"Science Fiction Theatre" (1955) TV series 1955-1957

User Rating:

8.4/10   

Writers:

Eric Freiwald (writer) (1958)
Leonard Heideman (writer)

Seasons:

1 | 2

Release Date:

9 April 1955 (USA)

Genre:

Drama | Sci-Fi

Tagline:

Strange stories based on true facts that will amaze and intrigue you.

Plot:

In this science-fiction anthology series host Truman Bradley introduces stories extrapolated from actual scientific data available in the 1950's...

Plot Keywords:

Anthology

Cast

Truman Bradley

...

Narrator / ... (78 episodes, 1955-1957)

Also Known As:

Science Fiction Theater (USA) (alternative spelling)

Runtime:

25 min (78 episodes)

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Black and White | Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono (Western Electric Recording)

Company:

Ivan Tors Productions

Quotes:

[last lines of each episode]
Host: I'll be back one week from today with another story from the world of fiction and science.

Movie Connections:

Featured in Science Fiction: A Journey Into the Unknown (1994) (TV)

I loved the intros as much as the shows themselves

Science Fiction Theater was one of my favorites when I was a kid. (Sea Hunt, also from Ivan Tors and Ziv, with Lloyd Bridges, was another) I, born in 1950, remember hurrying home from school to see the show. I'm not sure what year this was--late '50s probably--it must already have been in reruns, being on in the afternoon. My mom wasn't thrilled that my brother and I watched it--science fiction was inherently not to be trusted--but it was good enough that she tolerated it in preference to things like the forbidden "Wednesdayville"--on, not surprisingly, only on Wednesday afternoon, showing Three Stooges shorts--and frankly, I preferred it myself. Much more better to a kid interested in sciences. I remember the intros with Truman Bradley--I can almost conjure up his face, but not quite--and, though I remember most of the shows mentioned by other writers, the one I remember especially was about a young mammoth found in the permafrost, thawed and revived, and what this led to for the animal and the people involved with it. I remember Truman Bradley's intro to that show, taking a fish frozen in ice, dropping it in water, and, when the ice melted--just a few seconds--the fish swimming away. That was the sort of thing that fascinated me.