Science Fiction Theatre

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

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".

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.

The Magnetic Pole Weather Station receives a strange distress message and initiates one of the greatest rescue missions of all time.

Two uranium prospectors meet a stranger from another land who is searching for oxygen-producing plants.

A biologist and his staff test synthetic foods that have proved fatal to animals on themselves.

A police sergeant escapes death from a bullet in his brain but finds himself changed.

A young geologist discovers an ancient spider enclosed in a piece of transparent rock.

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

A telepathic chimpanzee saves a scientist and his wife from a killer.

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.

Two top freelance photographers go to Mexico to photograph mysterious flying objects and find a dead alien.

A retired man confides to a fellow research chemist that he is more than two centuries old.

The story of a beekeeper whose bees manufacture a wonder drug instead of honey.

A paperweight is found to reproduce sounds from 2000 years ago.

A murder and the secrets of the Pyramids combine.

A dying scientist needs time to finish his experiments.

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

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.

After a near-fatal electric shock from a computer, a technician exhibits enhanced sensory and intellectual abilities.

A pilot lost in a geomagnetic storm is forced to navigate by a thermometer, a coffee pot and the Earth itself.

The eccentric Dr. Pliny visits a university where he builds a device purported to provide free energy from cosmic rays.

A radar expert suspects his next-door neighbors are spies from another planet.

A baby mammoth revives after being frozen in the Arctic for 500,000 years.

A team of scientists trying to develop a new antibiotic are driven to hostility by exposure to the drug.

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.

After a researcher dies in an explosion trying to create water from tritium, his friend attempts to complete the research.

The doubting wife of a psychic researcher locates a missing colleague through clairvoyance.

A scientist discovers a species of termites that consume minerals instead of wood.

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.

The tale of a strange little boy who can communicate with animals.

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.

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?

"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?

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?

"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.

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.

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.

A picture of the far side of the Moon finds creatures from other worlds at work on its surface.

Scientists work to save a man's life by remote control.

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 and son and forces him to repeat the experiment on his son who is dying.

Hypnosis to help a shy college student reveals a frightening mystery.

A breathtaking search for stolen atomic materials.

A geophysicist discovers that rocks can make pictures.

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.

A graduate student in sociology commits a murder after watching a badly flickering movie.

Military secrets about a missile guidance system are being received by a journalist while she sleeps.

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.

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.

Taking inspiration from the insect world, a psycho-pharmacologist elicits an enzyme that can turn mentally defective humans into useful hive workers.

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.

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.

A car with no driver is running around in the desert and occasionally hits people but does not stop.

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.

A young rural schoolteacher finds that her three best pupils are more than human.

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.

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.

A genetic research scientist attempts to prove that memories can be inherited. He uses a remarkable series of coincidences as evidence.

An eminent biologist holds the solution to the strange mystery of three scientists who disappear from the Earth.

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.

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.

Fingerprints "prove" a man murdered, even though he was in another city at the time of the killing.

A murderous spy is stealing secrets at an international convention of scientists.

The Civil Air Patrol searches for a small airplane that crashed near an atomic bomb test range.

After being paralyzed by the crash of his small airplane, a lawyer finds he has telepathic powers.

A university professor conducts secret experiments of heart-rate acceleration.

A hoax to conceal a rocket launch reveals startling facts.

A surgeon directs an operation to save the life of an important visiting diplomat by television.

A computer scientist uses his company's mainframe computer to research the optimal treatment for his ailing wife.

A nightclub dancer exhibits clairvoyance.

A stage lighting director and his physician friend teach a blind little boy to perceive colored light.

Government scientists, working in Peru, discover evidence of an extraterrestrial at work in the Inca Empire.

Members of a team developing an ultra-sensitive transistor are afflicted by maladies of patients in a nearby hospital.

A scientist investigates a tree with an ancient reputation of breathing death.

A university professor nullifies gravity with a magnetic field.

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.

A university laboratory and the building housing it are completely vaporized when an experiment gets out of control.

A peculiar old man is found to be transmitting an encyclopedia on a non-existent television channel.