Paul Guilfoyle as Radio Announcer (voice) (uncredited)
Frank Hunt as Police Officer (uncredited)
Synopsis: A bank robber uses a piece of metal salvaged from near the area of a UFO sighting to aid his thefts.
7. The Flicker
Airdate: May 18, 1956
Directed by: Herbert L. Strock
Screenplay by: Lou Huston
Screenplay by: Robert E. Smith
Guest Cast:
Victor Jory as Det. Lt. William Kiel
Michael Fox as Dr. James Kincaid
Bradford Jackson as Steve Morris
Judith Ames as Jane Morris
Irene Bolton as Selma Sanford
Synopsis: A man randomly kills a woman and has no memory of the event or anything after he'd left a movie theatre. Once investigators watch the same film they discover the cause behind his strange course of action and how to stop it happening again.
8. The Unguided Missile
Airdate: May 25, 1956
Directed by: Herbert L. Strock
Screenplay by: Arthur Weiss
Guest Cast:
Ruth Hussey as Janice O'Hara
Peter Hanson as Dr. Henry Maxton
Francis McDonald as Prof. Bernini
Morris Ankrum as Campbell
Tom Browne Henry as Dr. Haley
Lizz Slifer as Millie
Synopsis: A female journalist seems to suddenly have access to secret information about ballistic missile research being conducted at a nearby university. She claims the information came to her in a dream.
9. End of Tomorrow
Airdate: June 1, 1956
Directed by: Herbert L. Strock
Screenplay by: Peter R. Brooke
Guest Cast:
Christopher Dark as Dr. Keith Brandon
Diana Douglas as Jane Brandon
Walter Kingsford as Rudyard Parker
Dabbs Greer as Prof. Horst Reimers
Arthur Marshall as Scientist
Michael Garth as Lt. Ralston
Synopsis: A German scientist appears in Washington 20 years after supposedly being lost in a South American jungle. He's brought with him an antibiotic so powerful that it prevents and cures every known disease in world. Just before mass inoculations are to begin, two government researchers discover it's dangerous side effect.
10. Mind Machine
Airdate: June 8, 1956
Directed by: Paul Guilfoyle
Screenplay by: Ellis Marcus
Guest Cast:
Bill Williams as Dr. Alan Cathcart
Cyril Delevanti as Dr. Lewis Milton
Brad Trumbull as Dr. Mark Cook
Sydney Mason as Olson
Lonie Blackman as Joyce McLane
Fred Coby as Capt. Landry
Jim Sheldon as Capt. Landry's Assistant
Helen Jay as Nurse
Synopsis: Elderly Dr. Milton has been developing a computerized device that translates one's brain waves into written text. Following the senior scientist's death, Dr. Cathcart continues his work with the "mind writer," using it to decipher the final thoughts from the late doctor's brain.
11. The Missing Waveband
Airdate: June 15, 1956
Directed by: Jack Herzberg
Screenplay by: Lou Huston
From a Story by: Ivan Tors
Guest Cast:
Dick Foran as Dr. Vincent Milhurst
Stafford Repp as Prof. Van Doorne -- Scientist with Glasses
Gene Roth as Dr. Lawrence -- Gray-Haired Scientist
Michael Fox as Dr. Maxwell
Tom McKee as TV Announcer
George Leigh as Gen. Walter Rayburn
Charles Maxwell as Mystery Scientist on Radio (voice) (uncredited)
Synopsis: Dr. Vincent Milhurst confesses to some fellow scientists that he did not devise the calculations that make stable satellites possible. He claims they came from an unknown voice on a newly-found radio frequency so the scientists attempt trace where they originated from.
12. The Human Experiment
Airdate: June 22, 1956
Directed by: Paul Guilfoyle
Screenplay by: Doris Gilbert
From a Story by: Ivan Tors
Guest Cast:
Marshall Thompson as Dr. Tom MacDougal
Virginia Christine as Dr. Eleanor Ballard
Claudia Barrett as Jean Richardson
Julie Van Zandt as Wanda
George D. Barrows as Adam
Gloria Clark as Ruth
Alan Paige as Worker
Synopsis: Biochemist Dr. Ellen Ballard has isolated an enzyme from bees that she hopes will help the mentally ill function in society. What she creates at her isolated laboratory is a house full of patients with characteristics of the queen, worker, and soldier bees. A fellow scientist arriving for a visit soon realizes that something is very wrong.
13. Man Who Didn't Know
Airdate: June 29, 1956
Directed by: Herbert L. Strock
Screenplay by: Rik Vollaerts
Guest Cast:
Arthur Franz as Mark Kendler
Susan Cummings as Peggy Kendler
Bruce Wendell as Al Mitchell
Voltaire Perkins as Dr. Jim Woodward
Guy Rennie as Sam Gilman
Granville Dixon as Pat Johnson
Joe Hamilton as Dr. John Bergstrom
Bill Erwin as Dr. Harold Lewis
Paul Lukather as Electronics Expert
Tom Anthony as Western Union Messenger (uncredited)
Synopsis: Six months after an experimental aircraft explodes over the Pacific, a scientist who was on the flight is found in a Singapore hospital. All he can remember is having been rescued by a passing ship. After returning to work on the secret aircraft team, the military learns that classified information is being leaked.
14. The Phantom Car
Airdate: July 20, 1956
Directed by: Herbert L. Strock
Screenplay by: Lee Hewitt
Guest Cast:
John Archer as Prof. Arthur Gress
Judith Ames as Reggie Gress
Tyler McVey as Sheriff Barney Cole
Herbert C. Lytton as Dr. Lloyd
William Fawcett as Mort Woods
Joe Colbert as Dr. Phil Avery
Pat Donahue as Nurse Sloan
Troy Melton as Joe
Joe DeAngelo as Gas Pumper/Mechanic (uncredited)
Harry Wilson as Pedestrian (uncredited)
Synopsis: The sheriff ignores an old prospector who claims he was almost run over by a driverless car in the desert. Once a geologist's wife is seriously injured by the same automobile, he takes matters seriously. The lawman determines that the vehicle is radio-controlled, but doesn't know who's operating it or why it's hitting people.
15. Beam of Fire
Airdate: July 27, 1956
Directed by: Herbert L. Strock
Screenplay by: Stuart Jerome
From a Story by: Ivan Tors
Guest Cast:
Wayne Morris as Capt. Steve Conway
Frank Gerstle as Colonel Davis
Harlan Warde as Dr. Lindstrom
Leonard Mudie as Dr. John Bellow
John Dennis as Dr. Charles Hayes
William Vaughn as Technician
Paul Harber as Jennings
Bruce Payne as Dr. Hunter
George Pembroke as Dr. Benton
Tom Anthony as Fluoroscope Man (uncredited)
Jack Krupnick as Security Guard (uncredited)
Synopsis: A scientist developing an energy source allowing interplanetary travel is killed in his lab after a mysterious phone call. Security is tightened on the surviving scientist on the project, but he also dies after a phone call. Government security agents must tack down the source of the high-frequency sound beams used to kill the scientists.
16. The Legend of Crater Mountain
Airdate: August 3, 1956
Directed by: Paul Guilfoyle
Screenplay by: Bill Buchanan, Lue Hall
Guest Cast:
Marilyn Erskine as Marion Brown
Bradford Jackson as Dr. Jim Harris
Jo Ann Lilliquist as Rosellen Avitor
Freddy Ridgeway as Bobby Avitor
Nadene Ashdown as Susan Avitor
Paul Guilfoyle as Mr. Avitor
Synopsis: A teacher at a one room schoolhouse is being tormented by three siblings. The kids possess psychic powers that they use to frighten her. When the a researcher arrives to investigate Mrs. Brown's claims, the students ramp up the attacks.
17. Living Lights
Airdate: August 10, 1956
Directed by: Herbert L. Strock
Screenplay by: Ellis Marcus
From a Story by: Ellis Marcus, Ivan Tors
Guest Cast:
Skip Homeier as Bob Laurie
Joan Sinclair as Grace Laurie
Michael Garth as Charles Irwin
Darlene Albert as Elaine
Jason Johnson as Professor Adams
Robert Weston as Dr. Bane
Charles Irwin (uncredited)
Bek Nelson as Assistant in Truman Bradley Intro (uncredited)
Synopsis: A scientist manages to trigger organic growth by replicating the atmosphere of Venus in a large bell jar. As the experiment progresses the results far exceed anyone's expectations.
18. Jupitron
Airdate: August 17, 1956
Directed by: Paul Guilfoyle
Screenplay by: Arthur Weiss
Guest Cast:
Bill Williams as Dr. John Barlow
Toni Gerry as Nina Barlow
Lowell Gilmore as Dr. August Wykoff
Michael Fox as Dr. Norstad
Arthur Marshall as Frank
Paul Guilfoyle as Alien (voice)
Synopsis: Dr. Barlow relates the strange tale of how he and his wife were transported from a foggy beach onto one of the moons of Jupiter. They encountered a long-missing scientist who offers to share with them the secret of Jupitron: a substance that will solve the Earth's hunger problem.
19. The Throwback
Airdate: August 24, 1956
Directed by: Paul Guilfoyle
Screenplay by: Thelma Schnee
Guest Cast:
Peter Hanson as Prof. Norman Hughes
Edward Kemmer as Joe Castle Jr.
Virginia Christine as Prof. Anna Adler
Tris Coffin as Joseph Castle Sr.
Jan Shepard as Marie Adler
Bill Welsh as TV Announcer (voice)
Synopsis: A geneticist believes that in addition to physical traits, memories can be passed along through the genes. Examining the family history of an acquaintance, Professor Hughes is amazed by the similarities between a present-day young man and an ancestor from 400 years earlier. The professor becomes alarmed by the ancestor's cause of death and fears the young man will meet the same fate.
20. Miracle of Doctor Dove
Airdate: August 31, 1956
Directed by: Herbert L. Strock
Screenplay by: George Asness
From a Story by: George Asness, Ivan Tors
Guest Cast:
Gene Lockhart as Dr. Elwood Dove
Cyril Delevanti as Dr. Kenneth White
Robin Short as Jeff Spencer
Charles Wagenheim as Ed Gorman
Kay Faylen as Alice Kinder
Rhodes Reason as Sean Daley
Virginia Pohlman as Nora Lester
Synopsis: After a series of disappearances of important scientists the authorities begin to investigate a medical doctor who all of the missing scientist used.
21. One Thousand Eyes
Airdate: September 7, 1956
Directed by: Paul Guilfoyle
Screenplay by: Stuart Jerome
Guest Cast:
Vincent Price as Police Sgt. Gary Williams
Jean Byron as Ada March
Bruce Wendell as Police Lt. Jules Moss
David Hughes as Dr. Robert March
Tom Dillon as File Clerk
Synopsis: A police researcher, using a newly developed camera, solves the murder of a renowned scientist and the prime suspect in the scientist's death.
22. Brain Unlimited
Airdate: September 14, 1956
Directed by: Tom Gries
Screenplay by: Sloan Nibley
From a Story by: Sloan Nibley, Ivan Tors
Guest Cast:
Arthur Franz as Dr. Jeff Conover
Diana Douglas as Elaine Conover
Thomas B. Henry as Dr. MacKenzie
George Becwar as Hospital Doctor
Doug Wilson as Ralph Marken
Bob Wehling as Henry Mason
Melinda Plowman as Alice
Burt Mustin as Mr. Stevenson
Synopsis: Before blacking out on a test flight during an experiment with increased oxygen storage, a scientist experiences a sudden increase in his brain activity, which he determines to investigate further.
23. Death at My Fingertips
Airdate: September 21, 1956
Directed by: Tom Gries
Screenplay by: Joel Malcolm Rapp
Guest Cast:
June Lockhart as Eve Patrick
Dick Foran as Dr. Don Stewart
John Stephenson as Police Inspector Mark Davis
Michael Granger as Larry Evans
David Alpert as George Warren
William Vaughan as Stanley Barnes
Lonie Blackman as Judy Rogers
Charles Postal as Dr. Leonard Mills
Synopsis: Police think they have an open-and-shut case against a professor in the murder of his college's dean, when the professor's fingerprints are found all over the lab where the murder occurred. But then more newly made prints of the accused are found at the college, and they could only have been made since professor's been imprisoned after his arrest.
24. Sound That Kills
Airdate: September 28, 1956
Directed by: Herbert L. Strock
Screenplay by: Meyer Dolinsky
Guest Cast:
Ludwig Stossel as Dr. Richard Wissman
Ray Collins as Dr. Paul Sinclair
Charles Victor as Ed Martin
Larry Hudson as Hotel Desk Security
Jean G. Harvey as Hotel Maid
David Dwight as Waiter
Paul Hahn as Johnson
Dolores Michaels
Cynthia Baer as Hotel Receptionist
Synopsis: A meeting of scientists is disrupted when it is discovered that someone is trying to kill them by using a beam made up of ultrasonic sound.
25. Survival in Box Canyon
Airdate: October 12, 1956
Directed by: Herbert L. Strock
Screenplay by: Lou Huston
From a Story by: Ivan Tors
Guest Cast:
Bruce Bennett as Major Sorenson
DeForest Kelley as Dr. Milo Barton
Paul Birch as Dr. Raymond Michaels
Susan Cummings as Ellen Barton
Harlan Warde as Everett Prescott
Freddy Ridgeway as Donald Barton
Dale Hutchinson as Ed Clayborn
Bob Sherman as Dr. Frederick Ryner
Bing Russell as Radio Operator
Andrew Roud as Bit (uncredited)
Murray Yeats as Bit (uncredited)
Synopsis: A rescue mission is mounted to find the small airplane carrying a nuclear physicist that crashed near an atomic bomb test range.
26. The Voice
Airdate: October 26, 1956
Directed by: Paul Guilfoyle
Screenplay by: Doris Gilbert
Guest Cast:
Donald Curtis as Roger Brown
Kristine Miller as Anna Brown
Bill Phipps as Dr. Stockton
Morris Ankrum as Dr. McDermott
Antony Eustrel as Mendoza
Billy Griffith as Old Man
Julian Burton as Young Man
Anna Navarro as Nurse
Hal Hoover as Sloan
Roland Varno as Scientist
Beverly Barnes
Bruce Payne as Edward Stevens
Synopsis: An attorney has evidence that could clear a man scheduled to be executed in a few days. But on his way to present the evidence, he is involved in a plane crash that leaves him paralyzed and unable to speak. He finds he must use the only means of communication left to him, mental telepathy, which until now he has not believed in.
27. Three Minute Mile
Airdate: November 9, 1956
Directed by: Eddie Davis
Screenplay by: George Asness
Guest Cast:
Marshall Thompson as Prof. Nat Kendall
Martin Milner as Britt
Gloria Marshall as Jill Page
Robert Bice as Coach Shane
Bill Henry as Jim Dale
John Eldredge as Carter B. Page
Leonard St. Lee as Photographer (uncredited)
Synopsis: Since becoming Dr. Kendall's assistant, college student Britt has gained incredible strength, and can run a mile in about three minutes. A nosy reporter, along with Britt's fiance, begin snooping to find out what kind of Frankenstein-type experiments the doctor is conducting.
28. The Last Barrier
Airdate: November 16, 1956
Directed by: Paul Guilfoyle
Screenplay by: Rik Vollaerts
Guest Cast:
William Ching as Dr. Robert Porter
Tom McKee as Dr. Wayne Masters
Bruce Wendell as Daniel Blake
Sydney Mason as Dr. Steve Dorian
Lee Millar as Ned
Jason Johnson as Ray Cordell
Jim Sheldon as Radioman
George Barrows as Naval Officer
Synopsis: A top secret rocket is launched from the Pacific where the target is the moon. Inexplicably, it sets off a rash of flying saucer sightings on the East Coast. The scientists monitoring the flight are also surprised when the rocket is trailed by several unidentified blips on radar as it nears the moon.
29. Signals from the Moon
Airdate: November 23, 1956
Directed by: Paul Guilfoyle
Screenplay by: Tom Gries
Guest Cast:
Bruce Bennett as General Frank Terrance
Michael Fox as Dr. Paul Edwards
Bob Shield as Dr. Robert Werth
Don Brodie as Ward Baxter
Alfred Linder as Pandit Chandra Singh
Steven Ritch as Dr. Richard Patterson
Bhupesh Ch. Guha as Assassin
Stewart Newmark as Bit (uncredited)
Synopsis: An ambassador is shot by a would-be assassin. To remove the bullet, a surgeon needs to consult a colleague on a cruise ship in the Pacific. Scientists bounce a TV signal off the moon to the ship so he can watch and direct the operation.
30. Doctor Robot
Airdate: November 30, 1956
Directed by: Eddie Davis
Screenplay by: Ellis Marcus
Guest Cast:
Peter Hanson as Dr. Edgar Barnes
Whit Bissell as Fred Lopert
John Stephenson as Phil Coulson
Doug Wilson as Doug Hinkle
Robert Weston as Roger Polson
Elizabeth Flournoy as Elinor Lopert
Esther Furst as Nurse
Synopsis: Edgar Barnes runs a project called Operation Polyglot, to build an ENIAC/UNIVAC-like computer to translate text to multiple languages. But someone is tampering with the machine in off hours. Is sabotage by foreign agents or something else?
31. The Human Circuit
Airdate: December 7, 1956
Directed by: Eddie Davis
Screenplay by: Joel Malcolm Rapp
Guest Cast:
Marshall Thompson as Dr. Albert Neville
William Ching as Dr. George Stoneham
Joyce Jameson as Nina Lasalle
Phil Arnold as Chet Arnold
Gretchen Thomas as Neville's Mother
Thomas Anthony as Air Controller
James Waters as Harry
Renee Patryn as Chorus Girl
Leo Needham as Capt. Bob Stanton
Synopsis: A nightclub dancer claims that, while suffering a seizure, she saw a nuclear blast. Her physician mentions this to a scientist friend who is amazed; she had witnessed a top-secret bomb explosion in the Pacific. Believing her to possess clairvoyance, the two hope to explain her talent scientifically.
32. Sun Gold
Airdate: December 14, 1956
Directed by: Eddie Davis
Screenplay by: Peter R. Brooke
Guest Cast:
Marilyn Erskine as Dr. Susan Calvin
Ross Elliot as Howard Evans
Julian Rivero as Padre Xavier
Paul Fierro as Tawa
Synopsis: Radioactive "green glass," formed by the heat of an atomic blast, is said to have been found in the Andes of Peru. Since nuclear tests have never been done in this very remote area, a pair of scientists are sent to search for the source of the 2000-year-old sample and to try to discover how it was formed.
33. Facsimile
Airdate: December 21, 1956
Directed by: Eddie Davis
Screenplay by: John Bushnell, Stuart Jerome
From a Story by: John Bushnell
Guest Cast:
Arthur Franz as George Bascomb
Donald Curtis as Hugh Warner
Aline Towne as Barbara Davis
Fred Coby as Dr. Stone
Thomas B. Henry as Dr. Hargrove
Than Wyenn as Dr. Schiller
Lynn Cartwright as Desk Nurse
Synopsis: Three people working in the same laboratory are stricken, on the same day, with three different ailments. Even more shocking is that when doctors operate on them, they appear to be perfectly normal.
34. The Miracle Hour
Airdate: December 28, 1956
Directed by: Paul Guilfoyle
Screenplay by: Stanley H. Silverman
Guest Cast:
Dick Foran as Jim Wells
Jean Byron as Cathy Parker
Donald Curtis as Dr. Roger Kiley
Charles Herbert as Tommy Parker
Riza Royce as Nurse Tait
Ken Christy as Bill
Duke Seba as Bit (uncredited)
Synopsis: A man is determined to help his fiancée's young blind son, even though doctors say the case is hopeless. He and a doctor friend decide to see if the boy can react to items and colors based on cell photosensitivity, which could if successful become a substitute for sight.
35. Killer Tree
Airdate: January 4, 1957
Directed by: Eddie Davis
Screenplay by: Lou Huston
From a Story by: Robert E. Smith
Guest Cast:
Bill Williams as Prof. Paul Cameron
Bonita Granville as Barbara Cameron
Keith Richards as Clyde Bishop
Hank Patterson as Skinner
Terry Frost as Deputy Terry
Tom Anthony as Truman Bradley's Lab Assistant (uncredited)
Synopsis: A scientific team doing research in the desert encounters an old prospector who tells them about a tree that kills those who rest beneath it.
36. Gravity Zero
Airdate: January 11, 1957
Directed by: Paul Guilfoyle
Screenplay by: Donald Corey
Guest Cast:
Percy Helton as Dr. John Hustead
Lisa Gaye as Elizabeth Wickes
Walter Kingsford as Dean Howard Menges
William Hudson as Ken Waring
Lizz Slifer as Girls' Dorm Supervisor (scenes deleted)
Synopsis: An absent-minded physics professor and his loyal lab technician work on an anti-gravity device. Despite technical failures, they persist, hoping that the work will contribute to rocket launches, and someday to flying saucers.
37. The Magic Suitcase
Airdate: January 25, 1957
Directed by: Paul Guilfoyle
Screenplay by: Lou Huston
From a Story by: William R. Epperson
Guest Cast:
Charles Winninger as Grandpa Scott
James Seay as Mr. Miller
Judith Ames as Eileen Scott
Freddy Ridgeway as Terry Scott
William Vaughan as John Scott
George Douglas as Dr. Jorgenson
Theodore Lehmann as Mr. Jackson
Arthur Marshall as Lab Technician
Andrew Roud as Lab Assistant (uncredited)
Leonard St. Leo as Lab Assistant (uncredited)
Synopsis: An old man and his grandson invite a lost hitchhiker to stay the night at their vacation cabin. The stranger disappears, but leaves behind a suitcase that generates huge amounts of electricity. Grandpa turns it over to scientists who are clueless as to how this simple device makes so much power.
38. Bolt of Lightning
Airdate: February 1, 1957
Directed by: Eddie Davis
Screenplay by: Meyer Dolinsky
Guest Cast:
Bruce Bennett as Dr. Sheldon Thorpe
Kristine Miller as Cynthia Blake
Sydney Smith as Dr. Franklin
Lyle Talbot as Gen. Dothan
Bruce Payne as Mr. Adams
Steve Mitchell as Denby
Connie Buck as Mme. DeCosa
Synopsis: After an explosion in a research lab, investigators try to find the source of the problem. Many theories abound including the possibility of UFOs. A chance discovery leads investigators to a conclusion no one could believe.
39. The Strange Lodger
Airdate: February 8, 1957
Directed by: Eddie Davis
Screenplay by: Arthur Weiss
Guest Cast:
Peter Hanson as Dr. Jim Wallaby
Jan Shepard as Maggie Dawes
Charles Maxwell as Bill North
Daniel White as Bud
Frances Pasco as Mrs. Garby
Cyril Delevanti as Mr. Rohrbach
John Zaremba as FCC Agent Brummer
George Gilbreath as Bob Wilson -- Code Unscrambler
Hugh Lawrence as Agent Ross
Troy Melton
Synopsis: A scientist's new TV ratings device can tell what channel a person's watching just by aiming an antenna at their house. He's perplexed when it registers a channel that doesn't exist coming from the apartment of an elderly gentleman. A government UFO investigator becomes involved, convinced the old man isn't receiving information, but transmitting it to an alien craft.