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Season 1

  • S01E01 Verdict from Space

    • August 3, 1951
    • ABC (US)

    A defendant on trial, accused of murdering a prominent archaeologist, tells the jury an incredible story of a pending alien invasion.

  • S01E02 Blunder

    • August 10, 1951
    • ABC (US)

    A scientist is on the verge of developing a new source of incredible power but after his colleagues discover an error in his calculations they find out there's no way to communicate this error to the scientist.

  • S01E03 A Child is Crying

    • August 17, 1951
    • ABC (US)

    The government attempts to use a young girl as a weapon in the Cold War when she displays powerful mental abilities.

  • S01E04 The Woman at Land's End

    • August 24, 1951
    • ABC (US)

  • S01E05 The Last Man on Earth

    • August 31, 1951
    • ABC (US)

    Martians takeover the Earth and leave only two people alive for experimental purposes.

  • S01E06 Errand Boy

    • September 7, 1951
    • ABC (US)

  • S01E07 The Monsters

    • September 14, 1951
    • ABC (US)

  • S01E08 The Dark Angel

    • September 28, 1951
    • ABC (US)

    A doctor discovers that there's something medically strange about his smokin' hot wife.

  • S01E09 The Crystal Egg

    • October 12, 1951
    • ABC (US)

    The owner of a London curiosity shop delivers a mysterious crystal egg to a university professor for the scientist's opinion on its worth and its properties. The 'egg' proves to be a window to Mars. When the professor loses the egg, he tries to convince people that he is not crazy.

  • S01E10 Test Flight

    • October 26, 1951
    • ABC (US)

    The CEO of an aerospace company is determined to build a spaceship for interplanetary travel and a young scientist convinces him that he can perform the task--but only if he's the first person to travel on the spaceship.

  • S01E11 The Search for the Flying Saucer

    • November 9, 1951
    • ABC (US)

    A reporter arrives in a New Mexico town to investigate sightings of flying saucers. But neither he nor some of the town's residents are actually who they appear to be.

  • S01E12 Enemy Unknown

    • November 23, 1951
    • ABC (US)

    A distinguished astrophysicist refuses to help his government.

  • S01E13 Sneak Attack

    • December 7, 1951
    • ABC (US)

    During the Cold War, a captured American spy is his country's only hope to avert an attack by a new type of bomb.

  • S01E14 The Invader

    • December 21, 1951
    • ABC (US)

    A scientist doing research in oceanography witnesses the crash of a UFO into the ocean and sends his son underwater to investigate.

  • S01E15 The Dune Roller

    • January 4, 1952
    • ABC (US)

    On an island a strange rock begins to grow and move. Scientists that observe the phenomena speculate that an ancient meteor that once hit the island is attempting to reassemble itself.

  • S01E16 Frankenstein

    • January 18, 1952
    • ABC (US)

    In an adaptation of Mary Shelley's tale, Dr. Frankenstein brings to life a lumbering undead monster who he must then find someway to destroy.

  • S01E17 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea: The Chase (1)

    • January 25, 1952
    • ABC (US)

    A young sailor finds himself held captive on a submarine called the Nautilus and commanded by the mysterious Captain Nemo.

  • S01E18 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea: The Escape (2)

    • February 1, 1952
    • ABC (US)

    A sailor being held prisoner onboard a submarine by the mysterious Captain Nemo escapes from captivity with the assistance of the captain's daughter.

  • S01E19 What You Need

    • February 8, 1952
    • ABC (US)

    An unscrupulous free-lance writer extorts the elderly owner of a seedy second-hand shop who is prescient about the future.

  • S01E20 Age of Peril

    • February 15, 1952
    • ABC (US)

    A scientist devises a way to help criminals beat lie detector tests.

  • S01E21 Memento

    • February 22, 1952
    • ABC (US)

    A scientist who's spent his entire life building a spaceship that can travel to Mars discovers that he cannot make the trip.

  • S01E22 The Children's Room

    • February 29, 1952
    • ABC (US)

    A secret "Children's Room" at a college attracts the attention of intellectual advanced youths. One of them, Walt, is the son of a professor at the university. The professor uncovers that his son and other children are 'mutants' being groomed to assist an alien race in a distant part of the galaxy.

  • S01E23 Bound Together

    • March 7, 1952
    • ABC (US)

    A space pilot reported missing on a mission to Mars returns unexpectedly to his wife but is he the same person?

  • S01E24 The Diamond Lens

    • March 14, 1952
    • ABC (US)

    Shortly before he is scheduled to go to the guillotine, a scientist confesses to a priest the fantastic reason why he committed murder to obtain the perfect diamond for use in a microscope.

  • S01E25 The Fisherman's Wife (aka: Fountain of Youth)

    • March 21, 1952
    • ABC (US)

    Two scientists develop a formula to restore youth and a selfish damsel volunteers to be their first subject.

  • S01E26 Flight Overdue

    • March 28, 1952
    • ABC (US)

    The husband of an aviatrix who disappeared on a test flight finally learns the truth about his wife's disappearance.

  • S01E27 And a Little Child

    • April 4, 1952
    • ABC (US)

    A young hillbilly girl has the power to read minds and this power is called upon when a scientist suffers a paralyzing stroke.

  • S01E28 Sleep No More

    • April 11, 1952
    • ABC (US)

    A young man begs to be kept awake due to the fact that his dreams are turning into horrifying realities.

  • S01E29 Time to Go

    • April 18, 1952
    • ABC (US)

    A woman finds a bank that doesn't save money--it saves time.

  • S01E30 Plague from Space

    • April 25, 1952
    • ABC (US)

    A military base commander is forced to make a terrible decision when he learns that Martians have invaded Earth using a deadly combination of bacteria and brainwaves.

  • S01E31 Red Dust

    • May 2, 1952
    • ABC (US)

    Four members of a space party returning to Earth from Alpha Centauri try to determine what killed the other two members of their party.

  • S01E32 The Golden Ingot

    • May 9, 1952
    • ABC (US)

    A doctor's unsuccessful experiments cause him to fall into a state of depression which has his daughter worried.

  • S01E33 Black Planet

    • May 16, 1952
    • ABC (US)

    Two astronomers working together, seek a tenth planet. The senior fears the junior might have found it and is jealous. They are also both interested in Norma, who works with them. When, in the course of a fight between the two men, the senior scientist falls dead - the question is was he killed by the other or not. Norma's brother, a police detective has to solve the case! Leslie Nielsen, Frank Albertson amd Horace MacMahon star.

  • S01E34 World of Water

    • May 23, 1952
    • ABC (US)

    A scientist discovers a solvent that is capable of dissolving the planet.

  • S01E35 Little Black Bag

    • May 30, 1952
    • ABC (US)

    A struggling doctor takes his instruments to a pawnshop because his wife complains about their lack of money. Once in the shop, he makes a deal with the pawnbroker for $20.00 and a mysterious medical bag. Later, it is discovered that the instruments in the bag can perform "miracle cures". Upon close inspection of the instruments, a patent date of July 18, 2450 is revealed.

  • S01E36 The Exile

    • June 6, 1952
    • ABC (US)

    A scientist receives radiation burns while working with atomic energy.

  • S01E37 All the Time in the World

    • June 13, 1952
    • ABC (US)

    A man must decide whether or not he wants to survive a hydrogen bomb blast. If he does he'll be the only person remaining on earth--not a pleasant predicament.

  • S01E38 The Miraculous Serum

    • June 20, 1952
    • ABC (US)

    A miracle life-saving serum has unintended consequences when it's tested on a female patient. Not only does it make the woman immune to diseases but to moral issues as well.

  • S01E39 Appointment on Mars

    • June 27, 1952
    • ABC (US)

    Three astronauts arrive on Mars, sponsored by a mining company who will share the profits with them. Illness, paranoia and other problems develop until all three are dead - but what caused it?

  • S01E40 The Duplicates

    • July 4, 1952
    • ABC (US)

    A man on Jupiter is paid a huge sum of money to travel to Earth and kill his duplicate on that planet.

  • S01E41 Ahead of His Time

    • July 18, 1952
    • ABC (US)

    A lab technician invents a time machine and uses it to travel forward to the year 2052.

  • S01E42 Sudden Darkness

    • August 1, 1952
    • ABC (US)

    A scientist invents a device which can shut down all the world's electrical power with one flick of the switch.

  • S01E43 Ice from Space

    • August 8, 1952
    • ABC (US)

    A rocket returns from space with a huge block of ice inside its compartment. An Air Force officer realizes that this block of ice is a form of alien invasion.

Season 2

  • S02E01 A Bird in Hand

    • August 22, 1952
    • ABC (US)

    Two youngsters discover a talking bird in a zoo and come to the realization that the bird is part of a plot by the animal kingdom to reclaim the world from humans.

  • S02E02 Thanks

    • August 29, 1952
    • ABC (US)

    A scientific invention brings glory to a struggling violinist but it also causes him to commit murder.

  • S02E03 The Seeing Eye Surgeon

    • September 5, 1952
    • ABC (US)

    When a prominent physician dons a pair of eyeglasses he discovers that he can see into the future.

  • S02E04 The Cocoon

    • September 12, 1952
    • ABC (US)

    A group of scientists are trapped inside a house in a remote jungle by hideous invisible creatures.

  • S02E05 The Chase

    • September 19, 1952
    • ABC (US)

    A man arrives at a sea lodge and confesses to a murder but it's later revealed that he's from the future.

  • S02E06 Youth on Tap (aka: Young Blood)

    • September 26, 1952
    • ABC (US)

    A 26 year old man gives a doctor a blood transfusion in return for $1,000 but the process causes the young man to age.

  • S02E07 Substance X

    • October 3, 1952
    • ABC (US)

    A young woman goes to her hometown at the behest of a food conglomerate. Her assignment is to discover what the people of the community are using for food after their only food outlet closes. She discovers a scientist who has developed a food substitute called 'Substance X'. Anyone who diets on Substance X is unable to eat normal food from that time on.

  • S02E08 The Horn

    • October 10, 1952
    • ABC (US)

    A scientist invents a machine that has the power to control human emotions.

  • S02E09 Double Trouble

    • October 17, 1952
    • ABC (US)

    A writer pens a story about a death ray machine only to discover later that the government actually has such a device.

  • S02E10 Many Happy Returns (aka: Invaders at Ground Zero)

    • October 24, 1952
    • ABC (US)

    A father discovers that his son and other neighborhood children are being controlled telepathically by an alien.

  • S02E11 The Tomb of King Tarus

    • October 31, 1952
    • ABC (US)

    An archeologist discovers that an ancient king has been able to stay alive for centuries in a tomb deep beneath the Egyptian desert.

  • S02E12 The Window (aka: The Lost Planet)

    • November 7, 1952
    • ABC (US)

    A live television program is interrupted by a mysterious signal that shows a murder about to take place.

  • S02E13 The Camera

    • November 14, 1952
    • ABC (US)

    A blackmailer discovers a camera that will take pictures 25 years into the future.

  • S02E14 The Quiet Lady

    • November 21, 1952
    • ABC (US)

    A deadly disease covers the earth and its only hope is a little girl.

  • S02E15 The Invigorating Air

    • November 28, 1952
    • ABC (US)

    A young scientist produces a new kind of air which proves to be "invigorating."

  • S02E16 The Glacier Giant

    • December 5, 1952
    • ABC (US)

    A reporter and his damsel sidekick search for a giant reportedly encased in the ice of the Himalayas.

  • S02E17 The Fatal Flower

    • December 12, 1952
    • ABC (US)

    Doing research in the Brazilian jungle, two biochemists develop a mysterious plant.

  • S02E18 The Machine

    • December 19, 1952
    • ABC (US)

    A machine that can foretell the future says that one of a doctor's infant patients will grow up to be a murderer.

  • S02E19 The Bitter Storm

    • December 26, 1952
    • ABC (US)

    A man brings back voices and sounds from the Garden of Eden.

  • S02E20 The Mask of Medusa

    • January 2, 1953
    • ABC (US)

    Perry Mason won't be able to help a killer who takes refuge in a museum where the statues come to life.

  • S02E21 Conqueror's Isle

    • January 9, 1953
    • ABC (US)

  • S02E22 Discovered Heart

    • January 16, 1953
    • ABC (US)

    An alien who's an advance scout for an invasion force arrives at a lighthouse hoping to use its beacon as a signal. A precocious little girl win's the alien's heart and moves the extraterrestrial to surrender his life to prevent invasion.

  • S02E23 The Picture of Dorian Gray

    • January 23, 1953
    • ABC (US)

    Handsome Dorian Gray never seems to age but the same cannot be said about his portrait.

  • S02E24 Two Faced

    • January 30, 1953
    • ABC (US)

    To win the love of a woman, a man arranges to have the head of her former lover transplanted onto his body.

  • S02E25 The Build Box

    • February 6, 1953
    • ABC (US)

    A little boy is the recipient of a strange box from the owner of a gift shop.

  • S02E26 Another Chance

    • February 13, 1953
    • ABC (US)

    A man is given the chance to live the past seven years of his life over but he makes the same mistakes.

  • S02E27 The Great Silence

    • February 20, 1953
    • ABC (US)

    The nation is hit with an epidemic in which vocal chords are paralyzed but it's actually an alien plot to control the people of the United States.

  • S02E28 Lonesome Village

    • February 27, 1953
    • ABC (US)

  • S02E29 The Fury of the Cocoon

    • March 6, 1953
    • ABC (US)

    Members of an expedition into the jungle are attacked by invisible blood sucking leaches from outer space.

  • S02E30 The Squeeze Play

    • March 13, 1953
    • ABC (US)

    A magician hates a reporter so he hypnotizes all the people with whom the newsie comes into contact into forgetting him.

  • S02E31 Read to Me Herr Doktor

    • March 20, 1953
    • ABC (US)

    An old professor with failing eyesight builds a robot named Herr Doktor to read him books that he had never had a chance to read when he was younger. The relationship between the professor and the robot is very close. The books that the robot reads give it the desire to be a complete person. Their roles become reversed. The robot begins to demand that the professor read aloud to him. Later, the robot falls in love with the professor's daughter. When she spurns the robot, it learns that the books it has been reading were wrong and it dies of a broken heart.

  • S02E32 Ghost Writer

    • March 27, 1953
    • ABC (US)

    A writer discovers to his horror that the events in his short stories are coming true.

  • S02E33 Past Tense

    • April 3, 1953
    • ABC (US)

    A doctor travels back in time in order to extol the virtues of penicillin and save lives but ends up being committed to an insane asylum where he falls ill and dies from a disease which could have been prevented by penicillin.

  • S02E34 Homecoming

    • April 10, 1953
    • ABC (US)

    A pilot returns home after being stranded in the Arctic for five years and discovers that he can only live in cold temperatures.

  • S02E35 The Rivals

    • April 17, 1953
    • ABC (US)

    A new wife finds herself a rival for her husband's affections--his cat.

  • S02E36 Please Omit Flowers

    • April 24, 1953
    • ABC (US)

    A mortician discovers a serum that induces a death-like sleep.

  • S02E37 The Evil Within

    • May 1, 1953
    • ABC (US)

    A scientist creates a formula that unlocks evil. Then his wife unknowingly ingests some of the formula.

  • S02E38 The Vault

    • May 8, 1953
    • ABC (US)

    While making scientific tests, four people get trapped inside a vault.

  • S02E39 Ink

    • May 15, 1953
    • ABC (US)

    A chemist comes into possession of an ink which has the power to hypnotize all who look at anything written with the substance.

  • S02E40 The Spider's Web

    • May 22, 1953
    • ABC (US)

    Inhabitants of an island find themselves affected by atomic radiation.

  • S02E41 Lazarus Walks

    • May 29, 1953
    • ABC (US)

    A man gets revived after being declared clinically dead for a short period of time. Then he discovers that he has the ability to detect lies.

  • S02E42 What Dreams May Come

    • June 12, 1953
    • ABC (US)

    A woman receives telepathic waves that she is about to be murdered.