Science Fiction Theatre
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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 Tors
and Maurice Ziv.
, a 1940s film actor and former war correspondent, each episode introduced stories which had an extrapolated scientific, or pseudo-scientific emphasis based on actual scientific data available in the 1950s. The program concentrated on such concepts as space flight, robot
s, telepathy
, flying saucers, time travel
, and the intervention of extraterrestrials
in human affairs.
Airing a total of 78 25-26 min. episodes, the series was also known as Beyond the Limits in second run syndication during the 1960s and alternatively as Science Fiction Theater.
Opposite to what happened in the 1960s, the first season was filmed in color, but to cut costs the second season was in black & white. The producers had originally thought that color TV would progress faster than it did.
Science Fiction Theatre was a forerunner of similar shows, such as The Twilight Zone
and The Outer Limits
.
. Then Truman Bradley showed a simple scientific experiment which was related to the topic of that week's show. Mr. Bradley's demonstrations were often staged, but yielded results consistent with the outcome of true experiments.
Because of the limited budgets and intense production schedules of ZIV episodic television shows, most of the scientific, and not-so- scientific apparatus appears again and again as props with many different functions.
First lines of each episode:
Host: "How do you do, ladies and gentlemen? I'm your host, Truman Bradley. Let me show you something interesting."
Last lines of each episode:
Host: "I hope you enjoyed our story. We'll be back one week from today with another exciting adventure from the world of fiction and science. Until then, this is your host, Truman Bradley, saying, see you next week."
Science fiction
Science fiction is a genre of fiction dealing with imaginary but more or less plausible content such as future settings, futuristic science and technology, space travel, aliens, and paranormal abilities...
anthology series that aired in syndication from April 1955 to April 1957. It was produced by Ivan Tors
Ivan Tors
Ivan Tors was a Hungarian playwright, film director, screenwriter, and film and television producer with an emphasis on non-violent but exciting science fiction, underwater filmed television and films, and films about animals...
and Maurice Ziv.
Overview
Hosted by Truman BradleyTruman Bradley (actor)
Truman Bradley was an actor and narrator in radio, television and film.Bradley began his career in the 1930s as a radio broadcaster. With a voice well-suited for that medium, his career evolved into voice acting and narration. He was the host of the 1950s TV series Science Fiction Theater...
, a 1940s film actor and former war correspondent, each episode introduced stories which had an extrapolated scientific, or pseudo-scientific emphasis based on actual scientific data available in the 1950s. The program concentrated on such concepts as space flight, robot
Robot
A robot is a mechanical or virtual intelligent agent that can perform tasks automatically or with guidance, typically by remote control. In practice a robot is usually an electro-mechanical machine that is guided by computer and electronic programming. Robots can be autonomous, semi-autonomous or...
s, telepathy
Telepathy
Telepathy , is the induction of mental states from one mind to another. The term was coined in 1882 by the classical scholar Fredric W. H. Myers, a founder of the Society for Psychical Research, and has remained more popular than the more-correct expression thought-transference...
, flying saucers, time travel
Time travel
Time travel is the concept of moving between different points in time in a manner analogous to moving between different points in space. Time travel could hypothetically involve moving backward in time to a moment earlier than the starting point, or forward to the future of that point without the...
, and the intervention of extraterrestrials
Extraterrestrial life
Extraterrestrial life is defined as life that does not originate from Earth...
in human affairs.
Airing a total of 78 25-26 min. episodes, the series was also known as Beyond the Limits in second run syndication during the 1960s and alternatively as Science Fiction Theater.
Opposite to what happened in the 1960s, the first season was filmed in color, but to cut costs the second season was in black & white. The producers had originally thought that color TV would progress faster than it did.
Science Fiction Theatre was a forerunner of similar shows, such as The Twilight Zone
The Twilight Zone (1959 TV series)
The Twilight Zone is an American anthology television series created by Rod Serling, which ran for five seasons on CBS from 1959 to 1964. The series consisted of unrelated episodes depicting paranormal, futuristic, dystopian, or simply disturbing events; each show typically featured a surprising...
and The Outer Limits
The Outer Limits (1963 TV series)
The Outer Limits is an American television series that aired on ABC from 1963 to 1965. The series is similar in style to the earlier The Twilight Zone, but with a greater emphasis on science fiction, rather than fantasy stories...
.
Intro and Outro
Each episode was introduced by a stirring brass, string, and woodwind fanfare (uncredited, but probably composed by Ray Bloch ) while the camera panned over a science laboratoryLaboratory
A laboratory is a facility that provides controlled conditions in which scientific research, experiments, and measurement may be performed. The title of laboratory is also used for certain other facilities where the processes or equipment used are similar to those in scientific laboratories...
. Then Truman Bradley showed a simple scientific experiment which was related to the topic of that week's show. Mr. Bradley's demonstrations were often staged, but yielded results consistent with the outcome of true experiments.
Because of the limited budgets and intense production schedules of ZIV episodic television shows, most of the scientific, and not-so- scientific apparatus appears again and again as props with many different functions.
First lines of each episode:
Host: "How do you do, ladies and gentlemen? I'm your host, Truman Bradley. Let me show you something interesting."
Last lines of each episode:
Host: "I hope you enjoyed our story. We'll be back one week from today with another exciting adventure from the world of fiction and science. Until then, this is your host, Truman Bradley, saying, see you next week."
Season 1
| No. | Episode | First airdate | Starring | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1-1 | Beyond | April 9, 1955 | William Lundigan William Lundigan William Lundigan was an American film actor. His films include Dodge City , The Fighting 69th , The Sea Hawk , Santa Fe Trail , Dishonored Lady , Pinky , Love Nest with Marilyn Monroe, The House on Telegraph Hill , I'd Climb the Highest Mountain and Inferno... , Ellen Drew Ellen Drew Ellen Drew was an American film actress.Born Esther Loretta Ray in Kansas City, Missouri, Drew worked various jobs and won a number of beauty contests before becoming an actress... , Truman Bradley |
Traveling at three times the speed of sound, a test pilot bails out. His report: another craft was about to collide with his. |
| 1-2 | Time Is Just a Place | April 16, 1955 | Don DeFore Don DeFore Donald John DeFore was an American actor who played "the regular guy" and "the good, ol' boy next door" in many films in the 1940s and 1950s.-Life and career:... , Marie Windsor Marie Windsor Marie Windsor . Born as Emily Marie Bertelson in Marysvale, Piute County, Utah, Windsor was an actress known as "The Queen of the Bs" because she appeared in so many film noirs and B-movies like Cat-Women of the Moon... , Warren Stevens Warren Stevens Warren Stevens is an American stage, screen, and television actor.Born in Clarks Summit, Pennsylvania, Stevens began his acting career after serving in the U.S. Army Air Force as a pilot during World War II. He trained at The Actor's Studio in New York, received notice on Broadway, and thereafter... , Peggy O'Connor |
A young couple discovers that their neighbors, who possess a sonic Sound Sound is a mechanical wave that is an oscillation of pressure transmitted through a solid, liquid, or gas, composed of frequencies within the range of hearing and of a level sufficiently strong to be heard, or the sensation stimulated in organs of hearing by such vibrations.-Propagation of... broom and many other technologically advanced household items, are fugitives from the future who have fled to the past to escape an oppressive government. |
| 1-3 | Out of Nowhere | April 23, 1955 | Richard Arlen Richard Arlen -Biography:Born Sylvanus Richard Van Mattimore in St. Paul, Minnesota, he attended the University of Pennsylvania. He served as a pilot in the Royal Flying Corps during World War I. His first job after the war was with St. Paul's Athletic Club... , Jess Barker Jess Barker Jess Barker was an American film actor of the 1930s and 1940s. He began his film career credited as Philip Barker until changing his stage name to Jess Barker in the early 1940s. He is probably most famous for being the first husband of actress Susan Hayward... |
When bats begin colliding with skyscrapers, the Continental Air Defense Command is alerted. They fear that the "radar" that protects bats from collision has somehow been cut off. |
| 1-4 | Y.O.R.D. | April 30, 1955 | Walter Kingsford, Rachel Ames, DeForest Kelley DeForest Kelley Jackson DeForest Kelley was an American actor known for his iconic roles in Westerns and as Dr. Leonard "Bones" McCoy of the USS Enterprise in the television and film series Star Trek.-Early life:... , Kenneth Tobey Kenneth Tobey Kenneth Tobey was an American stage, television, and film actor.-Early years:Born in Oakland, California, Tobey was headed for a law career when he first dabbled in acting at the University of California Little Theater... , Louis Jean Heydt |
The Magnetic Pole Weather Station receives a strange distress message and launches one of the greatest rescue missions of all time. |
| 1-5 | Stranger in the Desert | May 7, 1955 | Marshall Thompson Marshall Thompson Marshall Thompson was an American film and television actor.He was born James Marshall Thompson in Peoria, Illinois. In 1943 Thompson, known for his boy-next-door good looks, was signed by Universal Pictures... , Gene Evans Gene Evans Gene Evans was an American actor.He was born in Holbrook, Arizona, but reared in Colton, California. His acting career began while he was serving in World War II. He performed with a theatrical troupe of GIs in Europe. Evans made his film debut in 1947 and appeared in dozens of movies and... , Lowell Gilmore |
Two uranium prospectors meet a stranger from another land who is searching for oxygen-producing plants. |
| 1-6 | No Food for Thought | May 14, 1955 | John Howard John Howard (American actor) John Howard was an American actor noted for his work in film and television.-Background:Born John R. Cox, Jr. in Cleveland, Ohio, he was a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of what is now Case Western Reserve University. At college he discovered a love for the theater, and took part in student productions... , Otto Kruger Otto Kruger Otto Kruger was an American actor who began his career in 1915. His career was most prolific during the 1930s and 1940s.-Career:... |
A biologist and his staff test synthetic foods that have proved fatal to animals on themselves. |
| 1-7 | The Brain of John Emerson | May 21, 1955 | John Howard John Howard (American actor) John Howard was an American actor noted for his work in film and television.-Background:Born John R. Cox, Jr. in Cleveland, Ohio, he was a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of what is now Case Western Reserve University. At college he discovered a love for the theater, and took part in student productions... , Ellen Drew Ellen Drew Ellen Drew was an American film actress.Born Esther Loretta Ray in Kansas City, Missouri, Drew worked various jobs and won a number of beauty contests before becoming an actress... |
A police sergeant escapes death from a bullet in his brain but finds himself changed. |
| 1-8 | Spider Inc. | May 28, 1955 | Gene Barry Gene Barry Gene Barry was an American stage, screen, and television actor. Barry is best remembered for his leading roles in the films The Atomic City and The War of The Worlds and for his portrayal of the title character in the TV series Bat Masterson, among many roles.-Personal life:Barry was born... , Audrey Totter Audrey Totter Audrey Mary Totter is an American actress and former Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer contract star of Austrian-Slovene and Swedish descent... |
A young geologist discovers a giant spider enclosed in a piece of transparent rock. |
| 1-9 | Death at 2 A.M. | June 4, 1955 | Skip Homeier Skip Homeier -Career:Homeier began acting as Skippy Homeier at the age of six, on the radio show Portia Faces Life. From 1943 until 1944 he played the role of Emil in the Broadway play, Tomorrow the World. Cast as a child indoctrinated into Nazism, who is brought to the United States from Germany following the... , John Qualen John Qualen John Qualen was a Canadian-American character actor of Norwegian heritage who specialized in Scandinavian roles.... , Ted de Corsia Ted de Corsia Ted de Corsia was a radio and movie actor.He is probably best remembered for his role as a gangster turned state's evidence in The Enforcer... |
A scientist uses an experimental strength serum to murder a man who is blackmailing him. |
| 1-10 | Conversation With an Ape | June 11, 1955 | Hugh Beaumont Hugh Beaumont (actor) Eugene Hugh Beaumont was an American actor and television director. He was also licensed to preach by the Methodist church... , Barbara Hale Barbara Hale Barbara Hale is an American actress best known for her role as legal secretary Della Street on more than 250 episodes of the long-running Perry Mason television series and later reprising the role in dozens of made-for-TV movies.... |
A telepathic chimp saves a scientist and his wife from a killer. |
| 1-11 | Marked 'Danger' | June 18, 1955 | Otto Kruger Otto Kruger Otto Kruger was an American actor who began his career in 1915. His career was most prolific during the 1930s and 1940s.-Career:... , Arthur Franz Arthur Franz Arthur Franz was a B-movie actor whose most notable role was as Lieutenant, Junior Grade H. Paynter, Jr. in The Caine Mutiny. He also appeared in Roseanna McCoy , Invaders from Mars , Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man and The Unholy Wife , among others... , Nancy Gates |
While doing field work in the desert, a mining engineer finds the payload from a high altitude rocket experiment. He takes it home and leaves it in his wife's care while he goes into town to contact the authorities. As soon as he's gone, his wife fiddles with the payload and releases a toxic gas.... |
| 1-12 | Hour of Nightmare | June 25, 1955 | William Bishop, Lynn Bari Lynn Bari Lynn Bari , born Margaret Schuyler Fisher, was a movie actress who specialized in playing sultry, statuesque man-killers in over one hundred 20th Century Fox films from the early 1930s through the 1940s.-Career:Bari was born in Roanoke, Virginia... , Charles Evans |
Two top freelance photographers go to Mexico to photograph mysterious flying objects and find a dead alien. |
| 1-13 | One Hundred Years Young | July 2, 1955 | Ruth Hussey Ruth Hussey Ruth Carol Hussey was an American actress best known for her Academy Award-nominated role as photographer Elizabeth Imbrie in The Philadelphia Story.-Early life:... , John Archer John Archer (actor) John Archer was an American movie and television actor.-Biography:Born Ralph Bowman in Osceola, Nebraska, Archer moved to California at the age of five... , John Abbott John Abbott (actor) John Kefford was an English character actor professionally known as John Abbott. His memorable roles include the invalid Frederick Fairlie in the 1948 movie The Woman in White and the pacifist Ayelborne in the Star Trek episode "Errand of Mercy"... |
A retired man confides to a fellow research chemist that he is over two centuries old. |
| 1-14 | The Strange Dr. Lorenz | July 9, 1955 | Edmund Gwenn Edmund Gwenn Edmund Gwenn was an English theatre and film actor.-Background:Born Edmund John Kellaway in Wandsworth, London , and educated at St. Olave's School and later at King's College London, Gwenn began his acting career in the theatre in 1895... , Donald Curtis, Kristine Miller |
The story of a beekeeper whose bees manufacture a wonder drug instead of honey. |
| 1-15 | The Frozen Sound | July 30, 1955 | Marshall Thompson Marshall Thompson Marshall Thompson was an American film and television actor.He was born James Marshall Thompson in Peoria, Illinois. In 1943 Thompson, known for his boy-next-door good looks, was signed by Universal Pictures... , Marilyn Erskin, Ray Collins Ray Collins (actor) Ray Bidwell Collins was an American actor in film, stage, radio, and television. One of Collins' best remembered roles was that of Lt. Arthur Tragg in the long-running series Perry Mason.- Biography :... , Michael Fox Michael Fox (American actor) Michael Fox was an American character actor who was in numerous movies and television roles. Some of his most famous recurring roles were as various autopsy physicians in Perry Mason, as Coroner George McLeod in Burke's Law, as Amos Fedders in Falcon Crest and as Saul Feinberg in The Bold and the... |
A paperweight is found to reproduce sounds from 2000 years ago. |
| 1-16 | The Stones Began to Move | August 6, 1955 | Basil Rathbone Basil Rathbone Sir Basil Rathbone, KBE, MC, Kt was an English actor. He rose to prominence in England as a Shakespearean stage actor and went on to appear in over 70 films, primarily costume dramas, swashbucklers, and, occasionally, horror films... |
A murder and the secrets of the Pyramids combine. |
| 1-17 | The Lost Heartbeat | August 13, 1955 | Zachary Scott Zachary Scott Zachary Scott was an American actor, most notable for his roles as villains and "mystery men".-Life and career:... |
A dying scientist needs time to finish his experiments. |
| 1-18 | The World Below | August 27, 1955 | Gene Barry Gene Barry Gene Barry was an American stage, screen, and television actor. Barry is best remembered for his leading roles in the films The Atomic City and The War of The Worlds and for his portrayal of the title character in the TV series Bat Masterson, among many roles.-Personal life:Barry was born... , Marguerite Chapman Marguerite Chapman Marguerite Chapman was an American actress.Born in Chatham, New York, she was working as a telephone switchboard operator in White Plains, New York when her good looks brought about the opportunity to pursue a career in modeling... |
The survivors of a submarine disaster claim that they saw a city on the sea floor, but are ridiculed by investigators. |
| 1-19 | Barrier of Silence | September 3, 1955 | Adolphe Menjou Adolphe Menjou Adolphe Jean Menjou was an American actor. His career spanned both silent films and talkies, appearing in such films as The Sheik, A Woman of Paris, Morocco, and A Star is Born... , Warren Stevens Warren Stevens Warren Stevens is an American stage, screen, and television actor.Born in Clarks Summit, Pennsylvania, Stevens began his acting career after serving in the U.S. Army Air Force as a pilot during World War II. He trained at The Actor's Studio in New York, received notice on Broadway, and thereafter... , Phyllis Coates Phyllis Coates Phyllis Coates is an American film and television actress. She is perhaps best known for her portrayal of reporter Lois Lane in the 1951 film Superman and the Mole Men, and during the first season of the Adventures of Superman television series.-Early life and career:After graduating from high... , Charles Maxwell Charles Maxwell Charles Carlton Maxwell was an American character actor who worked primarily in television.Maxwell frequently appeared as a guest star in Western shows such as Bonanza, Gunsmoke, Rawhide, and The Rifleman, among others. He appeared on Bonanza eight different times as eight different characters... , John Doucette John Doucette John Doucette was a film character actor. He was a balding, husky man remembered for playing mob muscle and western bad guys in movies... |
Professor Richard Sheldon has been returned to the United States in a confused, altered state of mind after enemy agents bombarded him with intense sound waves while visiting Milan Milan Milan is the second-largest city in Italy and the capital city of the region of Lombardy and of the province of Milan. The city proper has a population of about 1.3 million, while its urban area, roughly coinciding with its administrative province and the bordering Province of Monza and Brianza ,... . Scientists reason that placing Professor Sheldon in an environment of total silence will reverse his condition. He was placed on a chair in the "Cone of Silence", consisting of a raised circular platform suspended by 3 wires tied to a common vertex. Although the cone's surface is open, anyone sitting inside would experience a deafening silence due to the phased ultrasonic noise generators located just below the vertex. Anyone speaking inside the cone could not be heard outside. |
| 1-20 | The Negative Man | September 10, 1955 | Dane Clark Dane Clark Dane Clark was an American film actor who was known for playing, as he labeled himself, "Joe Average".-Early life:... |
After receiving a near-fatal electric shock from a computer, a technician exhibits enhanced sensory and intellectual abilities. |
| 1-21 | Dead Reckoning | September 17, 1955 | James Craig James Craig (actor) James Craig was an American actor.After graduating from the Rice Institute, Craig began appearing in films in 1937, most often in B-movies and serials... , Steve Brodie Steve Brodie (actor) Steve Brodie was an American movie and television actor.Born John Stevenson in El Dorado, Kansas, he took his screen name from the Steve Brodie who claimed that he jumped from the Brooklyn Bridge in 1886 and survived... , Arleen Whelan |
A pilot lost in a geomagnetic storm Geomagnetic storm A geomagnetic storm is a temporary disturbance of the Earth's magnetosphere caused by a disturbance in the interplanetary medium. A geomagnetic storm is a major component of space weather and provides the input for many other components of space weather... is forced to navigate by a thermometer, a coffee pot and the earth itself. |
| 1-22 | A Visit from Dr. Pliny | September 24, 1955 | Edmund Gwenn Edmund Gwenn Edmund Gwenn was an English theatre and film actor.-Background:Born Edmund John Kellaway in Wandsworth, London , and educated at St. Olave's School and later at King's College London, Gwenn began his acting career in the theatre in 1895... , William Schallert William Schallert William Joseph Schallert is an American actor who has appeared in many films and in such television series as The Smurfs, The Rat Patrol, Gunsmoke, The Patty Duke Show, The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, The Waltons, Bonanza, Leave It to Beaver, The Dick Van Dyke Show, Love, American Style, Get... |
The eccentric Dr. Pliny visits a university where he builds a device purported to provide free energy from cosmic rays. |
| 1-23 | Strange People at Pecos | October 1, 1955 | Arthur Franz Arthur Franz Arthur Franz was a B-movie actor whose most notable role was as Lieutenant, Junior Grade H. Paynter, Jr. in The Caine Mutiny. He also appeared in Roseanna McCoy , Invaders from Mars , Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man and The Unholy Wife , among others... , Doris Dowling Doris Dowling Doris Dowling was an American actress of film, stage and television.After her time as a chorus-girl on Broadway, Detroit-born Doris Dowling followed her elder sister Constance to Hollywood. Her first credited film role was that of Gloria, barfly and drinking companion to fellow alcoholic Ray... , Dabbs Greer Dabbs Greer Robert William "Dabbs" Greer was an American actor who performed many diverse supporting roles in film and television for some fifty years. His distinctive, southern-accented voice fitted well in shows featuring rustic characters, such as westerns... |
A radar expert suspects his next-door neighbors are spies from another planet. |
| 1-24 | Dead Storage | October 8, 1955 | Virginia Bruce Virginia Bruce Virginia Bruce was an American actress and singer.-Career:Born Helen Virginia Briggs in Minneapolis, Minnesota, she went with her family to Los Angeles intending to enroll in the University of California when a friendly wager sent her seeking film work. She got it as an extra in Why Bring That... |
A baby mammoth Mammoth A mammoth is any species of the extinct genus Mammuthus. These proboscideans are members of Elephantidae, the family of elephants and mammoths, and close relatives of modern elephants. They were often equipped with long curved tusks and, in northern species, a covering of long hair... revives after being frozen in the Arctic for 500,000 years. |
| 1-25 | The Human Equation | October 15, 1955 | MacDonald Carey Macdonald Carey Edward Macdonald Carey was an American actor, best known for his role as the patriarch Dr. Tom Horton on NBC's soap opera Days of our Lives... |
A team of scientists looking for a new antibiotic are driven to hostility by exposure to the drug. |
| 1-26 | Target: Hurricane | October 22, 1955 | Marshall Thompson Marshall Thompson Marshall Thompson was an American film and television actor.He was born James Marshall Thompson in Peoria, Illinois. In 1943 Thompson, known for his boy-next-door good looks, was signed by Universal Pictures... , Ray Collins Ray Collins (actor) Ray Bidwell Collins was an American actor in film, stage, radio, and television. One of Collins' best remembered roles was that of Lt. Arthur Tragg in the long-running series Perry Mason.- Biography :... , Margaret Field |
A meteorologist will stop at nothing to learn the secrets of a mysterious hurricane. |
| 1-27 | The Water Maker | October 29, 1955 | William Talman, Virginia Grey Virginia Grey Virginia Grey was an American actress.She was born in Los Angeles, California, the daughter of director Ray Grey. One of her early babysitters was movie star Gloria Swanson. Grey debuted at the age of ten in the silent film Uncle Tom's Cabin as Little Eva... , Craig Stevens Craig Stevens (actor) Craig Stevens was an American motion picture and television actor.-Early and personal life:Born Gail Shikles, Jr., in Liberty, Missouri, his father was a high school teacher.... |
A researcher is killed in an explosion while attempting to create water from tritium. His friend is summoned to complete the research. |
| 1-28 | The Unexplored | November 5, 1955 | Kent Smith Kent Smith Kent Smith was an American actor who had a lengthy career in film, theater, and television.Born Frank Kent Smith in New York, New York, Smith made his acting debut on Broadway in 1932 in and, after spending a few years there, moved to Hollywood, California, where he made his film debut in The... , Osa Massen Osa Massen -Background and early career:Born Aase Madsen, she began her career as a newspaper photographer before becoming an actress. Massen notably appeared as Melvyn Douglas' unfaithful wife dealing with blackmailer Joan Crawford in A Woman's Face .... |
The doubting wife of a psychic researcher locates a missing colleague through clairvoyance. |
| 1-29 | The Hastings Secret | November 12, 1955 | Bill Williams Bill Williams (actor) Bill Williams was an American television and film actor. He is best known for his starring role in the early 1950 television show The Adventures of Kit Carson.-Career:... , Barbara Hale Barbara Hale Barbara Hale is an American actress best known for her role as legal secretary Della Street on more than 250 episodes of the long-running Perry Mason television series and later reprising the role in dozens of made-for-TV movies.... , Morris Ankrum Morris Ankrum Morris Ankrum was an American radio, television and film character actor.-Early life:Born Morris Nussbaum in Danville, Illinois, Ankrum originally began a career in academics. After graduating from USC with a law degree, he went on to an associate professorship in economics at the University of... |
A scientist discovers a species of termites that consume minerals instead of wood. |
| 1-30 | Postcard from Barcelona | November 19, 1955 | Keefe Brasselle Keefe Brasselle Keefe Brasselle was a film actor, television actor/producer and author. He first made a name for himself playing the role of Eddie Cantor in a Hollywood biography. Later, he became known for producing several failed television shows.His friendship with CBS executive James Aubrey led to the... , Walter Kingsford, Christine Larsen |
A scientist dies suddenly from a heart attack. While examining his laboratory and unfinished work, members from his institute discover he had been receiving his discoveries from extraterrestrials orbiting 1,500 miles above the Earth. |
| 1-31 | Friend of a Raven | November 26, 1955 | Richard Eyer, Virginia Bruce Virginia Bruce Virginia Bruce was an American actress and singer.-Career:Born Helen Virginia Briggs in Minneapolis, Minnesota, she went with her family to Los Angeles intending to enroll in the University of California when a friendly wager sent her seeking film work. She got it as an extra in Why Bring That... |
The tale of a strange little boy who can communicate with animals. |
| 1-32 | Beyond Return | December 3, 1955 | Zachary Scott Zachary Scott Zachary Scott was an American actor, most notable for his roles as villains and "mystery men".-Life and career:... , Joan Vohs, Peter Hanson Peter Hansen (actor) Peter Hansen is an American actor, best known for his role as a lawyer, Lee Baldwin, on the soap opera General Hospital. He played the role from 1965 to 1986 and again from 1992 to 2004... |
A medical researcher isolates a compound that regenerates damaged tissue. When he tries it on a terminally ill patient, she recovers completely in three days and now has the ability to change her appearance and fingerprints seemingly at will. |
| 1-33 | Before the Beginning | December 10, 1955 | Dane Clark Dane Clark Dane Clark was an American film actor who was known for playing, as he labeled himself, "Joe Average".-Early life:... , Ted de Corsia, Judith Ames, Phillip Pine Phillip Pine Phillip Pine was an American film and television actor, writer, director, and producer.... , Emerson Treacy Emerson Treacy -Career:Treacy was teamed with comedienne Gay Seabrook to form the double-act Treacy and Seabrook. The team was very successful on radio and in theater during the early 1930s, with routines similar to those of real husband-and-wife team Burns and Allen.... |
An obsessive scientist is unaware his wife is gravely ill as he works to develop a machine for generating high energy photons. He believes the photons, similar to those ejected from the sun, were the origin of life on Earth. When his "photon gun" generates living matter, he uses it to treat his wife's degenerated endocrine system with positive results. But was it the technology or his renewed love for his wife that caused her to rally? Episode is heavy with 1950s religiosity and tacit Frankenstienian warnings about man meddling with things he should not. |
| 1-34 | The Long Day | December 17, 1955 | George Brent George Brent George Brent was an Irish film and television actor in American cinema.-Early life:He was born George Brendan Nolan in Raharabeg, County Roscommon on the opposite bank of the River Shannon from the town of Shannonbridge, County Offaly, Ireland, the son of a British Army officer.During the Irish... , Steve Brodie Steve Brodie (actor) Steve Brodie was an American movie and television actor.Born John Stevenson in El Dorado, Kansas, he took his screen name from the Steve Brodie who claimed that he jumped from the Brooklyn Bridge in 1886 and survived... , DeForest Kelley DeForest Kelley Jackson DeForest Kelley was an American actor known for his iconic roles in Westerns and as Dr. Leonard "Bones" McCoy of the USS Enterprise in the television and film series Star Trek.-Early life:... , Sam Gilmore, Robert Barton |
"Project Torch", an experimental missile containing an artificial sun, is launched in early evening over the desert. When the craft mysteriously fails to return to earth, the intense light banishes night. Fortunately, the extended daylight keeps an unscrupulous housing developer from attacking an ex-convict's family to force them out of his newly constructed neighborhood. The developer "sees the light" and has a change of heart about discrimination. But what caused the artificial sun to remain in the sky long after it should have fallen? |
| 1-35 | Project 44 | December 24, 1955 | Bill Williams Bill Williams (actor) Bill Williams was an American television and film actor. He is best known for his starring role in the early 1950 television show The Adventures of Kit Carson.-Career:... , Doris Dowling Doris Dowling Doris Dowling was an American actress of film, stage and television.After her time as a chorus-girl on Broadway, Detroit-born Doris Dowling followed her elder sister Constance to Hollywood. Her first credited film role was that of Gloria, barfly and drinking companion to fellow alcoholic Ray... , Biff Elliot, Mack Williams, Kenneth Drake |
A new rocket fuel makes interplanetary travel possible. But the effects of the hostile environment of outer space on man are still unknown. "Project 44" gives a husband and wife research team one year to determine if a select group of specialists has the right stuff to go on a manned mission to Mars. But something seems to be undermining the project. Is it bad luck or sabotage? |
| 1-36 | Are We Invaded? | December 31, 1955 | Pat O'Brien Pat O'Brien (actor) Pat O’Brien was an American film actor with more than one hundred screen credits.-Early life:O’Brien was born William Joseph Patrick O’Brien to an Irish-American Catholic family in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He served as an altar boy at Gesu Church while growing up near 13th and Clybourn streets... , Anthony Eustrel, Leslie Gaye |
"That which we do not understand sometimes causes apprehension." A reporter and the daughter of a respected astronomer, watching the stars one evening from their parked car, see what they consider a flying saucer. A stranger appears at the door of the car saying he too saw the light in the sky, and asks if he can be given a lift down the hill into town. Later, the astronomer refuses to believe the couple saw anything more than an optical illusion. To prove the existence of UFOs, the reporter films a documentary of witnesses, while the astronomer promptly demonstrates scientific explanations for each witness's sightings. But the mysterious stranger has dropped off a photograph at the astronomer's lab- a photograph of our solar system taken from deep space. The stranger has disappeared, but left a forwarding address: Alpha Centauri, 4.5 light years from Earth. |
| 1-37 | Sound of Murder | January 7, 1956 | Howard Duff Howard Duff Howard Green Duff was an American actor of film, television, stage, and radio.Duff was born in Charleston, Washington, now a part of Bremerton. He graduated from Roosevelt High School in Seattle in 1932 where he began acting in school plays only after he was cut from the basketball team... , Russ Conway Russ Conway Russ Conway was a British popular music pianist. Conway had 20 piano instrumentals in the UK Singles Chart between 1957 and 1963, including two number one hits.-Career:... , Wheaton Chambers, Christine Larson, Whit Bissell Whit Bissell Whitner Nutting Bissell , better known as Whit Bissell, was an American actor.-Early life:Born in New York City, Bissell was the son of prominent surgeon Dr. J. Dougal Bissell. He trained with the Carolina Playmakers, a theatrical organization associated with the University of North Carolina at... , Edward Earle, Ruth Perrott, Charles Maxwell Charles Maxwell Charles Carlton Maxwell was an American character actor who worked primarily in television.Maxwell frequently appeared as a guest star in Western shows such as Bonanza, Gunsmoke, Rawhide, and The Rifleman, among others. He appeared on Bonanza eight different times as eight different characters... |
The senior scientist on a top secret government project is found murdered in a hotel room. The notes and formulae for the project have been stolen by foreign powers. The project's brilliant engineer is arrested and imprisoned for the murder, and for espionage, because a number of witnesses heard him on the telephone asking the senior scientist for a meeting in the hotel room shortly before the murder took place. To prove his innocence and his theory of how the crimes were committed, the accused engineer constructs a voice synthesizer. He uses it to have himself released from prison by duplicating the voice of a government official over the phone. The engineer also calls the other members of the team to the government official's office and uses the machine to trick the guilty team member into confessing. |
| 1-38 | Operation Flypaper | January 14, 1956 | Vincent Price Vincent Price Vincent Leonard Price, Jr. was an American actor, well known for his distinctive voice and serio-comic attitude in a series of horror films made in the latter part of his career.-Early life and career:Price was born in St... , George Eldridge, John Eldridge, Dabbs Greer Dabbs Greer Robert William "Dabbs" Greer was an American actor who performed many diverse supporting roles in film and television for some fifty years. His distinctive, southern-accented voice fitted well in shows featuring rustic characters, such as westerns... , Kristine Miller |
A group of scientists from many disciplines are met in secret conclave to develop a method to mine the Earth's oceans. But as they begin to share their theories and devices, the materials suddenly vanish. They notice that not only equipment and files are gone, but time has also disappeared. A brief conversation begun at 11 pm ends over an hour later, with no awareness of the intervening time having passed. A spy has found a way to move among the scientists at will and take what he wants without anyone perceiving him. In an effort to capture this thief, "Operation Flypaper" is quickly set up. A false lab is outfitted with hidden cameras and microphones, and technicians begin simulated work on another piece of vital equipment. As the room is observed, the occupants suddenly freeze in mid-stride. A man enters with a device that can put subjects into total sleep with no after effects, and begins to steal the equipment. The observers reveal he is being watched, and in a rage he shatters his machine and is captured. The man was a brilliant but paranoid scientist who wanted to be recognized for contributions to science and was stealing mining ideas and equipment he would later "invent". Ironically, his sleep machine, now totally destroyed, would have insured his place in scientific history as the greatest method of surgical anesthesia ever invented. |
| 1-39 | The Other Side of the Moon | January 28, 1956 | Skip Homeier Skip Homeier -Career:Homeier began acting as Skippy Homeier at the age of six, on the radio show Portia Faces Life. From 1943 until 1944 he played the role of Emil in the Broadway play, Tomorrow the World. Cast as a child indoctrinated into Nazism, who is brought to the United States from Germany following the... , Beverly Garland Beverly Garland Beverly Garland was an American film and television actress, businesswoman, and hotel owner. Garland gained prominence for her role as Fred MacMurray's second wife, "Barbara Harper Douglas", in the 1960s sitcom My Three Sons... , Philip Ober |
A picture of the dark side of the moon finds men from other worlds at work on its surface. |
Season 2
| No. | Episode | First airdate | Starring | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2-1 | Signals From the Heart | April 7, 1956 | Walter Kingsford, Peter Hanson Peter Hansen (actor) Peter Hansen is an American actor, best known for his role as a lawyer, Lee Baldwin, on the soap opera General Hospital. He played the role from 1965 to 1986 and again from 1992 to 2004... , Joyce Holden |
Scientists work to save a man's life by remote control. |
| 2-2 | The Long Sleep | April 14, 1956 | Dick Foran Dick Foran John Nicholas 'Dick' Foran was an American actor, known for his performances in western musicals and for playing supporting roles in dramatic pictures.-Life and career:... , John Doucette John Doucette John Doucette was a film character actor. He was a balding, husky man remembered for playing mob muscle and western bad guys in movies... , Nancy Hale |
A research scientist is forced to perform a strange experiment on an ailing youngster. |
| 2-3 | Who Is This Man? | April 21, 1956 | Bruce Bennett Bruce Bennett Bruce Bennett was an American actor and Olympic silver medalist shot putter. During the 1930s, he went by his real name, Herman Brix .-Early life and Olympics:... , Harlow Wilcox, Charles Smith |
Hypnosis to help a shy college student reveals a frightening mystery. |
| 2-4 | The Green Bomb | April 28, 1956 | Whit Bissell Whit Bissell Whitner Nutting Bissell , better known as Whit Bissell, was an American actor.-Early life:Born in New York City, Bissell was the son of prominent surgeon Dr. J. Dougal Bissell. He trained with the Carolina Playmakers, a theatrical organization associated with the University of North Carolina at... , Kenneth Tobey Kenneth Tobey Kenneth Tobey was an American stage, television, and film actor.-Early years:Born in Oakland, California, Tobey was headed for a law career when he first dabbled in acting at the University of California Little Theater... , Robert Griffin |
A breathtaking search for stolen atomic materials. |
| 2-5 | When a Camera Fails | May 5, 1956 | Gene Lockhart Gene Lockhart Eugene "Gene" Lockhart was a Canadian character actor, singer, and playwright. He also wrote the lyrics to a number of popular songs.-Early life:... , Mack Williams, Than Wyenn |
A geophysicist discovers that rocks can take pictures. |
| 2-6 | Bullet Proof | May 12, 1956 | Marshall Thompson Marshall Thompson Marshall Thompson was an American film and television actor.He was born James Marshall Thompson in Peoria, Illinois. In 1943 Thompson, known for his boy-next-door good looks, was signed by Universal Pictures... , Jacqueline Holt, John Eldredge |
A pair of metallurgists is approached by an escaped convict with samples of a light and flexible metal that will stop bullets. He claims to have gotten the metal from a spot where a UFO landed to make repairs. |
| 2-7 | The Flicker | May 19, 1956 | Victor Jory Victor Jory Victor Jory was a Canadian actor.-Biography:Born in Dawson City, Yukon, Jory was the boxing and wrestling champion of the Coast Guard during his military service, and he kept his burly physique. He toured with theater troupes and appeared on Broadway, before making his Hollywood debut in 1930... , Michael Fox Michael Fox (American actor) Michael Fox was an American character actor who was in numerous movies and television roles. Some of his most famous recurring roles were as various autopsy physicians in Perry Mason, as Coroner George McLeod in Burke's Law, as Amos Fedders in Falcon Crest and as Saul Feinberg in The Bold and the... |
A graduate student in sociology commits a murder after watching a badly flickering movie. |
| 2-8 | The Unguided Missile | May 26, 1956 | Ruth Hussey Ruth Hussey Ruth Carol Hussey was an American actress best known for her Academy Award-nominated role as photographer Elizabeth Imbrie in The Philadelphia Story.-Early life:... , Peter Hansen Peter Hansen (actor) Peter Hansen is an American actor, best known for his role as a lawyer, Lee Baldwin, on the soap opera General Hospital. He played the role from 1965 to 1986 and again from 1992 to 2004... , Francis McDonald |
Military secrets about a missile guidance system are being received by a journalist while she sleeps. |
| 2-9 | The Mind Machine | June 9, 1956 | Bill Williams Bill Williams (actor) Bill Williams was an American television and film actor. He is best known for his starring role in the early 1950 television show The Adventures of Kit Carson.-Career:... , Cyril Delevanti Cyril Delevanti Cyril Delevanti , sometimes credited as Syril Delevanti, was an English-born character actor with a long career in American films.... , Brad Trumbull, Sydney Mason, Lonie Blackman, Fred Coby, Jim Sheldon, Helen Jay |
A project to decipher signals from the brain gets a boost when an aging scientist suffers a stroke and offers use of his dying brain to decode the brainwaves. |
| 2-10 | The Missing Waveband | June 16, 1956 | Dick Foran Dick Foran John Nicholas 'Dick' Foran was an American actor, known for his performances in western musicals and for playing supporting roles in dramatic pictures.-Life and career:... , Stafford Repp, Gene Roth, Michael Fox Michael Fox (American actor) Michael Fox was an American character actor who was in numerous movies and television roles. Some of his most famous recurring roles were as various autopsy physicians in Perry Mason, as Coroner George McLeod in Burke's Law, as Amos Fedders in Falcon Crest and as Saul Feinberg in The Bold and the... |
A scientist builds a transmitter that operates in a never-before attained frequency band. Using the new device he and his colleagues receive ground-breaking scientific information from a voice that refuses to identify itself or its country of origin. |
| 2-11 | The Human Experiment | June 23, 1956 | Marshall Thompson Marshall Thompson Marshall Thompson was an American film and television actor.He was born James Marshall Thompson in Peoria, Illinois. In 1943 Thompson, known for his boy-next-door good looks, was signed by Universal Pictures... , Virginia Christine Virginia Christine Virginia Christine was an American film and television actress and voice artist. Christine had a long career as a character actress in film and television. She played "Mrs... , Claudia Barrett |
Taking inspiration from the insect world, a psycho-pharmacologist elicits an enzyme that can turn mentally defective humans into useful hive workers. |
| 2-12 | The Man Who Didn't Know | June 30, 1956 | Arthur Franz Arthur Franz Arthur Franz was a B-movie actor whose most notable role was as Lieutenant, Junior Grade H. Paynter, Jr. in The Caine Mutiny. He also appeared in Roseanna McCoy , Invaders from Mars , Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man and The Unholy Wife , among others... , Susan Cummings, Bruce Wendell, Voltaire Perkins |
An experimental atomic powered aircraft explodes over the Pacific ocean. The crew is assumed lost, but the captain appears six months later after having been treated by an anonymous expert surgeon. As soon as he returns to work on the project classified information begins to leak... |
| 2-13 | End of Tomorrow | July 7, 1956 | Christopher Dark Christopher Dark Christopher Dark was an American actor.Born Alfred Francis DeLeo in New York and died in Hollywood, California .Dark is best remembered as Hank Jaffe in the film World Without End .... , Diana Douglas, Walter Kingsford, Dabbs Greer Dabbs Greer Robert William "Dabbs" Greer was an American actor who performed many diverse supporting roles in film and television for some fifty years. His distinctive, southern-accented voice fitted well in shows featuring rustic characters, such as westerns... |
A mysterious and vaguely menacing medical researcher develops a vaccine that both cures and prevents all microbial infections known to man. The entire world is to be inoculated when it is discovered that the drug has a side-effect: All offspring of vaccinated animals are female. |
| 2-14 | The Phantom Car | July 21, 1956 | John Archer John Archer (actor) John Archer was an American movie and television actor.-Biography:Born Ralph Bowman in Osceola, Nebraska, Archer moved to California at the age of five... , Judith Ames, Tyler McVey, Herbert C. Lytton, William Fawcett William Fawcett (actor) William "Bill" Fawcett was a character actor in Hollywood B-films and in television. His career extended from 1946 until the early 1970s. He is probably best remembered for his role as the cantankerous, rusty-voiced Pete Wilkey of the Broken Wheel Ranch on the NBC series Fury, co-starring Peter... |
A car with no driver is running around in the desert and occasionally hits people but does not stop. |
| 2-15 | Beam of Fire | July 28, 1956 | Wayne Morris, Frank Gerstle, Harlan Warde | Two scientists working on a top-secret rocket fuel are murdered by high-frequency sound beams. Government security agents manage to track down and destroy the sonic projector, but the only recoverable part of the debris is melted beyond recognition and is composed of a material unknown on Earth. |
| 2-16 | The Legend of Crater Mountain | August 18, 1956 | Marilyn Erskine, Brad Jackson, Jo Ann Lilliquist | A young rural schoolteacher finds that her three star pupils are more than human. |
| 2-17 | Living Lights | August 25, 1956 | Skip Homeier Skip Homeier -Career:Homeier began acting as Skippy Homeier at the age of six, on the radio show Portia Faces Life. From 1943 until 1944 he played the role of Emil in the Broadway play, Tomorrow the World. Cast as a child indoctrinated into Nazism, who is brought to the United States from Germany following the... , Joan Sinclair, Michael Garth |
A graduate student attempts to reproduce the conditions on the surface of Venus. His experiment results in the creation of seemingly living balls of light. |
| 2-18 | Jupitron | September 15, 1956 | Bill Williams Bill Williams (actor) Bill Williams was an American television and film actor. He is best known for his starring role in the early 1950 television show The Adventures of Kit Carson.-Career:... , Toni Gerry, Lowell Gilmore |
A scientist and his wife have a vacation, or maybe an hallucination, that includes a terrifying visit to a moon of Jupiter. |
| 2-19 | The Throwback | September 22, 1956 | Peter Hanson Peter Hansen (actor) Peter Hansen is an American actor, best known for his role as a lawyer, Lee Baldwin, on the soap opera General Hospital. He played the role from 1965 to 1986 and again from 1992 to 2004... , Ed Kemmer, Virginia Christine Virginia Christine Virginia Christine was an American film and television actress and voice artist. Christine had a long career as a character actress in film and television. She played "Mrs... |
A genetic research scientist attempts to prove that memories can be inherited. He uses a remarkable series of coincidences as evidence. |
| 2-20 | The Miracle of Dr. Dove | September 29, 1956 | Gene Lockhart Gene Lockhart Eugene "Gene" Lockhart was a Canadian character actor, singer, and playwright. He also wrote the lyrics to a number of popular songs.-Early life:... , Robin Short |
An eminent biologist holds the key to the strange secret of three scientists who disappear from the face of the Earth. |
| 2-21 | One Thousand Eyes | October 6, 1956 | Vincent Price Vincent Price Vincent Leonard Price, Jr. was an American actor, well known for his distinctive voice and serio-comic attitude in a series of horror films made in the latter part of his career.-Early life and career:Price was born in St... , Jean Byron Jean Byron Jean Byron was an American film, television, and stage actress. She is best known for the role of Natalie Lane, Patty Lane's mother in The Patty Duke Show.-Early life and career:... |
The inventor of several innovative image projection technologies is murdered. His wife says an unknown caller threatened his life unless he turned over his current project. His lab assistant is found dead in a car wreck with plans, but all the plans are for inventions patented long ago... |
| 2-22 | Brain Unlimited | October 13, 1956 | Arthur Franz Arthur Franz Arthur Franz was a B-movie actor whose most notable role was as Lieutenant, Junior Grade H. Paynter, Jr. in The Caine Mutiny. He also appeared in Roseanna McCoy , Invaders from Mars , Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man and The Unholy Wife , among others... , Diana Douglas, Doug Wilson |
A scientist takes two weeks off from his current project to develop brain-acceleration technology. With his accelerated brain, he finds the key to his original project. |
| 2-23 | Death at My Fingertips | October 20, 1956 | Dick Foran Dick Foran John Nicholas 'Dick' Foran was an American actor, known for his performances in western musicals and for playing supporting roles in dramatic pictures.-Life and career:... , June Lockhart June Lockhart June Lockhart is an American actress, primarily in 1950s and 1960s television, but with memorable performances on stage and in film too. She is remembered as the mother in two TV series, Lassie and Lost in Space. She also portrayed Dr... , John Stephenson |
Fingerprints "prove" a man murdered, even though he was in another city at the time of the killing. |
| 2-24 | Survival in Box Canyon | November 3, 1956 | Bruce Bennett Bruce Bennett Bruce Bennett was an American actor and Olympic silver medalist shot putter. During the 1930s, he went by his real name, Herman Brix .-Early life and Olympics:... , Susan Cummings, DeForest Kelly |
The Civil Air Patrol searches for a small airplane that crashed near an atomic bomb test range. |
| 2-25 | The Voice | November 10, 1956 | Donald Curtis, Kristine Miller, Anthony Eustrel | After being paralyzed in the crash of his small airplane, a lawyer finds he has telepathic powers. |
| 2-26 | Three Minute Mile | November 17, 1956 | Marshall Thompson Marshall Thompson Marshall Thompson was an American film and television actor.He was born James Marshall Thompson in Peoria, Illinois. In 1943 Thompson, known for his boy-next-door good looks, was signed by Universal Pictures... , Martin Milner Martin Milner Martin Sam Milner is an American actor best known for his performances in two popular television series, Adam-12 and Route 66.... , Gloria Marshall |
A university professor conducts secret experiments in heart-rate acceleration. |
| 2-27 | The Last Barrier | November 24, 1956 | Bill Ching William Ching William Ching, also credited as William Brooks, Bill Ching and William Brooks Ching was a United States character actor who appeared in almost 20 films and on television during the later 1940s and throughout the 1950s... , Bruce Wendell |
A hoax to conceal a rocket launch reveals startling facts. |
| 2-28 | Signals from the Moon | December 1, 1956 | Bruce Bennett Bruce Bennett Bruce Bennett was an American actor and Olympic silver medalist shot putter. During the 1930s, he went by his real name, Herman Brix .-Early life and Olympics:... |
A surgeon directs an operation to save the life of an important visiting diplomat by television Telepresence Telepresence refers to a set of technologies which allow a person to feel as if they were present, to give the appearance of being present, or to have an effect, via telerobotics, at a place other than their true location.... . |
| 2-29 | Dr. Robot | December 8, 1956 | Peter Hanson Peter Hansen (actor) Peter Hansen is an American actor, best known for his role as a lawyer, Lee Baldwin, on the soap opera General Hospital. He played the role from 1965 to 1986 and again from 1992 to 2004... , Whit Bissel, Doug Wilson |
A computer scientist uses his firm's main frame to seek out the optimal treatment for his ailing wife. |
| 2-30 | The Human Circuit | December 15, 1956 | Marshall Thompson Marshall Thompson Marshall Thompson was an American film and television actor.He was born James Marshall Thompson in Peoria, Illinois. In 1943 Thompson, known for his boy-next-door good looks, was signed by Universal Pictures... , Bill Ching William Ching William Ching, also credited as William Brooks, Bill Ching and William Brooks Ching was a United States character actor who appeared in almost 20 films and on television during the later 1940s and throughout the 1950s... , Joyce Jameson |
A night club dancer exhibits clairvoyance. |
| 2-31 | The Miracle Hour | December 22, 1956 | Dick Foran Dick Foran John Nicholas 'Dick' Foran was an American actor, known for his performances in western musicals and for playing supporting roles in dramatic pictures.-Life and career:... , Jean Byron Jean Byron Jean Byron was an American film, television, and stage actress. She is best known for the role of Natalie Lane, Patty Lane's mother in The Patty Duke Show.-Early life and career:... , Charles Herbert Charles Herbert Charles Herbert is a former American child actor of the 1950s and 1960s. Before reaching his teens, Herbert was renowned by a generation of moviegoers for an on-screen broody, mature style and wit that enabled him to go one-on-one with some of the biggest names in the industry, and his appearances... |
A stage lighting director and his physician friend teach a blind little boy to perceive colored light. |
| 2-32 | Sun Gold | December 29, 1956 | Marilyn Erskine, Ross Elliott Ross Elliott Ross Elliott was an American television and film character actor. He began his acting career with Orson Welles in Mercury Theatre, where he performed in Welles' famed radio program The War of the Worlds.... , Julian Rivero, Paul Fierro |
Government scientists, working in Peru, discover evidence of an extraterrestrial at work in the Inca Empire. |
| 2-33 | Facsimile | January 5, 1957 | Arthur Franz Arthur Franz Arthur Franz was a B-movie actor whose most notable role was as Lieutenant, Junior Grade H. Paynter, Jr. in The Caine Mutiny. He also appeared in Roseanna McCoy , Invaders from Mars , Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man and The Unholy Wife , among others... , Aline Towne Aline Towne Aline Towne born Fern Aline Eggen, also known as Fern Aline Waller, was an American film and television actress, best remembered for her lead roles in 1950s Republic serials, such as Radar Men from the Moon.Towne was born in Saint Paul, Minnesota.Towne appeared in dozens of roles on television, in... , Donald Curtis |
Members of a team developing an ultra-sensitive transistor are afflicted by maladies of patients in a near-by hospital. |
| 2-34 | Killer Tree | January 12, 1957 | Bill Williams Bill Williams (actor) Bill Williams was an American television and film actor. He is best known for his starring role in the early 1950 television show The Adventures of Kit Carson.-Career:... , Bonita Granville Bonita Granville Bonita Granville was an American film actress and television producer.-Early life:Born in Chicago, Illinois, Granville was the daughter of stage actors, and made her film debut at the age of nine in Westward Passage... , Keith Richards |
A scientist investigates a tree with an ancient reputation of breathing death. |
| 2-35 | Gravity Zero | January 19, 1957 | Percy Helton Percy Helton Percy Helton was an American film and television actor.One of his most memorable supporting roles was playing a drunken Santa Claus in Miracle on 34th Street. He also appeared in small but memorable roles in Criss Cross , The Set-Up , Kiss Me Deadly and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid... , Lisa Gaye Lisa Gaye Lisa Gaye is a former American actress, singer and dancer.She was born Lezlie Gae Griffin in Denver, Colorado. The family moved from Denver to Los Angeles in the 1930s to be close to the developing film industry. Her mother, actress Margaret Griffin, was determined that Gaye and her siblings would... , Walter Kingsford |
A university professor nullifies gravity with a magnetic field. |
| 2-36 | The Magic Suitcase | January 26, 1957 | Charles Winninger Charles Winninger Charles Winninger was an American stage and film actor, most often cast in comedies or musicals, but equally at home in drama.-Biography:He began as a vaudeville actor... |
A stranger arrives in a remote dwelling with a small suitcase. It has an electrical outlet on the outside and, in the stranger's absence, the homeowner's son plugs his electric train into it. He is scolded by his father but, after the stranger disappears without the suitcase, the man refers it to scientists because the energy the suitcase puts out seems unlimited. Unable to pierce the material of the suitcase, the scientists use the suitcase's own energy to break it open. They do not fully understand what they find inside (a block of solidified hydrogen) and the suitcase no longer produces energy. A "killing the goose that laid the golden egg" tale. |
| 2-37 | Bolt of Lightning | February 2, 1957 | Bruce Bennett Bruce Bennett Bruce Bennett was an American actor and Olympic silver medalist shot putter. During the 1930s, he went by his real name, Herman Brix .-Early life and Olympics:... , Kristine Miller, Sidney Smith |
A university laboratory and the building housing it are completely vaporized when an experiment gets out of control. |
| 2-38 | The Strange Lodger | February 5, 1957 | Peter Hanson Peter Hansen (actor) Peter Hansen is an American actor, best known for his role as a lawyer, Lee Baldwin, on the soap opera General Hospital. He played the role from 1965 to 1986 and again from 1992 to 2004... , Jan Shepard, Cyril Delevanti Cyril Delevanti Cyril Delevanti , sometimes credited as Syril Delevanti, was an English-born character actor with a long career in American films.... |
A peculiar old man is found to be transmitting an encyclopedia on a non-existent television channel. |
| 2-39 | The Sound That Kills | April 6, 1957 | Ludwig Stossel Ludwig Stössel Ludwig Stössel was an actor born in Lockenhaus, Austria. He was one of many Jewish actors and actresses that were forced to flee Europe when the Nazis came to power in 1933.... , Ray Collins Ray Collins (actor) Ray Bidwell Collins was an American actor in film, stage, radio, and television. One of Collins' best remembered roles was that of Lt. Arthur Tragg in the long-running series Perry Mason.- Biography :... , Charles Victor |
A murderous spy is stealing secrets at an international convention of scientists. |