Science Fiction Theatre

Science Fiction Theatre
	Series title card
Also known as	Beyond the Limits
Genre	Anthology Sci-Fi Drama
Directed by	Jack Arnold; William Castle; Eddie Davis; Tom Gries; Paul Guilfoyle; Leigh Jason; Lew Landers; Herbert L. Strock
Presented by	Truman Bradley
Composer	Ray Bloch
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
No. of seasons	2
No. of episodes	78
Production
Executive producers	Frederick W. Ziv; Maurice Ziv
Producer	Ivan Tors
Cinematography	Monroe P. Askins; Curt Fetters; Robert Hoffman
Camera setup	Single-camera
Running time	25-26 minutes
Production companies	Ivan Tors Productions; Ziv Television Programs
Distributor	MGM Television; Sony Pictures Television
Release
Original network	Syndication
Picture format	Color (1955–1956); Black-and-white (1956–1957)
Audio format	Monaural
Original release	April 9, 1955 –; February 8, 1957

Science Fiction Theatre is an American science fiction anthology TV series syndicated and broadcast from 1955 to 1957. It was produced by Ivan Tors and Maurice Ziv. A total of 78 episodes were produced.

General

Hosted by Truman Bradley, a radio/TV announcer and 1940s film actor, each episode introduced stories which had an extrapolated scientific or pseudo scientific emphasis based on actual scientific data available at the time. Typically, the stories related to the life or work of scientists, engineers, inventors, and explorers. The program concentrated on such concepts as space flight, robots, telepathy, flying saucers, time travel, and the intervention of extraterrestrials in human affairs.

Broadcasting a total of 78 25–26 minute episodes, the series was also known as Beyond The Limits for repeat syndication during the 1960s, and alternatively as Science Fiction Theater.

Opposite to what happened during the 1960s transition to color, the first season was filmed in color, but to cut production costs, the second season was filmed in black-and-white. The producers had originally thought that color television broadcasting would progress faster than it actually did.

Like the syndicated Out There and Tales of Tomorrow anthology series before it, Science Fiction Theatre was a predecessor to later science fiction anthology shows such as The Twilight Zone and The Outer Limits.

Other than host Bradley, the show had no fixed cast, although a number of actors appeared in multiple episodes in different roles. Dick Foran, Marshall Thompson, Dabbs Greer, Arthur Franz, Whit Bissell and Bruce Bennett appeared in more episodes than most. The show also featured stars such as Basil Rathbone, Kenneth Tobey, Victor Jory, Gene Barry, DeForest Kelly, Phyllis Coates and Vincent Price. (see Episode List below for reference)[1]

Intro and outro

Each episode was introduced by a stirring brass, string, and woodwind fanfare (most likely composed by Ray Bloch, longtime music director for Ed Sullivan), while the camera panned over a science laboratory. Then, Bradley showed a simple scientific experiment which was related to the topic of that week's show. Bradley's demonstrations were often staged, but yielded results consistent with the outcome of true experiments. He was always careful to point out that the story presented was fictional: that "it did not happen".

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".

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".

Broadcast

The original series was broadcast on Saturday nights. Recently the series was also aired on The Works.

Home media

Timeless Media Group released the complete series on Region 1 DVD on May 12, 2015.

In popular culture

The show is known to modern audiences by being prominently referenced in the film Back to the Future as George McFly's favorite television program.

Episodes

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Season 1

No.	Episode	Director	Writer	First airdate	Starring	Summary
1-1	Beyond	Herbert L. Strock	Story by : Ivan Tors Teleplay by : Robert Smith and George Van Marter	April 9, 1955	William Lundigan, Ellen Drew, Truman Bradley, Bruce Bennett	Traveling at three times the speed of sound, a test pilot ejects claiming that another craft was about to collide with his.
1-2	Time Is Just a Place	Jack Arnold	Story by : Jack Finney Teleplay by : Lee Berg	April 16, 1955	Don DeFore, Marie Windsor, Warren Stevens, Peggy O'Connor	A young couple discovers that their neighbors, who possess a sonic broom and many other technologically advanced household items, are fugitives from the future who have fled to the past to escape an oppressive government. Adapted from Jack Finney's short story, Such Interesting Neighbors.
1-3	Out of Nowhere	Herbert L. Strock	Teleplay by : Donn Mullally	April 23, 1955	Richard Arlen, Jess Barker	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 deactivated.
1-4	Y.O.R.D.	Leon Benson	Story by : Ivan Tors and George Van Marter Teleplay by : Leon Benson and George Van Marter	April 30, 1955	Walter Kingsford, Judith Ames, DeForest Kelley, Kenneth Tobey, Louis Jean Heydt	The Magnetic Pole Weather Station receives a strange distress message and initiates one of the greatest rescue missions of all time.
1-5	Stranger in the Desert	Henry S. Kesler	Story by : Ivan Tors Teleplay by : Curtis Kenyon and Robert M. Fresco	May 7, 1955	Marshall Thompson, Gene Evans, Lowell Gilmore	Two uranium prospectors meet a stranger from another land who is searching for oxygen-producing plants.
1-6	No Food for Thought	Jack Arnold	Teleplay by : Robert M. Fresco	May 14, 1955	John Howard, Otto Kruger	A biologist and his staff test synthetic foods that have proved fatal to animals on themselves.
1-7	The Brain of John Emerson	Leslie Goodwins	Teleplay by : Hendrik Vollaerts	May 21, 1955	John Howard, Ellen Drew	A police sergeant escapes death from a bullet in his brain but finds himself changed.
1-8	Spider, Inc.	Jack Arnold	Teleplay by : Jerry Sackheim	May 28, 1955	Gene Barry, Audrey Totter	A young geologist discovers an ancient spider enclosed in a piece of transparent rock.
1-9	Death at 2 A.M.	Henry S. Kesler	Story by : Ivan Tors Teleplay by : Ellis Marcus	June 4, 1955	Skip Homeier, John Qualen, Ted de Corsia	A scientist uses an experimental strength serum to murder a man who is blackmailing him.
1-10	Conversation With an Ape	Herbert L. Strock	Teleplay by : Hendrik Vollaerts	June 11, 1955	Hugh Beaumont, Barbara Hale	A telepathic chimpanzee saves a scientist and his wife from a killer.
1-11	Marked 'Danger'	Leigh Jason	Story by : John Burnett Teleplay by : Jerry Sackheim and Stuart Jerome	June 18, 1955	Otto Kruger, Arthur Franz, Nancy Gates	While doing field work in a 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 examines the payload and inadvertently releases a toxic gas.
1-12	Hour of Nightmare	Henry S. Kesler	Teleplay by : Lou Huston	June 25, 1955	William Bishop, Lynn Bari, Charles Evans	Two top freelance photographers go to Mexico to photograph mysterious flying objects and find a dead alien.
1-13	100 Years Young	Herbert L. Strock	Story by : Arthur Fitz Richards Teleplay by : Jerry Sackheim	July 2, 1955	Ruth Hussey, John Archer, John Abbott	A retired man confides to a fellow research chemist that he is more than two centuries old.
1-14	The Strange Dr. Lorenz	Leigh Jason	Teleplay by : Norman Jolley	July 9, 1955	Edmund Gwenn, Donald Curtis, Kristine Miller	The story of a beekeeper whose bees manufacture a wonder drug instead of honey.
1-15	The Frozen Sound	Leigh Jason	Story by : Norman Jolley and Ivan Tors Teleplay by : Norman Jolley	July 30, 1955	Marshall Thompson, Marilyn Erskine, Ray Collins, Michael Fox	A paperweight is found to reproduce sounds from 2000 years ago.
1-16	The Stones Began to Move	Lew Landers	Story by : Ivan Tors and Doris Gilbert Teleplay by : Doris Gilbert	August 6, 1955	Basil Rathbone	A murder and the secrets of the Pyramids combine.
1-17	The Lost Heartbeat	Henry S. Kesler	Story by : Anna Hunger and R. DeWitt Miller Teleplay by : Stuart Jerome	August 13, 1955	Zachary Scott	A dying scientist needs time to finish his experiments.
1-18	The World Below	Herbert L. Strock	Teleplay by : Lew Hewitt	August 27, 1955	Gene Barry, Marguerite Chapman	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	Leon Benson	Teleplay by : Lou Huston	September 3, 1955	Adolphe Menjou, Warren Stevens, Phyllis Coates, Charles Maxwell, John Doucette	Professor Richard Sheldon has been returned to the United States in a confused, altered state of mind after enemy agents hypnotized him in an environment of absolute silence while visiting Milan. His friend, psychiatrist Dr. Elliott Harcourt, reasons that placing Professor Sheldon in a similar environment will reverse his condition. He is placed in a wheelchair 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 silence due to the phased ultrasonic noise generators located just below the vertex. Anyone speaking inside the cone could not be heard outside. With Dr. Harcourt's guidance, the treatment works, and Sheldon regains his memory.
1-20	Negative Man	Henry S. Kesler	Story by : Ivan Tors Teleplay by : Thelma Schnee	September 10, 1955	Dane Clark, Beverly Garland	After a near-fatal electric shock from a computer, a technician exhibits enhanced sensory and intellectual abilities.
1-21	Dead Reckoning	Herbert L. Strock	Teleplay by : Gene Levitt	September 17, 1955	James Craig, Steve Brodie, Arleen Whelan	A pilot lost in a geomagnetic storm is forced to navigate by a thermometer, a coffee pot and the earth itself.
1-22	A Visit from Dr. Pliny	Henry S. Kesler	Teleplay by : Sloan Nibley	September 24, 1955	Edmund Gwenn, William Schallert	The eccentric Dr. Pliny visits a university where he builds a device purported to provide free energy from cosmic rays.
1-23	The Strange People at Pecos	Eddie Davis	Teleplay by : Doris Gilbert	October 1, 1955	Arthur Franz, Doris Dowling, Dabbs Greer, Judith Ames	A radar expert suspects his next-door neighbors are spies from another planet.
1-24	Dead Storage	Jack Herzberg	Story by : Ivan Tors Teleplay by : Stuart Jerome	October 8, 1955	Virginia Bruce	A baby mammoth revives after being frozen in the Arctic for 500,000 years.
1-25	The Human Equation	Henry S. Kesler	Teleplay by : Norman Jolley	October 15, 1955	Macdonald Carey	A team of scientists trying to develop a new antibiotic are driven to hostility by exposure to the drug.
1-26	Target Hurricane	Leigh Jason	Story by : Ivan Tors Teleplay by : Robert Schaefer and Eric Freiwald	October 22, 1955	Marshall Thompson, Ray Collins, Margaret Field	A freak super-hurricane, more powerful than any hurricane than has ever occurred before, threatens the Miami coastline. Then, just when it seems that Miami is doomed, a freak high-pressure system forces the storm back out to sea, where it dissipates over colder waters. Subsequent tests reveal that the storm was triggered by the explosion of an exceptionally large meteor when it splashed into the ocean, whose unusually warm waters were unable to drain off the meteor's excess heat energy (built up by atmospheric friction) fast enough to prevent the blast. The prevailing weather conditions at the time combined with the blast to produce the super-storm.
1-27	The Water Maker	Herbert L. Strock	Story by : Jerry Sackheim Teleplay by : Stuart Jerome	October 29, 1955	William Talman, Virginia Grey, Craig Stevens	After a researcher dies in an explosion trying to create water from tritium, his friend attempts to complete the research.
1-28	The Unexplored	Eddie Davis	Teleplay by : Arthur Weiss	November 5, 1955	Kent Smith, Osa Massen	The doubting wife of a psychic researcher locates a missing colleague through clairvoyance.
1-29	The Hastings Secret	Jack Herzberg	Teleplay by : Lee Hewitt	November 12, 1955	Bill Williams, Barbara Hale, Morris Ankrum	A scientist discovers a species of termites that consume minerals instead of wood.
1-30	Postcard from Barcelona	Alvin Ganzer	Story by : Ivan Tors and Tom Gries Teleplay by : Sloan Nibley	November 19, 1955	Keefe Brasselle, Walter Kingsford, Christine Larsen	A scientist dies suddenly from heart failure. While examining his laboratory and unfinished work, workers of his institute discover he had been receiving his discoveries from extraterrestrials orbiting 1,500 miles above the Earth.
1-31	Friend of a Raven	Tom Gries	Teleplay by : Richard Joseph Tuber	November 26, 1955	Richard Eyer, Virginia Bruce	The tale of a strange little boy who can communicate with animals.
1-32	Beyond Return	Eddie Davis	Story by : Stanley G. Weinbaum Teleplay by : Doris Gilbert	December 3, 1955	Zachary Scott, Joan Vohs, Peter Hanson	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	Alvin Ganzer	Story by : Ivan Tors and Arthur Weiss Teleplay by : Arthur Weiss	December 10, 1955	Dane Clark, Ted de Corsia, Judith Ames, Phillip Pine, Emerson Treacy	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?
1-34	The Long Day	Paul Guilfoyle	Teleplay by : George Fass and Gertrude Fass	December 17, 1955	George Brent, Steve Brodie, DeForest Kelley, Sam Gilmore, Robert Barton	"Project Torch", an experimental missile containing an artificial sun, is launched during early evening over a desert. When the craft mysteriously fails to return to earth, the intense light creates artificial daylight. Fortunately, the extended daylight prevents 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 opinion. But what caused the artificial sun to remain in the sky long after it should have fallen?
1-35	Project 44	Tom Gries	Teleplay by : Lou Huston	December 24, 1955	Bill Williams, Doris Dowling, 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 mankind are still unknown. "Project 44" gives a husband and wife research team one year to determine if a select group of specialists can travel safely to Mars. But something seems to be undermining the project. Is it bad luck or sabotage?
1-36	Are We Invaded?	Leon Benson	Teleplay by : Norman Jolley	December 31, 1955	Pat O'Brien, 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 left a photograph at the astronomer's lab- a photograph of our solar system taken from space. The stranger has disappeared, but left a forwarding address: Centauri 6. The sixth planet of the star Alpha Centauri, 4.3 light years from Earth.
1-37	Sound of Murder	Jack Arnold	Story by : Ivan Tors Teleplay by : Stuart Jerome	January 7, 1956	Howard Duff, Russ Conway, Wheaton Chambers, Christine Larson, Whit Bissell, Edward Earle, Ruth Perrott, Charles Maxwell	The senior scientist of 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 asking by telephone the senior scientist for a meeting in the hotel room shortly before the murder occurred. 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 by telephone. 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	Eddie Davis	Teleplay by : Doris Gilbert	January 14, 1956	Vincent Price, George Eldredge, John Eldredge, Dabbs Greer, 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 more than 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 organized. A false laboratory 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	Eddie Davis	Teleplay by : Robert M. Fresco and Richard Joseph Tuber	January 28, 1956	Skip Homeier, Beverly Garland, Philip Ober	A picture of the far side of the moon finds creatures from other worlds at work on its surface.

Season 2

No.	Episode	Director	Writer	First airdate	Starring	Summary
2-1	Signals From the Heart	Herbert L. Strock	Story by : Ivan Tors Teleplay by : Stuart Jerome	April 7, 1956	Walter Kingsford, Peter Hanson, Joyce Holden	Scientists work to save a man's life by remote control.
2-2	The Long Sleep	Paul Guilfoyle	Story by : Ivan Tors Teleplay by : Arthur Weiss	April 14, 1956	Dick Foran, John Doucette, Nancy Hale	A research scientist is forced to perform a strange experiment on an ailing young orangutan. When its success is publicized, a man kidnaps the doctor's wife & son and forces him to repeat the experiment on his son who is dying.
2-3	Who Is This Man?	William Castle	Teleplay by : Charles Smith	April 21, 1956	Bruce Bennett, Harlow Wilcox, Charles Smith	Hypnosis to help a shy college student reveals a frightening mystery.
2-4	The Green Bomb	Tom Gries	Story by : Ivan Tors Teleplay by : Tom Gries	April 28, 1956	Whit Bissell, Kenneth Tobey, Robert Griffin	A breathtaking search for stolen atomic materials.
2-5	When a Camera Fails	Herbert L. Strock	Story by : Ivan Tors Teleplay by : Norman Jolley	May 5, 1956	Gene Lockhart, Mack Williams, Than Wyenn	A geophysicist discovers that rocks can make pictures.
2-6	Bullet Proof	Paul Guilfoyle	Teleplay by : Lee Hewitt	May 12, 1956	Marshall Thompson, 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	Herbert L. Strock	Story by : Robert E. Smith Teleplay by : Lou Huston	May 19, 1956	Victor Jory, Michael Fox, Judith Ames	A graduate student in sociology commits a murder after watching a badly flickering movie.
2-8	The Unguided Missile	Herbert L. Strock	Teleplay by : Arthur Weiss	May 26, 1956	Ruth Hussey, Peter Hansen, Francis McDonald	Military secrets about a missile guidance system are being received by a journalist while she sleeps.
2-9	Mind Machine	Paul Guilfoyle	Teleplay by : Ellis Marcus	June 9, 1956	Bill Williams, Cyril Delevanti, 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	Jack Herzberg	Story by : Ivan Tors Teleplay by : Lou Huston	June 16, 1956	Dick Foran, Stafford Repp, Gene Roth, Michael Fox	A scientist builds a transmitter that operates in a never-before attained frequency band. Using the new device he and his colleagues receive new scientific information from a voice that refuses to identify itself or its country of origin.
2-11	The Human Experiment	Paul Guilfoyle	Story by : Ivan Tors Teleplay by : Doris Gilbert	June 23, 1956	Marshall Thompson, Virginia Christine, 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	Man Who Didn't Know	Herbert L. Strock	Teleplay by : Hendrik Vollaerts	June 30, 1956	Arthur Franz, 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	Herbert L. Strock	Teleplay by : Peter R. Brooke	July 7, 1956	Christopher Dark, Diana Douglas, Walter Kingsford, Dabbs Greer	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	Herbert L. Strock	Teleplay by : Lee Hewitt	July 21, 1956	John Archer, Judith Ames, Tyler McVey, Herbert C. Lytton, William Fawcett	A car with no driver is running around in the desert and occasionally hits people but does not stop.
2-15	Beam of Fire	Herbert L. Strock	Story by : Ivan Tors Teleplay by : Stuart Jerome	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	Paul Guilfoyle	Teleplay by : Bill Buchanan and Lue Hall	August 18, 1956	Marilyn Erskine, Brad Jackson, Jo Ann Lilliquist	A young rural schoolteacher finds that her three best pupils are more than human.
2-17	Living Lights	Herbert L. Strock	Story by : Ivan Tors and Ellis Marcus Teleplay by : Ellis Marcus	August 25, 1956	Skip Homeier, Joan Sinclair, Michael Garth	A graduate student attempts to reproduce the conditions on the surface of Venus in a large bell jar. His experiment results in the creation of a ball of light that acts like a living being. A curious student inadvertently allows it to escape. It returns and others appear. They seem to be trying to attack people with ultra violet light. He destroys them by increasing the vacuum in the bell jar until it explodes. He resolves to try again with more secure conditions with the assistance of the university.
2-18	Jupitron	Paul Guilfoyle	Teleplay by : Arthur Weiss	September 15, 1956	Bill Williams, Toni Gerry, Lowell Gilmore	Dr. Barlow and his wife believe they have spent the night on one of Jupiter's moons. They were enveloped by a strange mist while at the beach the night before and awoke the next morning after having had the same "dream." On the moon they encountered a Dr. Wycauff, who had disappeared without a trace ten years before. He explains that he went to the moon to try to help inhabitants stabilize their atmosphere. In exchange, he was to get a chemical called "Jupitron" that would show scientists back on earth how to grow an unlimited supply of food for the growing population of the earth. Barlow was summoned to bring it back, but they are returned before they can obtain the substance from Wycauff.
2-19	The Throwback	Paul Guilfoyle	Teleplay by : Thelma Schnee	September 22, 1956	Peter Hanson, Ed Kemmer, Virginia Christine	A genetic research scientist attempts to prove that memories can be inherited. He uses a remarkable series of coincidences as evidence.
2-20	Miracle of Doctor Dove	Herbert L. Strock	Story by : Ivan Tors and George Asness Teleplay by : George Asness	September 29, 1956	Gene Lockhart, Robin Short	An eminent biologist holds the solution to the strange mystery of three scientists who disappear from the Earth.
2-21	One Thousand Eyes	Paul Guilfoyle	Teleplay by : Stuart Jerome	October 6, 1956	Vincent Price, Jean Byron	The inventor of several innovative image projection technologies is murdered. His wife says an unknown caller threatened his life unless he surrendered his current project. His laboratory assistant is found dead in a car wreck with plans, but all the plans are for inventions patented long ago.
2-22	Brain Unlimited	Tom Gries	Story by : Ivan Tors and Sloan Nibley Teleplay by : Sloan Nibley	October 13, 1956	Arthur Franz, 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 solution to his original project.
2-23	Death at My Fingertips	Tom Gries	Teleplay by : Joel Rapp	October 20, 1956	Dick Foran, June Lockhart, 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	Herbert L. Strock	Story by : Ivan Tors Teleplay by : Lou Houston	November 3, 1956	Bruce Bennett, Susan Cummings, DeForest Kelley	The Civil Air Patrol searches for a small airplane that crashed near an atomic bomb test range.
2-25	The Voice	Paul Guilfoyle	Teleplay by : Doris Gilbert	November 10, 1956	Donald Curtis, Kristine Miller, Anthony Eustrel	After being paralyzed by the crash of his small airplane, a lawyer finds he has telepathic powers.
2-26	Three Minute Mile	Eddie Davis	Teleplay by : George Asness	November 17, 1956	Marshall Thompson, Martin Milner, Gloria Marshall	A university professor conducts secret experiments of heart-rate acceleration.
2-27	The Last Barrier	Paul Guilfoyle	Teleplay by : Hendrik Vollaerts	November 24, 1956	Bill Ching, Bruce Wendell	A hoax to conceal a rocket launch reveals startling facts.
2-28	Signals from the Moon	Paul Guilfoyle	Teleplay by : Tom Gries	December 1, 1956	Bruce Bennett	A surgeon directs an operation to save the life of an important visiting diplomat by television.
2-29	Doctor Robot	Eddie Davis	Teleplay by : Ellis Marcus	December 8, 1956	Peter Hanson, Whit Bissell, Doug Wilson	A computer scientist uses his company's mainframe computer to research the optimal treatment for his ailing wife.
2-30	The Human Circuit	Eddie Davis	Teleplay by : Joel Rapp	December 15, 1956	Marshall Thompson, Bill Ching, Joyce Jameson	A nightclub dancer exhibits clairvoyance.
2-31	The Miracle Hour	Paul Guilfoyle	Teleplay by : Stanley H. Silverman	December 22, 1956	Dick Foran, Jean Byron, Charles Herbert	A stage lighting director and his physician friend teach a blind little boy to perceive colored light.
2-32	Sun Gold	Eddie Davis	Teleplay by : Peter R. Brooke	December 29, 1956	Marilyn Erskine, Ross Elliott, Julian Rivero, Paul Fierro	Government scientists, working in Peru, discover evidence of an extraterrestrial at work in the Inca Empire.
2-33	Facsimile	Eddie Davis	Story by : John Bushnell Teleplay by : Stuart Jerome and John Bushnell	January 5, 1957	Arthur Franz, Aline Towne, Donald Curtis	Members of a team developing an ultra-sensitive transistor are afflicted by maladies of patients in a nearby hospital.
2-34	Killer Tree	Eddie Davis	Story by : Robert E. Smith Teleplay by : Lou Huston	January 12, 1957	Bill Williams, Bonita Granville, Keith Richards	A scientist investigates a tree with an ancient reputation of breathing death.
2-35	Gravity Zero	Paul Guilfoyle	Teleplay by : Donald Corey	January 19, 1957	Percy Helton, Lisa Gaye, Walter Kingsford	A university professor nullifies gravity with a magnetic field.
2-36	The Magic Suitcase	Paul Guilfoyle	Story by : William R. Epperson Teleplay by : Lou Huston	January 26, 1957	Charles Winninger, Judith Ames	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 emits 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	Eddie Davis	Teleplay by : Meyer Dolinsky	February 2, 1957	Bruce Bennett, 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	Eddie Davis	Teleplay by : Arthur Weiss	February 5, 1957	Peter Hanson, Jan Shepard, Cyril Delevanti	A peculiar old man is found to be transmitting an encyclopedia on a non-existent television channel.
2-39	Sound That Kills	Herbert L. Strock	Teleplay by : Meyer Dolinsky	April 6, 1957	Ludwig Stössel, Ray Collins, Charles Victor	A murderous spy is stealing secrets at an international convention of scientists.

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