The Best Episodes of Science Fiction Theatre Season 2

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1. #1 Fan Favorite
   

   7.2/10(28 votes)

   #1 - Signals From the Heart

   S2:E14/7/1956

   A policeman who wears an electronic heart transmitter has a heart attack and is searched for by doctors and his fellow police.

   Directors:Herbert L. Strock, Ivan Tors

   Writer:Unknown

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2. 

   6.2/10(24 votes)

   #2 - The Long Sleep

   S2:E24/14/1956

   A scientist is forced to put a dying young boy into deep freeze by a desperate father.

   Director:Ivan Tors

   Writer:Unknown

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3. 

   6.7/10(30 votes)

   #3 - Who Is This Man?

   S2:E34/21/1956

   A hypnosis experiment goes wrong when a man adopts the personality of a murderer who was hanged in 1882.

   Director:William Castle

   Writer:Unknown

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   7.4/10(39 votes)

   #4 - The Green Bomb

   S2:E44/28/1956

   A scientist uses stolen material to build an atomic bomb in his house.

   Director:Tom Gries

   Writer:Tom Gries

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   Director:Tom Gries

   Writer:Tom Gries
5. 

   7.2/10(31 votes)

   #5 - When a Camera Fails

   S2:E55/5/1956

   A doctor is suspected of insanity when he claims that he can see perfectly preserved images from the past by using special eyeglasses.

   Directors:Herbert L. Strock, Ivan Tors

   Writer:Unknown

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   7.2/10(28 votes)

   #6 - Bullet Proof

   S2:E65/12/1956

   A bank robber uses a resistant metal left behind by an alien spaceship as a shield.

   Director:Unknown

   Writer:Unknown

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7. 

   7.2/10(29 votes)

   #7 - The Flicker

   S2:E75/19/1956

   Two police inspectors attempt to prove that a man was killed because of the hypnotic effect caused by a movie screen Flicker.

   Director:Herbert L. Strock

   Writer:Unknown

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8. 

   7.4/10(28 votes)

   #8 - The Unguided Missile

   S2:E85/26/1956

   A young woman becomes a national security risk when her ESP abilities pick up top-secret defense formulas.

   Director:Herbert L. Strock

   Writer:Unknown

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9. 

   7.1/10(31 votes)

   #9 - Mind Machine

   S2:E96/23/1956

   A dying scientist transmits his knowledge through a brain-transmitting machine.

   Director:Unknown

   Writer:Unknown

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10. 

    6.5/10(29 votes)

    #10 - The Missing Waveband

    S2:E106/16/1956

    A scientist receives scientific information from a prisoner on a totalitarian world millions of light years away.

    Director:Ivan Tors

    Writer:Unknown

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11. 

    7.2/10(24 votes)

    #11 - The Human Experiment

    S2:E116/23/1956

    A scientist develops a powerful serum and experiments with it at her country home. The serum transforms her subjects into superbeings who take her prisoner.

    Director:Ivan Tors

    Writer:Unknown

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12. 

    6.2/10(27 votes)

    #12 - Man Who Didn't Know

    S2:E126/30/1956

    After a plane crash, a jet pilot recovers with no memories of his recent past. He is unaware that he has been implanted with an enemy spying device.

    Director:Herbert L. Strock

    Writer:Unknown

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13. 

    6.9/10(26 votes)

    #13 - End of Tomorrow

    S2:E137/7/1956

    A scientist defects to the west and claims to have a serum that will destroy all viruses. A doctor, however, believes the serum to be a weapon that is designed to cause mass sterility.

    Director:Herbert L. Strock

    Writer:Unknown

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14. 

    6.7/10(30 votes)

    #14 - The Phantom Car

    S2:E147/21/1956

    A sheriff and a geologist join forces to stop the rampage of a radio controlled car.

    Director:Herbert L. Strock

    Writer:Unknown

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15. 

    6.5/10(25 votes)

    #15 - Beam of Fire

    S2:E157/28/1956

    After top scientists are killed by an alien beam, a scientist discovers that space scouts are trying to stop mankind's progress into space.

    Directors:Herbert L. Strock, Ivan Tors

    Writer:Unknown

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16. 

    6.1/10(28 votes)

    #16 - The Legend of Crater Mountain

    S2:E168/18/1956

    A small town Arizona teacher discovers that some of her students have telepathic powers.

    Director:Unknown

    Writer:Unknown

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17. 

    7.0/10(23 votes)

    #17 - Living Lights

    S2:E178/25/1956

    A scientist creates the atmosphere of Venus in a bell-jar to prove that life can exist there. He, however, doesn't anticipate the strange creatures of floating light that appear in, and then escape from, his bell-jar.

    Directors:Herbert L. Strock, Ivan Tors

    Writer:Unknown

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18. 

    7.3/10(27 votes)

    #18 - Jupitron

    S2:E189/15/1956

    A man and woman are transported to a moon of Jupiter where a long missing scientist gives then a formula for creating synthetic food.

    Director:Unknown

    Writer:Unknown

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19. 

    6.3/10(26 votes)

    #19 - The Throwback

    S2:E199/22/1956

    A biologist believes that he can predict people's lives by studying their ancestors.

    Director:Unknown

    Writer:Unknown

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20. 

    6.8/10(22 votes)

    #20 - Miracle of Doctor Dove

    S2:E209/29/1956

    Investigators try to locate three vanished nutrition experts who may have found the key to longer life.

    Directors:Herbert L. Strock, Ivan Tors

    Writer:Unknown

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21. 

    8.0/10(52 votes)

    #21 - One Thousand Eyes

    S2:E2110/6/1956

    After a scientist is murdered and the main suspect dies, a police scientist reconstructs the crime with a revolutionary camera.

    Director:Unknown

    Writer:Unknown

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22. 

    6.2/10(25 votes)

    #22 - Brain Unlimited

    S2:E2210/13/1956

    While testing an anti-black-out serum a pilot is forced to eject. He later tries to reconstruct the event by speeding up his brain.

    Director:Tom Gries

    Writer:Sloan Nibley

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    Writer:Sloan Nibley
23. 

    6.7/10(27 votes)

    #23 - Death at My Fingertips

    S2:E2310/20/1956

    A student is framed for murder by someone forging fingerprint evidence. It is later discovered that the real killer knows how to transfer finger prints through plastic skin grafts.

    Director:Tom Gries

    Writer:Unknown

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    7.5/10(27 votes)

    #24 - Survival in Box Canyon

    S2:E2411/3/1956

    A rescue operation tries to locate a pilot whose plane crashed in an atomic bonb testing area.

    Directors:Herbert L. Strock, Ivan Tors

    Writer:Unknown

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25. 

    7.3/10(34 votes)

    #25 - The Voice

    S2:E2511/10/1956

    A ESP skeptic discovers evidence that may save the life of a man sentenced to death. When his plane crashes, the skeptic is forced to us ESP to transmit the crucial evidence to prison authorities.

    Director:Unknown

    Writer:Unknown

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